American Printing History Association. Encourages the study of printing history and its related arts and skills, including calligraphy, typefounding, typography, papermaking, bookbinding, illustration, and publishing. APHA is especially, but by no means exclusively, interested in American printing history.

Early Book Society. Formed to bring together all those who are interested in any aspect of the study of manuscripts and early printed books.

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.

Society for Book Research in Austria. Promotes in-depth research on the book trade in Austria and co-ordinates study in the field, keeping a running bibliography of new publications and points to deficits in book history scholarship.

American Museum of Papermaking. A resource on the history of paper and paper technology.

Dutch Museum of the Book (Museum Meermanno) catalogue. The museum's collections include collection: books, coins and medals, letters, and manuscripts dealing with book design, bookplates and small prints. The catalogue is searchable online.

The National Print Museum of Ireland. Collects, documents, preserves, exhibits, interprets and makes accessible the material evidence of printing craft and fosters associated skills of the craft in Ireland.

Printing Museum, Tokyo. Its primary objective is to explain the value and potential of printing as a form of communications media, and deepen the general public's understanding and interest in printing.

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.

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

Women Printers and Booksellers: A Checklist of Sources. Laura Sue Fuderer

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

Urban Manuscripts Project. Centre for Medieval Studies, University of York

The Production and Use of English Manuscripts 1060 to 1220. Universities of Leeds and Leicester

The London Book Trades Project: Researching 18th-c. London Book Production

The King's Printer Project: Politics, Power & the Printed Word in the Reign of James I

Scottish Book Trade Index. Lists the names, trades,and addresses of people in printing in Scotland to 1850

Bibliopolis: History of the Printed Book in the Netherlands.The electronic national history of the printed book in the Netherlands

Japanese and Chinese Classics Database