Improved Copyright Searching Coming Soon

The U.S. Copyright Office has announced that an improved copyright searching system called "eCO Search" will be available on the Copyright Office website about October 1, 2005. eCO Search will offer new features, including keyword searching and the use of a single database containing records since 1978 for monographs, serials, and recorded documents. All of the approximately 20 million records for registrations and recorded documents in the current system will be migrated to the new eCO Search database.

Until then, search U.S. Copyright Office records here. To find out more about searching Copyright Office records and on services provided by the Reference & Bibliography Section, see:

• How to Investigate the Copyright Status of a Work (Circular 22)
• Have the Copyright Office Conduct a Search for You
• The Copyright Card Catalog and the Online Files of the Copyright Office (Circular 23)