Research Guides: Contemporary Western Civilization I: Finding Books

Find Books and Dissertations

Start with CLIO to find books and journals in Columbia University library collections.

Then try WorldCat, the largest online catalog in the world, with over 100 million book and journal records, to find materials not available at Columbia.

To find dissertations, check in Proquest Digital Dissertations.

Other important services:

Borrow Direct
Borrow Direct enables Columbia University students, faculty, and staff to request books only from Brown University, the Center for Research Libraries (CRL), Cornell University, Dartmouth College, Harvard University, Johns Hopkins University, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), the University of Pennsylvania, Princeton University, and Yale University.
Interlibrary Loan enables eligible Columbia University affiliates to borrow material (books, journal articles, microfilm, etc.) from other libraries and universities and obtain copies of articles or book chapters from titles that are not owned or available at Columbia.

Full-Text Resources

Digital library of classic Protestant texts . This link opens in a new window
A resource for historians, theologians, political scientists, and sociologists studying the religious and social upheavals of the 16th and 17th centuries, the Digital Library of Classic Protestant Texts gives researchers immediate, Web-based access to an extensive range of seminal works from the Reformation and post-Reformation eras
Digital library of classic Protestant texts .
Digital library of the Catholic reformation . This link opens in a new window
Transcriptions and facsimiles of documents, including papal and synodal decrees, catechisms and inquisitorial manuals, biblical commentaries, theological treatises and systems, liturgical writings, saints' lives, and devotional works by Catholic authors of the 16th and 17th centuries.
Digital library of the Catholic reformation .
Electronic Enlightenment / University of Oxford Humanities Division. This link opens in a new window
Searchable and browseable database offering extensive access to the web of correspondence between the greatest thinkers and writers of the long eighteenth century and their families and friends, bankers and booksellers, patrons and publishers. Coverage includes letters and documents, document sources such as manuscripts and early printed editions, scholarly annotations, and links to biographies, dictionaries, encyclopedias, newspapers, and other online resources.
Electronic Enlightenment / University of Oxford Humanities Division.