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.

HathiTrust 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. Also, it is home to the Wayback Machine.
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

Use the search box below to run a quick search for books, or use the advanced search page to limit your material type to books prior to searching.

WorldCat
WorldCat is literally the library catalog of the world. Search this global cooperative to determine which libraries in your region own a particular item or you can even determine if something is found in a collection outside of the country. After you locate the item you need, you may place an interlibrary loan request to have it mailed to our library or in some instances, electronic copies may be sent.