What if I want to search everything?
Most of our e-book titles are listed in UC Library Search. If you search a topic there, you will uncover items in our e-book collections, along with all other materials (print books, journal titles, government reports, etc).
What if I only want to search among all our e-books?
If you'd like only to see and search among all the e-books in our collections, then search the Library Catalog rather than Articles, Books and More, and then limit by resource type to Books and/or Book chapters. In this way, you may search a topic across all of the packages listed here to the right, but in one place.
So why choose from among the collections here?
Picking a specific e-book package lets you search fulltext of the entire book, across all the books in the package. Depending on your topic, this fulltext search can be an advantage.
Tip: When you search in the Library's catalog, you are only searching the books' titles, subject headings, notes/tables of contents, and publisher details. It is not a search of the entire contents of each e-book.
Frequently, someone will start in the catalog, and get an idea of which e-book collection holds the most content for their topic, then localize into that ebook package for more in-depth searching.
The way you can tell which collection an e-book is 1) if there's an orange "Available Online" note in the search results, or 2) within the actual record, you'll see a View Online box with one or more links under "Full Text Availability."
If you have any questions about your topic or searching for items, please contact us for more help specific to your unique research topic.
Some of the e-book collections listed below are focused tightly on one or a few humanities & social science disciplines, while others cover all disciplines broadly (sciences, arts, humanties, social sciences).
Database of digitized books, images, documents, essays and bibiographies documenting women's reform activities in the U.S., mostly from the 19th and 20th centuries.