K.G. Saur Verlag has his 50^th anniversary this year since its foundation in 1949.

For more than half of this time span we are in good contact with libraries in Russia and the surrounding countries and distributed a lot of bibliographic and biographic material to the libraries in your part of the World.

• French Bibliography 15th Century to 1997
• Italian Bibliography 15th Century to 1997
• English Bibliography 1901 to 1945
• English Bibliography 15th Century to 1901
• Spanish Bibliography 15th Century to 1998. 2nd edition
• International Bibliography of Maps and Atlases
• International Bibliography of Printed Music, Music Manuscripts and Recordings
• Portuguese Bibliography
• Russian Bibliography
• Bibliography of Latin Writings

In collaboration with the Research Library Group, an association of American and European research libraries, K.G. Saur has created a set of bibliographies recording all titles published since the 15th century in the major languages of the world.

In planning the series, K.G. Saur decided to take the idea of the national bibliography one step further. The individual bibliographies in this series were not just going to include titles published in one country or region; they were going to reach beyond national and geographical boundaries, including titles simply on the basis of their language.

The selection criteria for individual works were equally ambitious. The World Bibliographies on CD-ROM set out to catalogue the widest possible range of publications. Classical and modern literature, academic works, conference papers, legal literature, text books, technical reports and periodicals, early printed works and recent publications: these account for just some of the numerous records available. There is also a separate CD-ROM dealing exclusively with maps and atlases from around the world.

The International Bibliography of Printed Music, Music Manuscripts and Recordings will make bibliographical information on music widely available.

The five-century-long time span also makes these bibliographies a great help with retrospective cataloguing

The unprecedented breadth of coverage has not been bought at the expense of detail. The data format which is basic to all entries is MARC. Users are therefore guaranteed full details on each title. Information on the CD-ROMs can be displayed in five different formats, according to the user’s requirements.

The clear layout and structure of material contained on each CD-ROM make research swift, effective and painless:

- five user languages are included: English, German, French, Spanish and Italian

- user menus are identical for the whole series, and are based on the easy-to-use Windows interface

- for bibliographic searches, the same search criteria are available throughout the series World Bibliographies on CD-ROM

The selection criteria for individual works were equally ambitious. The World Bibliographies on CD-ROM set out to catalogue the widest possible range of publications. Classical and modern literature, academic works, conference papers, legal literature, text books, technical reports and periodicals, early printed works and recent publications: these account for just some of the numerous records available. There is also a separate CD-ROM dealing exclusively with maps and atlases from around the world.

The International Bibliography of Printed Music, Music Manuscripts and Recordings will make bibliographical information on music widely available, and bibliographies of Portuguese, Russian and Asian language publications are in preparation.

The five-century-long time span also makes these bibliographies a great help with retrospective cataloguing.

ISBN 3-598-40373-9

For breadth of coverage the CD-ROM is unsurpassed, with details of French-language publications from all over the world which have appeared over the last six centuries. It contains around 1.7 million bibliographic records. On a century by century basis, the CD-ROM contains the following data:

- c. 200 records from the 15th century

- c. 6,000 records from the 16th century

- c. 22,000 records from the 17th century

- c. 108,000 records from the 18th century

- c. 262,000 records from the 19th century

- c. 1,300,000 records from the 20th century up to 1997

CD-ROM edition 1998. DM 3,980.00

ISBN 3-598-40376-3

The Italian Bibliography 15th Century to 1997 gives you unparalleled coverage of publications in Italian. Users can access some 640,000 records; on a century by century basis, this amounts to:

- c. 3,000 records from the 15th century

- c. 15,000 records from the 16th century

- c. 12,000 records from the 17th century

- c. 22,000 records from the 18th century

- c. 70,000 records from the 19th century

- c. 500,000 records from the 20th century up to 1997

CD-ROM edition 1998. 2 discs. DM 3,980.00

ISBN 3-598-40374-7

The English Bibliography 15th Century to 1901 is a unique bibliographic register. Both in geographical and chronological terms, its scope is enormous. Covering English-language publications from throughout the world over a period of five centuries, the English Bibliography 15th Century to 1901 contains a total of some 1.7 million titles.

CD-ROM edition 1998. 2 discs. DM 3,980.00

ISBN 3-598-40375-5

With titles from over 200 countries, this CD-ROM provides an unparalleled bibliographic survey of English-language publications during the first half of the twentieth century. It includes some 1.7 million titles.Users of the CD-ROM can call on numerous search criteria to pinpoint items of interest from the database; the English Bibliography 1901 to 1945 contains all the search facilities of other World Bibliographies on CD-ROM.

