Find Handbooks and Manuals

Handbooks and manuals are resources designed to assist researchers and professionals with readily available facts and information. While most of these resources are found in printed volumes in our stacks, they are very popular as electronic books.

Electronic Resource Finder (ERF): Handbooks and Manuals
The ERF page offers a selected list of handbooks available online. First select a subject from the Subjects A-Z page and then select the Handbooks and Manuals link on the left side (not available for all subjects).

Handbooks and Manuals at Subject Specialty Libraries:
Most subject specialty libraries on campus have a list of handbooks and/or manuals on their library website, sometimes within a section of electronic books. The best place to start looking for subject websites at Berkeley is the Libraries and Collections A-Z page.

Pathfinder (UC Berkeley)
Pathfinder includes materials in most libraries on the UC Berkeley campus, but some important libraries are only partially listed, and some are not listed at all. To find items in these libraries, check their own catalogs (or Melvyl, as noted below).

• Type a subject keyword describing your broad topic, and combine with subject keyword “handbooks” to find both handbooks and manuals. Two examples are:
• nutrition handbooks
• engineering handbooks
• You can use the "Limit by Location" menu to limit your search to a subject specialty library.

Melvyl (all UC campuses)
Melvyl is the catalog of materials available from the libraries of the ten UC campuses, and other research collections in the state. Most of the UC Berkeley affiliated libraries' collections are included in this catalog. Current UC Berkeley students, faculty, and staff may request materials not owned by UC Berkeley through the online Request feature in Melvyl. The actual search is the same as in Pathfinder, above, except you may limit to UCB, but not by subject specialty library.

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