The Library of the Museo del Prado offers its users a selection of the bibliographical resources that researches use most frecuently in the internet.

Search engines, guides, compilations of sources

• ADAM
• ANU Art History-Australian National University
• Art History Resources on the Web
• ArtQue
• ArtSource
• Mother of All Art and History Links Page
• My virtual reference desk- Art and Culture
• The World Wide Web Virtual Library: History of Art
• World Wide Arts resources
• Web Gallery

Group catalogues

• Art Libraries Net
• (Group catalogue of 22 art libraries)
• Catálogo Colectivo del Patrimonio Bibliográfico Español
• Group catalogue of Spanish periodical publications
• CBU (Consorci de Biblioteques Universitàries de Catalunya)
• COPAC
• (Consortium of University Research Libraries, United Kingdom)
• ICCU (Istituto Centrale per il Catalogo Unico delle Biblioteche Italiane e per le Informazioni Bibliografiche)
• IRIS (Associazione di Biblioteche Storico-Artistiche e umanistiche a Firenze)
• KUBIKAT
• LIBIS(Belgian group catalogue)
• PORBASE (Group Portuguese catalogue)
• REBIUN (Consortium of Spanish university libraries)
• SUDOC(Group catalogue of French university libraries)

Directories of libraries

• Nacional libraries worldwide
• Spanish university libraries
• International Directory of Art Libraries

General research libraries

• Biblioteca Nacional del España
• Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale, Firenze
• Bibliothèque Nationale de France
• Bibliothèque Royale de Belgique
• British Library
• CSIC (Red de Bibliotecas)
• Der Deutschen Bibliothek
• Koninklijke Bibliotheek
• Harvard Libraries
• Library of Congress
• Oxford University Libraries

Museum libraries

In Spain

• Centro de Arte Reina Sofía
• Museo Arqueológico Nacional
• Museo de Bellas Artes de Bilbao
• Museo Nacional de Artes Decorativas
• Museu Nacional d’Art de Catalunya (Biblioteca d’Historia de l’Art)
• Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando

Outside Spain

Belgium

• Musées Royaux des Beaux-Arts de Belgique

USA

• Art Institute (Chicago)
• The Frick Art Reference Library (New York)
• Getty Research Institute
• Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York)
• Museum of Modern Art (New York)
• National Gallery of Art (Washington)
• Museum of Fine Arts (Boston)

France

• Catalogue collectif des bibliothèques des musées nationaux

Great Britain

• National Art Library (Victoria & Albert Museum)
• Tate Galley

Holland

• Rijksmuseum (Amsterdam)

Portugal

• Fundaçao Gulbenkian. Biblioteca de Arte

Research institutes

• Bibliotheca Hertziana (Rome)
• Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts (Washington)
• Clark Art Institute (Williamstown, MA)
• Courtauld Institute of Art (London)
• Deutsches Forum für Kunstgeschichte (Paris)
• Fondazione Giorgio Cini (Venice)
• Fondazione di Studi di Storia dell’Arte Roberto Longhi
• The Getty Research Institute (Malibu, CA)
• Institut National d’Histoire de l’Art (Paris)
• Institute of Art History (Prague)
• The Institute of Art of the Polish Academy of Sciences and Letters (Warsaw)
• Instituto Amatller de Arte Hispánico (Barcelona)
• Istituto universitario Olandese di Storia dell’Arte (Florence)
• Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz (Florence)
• Research Institute of Art History of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences
• Rijksbureau voor Kunsthistorische Documentatie (The Hague)
• Rubenianum (Antwerp)
• Schweizerisches Institut für Kunstwissenschaft (Zurich-Lausanne)
• Slovenska Akadémia Vied (Bratislava)
• Villa I Tatti : The Harvard University Center for Italian Renaissance Studies
• Visual Arts Research Institute Edinburgh (Edinburgh)
• Warburg Institute (London)
• Zentralinstitut für Kunstgeschichte (Munich)

Professional associations

Museums and heritage

• ICOM (International Council of Museums)
• ICOMOS (International Council of Monuments and Sites)

Art historians

• Association des Historiens de l’Art Italien
• Association of Art Historians
• CAA (College Art Association)
• CODART (Curators of Dutch and Flemish Art)

Art libraries

• IFLA. Art Libraries Section
• AKMB (Arbeitsemeinschaft der Kunst und Museumbibliotheken)
• ARLIS/NA (Art Libraries Society of North America)
• ARLIS/UK (Art Libraries Society of the United Kingdom)
• ARLIS Norden (Association of Scandinavian art libraries: Sweden, Norway, Finland, Denmark and Iceland)
• ARLIS ANZ (Art Libraries Society Australia, New Zealand)
• OKBN*ARLIS/NL (Association of Dutch art libraries)
• Visual Resources Association

Reference tools (thesauruses, lists of material, dictionaries, etc)

• Art and architecture Thesaurus (Getty)
• The Dictionary of Art Historians
• ULAN (Union List of Artists Names) (Getty)
• Library of Congress Thesaurus for Graphic Materials I (Subject Terms)
• Library of Congress Thesaurus for Graphic Materials II (Genre and Physical Characteristic terms)
• The ICONCLASS Home Page
• The Online Books Page

Bookshops, distributors, etc.

Outside Spain

• ABAA (Antiquarian Booksellers Association of America)
• Abebooks
• Alibris
• Amazon
• AntiQbook (European antiquarian booksite)
• Ars Libri
• Aux Amateurs des Livres
• Blackwell’s
• Bookfinder
• Casalini
• Chapitre
• Interbooks
• Michael Shamansky
• Thomas Heneage
• Weblibris, la bibliophilie sur l’Internet

In Spain

• ISBN (Spanish books on sale from 1972)
• Casa del Libro
• Iberlibro
• La Central
• Librería Gaudí
• Librerías Marcial Pons
• Libroantiguo