Center for Bibliographical Studies and Research (CBSR)

 

The Center for Bibliographical Studies and Research (CBSR) was a humanities research center in the College of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences. It was founded in 1989 and closed in June 2025. This page is maintained for historical purposes.
Messanger
English Short-Title Catalog
(1473-1800)

The ESTC is a bibliography and union catalog of everything printed in England or the English language before 1801. It is co-managed by the CBSR and the British Library. The public search interface is currently hosted by the British Library.
Cal Bear
California Newspaper
Project

The CNP is a catalog of surviving California newspapers and the institutions around the state that have copies. It was assembled over nearly a decade, starting in the early 1990s, by visiting every holding institution in the state we could identify.
Paper Boy
California Digital Newspaper
Collection

The CDNC is a freely-accessible online repository of digitized California newspapers. It contains millions of pages and growing and is funded through federal, state and local grants and public-private partnerships.
Mayan
Catálogo Colectivo de Impresos
Latinoamericanos

CCILA is a bibliography and union catalog of everything printed in Latin America and the Philippines before 1901. Records come from transcribed printed bibliographies and from partnering institutions around the Americas.
CNMA
California Newspaper
Microfilm Archive

The CNMA is a collection of roughly 100,000 master negative reels of Golden State newspapers. The reels are housed in cold storage for long-term preservation and can only be used to make duplicate positive reels or digital copies of entire reels.