online catalogs

Web-based product listings

Online catalogs are digital databases that list and describe items available for access or purchase.

Libraries use online catalogs to let patrons search collections by title, author, or subject: I found the book through the library's online catalog.

Retailers maintain online catalogs of products.

The term largely replaced "card catalog" as libraries digitized their holdings in the late twentieth century.

Opposites
medium/format

online catalogsprint catalogs

Bound paper sales publications

printed catalogs · card catalogs · brochures

distribution method

online catalogsdoor-to-door sales

Commerce via household visits

Family

line, catalog, catalogue, cataloging

Familiarity
Top 200,000
Profile
Known to kids · Used worldwide · Timeless · Concrete · Everyday, not technical · Rated G