Unless you are very familiar with your topic it's a good idea to get some background first. Books often provide this so a search in UC Library Search for general works may be worth it. You can then proceed to find detailed information in journal articles.
Books and Ebooks may be located by searching UC Library Search - an integrated library platform of books and articles for the entire UC System. In addition we have many ebook packages that can also be searched and will sometimes host content before it is loaded into our local system.
Project Muse. Hundreds of e-books and journals articles in the social sciences and humanities.
Cambridge Core Ebooks. Selection of current e-books from Cambridge University Press. We do not have access to all content.
Oxford Academic. Cross-searchable library containing the full text of books in many subjects from 2008 to present from OUP and other academic publishers.
DeGruyter Ebooks Complete. Includes all English language ebooks except those published in print only; also includes DeGruyter Archive 1759 - 1999
Elsevier Science Direct. Includes ebooks in economics, finance and econometrics.
JSTOR. Full-text access to scholarly journals and now books from a wide range of disciplines. Current issues from journals (the most recent 3-5 years) are generally not available in JSTOR.
MIT Press Direct Ebooks. Collection of MIT Press ebooks (not all books are included).
OECD iLibrary. From the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD): includes comparative country studies, reports, and development assistance data.
Proquest Ebook Central. Large e-book collection, with thousands of titles on a wide range of subjects. Find them in UC Library Search or search the website directly. Some downloads require downloading the Adobe digital editions software.
UC Library Search is the University of California's unified discovery and borrowing system.
Access it directly or from the Library homepage to find most UC books, articles, media, archival collections, and more.
See the UC Library Search User Guide and ask for research help 24/7 for more information.
Why use Google Books? Library catalogs (like UC Library Search don't search inside books; using a library catalog, you can search only information about the book (title, author, Library of Congress subject headings, etc.). Google Books will let you search inside books, which can be very useful for hard-to-find information. You can then use Google Books' Find in a Library link to locate the book in a UC Berkeley library, or search UC Library Search to see if UC Berkeley owns the book. Try it now: