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Basic Research Guide: Finding
Books

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The Library Catalog

MERLIN Catalog: Use the Library Catalog to find books on various topics.

Do a Keyword or a Subject Search to search for information.

Keyword Search: Type keywords that describe your topic into the search box. Use quotation marks to search for phrases.

Example: obesity and sugar*

Subject Search: Use the Subject Search to search for names, events, etc.

Example: Obesity in adolescence

Finding Books in Discover@MU

MOBIUS Catalog

MOBIUS Catalog is an online union catalog of academic libraries in the state of Missouri.  It contains over 18 million items that are requestable and deliverable in 3 days.

Google Books

Why use Google Books?

Google Books searches the full-text of books.  It is great for narrow topics because it lets you search within the text of books--you can see the table of contents, index or a portion of the contents of the book.  You can then locate the book in a nearby library.

Google Book Search