How to find books
- SummonSummon is the main search tool for UBC Library, combining the library catalogue with a wealth of other databases and online collections. It is a good place to begin a search for print and electronic monographs.
Note that Summon, while extensive, is not connected to everything UBC Library owns.
Continue your search for books held by UBC Library by using the institutional subscription e-books databases listed below.
Expand your searching to include books not held by UBC Library by using the links in the 'Books from other libraries' box.
E-Book Databases (A-Z)
- ACLS Humanities eBook Project This link opens in a new windowAn online collection of approximately 3,700 books in the humanities.
- Association of Canadian University PublisherseBooks published by Canadian University presses available via Scholar's Portal.
- Bloomsbury ebooksAccess to 12,000+ ebooks from Bloomsbury, including imprints Bloomsbury, Hart, I.B. Tauris, and Zed.
- Cambridge University Press This link opens in a new windowCambridge University Press is one of the largest and most prestigious academic publishers in the world, a leader in publishing subjects as diverse as astronomy, Shakespeare studies, economics, mathematics and politics.
- Center for Research Libraries (CRL) This link opens in a new windowCatalogue and Digital Collections of the CRL consortium of North American university and independent research libraries. Items are available to member institutions through interlibrary loan and electronic delivery.
- de Gruyter ebook collection This link opens in a new windowEbook collections on the de Gruyter platform for Columbia, Cornell, Harvard, Princeton, University of California.
- e-Duke Scholarly Books Collection This link opens in a new windowFull-text of over fourteen hundred books published by Duke University Press in the humanities and social sciences.
- eBooks @ EBSCOhost This link opens in a new windowMultidisciplinary collection of e-books, with strengths in business information. Use for: finding ebooks on accounting, e-commerce, entrepreneurship, economics + global economy, finance + banking, management, etc.
- Google Scholar This link opens in a new windowWorld's largest academic search engine providing free searching to a full range of scholarly literature (ie. peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, pre-prints, abstracts, technical reports).
- HathiTrust This link opens in a new windowHathiTrust is a partnership of academic & research institutions, offering a collection of millions of titles digitized from libraries around the world.
- John Benjamins ebooksAccess to all 4000+ John Benjamins ebooks in every imaginable subfield of Language and Linguistics, including music related monographs.
- MIT Press Complete Collection This link opens in a new windowAccess to all ebooks published by MIT Press, over 3000 titles, dating back to the first date of publication.
- Oxford Handbooks Online This link opens in a new windowThe Oxford Handbooks series includes four subject modules - Business & Management; Philosophy; Political Science; and Religion.
- Project Muse This link opens in a new windowOnline access to a comprehensive selection of important journals and ebooks in the humanities and social sciences.
- ProQuest Ebook Central This link opens in a new windowMultidisciplinary ebook platform providing access to thousands of titles.
- Taylor & Francis eBooks This link opens in a new windowAccess to a multidisciplinary collection of ebooks from Taylor & Francis. Imprints include Routledge, CRC Press and Garland Science.
- University Press Scholarship OnlineAlternate title: Oxford Scholarship Online
A vast and rapidly-expanding online research library, University Press Scholarship Online (UPSO) offers full-text access to the best scholarly publishing from around the world, making disparately-published scholarship easily accessible, highly discoverable, and fully cross-searchable via a single online platform.
- Wiley Online Library This link opens in a new windowUse for: full text online access to journals published by John Wiley & Sons in the sciences, life sciences, law and business.
Books from other libraries
If UBC Library doesn't have the book you need, try ordering it through UBC Library's Interlibrary Loan Service.
- Outlook Online This link opens in a new windowCatalogue of the holdings of British Columbia's public, college, and institute libraries.
- Voilá: Catalogue du Canada / Canada's Catalogue This link opens in a new windowCanada's national union catalogue. Includes published materials held by Libraries and Archives Canada (LAC) in Ottawa as well as those in hundreds of other libraries across the country. The successor to AMICUS.
- WorldCat This link opens in a new windowSearch thousands of libraries from one catalog. Order Interlibrary Loan requests easily through WorldCat.
