Vendors List

This list is not intended to be comprehensive but rather representative of book and journal vendors that may be of particular interest to health sciences librarians. The inclusion of a vendor in this list does not imply endorsement by the Medical Library Association or the Collection Development Section. Consult AcqWeb (http://acqweb.library.vanderbilt.edu/pubr.html) for a more complete list of both domestic and foreign vendors.

Journals
Journal Back Issues
Books
Out of Print Books

JOURNALS

EBSCO Information Services http://www.ebsco.com/home/
Supplies all types of serials to all types of libraries world-wide.

Harrassowitz http://www.harrassowitz.de/
Specializes in the distribution of scholarly books, periodicals, e-journals, and music scores to academic and research libraries, particularly but not exclusively for German-language materials.

Swets Information Services http://www.swets.com
Supplies all types of serials to academic, medical, corporate and government libraries world-wide.

JOURNAL BACK ISSUES

Absolute Backorder Service http://www.absolute-inc.com/
Specializes in backorder fulfillment for libraries internationally.

Backmed http://lists.swetsblackwell.com/mailman/listinfo/backmed
Informal exchange of medical serial back issues and books among libraries.

United States Book Exchange (USBE) http://www.usbe.com/
Periodical issue exchange vendor

BOOKS

Majors http://www.majors.com/
Distributes health science books to bookstores and libraries.

Matthews Medical Books
http://www.matthewsbooks.com/default.aspx
Distributes health science books and multimedia products to bookstores and libraries throughout North America.

Rittenhouse Book Distributors http://www.rittenhouse.com/
Distributes health science books, videos and CD-ROMs to medical school, hospital, pharmaceutical, academic, and government libraries.

YBP Library Services http://www.ybp.com/
YBP provides books and supporting collection management and technical services to libraries around the world.

OUT OF PRINT BOOKS
NOTE: All of these out-of-print book services connect potential book buyers with third-party booksellers.

Abebooks.com http://www.abebooks.com/
Online vendor of used, rare, and out-of-print books.

Alibris http://www.alibris.com/
Online vendor of used, rare, out-of-print, out-of-stock and academic press titles.

Add All http://www.addall.com/
Searches multiple databases to find and compare prices of new, used, rare, and out-of-print books.

Amazon http://www.amazon.com/
Supplies in-print books and media from a large inventory as well as out-of-print titles from third-party dealers.

Barnes & Noble http://www.bnbusiness.com/library
Supplies in-print books and media from a large inventory as well as out-of-print titles from third-party dealers.

BookFinder.com http://www.bookfinder.com/
Similar to Add All, searches multiple databases to find new and compare prices of used, rare, and out-of-print books.