Research Guides: History: Find Books/Ebooks

Book/Ebook collections

Cambridge Histories Online This link opens in a new window
Cambridge Histories Online offers online accessibility to full text titles for any type of historical research or study of a subject that has an historical element. Includes all the latest editions of the print series with automatic updates.
JSTOR This link opens in a new window
Coverage: Full Text
Electronic archive of selected core journals in the humanities, social sciences, and sciences. Includes complete runs of all titles indexed from Volume 1 to most current available (embargo periods apply). UMBC subscribes to the following collections: Arts & Sciences I - XV; Business IV, Hebrew Journals, Ireland, Life Sciences, Public Health Journals, Lives of Literature, Security Studies, Sustainability, 19th Century British Pamphlets, World Heritage Sites: Africa, Struggles for Freedom: Southern Africa, and Global Plants.
Project Muse This link opens in a new window
Searchable full-text of select journals and books in the humanities and social sciences. UMBC subscribes to its Basic Undergraduate Collection.

Bepress History Commons
Open access scholarship from hundreds of universities and colleges including peer-reviewed journal articles, book chapters, dissertations, working papers, conference proceedings, and other original scholarly work. New work is added regularly.

Gale eBooks This link opens in a new window
Gale Virtual Reference Library offers online access to reference sources including encyclopedias, almanacs, series and more. UMBC titles cover biography, business, law, public health, economic history, and multicultural studies.

WorldCat Classic (OCLC) This link opens in a new window
Coverage: Index Only
Worldcat holds the records of all materials cataloged by OCLC member libraries. Search for specific titles or authors or do general searches by subject or keyword. Results display formats, holding institutions, and links to full text if available.

Hathi Trust Digital Library
Hathi Trust is a collection of digitized works contributed by member academic institutions. Persons affiliated with member institutions may view and download any of the works.
Anyone may search the catalog and view, but not download, full text works in the public domain (primarily pre-1923), approximately 32% of the collection.
The catalog can be used to search catalog records by author/title/subject or to search within the full text of works.
The University of Maryland, College Park and Johns Hopkins are local institutions that are members. A full list is included on the Hathi homepage.

Dissertations & Theses (ProQuest) This link opens in a new window
Coverage: Some Full Text
Indexes and abstracts dissertations and theses primarily from the U.S and Canada, some international; dissertations abstracted since 1980, theses abstracted since 1988. Full text available for dissertations published since 1997 (1991 from UMBC) are available as PDFs. (Online version of Dissertation Abstracts from UMI)
Dissertations & Theses @ UMBC (Proquest) This link opens in a new window
Coverage: Some Full Text
Provides access to the citations and abstracts and some full text of dissertations and theses from UMBC graduate students. In addition to citations and abstracts, the service provides access to 24 page previews and the full text for dissertations produced 1991-.
Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations (NDLTD) This link opens in a new window
The NDLTD Union Catalog contains more than one million records of electronic theses and dissertations (ETDs). Also includes links to other useful ETD search tools.