Research Assistance
Research assistance in the social sciences and humanities is available at the Charles E. Young Research Library. See Reference and Research Help for complete reference service options.
Finding Books
To locate print resources in a library near you, search these catalogs:
- UC Library Search This link opens in a new windowUC Library Search is the unified discovery and borrowing system for all 10 UC Campuses. Select the UCLA Library Catalog scope to search holdings of materials owned by the UCLA Library and other UCLA collections, whether online or in print. Does not contain full-text articles or article citations. Select the Articles, books and more scope to search for materials in all 10 UC campuses. More information in this guide.
- WorldCat (OCLC FirstSearch) This link opens in a new window
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OCLC FirstSearch catalog includes citations for books, journals, manuscripts, maps, music scores, sound recordings, films, computer files, newspapers, slides, videotapes, archival material, etc., in libraries around the world.
Dissertations
UCLA dissertations, Department of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures
YRL Stacks and SRLF LD791.9.N3
- Bibliotheca Alexandrina Theses and Dissertations"The Bibliotheca Alexandrina (BA) is a depository library for theses and dissertations from all Egyptian universities, in cooperation with the Ain Shams University Library..."
- Catalogue of Russian dissertationsPDFs available for purchase
- Center for Research Libraries (CRL) Foreign DissertationsSearch the CRL Catalog for dissertations already held at the Center. If a foreign dissertation is not at CRL, UCLA's Interlibrary Loan Service will request that CRL acquire it for your use. This special issue of Focus on Global Resources describes CRL's extensive collection of foreign dissertations.
- Digital theses of the University of MunichOn this server you'll find more than 6000 digital theses of the University of Munich in PDF-format.
- ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Global This link opens in a new window
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Includes 2.4 million dissertation and theses citations from around the world from 1861 to the present day together with 1 million full text dissertations that are available for download in PDF format. The database offers full text for most of the dissertations added since 1997 and strong retrospective full text coverage for older graduate works.
- eScholarship® University of CaliforniaeScholarship serves as the institutional repository for the ten University of California campuses and affiliated research centers. eScholarship Repository content includes postprints (previously published articles), as well as working papers, electronic theses and dissertations (ETDs), student capstone projects, and seminar/conference proceedings.
E-books
Below is a selection of e-books and e-book collections. Some are freely available, others are subscription services, so remote access may be necessary when accessing from off-campus. For e-journal collections and institutional repositories, please see the Journals page.
- Digitized UC BooksUC's copies of our mass-digitized books and serials are loaded into HathiTrust. In addition, our digitization partners (Google and Internet Archive) also host copies of the UC books they have digitized. In all cases, copyright status determines whether books can be viewed in full.
- Abzu Abzu is a guide to networked open access data relevant to the study and public presentation of the Ancient Near East and the Ancient Mediterranean world.
- ACLS Humanities E-Book Humanities E-Book is a digital collection of 2,200 full-text titles offered by the ACLS in collaboration with nineteen learned societies, nearly 100 contributing publishers, and librarians at the University of Michigan’s Scholarly Publishing Office...(Institutional or Individual Subscription required)
- American Egyptomania "This website is devoted to exploring American fascination with Egypt and its history. Primary Source documents can be found by browsing the Historical Sources page or by searching through the advanced search page. Secondary literature that addresses topics such as art & architecture, history, literature, religion, and science can be browsed through the scholarship page..."
- Ancient Near East Monographs The focus of this ambitious series is on the ancient Near East, including ancient Israel and its literature, from the early Neolithic to the early Hellenistic eras...Works published in the series are (and will remain permanently) open access.
- Archäologische Literatur Zu den Beständen des Sondersammelgebietes Archäologie der UB Heidelberg gehört auch ein umfangreicher und sehr bedeutender Bestand archäologischer Literatur des 16. bis frühen 20. Jahrhunderts, aus dem ausgewählte Werke vollständig digitalisiert und via Internet kostenfrei zugänglich gemacht werden.
- Biblical Archaeology Society E-Books Free downloadable E-books
- Bibliotheca Alexandrina Digital Assets RepositoryAn institutional repository of Bibliotheca Alexandrina (BA) digital collections.
- Bibliothek Goussen The Goussen library collection is a specialist library for oriental church history. It contains prints in Western classical and modern languages, but predominantly prints in oriental languages such as Syrian, Coptic, Ethiopian, Arabic, Armenian and Georgian languages from the 16th to the 20th century...In 2007 the Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Bonn digitised approx. 850 prints of the Goussen library collection...
- Cambridge Histories Online This link opens in a new window Full-text access to the complete 250-plus volumes of Cambridge Histories reference series. Provides political, economic, and social history, philosophy, and literature of selected countries and subjects. Continually updated with new volumes taken from the print series as soon as they become available.
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- Cambridge History of the Bible
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- Catalogue général des antiquités égyptiennes du Musée du Caire (electronic) The following list of online resources for the CG has been compiled by Michael Tilgner and Ingeborg Waanders. The source is the Internet Archive, unless indicated otherwise.
