ENG 111 (Johnson): Finding Books
Why Use Books?
Books are best at providing in-depth coverage of a topic, history and chronology, overviews of big topics, and bibliographies of additional sources. You don't have to read a book cover-to-cover to use it as a source for your essays. Look at the table of contents to find relevant sections, read the preface or introduction, and check the index in the back, which is an alphabetical list of the subjects covered along with corresponding page numbers.
Find Books and Ebooks
Miami University Online Catalog
Search By: Keyword
Limit By: Subject and Where The Item is Located
Look For: Call Number, Location, and Status
Request Item from other MU Libraries
Click on the title of an item to find out more information about it and to get the citation. To find the citation, click on the icon that looks like a pair of quotation marks, then find the citation style required. You can highlight, copy, and paste that into your references page. Always be sure to double-check your copied citations, though. Sometimes formatting, such as italics and hanging indents, aren’t correct. Information is typically in the correct order, but it is recommended to double-check that as well.
Change Date Range: by typing in specific dates in the "Publication Date" (red box in screenshot). Your results list will then only include items that were published within your specified date range.
Get Only Ebooks: In the left-hand column, under "Availability," check the box for "Available Online" and under Resource Type, select "Books." Then click "Apply Filters."
Continue Searching in OhioLINK for unavailable titles by selecting "OhioLINK search" when putting your title or keywords in the search box. This allows you to request books from college and university libraries all over the
state of Ohio.