Library Guides: HIST 435: Muslims, Christians, and Jews in the Early Modern Mediterranean: Finding Books

Finding Books

Catalog (Penn State University Libraries catalog)
find books, videos, maps, music, microfilm titles, and other formats in the University Libraries' collections.
NOTE: you will not find articles from newspapers, magazines, or journals in The CAT

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.
LionSearch
an integrated search of books, e-books, research articles, newspaper articles, and other publications.
HathiTrust (Public Domain within US only)
Repository of digitized books and other materials from academic libraries. Out of copyright texts can be viewed full-text.

Sponsored by the libraries of the Committee on Institutional Cooperation, the University of California, and other partners, HathiTrust is a repository of digitized materials in all disciplines. Its content--primarily scanned books and journals-- may be searched via authors, titles, subjects, and other data elements.

Oxford Bibliographies Online
Brief essays by experts, very useful guidance on key scholarly works

Brief essays by experts on major topics in and assortment of arts and humanities disciplines. Each essay selects and describes the important scholarship on the topic. Items in the annotated bibliographies usually link to library holdings.

If you know the item you want, and Penn State does not own it, use Interlibrary Loan!

Interlibrary Loan (ILLIAD)
Use Illiad to request items not owned by PSU Libraries. First time users will need to register

Try these databases if you want to search other libraries by subject or author.

You can request the items directly within these systems and they will automatically use our InterLibrary Loan service

E-ZBorrow (Pennsylvania Academic Library Consortium)
Search and request books and other circulating materials from over 60 libraries in the Pennsylvania Academic Library Consortium.

E-ZBorrow is a web gateway that allows simultaneous searching of over 60 academic library catalogs in Pennsylvania, New Jersey and West Virginia, including the University of Pennsylvania, the University of Pittsburgh, Temple University, Carnegie Mellon University, and Rutgers University. Penn State faculty, staff, and students can place requests for books within E-ZBorrow.
WorldCat (OCLC FirstSearch)
Simultaneously search the catalogs of over 10,000 libraries worldwide, including major research libraries.

OCLC WorldCat database is the OCLC online union catalog. It contains over 43 million records describing library holdings around the world.