Find Books, Audio, Video, etc.

• Scholar - The online catalog for both the University Library and the Law Library of Cleveland State University. Scholar allows users to locate materials that the university physically owns or owns access to. Video Help
• OhioLINK - Find and borrow books, video and audio materials from 85 Ohio colleges & universities.
• WorldCat - Search for books and other materials held by libraries worldwide.

Public Libraries:

• Cleveland Public Library Catalog - Holdings of the Cleveland Public Library, one of the nation's major urban library systems, and the 27 CLEVNET public library consortium member libraries.
• Cuyahoga County Public Library Catalog - Holdings contained in four large regional and 24 branch libraries.

Tip: Use Interlibrary Loan Services to get books you need that are not in the CSU Library or in OhioLINK

Find E-books

• Ebrary - Thousands of online full text books and other materials in the areas of business, marketing, and commerce.
• Electronic Book Center (OhioLINK) - Offers access to thousands of scholarly and reference e-books covering the humanities, sciences and social sciences. Includes Electronic Reference Book Collection, Oxford Reference Online and Oxford Scholarship Online.
• Google Book Search
• netLibrary - More than 17,000 electronic books.
• Oxford Reference Online - Full text of over 100 dictionaries, general reference, language reference, and subject reference works from Oxford University Press.
• Safari Tech Books Online - Access to the electronic versions of a broad range of technical books .
• Springerlink - Access to selected English language.

Find Journals, Journal Articles

• Research Databases - The CSU Library provides you with access to a wide array of electronic indexes and abstracting services, commonly referred to as "research databases." These databases will either link to the full text of the article or a short description of it.
  • arranged alphabetically by title
  • arranged by subject
  • full-text
  • newspaper databases
• Electronic Journal Center (OhioLINK) - includes the full text of more than 4,300 online research journals covering many subject areas.
• Journal Finder - find out which journals, periodicals, magazines, newspapers, & newsletters the Library has in its print or online collections. Video Help
• Ingenta - a database that contains over 17 million articles from over 29,000 publications available for online, FAX or Ariel delivery.
• JSTOR - The Scholarly Journal Archives - provides electronic access to the full text of the backfiles of selected academic journals. More about JSTOR.
• Google Scholar - enables you to search specifically for scholarly literature, including peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, preprints, abstracts and technical reports from all broad areas of research. Not all text may be freely accessible.

Olinks: OLinks is a service that makes it easy for you to connect from a citation in a research database to electronic full text for that item and/or information about its availability in print. Wherever you see this logo , Olinks is working to provide you with the information you need.

Tip: Use Interlibrary Loan Services to get books you need that are not in the CSU Library or in OhioLINK.

Get Help & Instruction

• You may see this logo, Video Help, throughout the Library web site. It is a link to a list of streaming videos that will instruct you on the use of various research tools such as Journal Finder or OhioLINK Quick Search, or Academic Search Premier.
• Off-Campus Access - Connecting to Research Databases from off-campus
• Finding Books, Audio, Video, Etc.
  • Understanding Call Numbers
• Finding Articles & Journals
  • Finding Print Journals
  • JSTOR Help
• Finding ERIC Documents in the CSU Library
• Frequently Asked Questions
• Glossary of Library Terms
• Virtual Reference - Online reference resources organized by subject
• Writing & Citing
• Ask a Librarian