Resources for researching authorities

Updated 2019

A growing selection of recomended resources for authority research from the CaMS staff.

Alphabetical by name of resource.

Resource	Type of authority	Comments
All-Music Guide https://www.allmusic.com/	Pop musicians
At the Circulating Library - A Database of Victorian Fiction, 1837-1901 http://www.victorianresearch.org/atcl/index.php	Victorian era authors
Autores.uy: la base de datos de autores de Uruguay http://autores.uy/	Uruguayan authors
Bai du bai ke: a Chinese-language, collaborative, web-based encyclopedia https://baike.baidu.com
Baidu https://www.baidu.com	Chinese names
BBC Find an Artist http://www.bbc.co.uk/arts/yourpaintings/artists	Artists
Bolshaia biografichreskaia entsiklopediia https://dic.academic.ru/contents.nsf/enc_biography/	Russian names	Access to individual entries not always reliable
British Book Trade Index http://bbti.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/	18th and 19th century British authors, illustrators, publishers, printers, booksellers, binders
CALIS http://rbsc.calis.edu.cn:8086/aopac/jsp/indexXyjg.jsp	Chinese names from rare publications
Cambridge University Library RCS Photographer's Index http://www.lib.cam.ac.uk/rcs_photographers/search.html	Photographers, photography firms
Chinese Writers' Association member directory http://www.chinawriter.com.cn/hycd/index.shtml	Chinese writers
CiNii books https://ci.nii.ac.jp/books/?l=ja	Japanese authors
CNKI https://library.princeton.edu/resource/3665	Chinese names from journals and dissertations	Requires Princeton netID
Critical dictionary of English literature, and British and American authors, living and deceased, from the earliest accounts to the middle of the 19th century... http://galenet.galegroup.com/servlet/Sabin?locID=prin77918	19th century artists and illustrators	Full text available online through Sabin Americana. Requires Princeton netID
Currículo lattes http://lattes.cnpq.br/	Brazilian scientists, scholars, researchers, academics
Dictionary of Art Historians https://dictionaryofarthistorians.org/a.html	Art historians
Duxiu https://library.princeton.edu/resource/4616	Chinese names	Requires Princeton netID
Early English Books Online https://quod.lib.umich.edu/e/eebogroup/
Enciclopédia Itaú Cultural https://enciclopedia.itaucultural.org.br/	Brazilian artists
Encyclopaedia Judaica https://library.princeton.edu/resource/3756	Hebrew names	Requires Princeton netID
Encyclopedia of Jews in the Islamic World https://library.princeton.edu/resource/5037	Hebrew names	Requires Princeton netID
English Short Title Catalogue http://estc.bl.uk/F/?func=file&file_name=login-bl-estc	Authors, illustrators, publishers, printers, booksellers, binders of early printed books in English
Getty Union List of Artist Names http://www.getty.edu/research/tools/vocabularies/ulan/index.html	Artists
Hong Kong CAN http://www.hkcan.net/hkcanopac/servlet/search/en_US	Chinese names
IMDb https://www.imdb.com/	Movie and television industries
International Association of Music Information Centres http://www.iamic.net/	Musicians
Invaluable http://www.invaluable.com/features/selectArtist.cfm?afRedir=true	Artists
JapanKnowledge Lib http://library.princeton.edu/resource/3884	Japanese authors, Japanese classical names	Requires Princeton netID
Kongfuzi http://www.kongfz.com/	Chinese names from out-of-date publications
Krasnaia kniga rossiiskoi estrady http://kkre-1.narod.ru/	Soviet-era showbiz people
Mapping the Practice and Profession of Sculpture in Britain & Ireland 1851-1951 http://sculpture.gla.ac.uk/browse/index.php	British and Irish sculptors	Has people browse
MGG Online https://www.mgg-online.com/	Musicians
Musica brasilis http://musicabrasilis.org.br/compositores	Brazilian composers
Muzykal’naia entsiklopediia http://www.musenc.ru/	Russian musicians
National Archives of Ireland, 1858-1922 http://www.willcalendars.nationalarchives.ie/search/cwa/index.jsp
National Galleries Scotland https://www.nationalgalleries.org/collection/artists-a-z/a	Artists
National Portrait Gallery http://www.npg.org.uk/collections/search/artA-Z.php	Artists
Oxford Art Online https://www.oxfordartonline.com/	Artists	Requires Princeton netID
Oxford Music Online (contains New Grove) https://www.oxfordmusiconline.com/	Musicians	Requires Princeton netID
Photographers of Great Britain & Ireland 1840-1940 http://www.cartedevisite.co.uk/	British and Irish photographers
Ricorso http://www.ricorso.net/	Irish authors
Royal College of Physicians http://munksroll.rcplondon.ac.uk/Biography/Search	Physicians
Royal College of Surgeons http://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/search.htm	Surgeons
Scottish Book Trade Index https://www.nls.uk/catalogues/scottish-book-trade-index	18th and 19th century Scottish authors, illustrators, publishers, printers, booksellers, binders
Union catalogs of early Japanese books https://base1.nijl.ac.jp/infolib/meta_pub/G0001401KTG	Japanese classical authors
Universal Short Title Catalog https://ustc.ac.uk/
VIAF https://viaf.org/	General authorities
Web NDL authorities http://id.ndl.go.jp/auth/ndla	Japanese authors
Welsh Biography Online (National Library of Wales) http://wbo.llgc.org.uk/en/index.html	Welsh authorities
WhoPlus (Japan) http://library.princeton.edu/resource/14904	Hard to find Japanese names	Requires Princeton netID
Wikidata https://www.wikidata.org/	General authorities	Multilingual
Yesasia.com http://www.yesasia.com	Japanese film directors, actors, etc