Librarians are available to assist you with research supportin person, via e-mail, phone, IM, or by appointment. If you need help, Ask a Librarian.
Our Research Guides are curated lists of recommended resources (for specific academic disciplines and subjects) from expert librarians.
Finding Library Materials
The Libraries' website is a gateway to collections and services.
CLIO is the libraries' primary search interface. It provides access to many kinds of resources, including books, databases, journals, and articles.
Borrow Directenables you to borrow books directly from other university libraries if the book you need is unavailable or is not owned by Columbia University.
Interlibrary Loan is the service to use for items that are not available through Borrow Direct, such as journal articles.
Cambridge Books Online offers access to eBooks from our world-renowned publishing programme, covering subjects from all disciplines across science, technology and medicine, as well as humanities and social sciences.
Serves as a comprehensive resource for research and communications in the geological and earth sciences. It is built on a core database aggregation of peer-reviewed journals indexed, linked, and is inter-operable with GeoRef.
Web database for scientific research that contains abstracts, tables of contents, and full text of articles in the sciences, technology, medicine and social sciences.
Provides online, full-text access to Springer's journal titles as well as journals from other publishers. Subjects include: life sciences, chemical sciences, environmental sciences, geosciences, computer science, mathematics, medicine, physics & astronomy, engineering and economics.