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E-Books

Note: E- books are often collected within  "packages". The catalogue record for every individual book title in these packages may not yet be loaded into Omni. However, for e-books not yet listed, you can search directly within the packages.
 
 
Ebook collections of note include:
  • Canadian Electronic Library – This collection focuses on Canadian public policy and contains publications from government and non-government organizations.
  • ACLS Humanities E-book – Full-text, searchable access to over 2,800 books of high quality across the humanities. Includes in- and out-of-print titles.
  • ProQuest Ebook Central – Ebooks from a variety of disciplines published by University Presses and other top publishers.
  • Taylor and Francis 
  • EBSCOhost Ebook Collection – High quality ebook titles from major academic publishers and university presses from around the world.
  • Oxford Scholarship Online – Quality ebook titles published by Oxford University Press in 20 subject areas, covering the humanities, social sciences, sciences, medicine, and law.
  • Scholars Portal Books – Ebooks from commercial publishers (such as Springer, Oxford University Press, Cambridge University Press, and Elsevier), Canadian publishers, government and non-governmental organizations.
  • Cambridge Books
  • De Gruyter
Note: The following book collections are freely available on the Web

Books

To find books by a particular author/person, search Omni by author:

livingstone david
association of american geographers

To find books about a particular author/person, search Omni by subject heading:

livingstone david
association of american geographers

To find books on a topic, use a keyword search if you do not know the correct subject heading for a topic. Think of the focus (or key) words that describe your topic.

dams and environment?

Select useful titles and look at the full record for subject headings.

dams--environmental aspects
irrigation
water resources development--environmental aspects

Click on the subject heading to do a new search or use words from the subject heading to modify your keyword search.

Examples of subject headings relating to geography:

Anthropo-geography
Cartography
Cities and towns-Canada
Emigration and immigration
Geographical perception
Man-Influences of environment
Soils-Classification
Urban climatology