Books, media, government documents, manuscript collections, etc.: catalog searches
WorldCat contains the books from most of the college/university libraries in the U.S. plus some from Canada and Europe. You may be able to request books you find in WorldCat via Interlibrary Loan.
- Wright State University Libraries CatalogLocate materials owned by the University Libraries.
- OhioLINK CatalogA consortium of 120 Ohio academic libraries. If you cannot locate an item in the University Libraries catalog, try OhioLINK. Some items can be requested for delivery to Wright State University. Look for the green request button.
- WorldCat (FirstSearch) This link opens in a new windowIdentify worldwide library ownership of any type of material. Each entry contains descriptive information and library holdings. Most useful to determine ownership of books, archive literature, and journal subscriptions. Do not use to search for the content of book chapters or individual articles. The FirstSearch version of Worldcat includes advanced search options for highly developed search strategies.
E-Sources
- ARTstor This link opens in a new windowA digital library of more than one million images in the arts, architecture, humanities, and social sciences. Includes a suite of software tools to view, present, and manage images for research and teaching.
- Biography Reference Bank This link opens in a new windowProvides biographical information on notable people from antiquity to the present. Includes portrait images.
- Book Citation Index - Social Science and Humanities This link opens in a new windowAn index of books and book chapters in humanities and social sciences disciplines.
- eBook Collection (EBSCOhost) This link opens in a new windowRead the full-text of books from academic and commercial publishers, as well as a large number of older works in the public domain.
- Gale Virtual Reference Library This link opens in a new windowSearch hundreds of scholarly, subject-specific reference titles in many topic areas, including the arts, business, education, history, the sciences, technology, literature, and the social sciences. Excellent for in-depth overviews of terms or concepts. Search individual e-books or whole collections.
- OhioLINK EBC (Electronic Book Center) This link opens in a new windowRead and search full-text scholarly and reference books from a wide range of publishers including ABC-Clio, Gale, Oxford University Press, Palgrave, Sage, Springer, and university presses.
- Oxford Research Encyclopedias This link opens in a new windowORE contains authoritative encyclopedic articles authored by an international community of scholars across all fields of study. The collection of encyclopedias contains in-depth, peer-reviewed summaries on a range of disciplines. Browse encyclopedias by title or search across all volumes by topic.
- Oxford Scholarship Online This link opens in a new windowSearch a selection of ebooks published by Oxford on economics and finance, philosophy, political science, and religion. Recently-published books are added each year.
- Wiley Online LibraryThousands of full-text journal articles and ebooks from the publisher Wiley and its hundreds of associated professional societies and associations.
