Research Guides: Scholarly Legal Research: Find Books

Where to Start? - Finding Books

To locate a book, try these steps:

Library Catalog (Primo): will help you find a book in the law library or main campus library collection
Hathi Trust, Internet Archive, & Google Books: will help you find if there is a digital copy available online
WorldCat & Interlibrary Loan: will help you find the book in libraries across the U.S.

See boxes below for more information.

Primo - Finding Books

You can use Primo to find the library's collection of books, videos, and journals. Use the search box below to run a quick search. Or go to the Carney Library's website to run an advanced search.

Books Online

Hathi Trust Digital Library
Books online for free? Absolutely. This resource offers millions of titles digitized from libraries around the world.
Internet Archive
"Internet Archive is a non-profit library of millions of free books, movies, software, music, and more."
Google Books
"Google Books is a service from Google that searches the full text of books and magazines that Google has scanned, converted to text using optical character recognition, and stored in its digital database." - Wikipedia

WorldCat

WorldCat

"By connecting thousands of libraries’ collections in one place, WorldCat.org makes it easy for you to browse the world’s libraries from one easy search box." - Website
Found something in WorldCat? Place an interlibrary loan request by emailing lawlib@umassd.edu.