Controlled Vocabularies

 

Subject Headings (General, Broad Subjects)

 

Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH) 

• http://classificationweb.net (alternate subscription access)  
• LCSH Children's Subject Headings (supplement for children & YA materials) 

 

FAST (Faceted Application of Subject Terminology)

 

Sears Subject Headings (requires subscription)

 

MeSH (Medical Subject Headings)

 

 

Thesauri (Specific Subject Domain)

 

Getty Art & Architecture Thesaurus (AAT)

 

Thesaurus for Graphic Materials (TGM)

 

RBMS Controlled Vocabularies (for rare books & special collections) 

 

ERIC (Education Resources Information Center) Thesaurus

 

LIV (Legislative Indexing Vocabulary) 

• newer version: CRS Legislative Index Terms

 

American Folklore Society Ethnographic Thesaurus

 

Moving Image Genre-Form Guide

 

IMF Multilingual Terminology

 

Astronomy Thesaurus (from Australian National University)

 

 

Authority Control

 

LC Name Authority File

 

Getty Union List of Artist Names

 

MARC Countries

 

MARC Geographic Areas