American Antiquarian Society. An independent research library whose collections document the life of America's people from the colonial era through the Civil War and Reconstruction.

American Society for Eighteenth Century Studies. An interdisciplinary group dedicated to the advancement of scholarship in all aspects of the period, from the later seventeenth through the early nineteenth century.

Center for the Book, Library of Congress. Using the resources of the Library of Congress, its mission is to stimulate interest in books and reading, including literacy and library promotion and encouraging the historical study of books, reading, and the printed word.

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.

History of Literacy. A special interest group of the History of Reading Special Interest Group of the International Reading Association, its website serves as a resource for this researach area.

The Grolier Club. America's oldest and largest society for bibliophiles and enthusiasts in the graphic arts.

American Journalism Historians Association.Fosters research and teaching of journalism history and to provide a forum and tobe a resource, encompassing a wide range of mass communication studies.

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

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

Reading Experience Database, 1450-1945

New Zealand Print Culture. University of Ontago. The current project aims to situate New Zealand's unique print history within global accounts of print culture.

History of the Book in Australia

History of the Book in Canada

The Edmonton Collection of Street Literature. Gary Kelly, Alberta

Book History and Literacies at Minnesota. Research at the University of Minnesota

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

PLRE Project. Creates a searchabledatabase from book-lists and private libraries between the beginning of the 16th C. and the mid-17th C.