Finding Books/E-Books
Basic Search Tips
- Place quotation marks around keyword phrases
- "trench warfare"
- "Iranian Coup"
- Capitalize Boolean logic connectors (AND, OR)
- narrative OR plot
- "American Involvement" AND World War I
- Items at UD appear first in the list of search results. Other items can be requested via InterLibrary Loan.
- Visit our DELCAT Research Guide for additional tips!
There are some e-book collections that can be found under the "Primary Sources" tab. In most cases, those books would be considered primary sources, which is why they reside there instead of on the secondary source page.
- ACLS Humanities E-Book Collection This link opens in a new windowACLS Humanities E-Book HEB is an online, fully searchable collection of more than 5,400 books of high quality in the humanities and humanistic social sciences. Frequently cited in the literature, these titles are recommended by scholars and the learned societies of the American Council of Learned Societies.
- EBSCO eBook Collection (EBSCOhost) This link opens in a new windowA collection of published ebooks consisting of a broad range of reference and scholarly books.
- JSTOR eBooks This link opens in a new windowBooks at JSTOR are incorporated into the JSTOR digital library of more than 2,000 journals and more than 25,000 books in the humanities, social sciences, and sciences. The books range in date from late-19th century through 2014.
- HathiTrust Digital Library This link opens in a new windowHathiTrust Digital Library is a digital preservation repository and highly functional access platform. HathiTrust provides long-term preservation and access services to digitized content from a variety of sources, including Google, the Internet Archive, Microsoft, and in-house member institution initiatives. Items in the public domain are in full-view for everyone and items held in copyright are searchable.
- Internet Archive This link opens in a new windowThe Internet Archive is a non-profit library of millions of free books, movies, software, music, websites, and more. It was founded to build an Internet library, with the purpose of offering permanent access for researchers, historians, and scholars to historical collections that exist in digital format.
Founded in 1996, the Internet Archive has an historical web collection (the Wayback Machine) of over 150 billion web pages, about 240,000 movies, over 500,000 audio items (including over 70,000 live concerts), over 1,800,000 texts, 1600 education items, and over 30,000 software items.
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Browsing the stacks in Morris Library can be extremely helpful when you are looking for additional sources for your research. Most books related to Latin American and Iberian history can be found on the 3rd floor of Morris Library and fall under the following Library of Congress classifications:
D History - General
DP Spain - Portugal
F1201 - 3799 Latin America. Spanish America
If you would like to see a full list of where Latin American countries are within the above call number range, please visit the Latin American & Iberian Studies research guide. You can also "browse" the shelves virtually by searching by Call Number through DELCAT.