Looking for an ebook or ebook chapter? Use the following source to find ebooks at Temple.
WorldCat allows you search the collections of libraries in your community and thousands more around the world
Books often provide more detail and are more expansive than academic articles. Sometimes they are collections of papers or essays that are essentially what you would find as an academic article.
Political Science is generally in the area of the call letters J, law is K, and country and state topics are generally in the range D-E-F.
A general approach to searching for a topic when you don't have a specific book in mind is this: 1) Do a keyword search on a likely word or phrase and reorder the results by date; 2) Look at the subject headings assigned to the book and; 3) either click on the link to the subject search on that heading, or 4) use parts of the subject heading as another keyword search.
Book Review Index Online provides book review citations from of various publications.
Academic Search Complete provides full text scholarly publications and full text journals for academic areas of study.
Note: Follow these instructions to link Google Scholar with Temple's resources.
Google Scholar provides search for scholarly literature. It covers disciplines and sources: peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, abstracts and articles, from academic publishers, professional societies, preprint repositories, universities and other scholarly organizations.
