AATA Online

AATA Online is an online database of the Getty Conservation Institute in association with the International Institute for Conservation of Historic and Artistic Works. It has more than 100,000 abstracts of worldwide literature related to the management and conservation of international material cultural heritage.
www.aata.getty.edu

Bibliographic Database of the Conservation Information Network - BCIN

The Bibliographic Database of the Conservation Information Network provides access to over 190,000 bibliographic citations for conservation literature gathered by a worldwide network of contributors. It is operated by the Canadian Heritage Information Network (CHIN).
www.bcin.ca

Canadian Conservation Institute - CCI

The CCI library contains more than 10,000 books and 400 journal subscriptions on a wide range of conservation and museum topics.
www.cci-icc.gc.ca

The Getty Conservation Institute Information Center

The Getty Conservation Institute Information Center has a searchable online library catalogue with over 500,000 bibliographic records for the 800,000 volumes of books, serials, and auction catalogues in the general and special collections, as well as descriptive records of approximately 3,000 archival and photographic collections.
library.getty.edu/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?DB=local&PAGE=First

The Hornemann Institut

The Hornemann Institute databank contains abstracts of conservation theses from various universities, details of conservation projects and of the specialists working on them.
www.hornemann-institut.de

ICOM - International Council of Museums

The ICOM website contains bibliographic lists on various conservation topics. Content is closely related to ICOM publications.
www.icom.org

ICOMOS - International Council on Monuments and Sites

The ICOMOS bibliographical database contains more than 27.000 bibliographic references. It can be searched at the Centre and online.
www.icomos.org

INP - Institut national du patrimoine

The INP, a training institution for heritage curators and conservators, provides access through a single documentary gateway to the Documentation Resource Centre (over 16,000 entries), the Library of the Department of Conservators (45,000 entries), and the Works Documentation Service.
exlibris.inp.fr

The Union Catalogue

The online Union Catalogue of three German research institutes (in Florence, Munich,and Rome) has over 811,000 entries, of which 248,000 are journal articles.
www.kubikat.org

Online information centres

Art Conservation

A Guide to Internet Resources Starting Points; Associations and Organizations; Other Internet Resources Guides Starting Points.
www2.lib.udel.edu/subj/artc/internet.htm

Electronic database developed by the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, USA. It provides technical information on terms, materials, and techniques used in art conservation.
www.mfa.org/_cameo/frontend/home.asp

CoOL

CoOL is a full text library of conservation information, covering a wide spectrum of topics of interest to those involved with the conservation of library, archives and museum materials. There is also a directory of conservation professionals.
palimpsest.stanford.edu

Conservation Link

Links to other conservation sites and a noticeboard for conservators.
www.museion.net/kl1/kons/cl.htm

Cultural Heritage Search Engine

The site has an annotated database on information resources in conservation heritage.
www.culturalheritage.net

Masonry Conservation Research Group

Online resources for the preservation community, including information about research and educational opportunities.
www2.rgu.ac.uk/schools/mcrg/stinfo.htm

Preservation Internet Resources

Provides online resources for the preservation community, including on formation about research, educational opportunities, and other online information.
www.ncptt.nps.gov/pir/

Preservenet

A database of regularly unpdated internet resources on preservation topics.
www.preservenet.cornell.edu

updated on: 27 November, 2006