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How to Find Books
Locating and Obtaining Books at King Library and Beyond
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Library of Congress ClassificationUse this to learn where to browse your subject in the stacks.
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CSU CollectionsSJSU students, faculty, and staff have access to over 29 million books across the entire CSU, right from within OneSearch. You can request books from any of the other 22 California State University libraries and have them delivered to the SJSU Library within 2-5 days.
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Interlibrary ServicesInterlibrary Loan is a service in which SJSU borrows books (that it does not own) from another library for you. It is an option if the book you want is not available at SJSU or through Link+.
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California Libraries Catalog (Includes WorldCat)The California Libraries Catalog provides the ability to look up books and other materials in California libraries cataloged in the Online Computer Library Center (OCLC).
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Library of Congress CatalogA good place for a comprehensive search for materials on any topic, especially those relevant to U. S. history.
Book Reviews (Online)
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America: History and Life with Fulltext This link opens in a new window
Reference tool for U.S. and Canadian history and culture. With full-text coverage of hundreds of journals and books, and selective indexing for journals from 1863 to present.
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Choice Reviews This link opens in a new window
Short, critical evaluations of new current scholarly books and electronic media of interest to people in higher education and library science. New reviews are arranged by academic discipline and broad interdisciplinary topic.
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Historical Abstracts with Fulltext This link opens in a new window
This database supports upper-division and graduate research on World History, Military History, Women's History, History of Education and many other related topics. It also provides indexing of historical articles from more than 3,100 journals in over 40 languages dating back to 1955. Also provides access to the full text of more than 380 journals and 140 books.
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Humanities Full Text This link opens in a new window
Encompasses all key fields of the humanities, covering topics including art, classical studies, dance, film, journalism, philosophy, religion and more. Content includes feature articles, interviews, obituaries and original works of fiction, drama, poetry and more.
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JSTOR Journals and Books This link opens in a new window
The journals archive consists of older (at least 2-5 years) issues of core scholarly journals across a wide range of subjects including the arts, humanities, and social sciences. The eBook collections are DRM-free and allow for unlimited concurrent use and unlimited chapter downloads and printing.
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Project Muse This link opens in a new windowFull-text scholarly articles in literature and criticism, history, visual and performing arts, cultural studies, education, political science, gender studies, social science, mathematics.
e-Books
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ACLS Humanities E-book This link opens in a new windowA collection of scholarly humanities titles offered in collaboration with 30+ learned societies, 100+ contributing publishers, and librarians at the University of Michigan’s Scholarly Publishing Office.
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Internet Classics ArchiveSponsored by MIT, contains full text of classical works, often available in the original Latin or Greek as well as the translation.
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netLibraryYou can create a bookshelf, bookmark pages and search text with this interactive electronic book resource. Or, use the Reference Center to look up background information on your topic.
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Project GutenbergWith thousands of important and famous texts available this is a rich site for electronic books. Search by subject, title or author.
Tutorials
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Finding Your Book on the ShelfThis tutorial provides a quick introduction to call numbers.
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Finding Your Book on the ShelfLearn how to use a call number to find the book you want on the shelves.