This volume provides review of the increasing availability of electronic information resources for historians. The most important types and classes are presented with central examples. A more detailed look is taken at bibliographies and databases of articles, virtual specialist libraries and portals, e-books and digital libraries, reference works and information resources on literary source material, as well as the various areas of the auxiliary historical sciences.

Klaus Gantert, Fachhochschule für öffentliche Verwaltung und Rechtspflege in Bayern - Fachbereich Archiv- und Bibliothekswesen, München.