LibGuides: Education: Books

Librarian, College of Education

Christy Boggs

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Camden-Carroll Library
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Subjects: Agriculture, Appalachian Studies, Education, Music

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Search for Books in the Library

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WorldCat This link opens in a new window
Is a worldwide online union catalog that offers bibliographic and holdings information for thousands of libraries. Each item in the database not held in the library at MSU can be easily obtained by using the 'Request it' button.
Subject Coverage:
covers countless subjects
Dates of Coverage:
1000 C.E. to present
Update Frequency:
daily
Size:
more than 453 million item records
more than 2.8 billion holdings records
Note:
It includes manuscripts written as early as the 11th century as well as books cataloged yesterday. It would be a challenge to name a book that would not have a record in this database. Numerous journal articles are also available through WorldCat.

Browse Books in the Library

The Library's books are arranged by Dewey Decimal numbers. The Dewey Decimal numbers for Education are:

370      Education
371      Schools & their activities; special education
372      Elementary education
373      Secondary education
374      Adult education
375      Curricula
376      Women and education
377      Religion and education
378      Higher education
379      Public policy issues in education

Search Ebook Databases at the Library

JSTOR Ebooks This link opens in a new window
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Contains more than 43,000 of JSTOR's ebooks from 83 scholarly publishers.
Subject Coverage:
covers many subject areas
Dates of Coverage:
1866 to present
Update Frequency:
annually with a two-year rolling wall
Size:
more than 43,000 books
Notes:
More than 80 publishers.
These have no limits on the number of concurrent users nor do they have any DRM restrictions - they can be freely downloaded and saved.
Ebook Central This link opens in a new window
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Offers a small but growing collection of mostly non-fiction e-books. The library's catalog contains records for all e-books. Among them are those that we purchase from Ebook Central.
Subject Coverage:
multi-disciplinary

Dates of Coverage:
unknown
Update Frequency:
whenever new titles are purchased
Size:
more than 350 books
eBook Collection This link opens in a new window
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Offers a large collection of mostly non-fiction e-books. The library's catalog contains records for all of these e-books. [Formerly known as NetLibrary]
Access to individual e-books is limited to 1 user at a time.
Subject Coverage:
scholarly monographs, reference titles, computer manuals, and other non-fiction
Dates of Coverage:
2001 to present
Update Frequency:
unavailable
Size:
more than 125,000 e-books

Restrictions:
Access to individual e-books is limited to 1 user at a time.

Note:
An e-book may be viewed for any period of time but will automatically check itself back in after 15 minutes of inactivity. "Activity" is defined as traffic between the PC and the server. Using the scroll bar to move down the page is not activity. Clicking into a new page is activity.

Other E-Book Resources

BookServer - Locate books in electronic format from the Internet Archive

Google Book Search - Searches the full-text of books from various publishers and libraries

Project Gutenberg - Library of free ebooks whose copyright has expired in the USA

OAIster - Digital resources, providing access to a large number of eprints archives and electronic resources

More E-book Sites

Education