2nd CD-ROM edition 1998. 2 discs. DM 3,980.00 (For purchasers of

1st edition: DM 1,980.00)

ISBN 3-598-40401-8

The Spanish Bibliography 15th Century to 1998 is the most comprehensive database of publications in Spanish. It covers Spanish titles published in all countries of the World. For the second edition almost half a million records have been added, taking the total number of titles to over 1.4 million. These include:

- c. 400 records from the 15th century

- c. 3,700 records from the 16th century

- c. 6,900 records from the 17th century

- c. 19,600 records from the 18th century

- c. 104,200 records from the 19th century

- c. 1,270,000 records from the 20th century

CD-ROM edition 1998. DM 3,980.00

ISBN 3-598-40399-2

It is a comprehensive register of maps and atlases published throughout the world during the last five hundred years. In all, the CD-ROM gives you some 303,000 titles.

As well as providing all the convenient research options available on other World Bibliographies on CD-ROM, the International Bibliography of Maps and Atlases contains two further search criteria, ”Scale” and ”Coordinates”, to make it even easier for you to select items of interest from the database.

250.000 records

The International Bibliography of Printed Music, Music Manuscripts and Recordings will contain some 1.3 million records, including

- c. 703,000 records for printed music

- c. 31,000 records for manuscripts

- c. 530,000 records for recordings

CD-ROM edition 1999. c. DM 3,980.00

250.000 records

CD-ROM edition 1999. c. DM 3,980.00

ISBN 3-598-40431-X

As with other CD-ROMs of the World Bibliographies series, the Russian Bibliography will be unmatched for breadth of coverage and convenience of access to data. It will contain around 800,000 records.

All World Bibliographies have the following Search Criteria:

Search Criteria: Keyword, Author, Keyword in Author, Title, Keyword in Title, Subject Heading, Keyword in Subject, Series, Series Number, Place of Publication, Country, Publisher, Publication Year, Form of Material, Language, Publication Type, LC Classification Number, Dewey Classification Number, ISBN/ISSN, Author/Title Acronym, Title Key

Search Modes: Search, Form Search,

Browse Index

Further Features: Boolean operators, truncation, hyperlink search, saving of search queries, saving and printing of brief citations and full records, bookmark, annotation function

Display and Output Formats:

Catalogue Card, Detailed, Custom, MARC, Bibliographic

Export Format: MARC Communications

Regular updates.

Within the main Bibliographies of the World you find the

The titles on this CD-ROM were provided by the Russian Book Chamber, the official national bibliographic centre and Russian ISBN agency. It is in charge of archiving all works published in the former Soviet Union and – since 1991 – in the Russian Federation.

The 4th CD-ROM edition contains bibliographic information on some 963,000 titles. It lists books and brochures as well as dissertations. Records contain author’s name, title, series, place and year of publication, publisher, number of pages, ISBN and ISSN etc. The Bibliography also provides academics, students and lecturers with an unprecedented overview of dissertations published in the Russian Federation, some 68,000 titles.

4 editions per year, 2.200,-- DM

Introducing the ultimate in international bibliography: the world's top six English-language book databases integrated and updated monthly. Putting over 2 million English-language titles from around the world within easy reach, this unprecedented resource includes the entire databases of: Books in Print (U.S.),.Whitaker's BookBank (U.K.), International Books in Print (Continental

Europe, Africa, Asia, and Latin America), Australian and New Zealand Books in Print (Australia, New Zealand, and the Oceanic states) and Canadian Telebook (Canada).

It's easy to connect with this universe of books, ideas, and cultures. With combined searching criteria – including keyword, LC subject headings, and BISAC's new subject categories – and many browsable indexes, there are countless ways to pinpoint the information you need. Global Books in Print on Disc lets you:

- locate, access, and order material published in English throughout the world

- compare prices and availability between all international editions and bindings in one easy look-up by viewing a single record

- research book publishing activity on any subject on a global scale

- interface with major bookstore inventory and point-of-sale systems

- process electronic orders with domestic and international publishers, distributors, and wholesalers

- confirm stock status for international distributors such as Blackwell U.K., Ingram, J.A. Majors, PUBNET, and NASCORP – with more to come

This new version of the well established Ulrich's on Disc has been enhanced to include more than 7,300 annotations from Magazines for Libraries, the leading source for objective magazine evaluations since 1969 as well as reviews from Library Journal – giving you fast, flexible access to the most authoritative serials databases with a few keystrokes. You can:

- instantly locate more than 230,000 periodicals, serials, annuals, and newspapers published worldwide by using 24 different criteria – and access up to 75 data elements for each record

- preview and evaluate over 7,300 reviewed magazines before subscribing, and access descriptive annotations for some 76,000 others

- generate lists of publications by title, ISSN, discipline, country and more for comparison

- customize the results of your search with eight display and output formats

- download records for current holdings into your own files to improve record keeping

- browse 24 indexes – including title, keyword, subject and CD-ROM/online availability

- successfully complete all reference requests by using truncation and Boolean logic

The other most important cornerstone of our publishing is the World Biographical Information System where the Russian Biographical Archive is an important part of. The World Biographical Archives consist of