- Champollion and Rosellini Egyptian Expeditions "The works of the Champollion and Rosellini expeditions are invaluable and irreplaceable because they contain information and illustrations of Egyptian monuments made early in the exploration and exploitation of that country..."
- Collections électroniques de l’Institut français du Proche-Orient "Le site des collections électroniques de l’Institut français du Proche-Orient offre en libre accès une sélection d’ouvrages scientifiques en texte intégral..."
- Digi20 "The present project was developed in the context of the long-term project “Digitalization of the DFG (German Research Society) special subject fields”. It concentrates on the digitalization of literature not in public domain, predominantly in the field of humanities and social sciences with an emphasis on monographs..."
- DIGIMOM La bibliothèque de la Maison de l’Orient et de la Méditerranée a initié un projet de numérisation d’ouvrages libres de droit couvrant les thèmes de recherche de ses équipes. Les fonds numérisés concernent plus particulièrement les domaines de l’égyptologie et de la civilisation gréco-latine, qu’il s’agisse d’histoire, d’archéologie ou des textes classiques. Quelques ouvrages issus du fonds des livres rares, anciens ou précieux ont également été sélectionnés.
- Digital Library for the Decorative Arts and Material Culture "The Digital Library for the Decorative Arts and Material Culture collects and creates electronic resources for study and research of the decorative arts, with a particular focus on Early America. Included are electronic texts and facsimiles, image databases, and Web resources. Made possible by the Chipstone Foundation, the project is produced at the University of Wisconsin Madison General Library System."
- DSpace@Cambridge DSpace@Cambridge is the institutional repository of the University of Cambridge. The repository was established in 2003 to facilitate the deposit of digital content of a scholarly or heritage nature, allowing employees and their departments at the University to share and preserve this content in a managed environment.
- Egyptological Book Series Online Aggregated list of links, compiled for the Egyptologists' Electronic Forum.
- Electronic Books of the Czech Institute of Egyptology PDF versions of Abusir series volumes, conference proceedings, and other titles of the Czech Institute of Egyptology
- eScholarship, University of California This link opens in a new window UC's open access repository. Included are journals and peer-reviewed series such as the UEE: Open Version, and the Cotsen Digital Archaeology Series.
- Gallica (Bibliotheque nationale de France) More than one million digitized documents (books, periodicals, manuscripts, maps, images, scores, sound recordings, etc.) at the French National Library.
- HathiTrust Digital Library This link opens in a new window A repository of scanned books contributed from academic institutions across the United States, including UCLA. Books still in copyright are scanned and searchable, but the full text scans will not become available online until their copyright expires.
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- IVBS International Voices in Biblical Studies A Society of Biblical Literature open access book series
- Judaica Europeana Judaica Europeana will work with European cultural institutions to identify content documenting the Jewish contribution to the cities of Europe...
- Led on Line E-journals and e-books.
- Loeb Classical Library Books online List of links to Loeb volumes available online
- Open Library Open Library is a project of the non-profit Internet Archive, and is funded in part by a grant from the California State Library.
- Propylaeum-DOK (Digital Repository, VirtualLibrary of Classical Studies at University Library of Heidelberg) Propylaeum-DOK - Digital Repository Classical Studies is the full-text server of the Virtual Library of Classical Studies and is made available by the University Library of Heidelberg. It offers members of the academic community worldwide the opportunity to publish their texts in electronic format on the internet at no charge. All kinds of publications (like monographs, articles, lectures) in the fields of Classical Studies can be stored on 'Propylaeum-DOK'. The standard of these publications should not fall below that of traditional printed ones. The documents will be stored and their long-term availability guaranteed by using standardized addresses (URN) and metadata (OAIPMH). They are accessible through the German union catalogues and search engines, too.Propylaeum-DOK - Digital Repository Classical Studies is the full-text server of the Virtual Library of Classical Studies and is made available by the University Library of Heidelberg. It offers members of the academic community worldwide the opportunity to publish their texts in electronic format on the internet at no charge. All kinds of publications (like monographs, articles, lectures) in the fields of Classical Studies can be stored on 'Propylaeum-DOK'. The standard of these publications should not fall below that of traditional printed ones. The documents will be stored and their long-term availability guaranteed by using standardized addresses (URN) and metadata (OAIPMH). They are accessible through the German union catalogues and search engines, too.
- Syriac Studies Reference Library The Syriac Studies Reference Library is a collection of rare and out-of-print titles that are of vital importance for Syriac studies. It is especially rich in early manuscript catalogs, dictionaries, and grammars, and contains many of the indispensable editions of Syriac texts that were produced in the 18th, 19th, and early 20th centuries. This collection was scanned from the holdings of the Semitics/ICOR Library of The Catholic University of America.
- Urkesh Electronic Library We include here the electronic version of titles published by members of the staff or by colleagues who had access to primary material from the excavations. "Electronic" means that these are simply mirror copies of paper editions, with no claim at having been originally conceived as digital. A properly digital publication of the data is given in the full Urkesh website, for now available through a password only to members of the staff.
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Fifteen databases, plus individual journals and e-books. Includes 2011-present IEEE-Wiley books.
Google Books
HathiTrust Catalog Search
Booksellers
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