Hibolire: The Nordic-Baltic-Russian Network on the History of Books, Libraries and Reading.A network of scholars in the fields of book history, history of libraries and history of reading.

International Society for the Empirical Study of Literature and Media. Aimed at the advancement of empirical literary research through international and interdisciplinary cooperation

Association for the Recording and Reconstruction of Historical Bookbindings. (German language) Aims to foster cooperation among persons and institutions conducting research or collecting historical or artistic book covers.

British Association of Paper Historians. Aims to bring together those interested inpaper, papermaking, conservation, mill and company histories, papermakers, machinery manufacture and development, and watermarks

International Association of Paper Historians. Facilitates communication between paper historians, archivists, librarians, conservators, art historians, specialists in books, printing and technology, associations of the paper and publishing industries, and handicrafts and art dealing with paper.

IFLA Library History Special Interest Group. Part of the international body representing the interests of library and information servicesand their users, this group concentrates on themes of library history, and experience of general significance, and theoretical foundations of the field.

SHARP-L. The discussion group of the Society for the History of Authorship, Reading and Publishing

J-HISTORY, journalism history discussion

Recent Studies of 18th-c. Book Culture (1989-2003). James E. May

NYPL Research Guide to the History of Books and Printing. Bibliography

Lectures in Bibliography. Descriptive catalogue of major UK lectures, 1895-present. Ian Gadd

Early Modern Online Bibliography

Waddleton Chronology of Colour Printed Illustrations. Norman Waddleton

Reading Experience Database, 1450-1945

Early Printed Books Project. University of Oxford

Bibliotheca Eruditionis. A history of books and reading in Hungary

Book History Online: An International Bibliography (Koninklijke Bibliotheek). Searchable database

ABC for Book Collectors (classic glossary, 8th ed., ILAB). Downloadable text

Il libro antico. Angela Nuovo, Aldo Coletto and Graziano Ruffini

HENRIK: Books and their Owners in Finland to 1809. Finnish Lit. Soc. & Project Henrik. Database