∙ Microfiches ∙ Books ∙ CD-ROM ∙ Online

• 25 Biographical Archives complete
• 10 Biographical Archives in publication process to be completed in 1999, early 2000
• 6 Biographical Archives in preparation for publication
• Complete articles on almost 5 million most prominent people
• from all countries and regions of the world,
• from all times and all professions
• about 7.5 million biographical entries

Biographical reference books, source books, lexica, handbooks, Who's Whos and other similar publications belong to the most used reference works in all libraries. Historical research without biographical searches is simply inconceivable. Thousands of biographical handbooks and reference works have been published over the last centuries, but no single library houses all this material; even major libraries can only ever hope to acquire a fraction of all biographical sources, thus limiting the information they can make available to their customers. This was K.G. Saur's starting point in 1980, when the idea of a Deutsches Biographisches Archiv (German Biographical Archive) was first considered. The concept of this major new work was to evaluate, compile and then reproduce all available biographical sources pertaining to a specific language or cultural sphere in a single-sequence alphabet.

Being a German company we have of course published a German Biographical Archive first.

To date, 25 Archives have been completed:

Furthermore the Russian, Indian, South-East Asian and South-East European Biographical Archives as well as the Greek, Japanese, Korean, Turkish Biographical Archives and the "Archivio Biografico Italiano sino al 1996" are in the publication process. Thus, by the year 2000, the completion of a "World Biographical Archive" will be right within reach.

In the past biographical searches without precise details on the author, content, place and year of publication of the reference work in question were hardly possible. Supplements, continuations and amendments posed additional problems for optimal use of source material — in so far as it was available at all.

Without having to know each bibliographical detail the biographical archives, which are all similarly structured, enable direct access to biographical information on the person in question.

The choice of reference works for each respective language and cultural area lays special emphasis on a careful balance of all chronological, geographical and professional data. These are arranged alphabetically according to name. Chronologically filed entries allow the user to follow clearly all developments in biographical records — e.g. from contemporary hostile accounts of the person in question, to information on their life and sphere of influence recorded hundreds of years later.

The Biographical Archives' special strength lies in their variety of biographical data. One can find entries on people from all walks of life, so that far from being a mere list of famous people, these archives give a true-to-life picture of the peoples of different linguistic or cultural areas, with all their peculiarities. A glance at a small selection of social and professional groups included demonstrates this:

Of special interest for you should be – within this series – the

Microfiche Edition

Compiled by Axel Frey

1997-1999. C. 500 fiches in 12 instalments

Reader factor 24x

After all, many causes of today's events in the succession states of the Soviet Union are deeply rooted in the history of the Russian Empire.

The "Russian Biographical Archive" includes personalities who have shaped politics, economy, religion and culture of the Russian Empire throughout its eventful history.

The biographies, predominantly written in Russian have been compiled from approximately 150 sources published between 1827 and 1995.

Thus the Archive lists approximately 75,000 individuals with approximately 160,000 biographical entries.

As the editors' reprocumulative method keeps the source works in their original condition, dating in the Archive mostly follows the Julian Calendar which was used in Russia up to 1918. The same applies to the spelling of the old Russian orthography. In principle, the question of how the variants of a name in different languages should be listed has been solved by references, as the original sequence of the Russian alphabet is applied within the Archive itself.

The user of the Archive is presented with the prospect of diverse, often highly war-torn periods from the end of the "Old Russian Empire" around 1700, the transition to the new age under Peter I, Russia's rise to a European power in the late 18th century to a world power as of the Eighties of the 19th century.

The grand historical-biographical panorama spans to the end of the Romanov dynasty in 1917.

This "magic date" in Russian history, representing an immense break in history, is for now the end date of the "Russian Biographical Archive".

Thanks to the obliging co-operation of many publishers and libraries predominantly in Russia, the GUS-states, Germany, Scandinavia and the USA, the "Russian Biographical Archive" boasts a high degree of balance regarding its content.

In the Index, both the system of transliteration as used in academic libraries and the Anglo-American system of transliteration according to the Library of Congress classification are used in order to facilitate international use of the Archive.

So far 8 of total 12 instalments are published and about half the material is published – early next year the edition will be completed.

Thus the easy access to the cumulative biographies, compiled from in part highly inaccessible sources, will prove an undeniable gain for those involved in research in various disciplines.

All Biographical Archives can easily be accessed by means of the

1998 CD-ROM edition

DM 1,980.00

ISBN 3-598-40371-2

The new edition gives information

to more than 3 articles in the Biographical Archives

an index to 2,931 international biographical reference works from the 16th to the 20th century

and is an independent tool for biographical research providing data on 2.2 million individuals

Because of our own 50^th anniversary we offer up to 50 participants of our session at the Crimea Conference one special CD-ROM of our publishing program free of charge.