Research Guides: Sociology: Books

Sources for Books

For all subjects including Sociology

Use the OneSearch Manoa to search for books and other materials in the UH System libraries. For a collection of e-books that you can access online, use Ebook Central. You can find books in other libraries around the world, by searching WorldCat (obtain books from other libraries through Hamilton Library's Interlibrary Loan service; see box to the right).

OneSearch Manoa Web-scale discovery tool for finding millions of articles, books, media and more using a single search. Includes the UH Voyager Catalog plus a huge index of academic journals on most topics. Also includes conference papers, maps, government documents, music scores, DVDs, archives & manuscripts, and more.

Ebook Central Ebook Central is a collection of scholarly eBooks from leading publishers. It covers the arts, business, education, health & medicine, history, law, literature & language, religion & philosophy, science & technology and the social sciences.

WorldCat (public version) OCLC catalog of books, web resources, and other material worldwide. Note: This is a basic version of WorldCat provided free to the public by OCLC.

Other Catalogs

Inter Library Loan

We don't have the book you need? Try requesting it through one of our Inter Library Loan services.

Inter Library Loan (ILL) The Interlibrary Loan Unit (ILL) obtains books, journal articles, and other materials for UH Manoa students, faculty, staff, and affiliates when the materials are NOT available in the UH Manoa Libraries.
College Research Libraries Consortium (CRL) The CRL consortium allows UH-Manoa students, faculty, staff and affiliates free access to a variety of services, including free inter-library loan (via second day UPS airmail) to more than 5 million items held by the Ohio-based CRL library, including many of potential use to scholars of Hawai'i and the Pacific. Follow this link to search for and request material directly from the CRL catalog.
WorldCat (via OCLC FirstSearch) WorldCat is the online catalog for a few thousand (more or less) libraries that are members of OCLC. If you have a citation to something and the library doesn't have it, search for it in WorldCat. Once you've found the item, the record will have a "request via ILL" link. Click on that and follow the instructions for requesting.