Reference Resources for Special Libraries

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General thesauri and classification schemes

• Library of Congress Classification Outline
  http://lcweb.loc.gov/catdir/cpso/lcco/lcco.html (Outline links to pdf files)
  http://geography.miningco.com/science/geography/library/congress/bllc.htm (unofficial site, html files)
  
  
• Dewey Decimal Classification
  http://www.oclc.org/dewey/index.htm
  
  
• UNESCO Thesaurus (It includes subject terms for the following areas of knowledge: education; science; culture; social and human sciences; information and communication; and politics, law and economics. It also includes the names of countries and groupings of countries (political, economic, geographic, ethnic and religious, and linguistic groupings).
  http://www.ulcc.ac.uk/unesco/index.htm
  
  
• Library of Congress Subject Headings Weekly Lists
  http://lcweb.loc.gov/catdir/cpso/cpso.html#subjects
  
  
• International Patent Classification (IPC)
  http://www.wipo.int/classifications/en/ipc/index.html
  
  
• Manual of U.S. Patent Classification
  http://www.uspto.gov/web/offices/ac/ido/oeip/taf/moc/index.htm
  
  
• Index to the US Manual of Classifications for patents
  http://www.uspto.gov/web/offices/ac/ido/oeip/taf/c_index/index.htm
  http://www.ibiblio.org/patents/

Specilized thesauri and classification schemes

• Medical Subject Headings (MeSH)
  http://www.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/meshhome.html
  
  
• Art and Architecture Thesaurus (AAT)
  http://www.getty.edu/research/tools/vocabulary/aat/index.html
  The Union List of Artist Names (ULAN) http://www.getty.edu/research/tools/vocabulary/ulan/
  The Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names (TGN) http://www.getty.edu/research/tools/vocabulary/tgn/
  
  
• BIOSIS Zoological Records: Systematics, taxonomy & nomenclature
  http://www.biosis.org/zrdocs/zoolinfo/syst_tax.htm
  
  
• Outline of INSPEC Classification (INSPEC is the Quality Database for Physics, Electronics and Computing)
  http://www.iee.org.uk/publish/inspec/classif.html
  
  
• The ACM Computing Classification System [1998 Version], Valid in 2000, Association for Computing Machinery
  http://www.acm.org/class/1998/
  
  
• Introducing ICONCLASS (ICONCLASS is a subject specific international classification system for iconographic research and the documentation of images.)
  http://www.iconclass.nl/
  
  
• North American Industry Classification System (NAICS). (NAICS is replacing the U.S. Standard Industrial Classification (SIC) system.)
  http://www.census.gov/epcd/www/naics.html
  
  
• NASA Thesaurus (The thesaurus browser brings to pdf files)
  http://www.sti.nasa.gov/thesfrm1.htm
  
  
• Subject Categorization Guide for Defense Science & Technology, U.S. Defense Technical Information Center (DTIC)
  http://www.dtic.mil/dtic/subcatguide/
  
  
• Physics and Astronomy Classification Scheme (PACS), American Institute of Physics
  http://www.aip.org/pubservs/pacs.html
  
  
• Optics Classification and Indexing Scheme (OCIS), Optical Society of America
  http://w3.osa.org/standard/OCIS/
  
  
• Life Sciences Thesaurus, Cambridge Scientific Abstracts
  http://www.csa.com/edit/lscthes.html
  
  
• Mathematics Subject Classification (MSC), American Mathematical Society. (MSC is used to categorize items covered by the two reviewing databases, Mathematical Reviews (MR) and Zentralblatt MATH (Zbl).
  http://www.ams.org/msc/
  
  
• Thesaurus of Sociological Indexing Terms, Cambridge Scientific Abstracts
  http://www.csa.com/edit/sociothes.html
  
  
• Library of Congress: Browse/Search the Thesaurus
  http://www.loc.gov/pmei/lexico/tgm1/brsearch.html
  • Thesaurus for the Global Legal Information Network (GLIN)
  • Legislative Indexing Vocabulary (LIV)
  • Thesaurus for Graphic Materials I: Subject Terms (TGM I)
  • Thesaurus for Graphic Materials II: Genre and Physical Characteristic Terms (TGM II)
    
    
• The AGRICOLA Subject Category Codes (SCC) (Codes used by National Agricultural Library indexers and catalogers to categorize bibliographic records in the AGRICOLA database.)
  http://www.agnic.org/cc/
  
  
• National Monuments Record Thesaurus, National Monuments Record Centre
  http://www.rchme.gov.uk/thesaurus/thes_splash.htm
  
  
• National Taxonomy of Exempt Entities (NTEE), a comprehensive coding scheme developed by the National Center for Charitable Statistics. NTEE establishes a unified national standard for classifying nonprofit activities; it also provides a more concise and consistent hierarchical method to classify and index grants.
  http://fdncenter.org/research/grants_class/index.html

Related Websites

• IFLA Section on Classification and Indexing
  • Principles Underlying Subject Heading Languages
    
    
• American Society of Indexers
  
  • Thesauri Online http://www.asindexing.org/thesonet.shtml
    
    
• United Nations Statistics Division: Statistical Classifications Section
  • Programme on Statistical Classifications http://www.un.org/depts/unsd/class/class1.htm
    
    
• WIPO: World Intellectual Property Organisation: International Classifications
  http://www.wipo.int/classifications/en/index.html
  
  
• The Universal Standard Products and Services Classification Code organization, UNSPSC
  http://eccma.org/unspsc/
  
  
• The list of Controlled vocabularies maintained by Michael Robert Middleton
  
  
• NKOS ( Networked Knowledge Organization Systems/Services)
  • Taxonomy of Knowledge Organization Systems Taxonomy of Knowledge Organization Systems (draft)