Find Books
Individual keywords and short, commonly used "exact phrase" searches usually work well when searching books and media.
Examples:
- "birth order"
- brothers sisters
- siblings adoption
For more complex searches like (brothers OR sisters OR siblings) AND (rivalry OR competition), use Advanced Search. Once you have a set of results:
- Change "Sort by" from relevance to date-newest, date-oldest, title, author, etc.
- Select and apply filters as needed, including availability (online, held by library), creation date, etc.
1. Sign in to OneSearch, and use Request under Get It if a UH library has a copy available.
2. Or submit a Book Request form.
- Request a book, article, or other itemILLiad Interlibrary Loan logon
- Use action icons to capture a draft citation or export to EndNote Web or EndNote desktop (RIS)
- After signing in, use Request under Get It to place a "hold" on an out-of-library item or transfer an item from another campus
- Note campus/library, availability, location within library, and classification number
- Expand location information for more details on available copies and loan period
- Ebook Central (ProQuest) This link opens in a new window
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These eBooks will appear in catalog search results, but through this link, you can automatically limit yourself to only materials available in ProQuest's Ebook Collection. - Ebook Collection (EBSCOhost) This link opens in a new window
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Ebooks on a wide range of subjects, primarily academic in focus and mostly in English. Although these records are included in the Library Catalog, here full text is searchable.
- LibriVoxFree public domain audiobooks for adults and children
Sample Search
The following advanced search in UHCL Books and Media uses a wildcard (*) to look terror, terrorism, or terrorists (in material type books, including ebooks) and either press coverage or media.
