UC Library Search, accessible from the search box on the library's homepage, helps you locate books, film, music, maps, and various other materials at the UC San Diego Library and beyond. It also contains a limited number of online journals and newspaper articles. You may search by keyword, title, and author, and filter your search to what is available online. You can also place an interlibrary loan request through UC Library Search for materials at other UC campuses or libraries worldwide using your Single Sign-On credentials.
UC Library Search does not include all the content to which the Library subscribes. To extend your search, try a database. The database you use depends on the topic or subject you have chosen and the type of information you need to access. You may choose among broad subject areas (e.g., biology, art, political science, etc.), as well as interdisciplinary databases or ones that search across multiple disciplines.
UC Library Search is the first stop for finding books, journals, documents, maps and all other material located physically in the UC San Diego libraries, as well as online resources purchased for your use.
You can use the same catalog to find materials at other UC libraries and Worldcat, which searches libraries worldwide. Requests from other libraries can take up to three weeks to arrive, so start your research early!
Bonus search tip: Having trouble finding relevant books using the online catalog? You can search the full text of many books using Google Books to identify books of possible interest, then do a title search in the library catalogs to determine if we have access.
Circuit is a shared library catalog that searches the holdings of all San Diego university libraries and the San Diego City/County Public Libraries.
If a book you need is already checked out at UC San Diego, or if or we don't own a book that you need, check in Circuit. If it’s available at another San Diego Circuit library, it can be delivered to UC San Diego in 1-3 days.
If a book or article you want isn't available at UC San Diego, the Circuit libraries or other UC libraries, try our free Interlibrary Loan service. We'll try to locate the item at another library and request it for you.
