Because the HSDL focuses on open source and freely available information, we do NOT generally collect books or journals unless they are available for free downloads. This page is presented as courtesy to help you locate current and scholarly book and journal information from various library catalogs, book vendors and major publishers. Your ability to get copies will be dependent on the collections held by your organization. Your local library will likely also have access to other online catalogs and may have subscriptions to some of the commercial electronic databases. Please do NOT email us to request copies of books as we will not be able to provide them. You can either contact your local library or purchase directly from the publisher.
ONLINE SOURCES FOR BOOKS
Online Bookstores
BestBookBuys. This site allows you to search for books to buy and gives you price comparisons from the major online bookstores such as Amazon and Barnes & Noble. . Browse by Topic . Textbooks
Amazon Books. As well as doing a basic search, you can narrow or browse by category of sort by various elements such as price, date, or review.
Barnes & Noble. You can do a basic search, browse by category, see the new releases and check the coming soon list.
Rand. As well as selling copies of their books and reports, this non-profit site offers free PDF copies of their reports. . Reports and Bookstore . Research areas . Research areas include: civil justice, education, energy & environment, health & health care, international affairs, national security, public safety, science & technology, terrorism & homeland security, and transportation & infrastructure.
Air University Library Index to Military Periodicals. Advanced Search . Subject areas: The Air University Library’s Index to Military Periodicals is a subject index to significant articles, news items, and editorials from English language military and aeronautical periodicals
CiteSeer Scientific Literature Digital Library. . CiteSeer is a scientific literature digital library that provides algorithms, techniques, and software that can be used in other digital libraries. CiteSeer indexes Postscript and PDF research articles on the Web.
Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ). DOAJ offers free full text access to quality controlled scientific and scholarly journals, covering all subjects and many languages.
Entrez PubMed. . PubMed is a service of the U.S. National Library of Medicine that includes over 16 million citations from MEDLINE and other life science journals for biomedical articles back to the 1950s. PubMed includes links to full text articles and other related resources.
Google Scholar. Advanced Search . Subject areas include: "Google Scholar provides a simple way to broadly search for scholarly literature. From one place, you can search across many disciplines and sources: peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, abstracts and articles, from academic publishers, professional societies, preprint repositories, universities and other scholarly organizations."
Scirus. Advanced Search . "Scirus is the most comprehensive science-specific search engine on the Internet." It covers scientific, scholarly, technical and medical information from the latest reports, peer-reviewed articles, patents, pre prints and journals
