Books, media, government documents, manuscript collections, etc.: catalog searches
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QuickSearch This link opens in a new window
QuickSearch helps you to find books, journal articles and other resources available through Wright State and OhioLINK. QuickSearch displays results from hundreds of databases, state-wide library inventories, and publishers' collections. Sign-in with your WSU account to get access to digital material.
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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.
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.
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HathiTrust Digital LibraryMillions of digitized works, including books, magazines, newspapers, sheet music, journals, and government documents. (There are no audio/visual files). Only materials that were originally published as open access or are in the public domain are viewable as complete full text. [See Stanford's Welcome to the Public Domain for details about what constitutes public domain]. More at What can you do with HathiTrust? - Everyone (Wright State is not an institutional member).
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Google Books - Advanced SearchLimit to specific categories: all books, limited preview and full view, full view only, or Google ebooks only. Google ebooks include titles that are open access or in the public domain as well as titles without full text access. If you choose the Google ebooks option, you will have the option to narrow to books with Full View only after Google runs the search. Only open access or public domain titles have the full view option.
E-Sources
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Artstor on JSTOR This link opens in a new window
A 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.
Artstor images are available on the JSTOR platform.
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Biography Reference Bank This link opens in a new window
Provides biographical information on notable people from antiquity to the present. Includes portrait images.
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Book Citation Index - Social Science and Humanities This link opens in a new window
An index of books and book chapters in humanities and social sciences disciplines.
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Book Citation Index - Social Science and Humanities This link opens in a new window
An index of books and book chapters in humanities and social sciences disciplines.
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Cambridge Core This link opens in a new windowRead full-text journal and book chapters published by the Cambridge University Press. Journal articles can also be found within the OhioLINK Electronic Journal Center(EJC).
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eBook Collection (EBSCOhost) This link opens in a new window
Read the full-text of books from academic and commercial publishers, as well as a large number of older works in the public domain.
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Gale Virtual Reference Library This link opens in a new window
Search 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.
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Oxford Research Encyclopedias This link opens in a new window
ORE 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.
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Oxford Scholarship Online This link opens in a new window
Search a selection of ebooks published by Oxford on economics and finance, philosophy, political science, and religion. Recently-published books are added each year.
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Wiley Online Library
Thousands of full-text journal articles and ebooks from the publisher Wiley and its hundreds of associated professional societies and associations.
Sacred texts online
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American & English Literature: Bible in English This link opens in a new window
The full text of 21 editions of the Bible written in English, covering a millennium of the language's history from the Tenth through the Twentieth Centuries. The editions it contains are: West Saxon I, West Saxon II, John Wycliffe (early), John Wycliffe (Late), William Tyndale, Miles Coverdale, Great Bible, Thomas Matthew Bishops' Bible, Geneva Bible, Rheims Douai, King James Bible, 18th and 19th Centuries Daniel Mace, Richard Challoner, John Wesley (NT), John Worsley (NT), Noah Webster, Leicester Ambrose Sawyer, Twentieth Century New Testament, New English Bible, Good News Bible.
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The Qu'ranFormed by two former Computer Science students at the University of Copenhagen in November 2007 under the name ‘Online Quran Project’
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The Hebrew Bible in EnglishAn online English version of the JPS 1917 Edition
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The Four VedasThe Vedas are a large body of religious texts originating in ancient India. Composed in Sanskrit, the texts are the oldest scriptures of Hinduism.
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Digital Database of Buddhist Tripitaka CataloguesFrom the BDK America, short for Bukkyō Dendō Kyōkai America, the Society for the Promotion of Buddhism.
