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Library Catalogs

Search a library catalog to find books of interest:

  • SearchWorks: Stanford catalog
  • OskiCAT: University of California at Berkeley catalog
  • Melvyl: University of California catalog
  • WorldCat: Window to the World’s Libraries (catalog for >9,000 libraries)

Books not at Stanford

Here are options for Stanford students, faculty, and staff to get books needed for research that are not owned by Stanford.

e-Books & e-Series

Please note that most commercially distributed e-book and e-text collections are licensed for the non-profit educational use of the Stanford community, and access to them is restricted. Their use is governed by copyright law and individual license agreements. Systematic downloading, distributing, or retaining substantial portions of licensed information is prohibited.

Key e-Book Sites

AccessEngineering Stanford only
Includes access to Perry’s Chemical Engineers Handbook. This site delivers authoritative information in these areas: Biomedical, Chemical, Civil, Communications, Construction, Electrical, Energy, Environmental, Green/Sustainable, Industrial, Material Science, Mechanical, Nanotechnology, and Optical. The McGraw-Hill Dictionary of Engineering is embedded on all search pages.
ACS Symposium Series (Includes ACS Symposium Series Archive and Advances in Chemistry) Stanford only
The ACS Symposium Series (1974–present) contains high-quality, peer-reviewed books developed from the ACS technical divisions’ symposia. The series covers a broad range of topics including agricultural and food chemistry, cellulose and renewable materials, chemical education, organic chemistry, polymer chemistry, materials, and many others. Published between 1950–1973, Advances in Chemistry was the predecessor to the ACS Symposium Series. This high-quality, peer-reviewed book series was instituted to provide the research community with an avenue to publish content and special topics that was beyond the scope of the Society’s existing journals.
Biography resource center + the complete Marquis Who's who Stanford only
A comprehensive database of biographical information on more than one million people throughout history and around the world. It combines biographies from 70 Gale Group publications, the complete Marquis Who’s who, Merriam-Webster’s collegiate and biographical dictionaries, and full-text articles from over 250 periodicals.
Books 24x7 Stanford only
More than 7,250 books (as of January 2009) on computing and information technology from nearly 150 publishers.
Cambridge Books Online Stanford only
Submitted by monk@stanford.edu on Wed, 10/05/2011 - 11:27

Cambridge Books Online offers access to eBooks from their world-renowned publishing program, covering subjects from all disciplines across science, technology and medicine, as well as humanities and social sciences.

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CRCnetBASE: Advanced Search Stanford only
CRC Press’ engineering handbook collections online, including CivilEngineeringnetBASE, ElectricalEngineeringnetBASE, ENGnetBASE, MechanicalEngineeringnetBASE, NANOnetBASE, and TELECOMMUNICATIONSnetBASE.
Current Protocols Online Stanford only
Current Protocols is the largest collection of authoritative and regularly-updated step-by-step research techniques and procedures available. With over 20 years of experience and over 11,500 protocols, as well as expert Editorial Boards and a qualified in-house scientific editorial staff, Current Protocols is the leading source of high-quality protocols for life scientists worldwide.
ebrary Stanford only
Full-text searching and retrieval of over 35,000 titles in various disciplines, with a rich “information toolset.” Browser plug-in required. Printing and copying from ebrary are allowed, although particular titles may have print/copy page limits.
Elsevier ScienceDirect Stanford only
More than 6,000 reference works, handbooks, monographs, and series, primarily in the sciences (including some social science titles).
Gale Virtual reference library Stanford only
Includes the full-text to: Acronyms, Initialisms, and Abbreviations Dictionary; American Men and Women of Science; Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography; and How Products are Made.
Gallica
Submitted by monk@stanford.edu on Tue, 03/09/2010 - 11:58

An online collection of scanned images, books and journals offered by the Bibliotheque Nationale de France, primarily from the 19th century.

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Google Books
Contains a vast collection of books covering all subject areas. Google has agreements with more than 20,000 publishers. Depending on copyright status, users may see a snippet or the full-text.
Hathi Trust Digital Library
Submitted by monk@stanford.edu on Wed, 10/05/2011 - 11:42

HathiTrust is a partnership of major research institutions and libraries working to ensure that the cultural record is preserved and accessible long into the future. There are more than fifty partners in HathiTrust, and membership is open to institutions worldwide.

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Internet Archive: Texts Archive
Submitted by monk@stanford.edu on Wed, 10/05/2011 - 11:46

Download free books and texts. The Internet Archive Text Archive contains a wide range of fiction, popular books, children’s books, historical texts and academic books.

