Books can be a great source for your project – both for primary source material and secondary scholarly research. RIT has a wide collection of books available on a multitude of topics.
To find scholarly texts on your topic, look for books published by university presses or well-known scholarly publishing entities such as Academic Press, Ashgate, Blackwell, Edward Elgar, Elsevier, Francis and Taylor, John Wiley, Palgrave Macmillan, Routledge, and Sage Publications.
Search RIT's library catalog using the box below:
Google Books is a great way to discover books beyond RIT's collection. For more search options, be sure to checkout the Advanced Book Search page that allows you to search by title, author, publisher, date, and subject. Once you find a book that looks interesting, check RIT's catalog to see if it's available through our collection. If not place an interlibrary loan request using the options on the right.
Search Google Books using the box below:
If RIT doesn't have what you need, there are other options available. Through Interlibrary Loan, RIT students, faculty, and staff can request books from other libraries for free.
Still can't find what you need? No problem! Fill out our IDS Express request form and we'll have another library send the book to RIT free of charge.
The search above is an example of combining a proximity search ("clean water"~5) with a limitation to a publisher whose name includes the word university. Not all academic publishers have university in their name, but many do and this is a starter search to help you explore the possibilities.
Use of RIT resources is reserved for current RIT students, faculty
and staff for academic and teaching purposes only.
Please contact your librarian with any questions.
