Research Guides: English 100: Find Books

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eBook Collection (EBSCO) This link opens in a new window
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Coverage: Full Text
The EBSCOhost eBook collection includes all e-books available through EBSCO. The database format offers an alternative to the library catalog for searching this specific collection.
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.

Gale eBooks [formerly GVRL] 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.
Oxford Reference Online This link opens in a new window
Access to over 300 reference works - in a single cross-searchable resource. Includes language, science and medicine, humanities and social sciences, and business. Select 'unlocked' and 'free' resources in availability for full access to content.

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-.

International Dissertations & Theses

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.