LibGuides: Biochemistry: Books

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Finding Books

All the books, videos, and other materials at Ingram Library are listed in our online catalog. Select UWG Catalog to search the items we have here, or Worldcat to search worldwide listings. To find materials in the University System of Georgia catalog, do a UWG Catalog search, and then select University System of Georgia in the drop down box at the top of the results page.

Primo Search

If you live in GA, your UWG student ID will allow you to check out books from any of the University System of Georgia institutions.

E-Book Collections at UWG

Dissertations and Theses
A worldwide collection of dissertations and theses from 1861 to the present. Offers full text for most dissertations added since 1997.

Recent dissertations and theses are available online from Georgia State University, University of Georgia, and Georgia Tech.
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More than 70,000 new full-text dissertations and theses are added to the database each year through dissertations publishing partnerships with 700 leading academic institutions worldwide.

Each dissertation published since July 1980 includes a 350-word abstract written by the author. Master's theses published since 1988 include 150-word abstracts.

Simple bibliographic citations are available for dissertations dating from 1637. Where available, Dissertations and Theses with Full Text provides 24-page previews of dissertations and theses.
eBooks on EBSCOhost (formerly NetLibrary)
Search over 30,000 online books in a variety of disciplines. Chapters can be printed or saved as PDF files.
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NetLibrary provides access to electronic books (eBooks), including reference books, scholarly monographs, publications of many university presses, and consumer books that have been converted into digital format. It is possible to perform full-text searches of a single eBook, search thousands of volumes simultaneously, browse topic categories, or read eBooks directly online. There is no checkout period for NetLibrary eBooks.
eBrary
Search and read online books covering a variety of academic disciplines. Create an account if you want to highlight, bookmark, or annotate in the eBrary Reader. Printing is limited to 60 pages.
OAIster
A catalog of digital resources from open-archive collections worldwide, including theses and dissertations. Contains some 25 million records from over 1,000 contributors.
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OAIster is a union catalog of more than 19 million digital resources from over 1,000 organizations developed by the University of Michigan and harvested using OAI-PMH (the Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting). Digital resources in OAIster include items such as:

-Digitized (i.e., scanned) books and articles
-Born-digital texts
-Audio files (e.g., wav, mp3)
-Images (e.g., tiff, gif)
-Movies (e.g., mp4, quicktime)
-Datasets (e.g., downloadable statistics files)
Open Library
A project of Internet Archive, Open Library's goal is to have a webpage for every book every published. Over 1 million ebooks are freely available.