Research Guides: Research: Finding Information: Finding Books and eBooks

Introduction

The Annenberg Library has an extensive collection of books and eBooks for virtually all academic subjects. You can search for books directly from the library home page, but you need to search eBooks from individual databases. You can learn about the hundreds of thousands of eBooks on the library's eBooks research guide.

Books

Search the library's print holdings:

eBooks

ACLS Humanities E-Books This link opens in a new window
ACLS Humanities E-Book (HEB) is a digital collection of over 5,500 seminal books in the humanities and related social sciences. Fields currently covered include the following: World and U.S. History, Biblical Studies, Bibliographic Studies, Comparative/World, Economic History, Environmental Studies, Film and Media Studies, Folklore, Hip Hop Studies, Islamic Studies, Jewish Studies, Law, LGBT/Queer Studies, Linguistics, Literature, Literary Criticism, Medicine, Methods/Theory, Musicology, Native Peoples of the Americas, Performance Studies (theater, music, dance), Philosophy, Political Science, Religion, Science/Technology, Sociology and Women’s Studies.
EBSCO eBook Collection This link opens in a new window
This eBook collection includes over 150,000 eBooks spanning a broad range of academic subjects with additional titles specific to History, Humanities, and Religion. New titles are added monthly.
Gale eBooks This link opens in a new window
Gale eBooks offer coverage of academic, scholarly and professional disciplines. Includes specialized subject dictionaries, encyclopedias, and handbooks useful for background information.

Google Book Search
Portal to Google's massive library digitization project. Depending on copyright restrictions, you may either see full text or limited parts of books (tables of contents, book covers, sample chapters, etc.).

Hathi Trust Digital Library This link opens in a new window
Founded in 2008, HathiTrust is a not-for-profit collaborative of academic and research libraries preserving 17+ million digitized items. HathiTrust offers reading access to the fullest extent allowable by U.S. copyright law, computational access to the entire corpus for scholarly research, and other emerging services based on the combined collection. HathiTrust members steward the collection — the largest set of digitized books managed by academic and research libraries — under the aims of scholarly, not corporate, interests.
JSTOR This link opens in a new window
JSTOR offers interdisciplinary content to support scholarship and teaching. It includes over one thousand leading academic journals across the humanities, social sciences, and sciences, as well as select monographs and other materials valuable for academic work. Journals are always included from volume 1, issue 1 and include previous and unrelated titles. Typically, coverage ends 3-5 years before the present date, a "moving wall" system that protects publishers from last revenue for recent articles.
ProQuest Academic Complete [eBook Central] This link opens in a new window
ProQuest's Academic Complete database on the eBook Central platform is a collection of more than 150,000 scholarly ebooks from leading publishers, including university presses. All titles in Academic Complete are available to Peddie users for online reading. Most titles can be downloaded in full or by chapter; print options vary due to publishers' licensing restrictions.
Very Short Introductions This link opens in a new window
Very Short Introductions offer concise introductions to a diverse range of subject areas. It offers new books each year for students and scholars, and the avidly curious, offering a bridge between reference content and higher academic work. All titles provide introductions to a huge range of subjects, written by experts in the field who combine facts, analysis, new ideas, and enthusiasm to make challenging topics highly readable.