Finding Books
- WorldCat (OCLC) This link opens in a new window
- HathiTrust Digital LibraryThe HathiTrust Digital Library brings together the immense collections of partner institutions (major research institutions and libraries) in digital form. Works from 18th, 19th and 20th century science are fully searchable and full PDFs may be downloaded by UChicago users after logging in with CNetID.
Can't Find the Book You Wanted?
Use the "Can't Find It? link in the catalog record to place a request for staff to search for the book
Ask the Library to purchase a copy of the book
Requesting books and media from other libraries using interlibrary loan service
TIP: WorldCat is a useful resource for identifying books that are not in the University of Chicago Library
Proquest Digital Dissertations is a resource listing dissertations from US and Canada. Some dissertations are available for full text download.
Used/antiquarian book sources on the web:
- AddAll (this is a good metasearch site that offers price/availability comparisons)
- Bookfinder.com
- Advanced Book Exchange
Rare Books in the History of Science
- John Crerar Collection of Rare Books in the History of Science and MedicineThis collection of over 25,000 volumes ranges from the classic texts of Vesalius, Galileo, and Newton, to equally rare but lesser known works by investigators and researchers who helped to establish the intellectual milieu of modern science. A fuller description of the medical portion of the collection may be found at Directory of History of Medicine Collections
Many major research libraries have collections of rare books which support scholarship in the history of science. The following are just a few selected collections.
- The Dibner Library of the History of Science and Technology at the Smithsonian InstitutionA collection of rare books and manuscripts relating to the history of science and technology. The library's internet site offers electronic resources on topics, people, and organizations.
E-Books
- HathiTrust Digital Library
The HathiTrust Digital Library brings together the immense collections of partner institutions (major research institutions and libraries) in digital form. Works from 18th, 19th and 20th century science are fully searchable and full PDFs may be downloaded by UChicago users after logging in with CNetID. - Google Books
Excellent resource for discovering contemporary accounts of scientific research and discovery. Public domain works are full viewable, and many titles available as snippets in Google may be available in print in the UChicago Library collections. - Early American Imprints, Series I: Evans, 1639-1800
Project digitizes essentially every known monograph published in what is now the United States from 1639 through 1800. Includes books, pamphlets, broadsheets, etc., but not magazines or newspapers. Please take note of the "search hints" on the main search page. - Early American Imprints, Series II: Shaw-Shoemaker, 1801-1819
Continuation of the preceding resource. - Eighteenth Century Collections Online
Comprehensive digital edition of The Eighteenth Century, a microfilm collection of 150,000 English-language titles and editions published between 1701 and 1800. Includes books and broadsides, Bibles, tract books and sermons to printed ephemera by well-known and lesser-known eighteenth-century authors. - Gallica
Books, images & recordings from the Bibliothèque Nationale de France
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