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  BOOKS & eBOOKS: Search LIBRARY CATALOGS for books, e-books, dissertations, videos/DVDs and other materials.
 
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  OskiCat More about OskiCat: the new UC Berkeley Libary catalog.
  MELVYL CLASSIC: the University of California (UC systemwide) catalog of materials and research collections. Most of the UC Berkeley affiliated libraries' collections are included in Melvyl. 
    USE : for items that are available at another UC campus. Request is available from the Melvyl Catalog and from many UC-licensed databases (via UC-eLinks) for current UC Berkeley students, faculty and staff.
Use the Title and/or Author search if you are looking for a specific book.
Use the Keywords search if you are looking for books on a subject.
Consult the Guide to Library Catalogs for more information.
  Melvyl Next Gen = Melvyl (UC) + Worldcat; includes electronic resources, books, articles & more.
    What resources are not included in this pilot? items for which we have only minimal cataloging data (mostly older materials), or any items in the Giannini Foundation of Agricultural Economics Library.

Items in the following libraries are included, but the system does not yet associate them with UC Berkeley or University of California Libraries.

To get these items, set your search to include "Libraries worldwide" & go to that level in results: Law Library, Institute of Governmental Studies Library, Institute of Transportation Studies Library, Water Resources Center Archives, Earthquake Engineering Resource Center, California Academy of Sciences, California Historical Society, California State Library, Center for Research Libraries, Graduate Theological Union, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, and UC Hastings College of the Law.


To search these collections directly, researchers should use the current Melvyl Classic.

Article citations other than those indexed in ArticleFirst, ERIC, GPO, MEDLINE, and "British Library Inside" are not included.
  WorldCat: locate materials in libraries throughout the world. Current UC Berkeley students, faculty, and staff may request materials not owned by UC Berkeley through the Library's Interlibrary Borrowing Service.
  WorldCat - Original: via Firstsearch. UCB only.
 

E-Books (electronic books) are available online. Some are linked from our catalogs - do a title search in Pathfinder or Melvyl.
Use E-Book collections for titles available through specialized websites, such as Oxford Scholarship, CRCnet base & others.
eBrary: download the reader. For physics and astronomy collections use browse Science or enter title.

  Google Book Search: includes some full text. Searches the full text of books, including some from the University of California libraries. The full text of a book can be displayed only if the book is out of copyright (generally, published before 1923) or if the copyright holder has given permission.

Google Scholar: select Scholar preferences, select California Digital Library (UC e-LInks) as your library, and then click through to articles or to see which campus owns a book.
  LibX Browser: adds a toolbar to your FireFox or IE browser that will search Melvyl, WorldCat, or any of the UC campuses + Google Scholar.Go to Melvyl help for instructions on downloading the toolbar.
    Individual library catalogs: to find materials in a specific library collection. This site includes links to Bay Area, California, U.S., and other library catalogs.

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