InfoGuides: PHIL 271: How Science Works: Find Books

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Still can't find the item? Use Interlibrary Loan (ILL) to request books, media and articles from other libraries when they are not available at Mason or the WRLC. Start your research early if you want to take advantage of this wonderful service as it can take up to 2 weeks.

E-Book Collections

Oxford Scholarship Online This link opens in a new window
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Provides access to academic works published March 2015 onward, in subject areas across the humanities, social sciences, sciences, medicine, and law.
Cambridge Core This link opens in a new window
Provides access to Cambridge University Press journals and ebooks across all academic disciplines.
Ebook Central This link opens in a new window
Access multi-disciplinary scholarly content from hundreds of publishers. Discover, evaluate, and access titles; and utilize tools for note-taking, highlighting, and instant citing. Read online and check individual entries for offline reading options including DRM-free chapter downloads and full book downloads. Merges EBL Ebook Library and ebrary Academic Complete. Note: Mason login required.
Ebsco eBook Collection This link opens in a new window
Includes several thousand electronic books, or eBooks on a variety of subjects, including public access books. Please note some eBooks are only available to a single user or one-user at a time. If using a Mac, use the Safari browser for best results.
JSTOR This link opens in a new window
JSTOR is a collection of core scholarly journals in the humanities, social sciences, and sciences digitized in most cases back to the first date of issue. Includes selected books, primary sources and other materials for academic work.
Project MUSE This link opens in a new window
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Provides digital humanities and social science content for the scholarly community. Offers full-text versions of scholarly journals and books from many of the world's university presses and scholarly societies.

Other Useful Books

Loeb Classical Library This link opens in a new window
A digital version of the Loeb Classical Library, founded by James Loeb in 1911. Offers introductions, texts, and translations of ancient Greek and Latin writings, covering most major classical authors. The collection contains more than 500 volumes spanning from Homer (700 BCE) to Bede (700 CE).