Research Guides: English Composition 130B (Battle-Johnson): Books

E-Books

Did you know that the UCLA Library has access to thousands of e-books available for free? UCLA students, faculty, and staff can read all of these books online from your computer or mobile device. You can even download, highlight, and print many of these e-books. Click on the link below to visit our e-books guide!

E-Books

Tips for Book Searching

When searching for books in the UCLA Library Catalog, here are a few strategies:

Do a Keyword search using terms or phrases (put whole phrases in "quotation marks").
If you have the title of a book you want, do a Title search.
If you find a useful book, click on the Subject(s) to get a list of subject headings that will lead to other books on the same topic.
Use a question mark to find all words that share a root. Searching for american? will retrieve american and americans.
If you already have a book or article on your topic, use its bibliography to find others on the same topic.

Book Search Tips

A quick introduction to finding books at UCLA and other UC campuses using UC Library Search:

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UC 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.
OPAC, SRLF, UCLA Library Catalog

This quick tutorial and the accompanying handout (PDF) offer step-by-step instructions for finding and accessing thousands of e-Books.

The Library's online subscription resources can always be accessed from computers and wireless networks on campus. However, off-campus access is restricted to current UCLA, students, faculty, and staff who have set up their computer using one of the following methods.

VPN on Mac with Natalie

"I chose VPN for my mac because I need to be able to access the full text of articles on different browsers." - Natalie, Environmental Science

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VPN on Windows with Michael

"I chose VPN because I like the security it provides and the control it gives me as a user to manually enable or disable it when I'm browsing online." - Michael, Public Affairs

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Additional Platforms

Proxy for Safari on a Mac with Kate

For more information:

Bruin OnLine Proxy Server
A browser setting which will automatically divert you to a UCLA logon page when you first access a restricted site.
Virtual Private Networking (VPN)
A program you can download and install, or use the built-in version on many computers or mobile devices. VPN software must be logged on manually before you access a restricted site, but works for all programs on your computer.