Rensselaer Libraries

Books, EBooks, Bibliographies, Catalogs

• Electronic Books
• ebrary
  About 20,000 fulltext books in most academic and general interest subject areas. Full text content can be searched and viewed online, printed without charge after installing the ebrary Reader, bookmarked, and saved for later reading if you have a free Ebrary account.
• Electronic Books Index
  Indexes all online electronic books cataloged by OCLC members, including all subjects. Over 230,000 books in the database.
• Google Books
  Google Book Search is a tool from Google that searches the full text of books that Google scans, OCRs, and stores in its digital database.
• Google Scholar
  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. Google Scholar helps you identify the most relevant research across the world of scholarly research. SFX Linking allows users to connect direct from Google Scholar to RPI Library full text collections.
• netLibrary
  Access to over 3500 titles from the netLibrary subject collections, as well as to several thousand, primarily literature, titles in the public collections. Significant collections in American and English literature, American history, economics and business, religion and philosophy, and political science. Please note: You will need to register to use this service.
• WorldCat
  WorldCat is a database of library collections.WorldCat indexes library catalog records from around the world. Users can find records for books, journals, manuscripts, AV materials, and other items. These records give the name and location of the library holding the item, as well as other specific information that can be used to retrieve the item through interlibrary loan.
• Library Catalogs
• Google Scholar
  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. Google Scholar helps you identify the most relevant research across the world of scholarly research. SFX Linking allows users to connect direct from Google Scholar to RPI Library full text collections.
• Rensselaer Libraries' Catalog
  The Catalog lists the books, journals, government publications, Rensselaer theses, CD-ROMs, videos, and archives & manuscript collections owned by the Libraries.
• Royal Institute of British Architects' (RIBA) Architectural Library Catalog
  The Royal Institute of British Architects' British Architectural Library (RIBA Library) is the largest and most comprehensive collection in the United Kingdom for research and information on all aspects of architecture. Their online catalog not only provides access to their holdings but also integrates references to a periodical index of 300 architecture journals.
• WorldCat
  WorldCat is a database of library collections.WorldCat indexes library catalog records from around the world. Users can find records for books, journals, manuscripts, AV materials, and other items. These records give the name and location of the library holding the item, as well as other specific information that can be used to retrieve the item through interlibrary loan.
• Print Books
• Google Books
  Google Book Search is a tool from Google that searches the full text of books that Google scans, OCRs, and stores in its digital database.
• Google Scholar
  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. Google Scholar helps you identify the most relevant research across the world of scholarly research. SFX Linking allows users to connect direct from Google Scholar to RPI Library full text collections.
• Royal Institute of British Architects' (RIBA) Architectural Library Catalog
  The Royal Institute of British Architects' British Architectural Library (RIBA Library) is the largest and most comprehensive collection in the United Kingdom for research and information on all aspects of architecture. Their online catalog not only provides access to their holdings but also integrates references to a periodical index of 300 architecture journals.
• WorldCat
  WorldCat is a database of library collections.WorldCat indexes library catalog records from around the world. Users can find records for books, journals, manuscripts, AV materials, and other items. These records give the name and location of the library holding the item, as well as other specific information that can be used to retrieve the item through interlibrary loan.
• Book & Film Reviews
• Art Index Retrospective: 1929-1984
  Art Index Retrospective provides access to 55 years of art journalism, indexing @600 periodicals published in English, French, Italian, German, Spanish and Danish. It also indexes art reproductions, thus helping researchers focus on a single artist or on finding individual works.
• ARTbibliographies Modern
  ARTbibliographies Modern (ABM) provides full abstracts of journal articles, books, essays, exhibition catalogs, PhD dissertations, and exhibition reviews on all forms of modern and contemporary art.
• Avery Index to Architectural Periodicals
  Indexes and abstracts over 6500 research journals from all fields. Includes journal articles, letters to the editor, book reviews and editorials.
• Bibliography of the History of Art
  The Bibliography of the History of Art contains abstracts and indexes of current publications in the history of art, including scholarly journals, conferences, book, exhibition reviews, and exhibition catalogs.
• Wired
  Get in-depth coverage of current and future trends in technology, and how they are shaping business, entertainment, communications, science, and politics.
• Theses & Dissertations
• Dissertation Abstracts
  Abstracts for US, Canadian, British, and other European dissertations and theses.
• Dissertations & Theses @ Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
  Searches citations and abstracts of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute dissertations published in UMI's Dissertation Abstracts database. Some dissertations available in full text.
• Rensselaer Digital Collections
  Rensselaer Digital Collections consist of materials of intellectual, historic and cultural value to Rensselaer in a wide variety of image, audio, video and text formats. Access to some items requires authentication with an RCS (Rensselaer Computing System) logon and password.
• Exhibition Catalogs
• Art Index Retrospective: 1929-1984
  Art Index Retrospective provides access to 55 years of art journalism, indexing @600 periodicals published in English, French, Italian, German, Spanish and Danish. It also indexes art reproductions, thus helping researchers focus on a single artist or on finding individual works.
• ARTbibliographies Modern
  ARTbibliographies Modern (ABM) provides full abstracts of journal articles, books, essays, exhibition catalogs, PhD dissertations, and exhibition reviews on all forms of modern and contemporary art.
• Avery Index to Architectural Periodicals
  Indexes and abstracts over 6500 research journals from all fields. Includes journal articles, letters to the editor, book reviews and editorials.
• Bibliography of the History of Art
  The Bibliography of the History of Art contains abstracts and indexes of current publications in the history of art, including scholarly journals, conferences, book, exhibition reviews, and exhibition catalogs.
• Bibliographies
• Art Index Retrospective: 1929-1984
  Art Index Retrospective provides access to 55 years of art journalism, indexing @600 periodicals published in English, French, Italian, German, Spanish and Danish. It also indexes art reproductions, thus helping researchers focus on a single artist or on finding individual works.
• ARTbibliographies Modern
  ARTbibliographies Modern (ABM) provides full abstracts of journal articles, books, essays, exhibition catalogs, PhD dissertations, and exhibition reviews on all forms of modern and contemporary art.
• Avery Index to Architectural Periodicals
  Indexes and abstracts over 6500 research journals from all fields. Includes journal articles, letters to the editor, book reviews and editorials.
• Bibliography of the History of Art
  The Bibliography of the History of Art contains abstracts and indexes of current publications in the history of art, including scholarly journals, conferences, book, exhibition reviews, and exhibition catalogs.
• Google Books
  Google Book Search is a tool from Google that searches the full text of books that Google scans, OCRs, and stores in its digital database.