Architecture Research: Identifying Online Resources: eBooks

Searching for electronic books in CLIO

CLIO is the online catalog for the Columbia, Barnard and Union Theological Seminary libraries. (Read more about CLIO here). Doing a Quicksearch across all of CLIO will search:

• Catalog
  Books, journals, U.S. government information, online resources, videos, and more
• Articles+
  Journal articles, e-books, dissertations, and more
• Academic Commons
  Digital repository of Columbia research
• Libraries Website
  Information about the libraries from the Libraries Website
• GeoData
  Columbia's catalog of geospatial data sets
   

To quickly search just for books, try searching in only the catalog section, as shown in the image below.

 

If you don't find results right away, try to use different keywords related to your topic. If you find a book that looks helpful, take note of the subject headings in the record, as shown in the image below. Clicking on these will take you to other books with the same subject heading.

 

Narrowing your search to ebooks

From your search results in CLIO, use the links on the left in the Format menu to narrow to Online sources.

 

 

Ebooks in your search results will have the ebook icon as shown below.

 

 

Once inside the CLIO record, use the link on the right hand side of the page to access the book.