Finding Print and Electronic Monographs/Books in Milne Library

*Click on Advanced Search under Milne Search.

**Sign in with your SUNY Oneonta username and password to get complete results and to request items from other SUNY libraries through Interlibrary Loan (Resource Sharing).

Select Library Catalog link at the top of the search screen. This is an index to the book (print and online) and physical media collections in Milne Library.

Any Field will search for keywords in fields of the item record, including author, title, subject, and contents. Use dropdown menu to search for a specific field such as Author, Title, Subject.

Use dropdown menu under Material Type to choose Books. Click on Search toward the bottom of the screen.

Search Tips

Select keywords to search for books about your topic.

Use the asterisk to truncate and search for variations of a word, including plural forms.

Example: environment* searches for environment(s), environmental(ism/ist/s)

Use the question mark to represent more than one letter in a word, especially for words that do not form their plural form by adding “s” or “es.”

Example: wom?n searches for women and woman

Use quotation marks to search words as a phrase rather than as single words.

Example: “Global South”

Limit results to those Held by Milne Library or Available Online, if appropriate.

**Virtual Browse (at the bottom of selected records for print books) gives information about books on the shelf near the selected book title.

**Note the Permalink icon on the detailed record for the book, if needed.

To find print books in Milne Library:

Using the information guide Library Floor Plans, find the book on the shelf and check out at the Circulation Desk with your ID card.

To find electronic books in Milne Library:

Click on the title of the book.
Under View Online—Full text availability, link to any database listed and then to the full text of the book.

Directory of Open Access Books (DOAB)

Provides access to scholarly, peer-reviewed open access books freely available on the internet.