World of Learning

Updated continually each year.

Provides informations on:

• Over 30,000 universities, colleges, schools of art and music, libraries, learned societies, research institutes, museums and art galleries
  
• Details more than 200,000 staff and officials
  
• Information on more than 550 international cultural, scientific and educational organizations
  
• Covers every important library giving the number of volumes held and outstanding features of the collection
  
• Professors at major universities are listed by name, together with the subjects in which they specialize
  
• All entries provide: Name; address; telephone and fax numbers, e-mail and internet addresses; principal personnel; activities and publications, where available
  
• May be used as a world-wide academic mailing list
  

Printed editions located in reference and serials at 060.5/4

There are three main browse buttons in the navigation bar on every page of The World of Learning:

• Countries
  
• Institutions
  
• Subjects

Browsing by Countries or by Institutions are recommended starting points for users familiar with the print version of The World of Learning.

There is an advanced search feature that is really a group of four search engines, set up to search effectively within fulltext, for institutions, for people or for publications.

There are useful search tips on the search page, with an extensive guide to the site under the help link