find, not only reference materials, but also general books, dissertations, videos, and other recorded formats on your topic.
The CAT also provides links to online resources when available. You can also use The CAT to access Penn State Libraries' holdings in WorldCat, HathiTrust, and Google Books. Hint: Use Advanced Search in The CAT. Enter keyword(s) to search and limit your search to format, publication year, etc.
This is the online catalog of materials owned by Penn State Libraries. All formats (books, journals, audiovisuals, maps, recordings, etc.) are included. Circulation status for individual items is also provided. Coverage: Presently contains about 7 million records. Updates: Continuous up-to-the-minute as new records are added.
use your identified keywords to find articles, digitized books, government documents, and other scholarly resources about your topic.
Google Scholar enables you to search specifically for scholarly literature, including peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, preprints, abstracts and technical reports from all broad areas of research. Use Google Scholar to find articles from a wide variety of academic publishers, professional societies, preprint repositories and universities, as well as scholarly articles available across the web. Once you set your institutional preferences, links to full-text, if available at Penn State, should appear.