InfoGuides: Teaching for Content Areas: Find Books

Tips for Locating Books

When searching online for books on content areas, consider using subject terms. These are terms used to catalog books on specific topics. For content areas, search for these books by using the pattern [subject] -- "Study and teaching".

For example, if looking for a book on math instruction, search for Mathematics -- study and teaching.

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e-Book Collections

Ebook Central
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
Ebsco eBook Collection includes 2,900 electronic books, or eBooks related to education. Subjects covered include: educational technology, educational change, psychology of learning, teaching and learning, multicultural education, educational philosophy, curriculum planning, and more.
APA PsycBooks (EBSCO)
Over 4,300 APA books, handbooks, classic books, and entries from the Encyclopedia of Psychology.
SAGE Research Methods and Cases Online
Includes over 1,600 e-books on various aspects of education research methods (quantitative, qualitative and mixed methods sciences. Also includes a searchable collection of over 200 case studies of real education social research, commissioned and designed to help users understand abstract methodological concepts in practice.
ScienceDirect
Provides online access to 63 education-related e-books published by Elsevier and its partners.
Springer Nature eBook Collections
Provides access to more than 1,000 titles for education including: learning & instruction, linguistics, child & school psychology, linguistics, and higher education. The e-books are searchable down to the chapter level.
Taylor & Francis eBooks
Search and discover academic, science, technology and medical ebook content from across all of T&F’s imprints, including CRC Press, Garland Science, Routledge, Taylor & Francis, and others. Options include browse by subject and limit to full-text access.