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Knovel Stanford only
Knovel Library combines essential and authoritative reference books and databases from more than 30 Sci-Tech publishers and professional societies including, McGraw Hill, John Wiley, Elsevier, Springer, and American Institute of Chemical Engineers. Using Advanced Search feature, it is possible to search numeric ranges for physical properties. It is also possible to sort, filter and export data from “live tables”, resolve equations and plot graphs, capture values from existing graphs and perform “what if” experiments on the data.
MyiLibrary Stanford only
About 26,000 e-books (as of June 2009) from notable publishers including Springer, Oxford University Press, Cambridge University Press, and others. Works best in Internet Explorer (Windows) and Safari (Macintosh).
National Academies Press e-books
Containing more than 4,000 titles, the National Academies Press (NAP) was created by the National Academies to publish the reports issued by the National Academy of Sciences, the National Academy of Engineering, the Institute of Medicine, and the National Research Council. The NAP publishes more than 200 books a year on a wide range of topics in science, engineering, and health, capturing the most authoritative views on important issues in science and health policy.
NCBI Bookshelf
The Bookshelf is a searchable collection of online biomedical textbooks and other literature. In addition to some classic biology and medical textbooks and monographs, it also includes books and databases produced by the National Library of Medicine (NLM) and the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI).
Oxford reference online Stanford only
Oxford Reference Online brings together language and subject reference works from one of the world’s biggest reference publishers into a single cross-searchable resource. The Premium Collection offers over 175 fully-indexed, cross-searchable dictionary, language reference, and subject reference works published by Oxford University Press, including detailed information across a broad subject range from titles in the world-renowned Oxford Companions Series.
Oxford Scholarship Online Stanford only
More than 2,250 monographs (as of January 2009) from Oxford University Press in many subjects across the humanities and the social, natural and physical sciences.
Project Gutenberg
Submitted by monk@stanford.edu on Wed, 10/05/2011 - 11:48

Project Gutenberg offers over 36,000 free ebooks to download to your PC, Kindle, Android, iOS or other portable device. Choose between ePub, Kindle, HTML and simple text formats.

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RSC eBook Collection Stanford only
The Royal Society of Chemistry eBook Collection is a definitive point of reference for anyone working in the chemical sciences. Over 700 books spanning 40 years have been brought together, digitized as pdf files and made fully searchable. The result is a comprehensive overview of research and opinion in a multitude of areas of chemical science.
Safari Books Online Stanford only
O’Reilly publications on technology, numbering more than 6,600 titles as of January 2009. Stanford’s subscription allows for 7 simultaneous users, so please log out of Safari when you’re done.
SCI-TECHnetBASE Stanford only
This collection includes over 5,100 e-books covering scientific and technical information, including handbooks and single-volume reference sources.
Springer Protocols Stanford only
Springer Protocols is the largest subscription-based electronic database of reproducible laboratory protocols in the Life and Biomedical Sciences. Compiling protocols from Humana’s successful book series Methods in Molecular Biology, Methods in Molecular Medicine, Methods in Biotechnology, Methods in Pharmacology and Toxicology, and Neuromethods, as well as from a vast number of Laboratory Handbooks, such as The Biomethods Handbook, The Proteomics Handbook, and the Springer Laboratory Manuals.
Springerlink Stanford only
Includes books, journals, protocols and reference materials, in all subject areas, from Springer. As of January 2009, includes nearly 30,000 e-books in more than 1,000 series.
SpringerMaterials (Landolt-Börnstein database) Stanford only
Landolt-Börnstein, the largest compilation of data in physics and chemistry, celebrated its 125th birthday on 29 September 2008. The reference work was published by the physicist Hans Landolt and the chemist Richard Börnstein in 1883; in the New Series, it now comprises more than 360 printed volumes and over 55,000 electronic documents for engineers and scientists.
Synthesis Digital Library of Engineering and Computer Science Stanford only
A library of 50- to 100-page “Lectures” covering core undergraduate course areas to more specialized upper-division and graduate-level topics in biomedical, environmental, and electrical engineering, as well as the state of the art in computer science and engineering research.
Thieme ElectronicBook Library — Atlas & Textbook Series Stanford only
This collection provides a resource for learning, review, and research in medicine and the life sciences. It systematically covers every course in the medical school curriculum and includes basic science volumes of interdisciplinary interest. Packed with illustrations, titles have been used for nearly 50 years by medical students and professionals alike. The innovative electronic version retains the outstanding educational utility of the print books, but incorporates powerful search functions.
UPenn Online Books Page
Search or browse over 14,000 listings in a wide variety of subjects.
Wiley Online Library Stanford only
Wiley has nearly 10,000 books online and hundreds of multi-volume reference works. Stanford has purchased a large number of science and engineering titles. View chapter summaries, download PDFs, save publications and chapters, search for related content, export citations, and click through to references.

Monographic Series

Online access to monographic series is restricted to the Stanford community.

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