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 window
Identify 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.
- 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).
- 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.
