ALICE Catalog, OhioLINK Catalog, and WorldCat
1. Start here: ALICE Library Catalog...
- Includes: books, videos, magazine, journal, and newspaper titles, from ALL Ohio University campus libraries.
- Does not include: individual articles from magazines, journals, and newspapers.
- Look for Location, Call Number, and Status. AVAILABLE means it should be on the shelf, or readable online.
2. Can't find it in ALICE? Try OhioLINK...
- Access to 50M+ items from around the state.
- Quick, easy, and free borrowing; see table of borrowing information.
- Use
to get items from OhioLINK. Delivery usually within 3-4 days.*
*Please allow several additional days during COVID-limited operations.
3. Can't even get it from OhioLINK? Try WorldCat...
- Combined catalogs of thousands of libraries from around the world.
- You cannot borrow directly in WorldCat; request books and media via Interlibrary Loan.
E-book collections
- eBook Collection (EBSCO)Collection of online eBooks and resource materials available. Subjects covered include arts and entertainment, business and economy, computer and internet, education, health, history, government and law, recreation and sports, reference, science and technology, social sciences and society and culture.
- OhioLINK Electronic Book CollectionSearch for ebooks from ABC-CLIO, Gale, Oxford University Press, Sage, and Springer. Includes books, encyclopedias, handbooks, and more in the humanities, social sciences, life, health, and physical sciences, engineering and computer science
- Oxford Very Short IntroductionsOxford University Press publishes a series of concise overviews to complex ideas on a wide range of subjects. The books are intended to provide an overview of the issue for someone new to the topic or discipline. In the database, you can access and share both full titles and individual chapters. *
*Some print editions are available by searching ALICE and OhioLINK. - ProQuest Ebook CentralDatabase providing full text access to all Proquest ebook titles available to Ohio University, covering a broad range of subjects. Allows users to copy, print. and download a limited number of pages; some titles also allow a temporary download of the entire book. This collection includes ebook titles previously available to Ohio University through ProQuest's Ebrary and Ebook Library (EBL) databases, as well as ProQuest ebooks available through OhioLINK.
Browsing the Shelves
Except as noted, these call number ranges are on the 6th floor of Alden Library. There are also some reference books in these ranges on the 2nd floor of Alden.
HT Urban Politics
HX Socialism, Communism
J Official Documents. Legislative and executive papers
JA General Political Science
JC Political Theory
JF General Political Institutions. Constitutional History
JK US Political Institutions
JS Local & municipal government
JV Emigration & immigration. Colonization
KF US Law
KFO Ohio Law
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