Library Guides: Arts & Science: Finding Books

Find Books in Omni

Use Omni to discover books available through the library, whether they're ebooks or physical.

Filters let you limit to "Available Online" (ebooks) or Available in Library (physical).

Omni even finds chapters within books.

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Key Library Books

Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants by Robin Wall Kimmerer
Call Number: online only
ISBN: 9781571313560
Publication Date: 2015
Drawing on her life as an indigenous scientist, and as a woman, Kimmerer shows how other living beings offer us gifts and lessons, even if we've forgotten how to hear their voices.

Search E-Book Collections Available through the Library

Although our ebooks are included in an Omni search, searching them directly from the publisher site might provide a deeper search, finding your search terms at the chapter or page level.

Association of Canadian University Presses (ACUP) eBooks This link opens in a new window
- A repository of academic publications from Canadian university presses, serving as a valuable resource for researchers, scholars, and students exploring diverse scholarly subjects.
EBSCO eBooks This link opens in a new window
- A collection of eBooks from across numerous academic and professional disciplines. Includes textbooks, reference materials, and scholarly works.
eBook Central This link opens in a new window
- Academic and professional eBooks covering the full spectrum of academic disciplines. Includes scholarly texts, textbooks, reference works, and research materials.
SAGE Knowledge eBooks This link opens in a new window
- Access to academic and reference e-books across multiple disciplines. Includes scholarly texts, research handbooks, and educational resources designed to support in-depth study and research in the social sciences, humanities, business, and health.
Scholars Portal Books This link opens in a new window
- A collection of academic and scholarly eBooks from various disciplines, supporting research and study with high-quality, digital resources available to university and institutional users.
Taylor & Francis E-Books This link opens in a new window
- Access to a vast collection of academic and scholarly titles across a wide range of disciplines.
Very Short Introductions (VSI) This link opens in a new window
Introductory books on a variety of subjects. Search for your topic at the opening screen to find chapters within books that contain your search term.
Search your topic from the opening screen to find chapters within books.
University Press Scholarship Online (UPSO) This link opens in a new window
- Provides access to a comprehensive collection of scholarly eBooks published by leading academic presses covering a wide range of disciplines. UPSO includes authoritative research, monographs, and academic publications designed to support advanced study and research across various fields.

Encyclopedias

Encyclopedia Britannica
A general purpose encyclopedia available to the public online.

Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy This link opens in a new window
- An open access, peer-reviewed online resource offering in-depth articles on a broad range of philosophical subjects. Authored and regularly updated by experts, it covers key topics like ethics, metaphysics, epistemology, and the history of philosophy.
Oxford Digital Reference Shelf This link opens in a new window
Search subject-specific dictionaries and encyclopedias.

There are hundreds of subject-specific encyclopedias, handbooks, dictionaries, etc. available through the library. Look for them in Omni.

EBook Packages

Search within some of our large ebook packages. Some collections are specifically meant for background "reference" information.

Examples:

Very Short Introductions (VSI) This link opens in a new window
- Offers a series of concise, accessible overviews on a wide range of subjects. Each volume provides an expert introduction to key concepts and debates within a particular field, making it a valuable resource for quick reference and foundational understanding across various academic disciplines.
Search your topic from the opening screen to find chapters within books.
Oxford Digital Reference Shelf This link opens in a new window
- A selection of online reference books from the Oxford Reference database.