Examples of subject catalogs include the Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH), the Sears List of Subject Headings, and the Medical Subject Headings (MeSH) used in the field of medicine. These catalogs provide standardized subject terms to help organize and retrieve resources in libraries and other information systems.

Miriam Ogden Ball has written:

'Subject headings for the information file' -- subject(s): Subject headings

Julia Pettee has written:

'List of churches' -- subject(s): Sects

'Subject headings' -- subject(s): Dictionary Catalogs, Subject headings

Judith Kaufman has written:

'Library of Congress subject headings for recordings of western non-classical music' -- subject- s -: Abstracting and indexing, Cataloging of music, Cataloging of sound recordings, Library of Congress Subject headings, Music, Subject headings

Mary Micco has written:

'Using the Internet' -- subject- s -: Internet

'An exploratory study of three subject access systems in medicine' -- subject- s -: Library of Congress Subject headings, Medicine, National Library of Medicine - U.S. -., PRECIS - Indexing system -, Subject headings, Subject headings, Library of Congress