Books and E-Books - HIS397 - Skaff - Library at Shippensburg University

Tools for Finding Book Sources

WorldCat Advanced Search This link opens in a new window
The world's largest book database, WorldCat serves as a shared library catalog for 25,000+ libraries worldwide. Contains links to books, periodical titles, videos, internet resources, and other cataloged resources in libraries. It also contains selected collections of periodical articles. Access from on campus or off campus, with no ID required.
WorldCat FirstSearch This link opens in a new window
The world's largest book database, WorldCat serves as a shared library catalog for 25,000+ libraries worldwide. Contains links to books, periodical titles, videos, internet resources, and other cataloged resources in libraries. It also contains selected collections of periodical articles. The FirstSearch version of WorldCat provides powerful advanced search options to better focus searches.
Access from on campus or off campus with Ship ID.
Library Catalog This link opens in a new window
The Library Catalog is the authoritative list of physical items in the Shippensburg University library collections.
Ship Discovery Search This link opens in a new window
Our most comprehensive search tool. It searches simultaneously most of our library databases, including all our EBSCO databases and the library catalog, among others. Use Ship Discovery Search to locate all our books, ebooks, and videos, as well as our magazine and journal articles in all databases. It provides additional access to news articles and dissertations. Use it in combination with ProQuest All Databases Search.
Access on-campus or off-campus with your ShipID

Search Tip for Primary Sources

Particularly in Ship Discovery Search, find search terms for your topic, then add the following search to another row on the search screen:

sources OR primary OR document* OR sourcebook OR autobiog* OR memoir* OR diar* OR correspondence OR letters

Freely Available eBook Collections

Google Book Search
The largest collection of electronic books. It includes both free e-books as well as snippets of books not available for free.
Internet Archive Text Archive
This collection features over 20 million freely available books and texts and "a collection of 2.3 million modern eBooks that may be borrowed by anyone with a free archive.org account"--website.
Digital Book Index
This site provides access to electronic books from many of the most important web e-book collections. The great value in this smaller selective site is that it includes texts from a wide range of digitization projects. Access is free but very brief registration is required.
Project Gutenberg
A collection of some 36,000+ electronic books in the public domain.
The Online Books Page
A collection of some 1+ million electronic books.
HathiTrust Digital Library
HathiTrust Digital Library is a digital preservation repository that provides long-term access for public domain and in copyright content from a variety of sources, including Google, the Internet Archive, Microsoft, and in-house partner institution initiatives.

HIS397 - Skaff

Tools for Finding Book Sources

Search Tip for Primary Sources

sources OR primary OR document* OR sourcebook OR autobiog* OR memoir* OR diar* OR correspondence OR letters

Freely Available eBook Collections

Contact the Ezra Lehman Memorial Library