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Online Catalogs

Search the library catalog to find books located at Loyola Libraries. Search WorldCat to find books located at other libraries and to request books through ILLiad.

LUC Library Catalog Advanced Search
Find books, journal titles, a/v materials, e-books, dissertations and all materials owned by Loyola Libraries.
Dissertations & Theses (ProQuest)
Index of dissertations and theses with abstracts and full-texts. Coverage: 1861-present.
WorldCat Firstsearch
Records of any type of material cataloged by OCLC member libraries. Includes manuscripts written as early as the 12th century.

Licensed Scholarly Book Collections

Cambridge Core
Journal articles and ebooks covering a wide range of academic disciplines.
Cambridge Histories Online
Full-text ebooks covering history. Coverage: 1960 - present.

Humanities E-Book Project
The Humanities E-book Project (formerly the History E-book project), was created by the American Council of Learned Societies.

EBSCO eBooks
Full-text ebooks, including reference books, scholarly monographs, university press publications and consumer books.
Oxford Scholarship Online Books
Multidisciplinary collection of full-text ebooks covering humanities, economics, and political sciences.
PsycBooks
Full-text ebooks published by APA, as well as historical and classic works from the behavioral and social sciences. Coverage: 1597 - present.
Safari Tech Books Online
Ebooks covering business, data, design, STEM, security, hardware & software development, system administration, and web & mobile design.

Licensed Reference E-Book Collections

ABC CLIO Electronic Reference Library
Multidisciplinary collection of full-text reference ebooks exploring history, political science, and culture.
Gale Virtual Reference Library
Multidisciplinary collection of full-text reference ebooks.
Oxford Reference Online
Full-text multidisciplinary encyclopedias, dictionaries, and other reference titles. Limited to five simultaneous users.
Sage Knowledge (Sage Reference Online)
Full-text encyclopedic entries covering topics in social sciences.

E-Books

For information on our specific e-book collections, visit our E-Book Research Guide.

E-Books

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Tracy Ruppman

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Research and Learning Librarian
Liaison for the School of Education and the departments of Psychology and Sociology
Interim liaison for the School of Social Work and the Department of English
University Libraries
Loyola University Chicago
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Subjects: Education, English, Psychology, Social Work, Sociology

Selected Book Collections on the Web

eScholarship Editions
Provides free access to over 400 titles from the University of California Press.
Google Book Search
Google has digitized millions of books from library collections, including hundreds of books related to Old English literature, with various translations and editions. The search results provide book reference pages that often include reviews, citations,
Project Gutenberg
A collection of over 54,000 e-books.
HathiTrust: A Shared Digital Repository
As a digital repository for the nation’s great research libraries, HathiTrust (listen to pronunciation) brings together the immense collections of partner institutions.