Guides: POLI 490: Special Topics in Political Science: Finding Books (and sample eBooks)

Finding Books

Books can be secondary sources or primary sources, or may contain both. OneSearch is the best place to begin your search for books at the duPont-Ball Library and beyond.

OneSearch (advanced search page)
Search WorldCat plus Academic Search Complete and Proquest Research Library to find book, eBooks, scholarly articles, news, and more.

Library of Congress Classification System
Find call numbers that may be useful for your research topic.
Library of Congress Online Catalog- Browse
Find subject heading using the "subjects containing" and "subjects beginning with" filters.
Google Books
Scanned sections of books. Useful for deciding if you want to request a book through interlibrary loan, or starting to read while you're waiting for an interlibrary loan to arrive.