How to Find Books
Instructional guide on how to locate books
UA Libraries Catalog Online Catalog
The University of Akron's catalog of books, periodicals, government documents and audio-visual materials.
OhioLINK Central Catalog
The combined catalog of over 75 university and college libraries in Ohio.
WorldCAT
The combined catalog of holdings of thousands of libraries in the US and beyond.
Books in Print
Comprehensive listing of books currently published or distributed in the United States.
Digital Dissertations
Citations with abstracts to dissertations from 500+ US and foreign institutions. Abstracts are available from 1980- and for master's theses from 1988-. Beginning with 1997 titles, all dissertations will be able in PDF format. UA dissertations in PDF format are available at no charge. All other institution's dissertations in PDF are $19.50, payable by credit card.
Proceedings First
Tables of contents from published conference proceedings. 1993-present.
Other Library Catalogs
DynixLINK
Akron-Summit County Public Library's Online Catalogs
Hand Press Book
This database includes standardized bibliographic records for European printing of the hand-press period (c. 1455-1830). The catalog represents 15 European countries, and 37 major national and university libraries. A good source for bibliographic identification of the period, and for location of materials for research purposes.
Library Catalogs Around the World
RLIN Bibliographic Database
Contains records for materials available from the advent of printing to the present, reflecting the collections of other major research and academic libraries; archives and museums; law, medical, and theological libraries; art and music libraries; area studies collections; public and corporate libraries; historical societies and book clubs. This is a good source for bibliographic identification for interlibrary loan purposes, and full bibliographic searches as part of research.
Electronic Book Collections
Safari Books
Provides "best-in-class" technical and business reference books, journals, research reports and documentation from more than 65 of the world's top IT and business publishers.
Electronic Reference Books (OhioLINK)
A collection of special-topic reference books – encyclopedias, handbooks, biographical collections, guides – from ABC-CLIO, an educational reference publisher.
ENGnetBASE
A collection of fulltext engineering handbooks.
netLibrary
Collection of commerically published scholarly, academic, and professional books in the areas of arts and sciences, the social sciences, health, business, and computer and information science. The publishers are university presses, while imprints are current. There is a substantial volume of publish domain titles that can be found elsewhere but are nicely contained here.
The On-Line Books Page
Contains thousands of free books cleared of copyright restrictions. The books cover a wide range of topics (from fiction, drama and poetry, recreation and leisure, and chemical technology) that are searchable by author, title, and subject.
Oxford Reference Online
Provides desktop access to 100 key Oxford dictionaries and reference works including 100 language and subject dictionaries containing over 60,000 pages in a variety of topics.
ACLS History E-Books New 01/20/04
Over 775 e-books in the field of history.