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VIRGO is UVA's online catalog. Use it to find books, ebooks, online journals, print journals, videos, government information, and more.
InterLibrary Loan
Although the Library owns or has access to many items, there will be times that you need something it does not own such as a book or journal article. When this occurs, you can ask us to borrow the item or obtain a copy of an article from another library. To use this service you must be a faculty, staff or student at UVA and you must register for an account.
Register for an InterLibrary Loan account See image below. You only need to register once!
Login Page for submitting an interlibrary loan request.
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Online Book Collections You Can Access
- Center for Retrospective Digitization, GöttingenThe task of the GDZ is to record data such as prints, manuscripts and illustrations and to present them. Scientists, teachers and students will find a large amount of scholarly relevant texts in digitized form. There are over 5,500 items currently in the Mathematics section.
- Cornell University Library Historical Math MonographsA collection of selected monographs with expired copyrights chosen from the mathematics field.
- eBook Collection (Ebscohost)Electronic books by university presses and other scholarly publishers, as well as a collection of older titles by major authors. Individual titles are listed in Virgo.
- ebraryOver 70,000 recent e-books from university presses and other scholarly publishers. Individual titles are listed in Virgo. Create an account to add notes to books, keep a handy "bookshelf", and download books to ebook readers.
- ENGnetBASEHandbooks and other reference books from CRC Press dealing with all areas of engineering. Individual titles are listed in the Virgo Library Catalog.
- Knovel LibraryHandbooks and other information on chemistry and engineering. Topics include textiles, adhesives, metals, plastics, and other materials; biotechnology; food science; pharmaceuticals; industrial safety; aerospace; and most areas of engineering. Individual titles are listed in Virgo.
- O'Reilly for Higher EducationFormerly known as Safari Books. Books and Courses on all aspects of computers, programming and the Web from such publishers as O'Reilly, Sams, New Riders, Adobe, IBM, Microsoft, MIT, Oracle, CRC, McGraw-Hill, Pearson, Routledge, Taylor & Francis, Wiley.
To access: Select "Institution Not Listed?" and enter UVA email. - Science Books OnlineFreely available online books in many subject areas.
- ScienceDirect eBook CollectionLarge collection of e-books from Elsevier and some other publishers. Search for keywords or for particular books or browse subject lists. Includes titles on materials, mechanical, electronic, electrical, chemical, petrochemical, and process engineering.
- SpringerLinkSearchable full-text of journals and ebooks published by Springer and its subsidiaries in chemistry, geosciences, computer science, life sciences, mathematics, medicine, physics, engineering, ecology, law, and economics.
- University of Michigan Historical Mathematics CollectionThe University of Michigan Historical Mathematics Collection is a growing library of books selected from the University of Michigan mathematics collection that have been digitized to improve access and to preserve the content of these books. All of the books in this collection were published in the 19th or early 20th century.
Translations
Finding translations of books and journal articles can sometimes be a challenge. The tutorial below from the California Institute of Technology's Sherman Fairchild Library offers suggestions on how to locate translations of scientific and engineering documents. Note that not all resources listed may be available at UVA.
Translations Resources in the Caltech Libraries
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Other Book and Library Catalogs and Resources
- British Library Integrated Catalogue This link opens in a new windowSearch the over 12 million works in the British Library. To search this along with other British research library catalogs use COPAC (see below).
- Canada Institute of Scientific and Technical Information CatalogueThe Canadian national science and technology library.
- Catalogue Collectif de France: CCFRSearch simultaneously the catalogs of libraries in France.
- Center for Research LibrariesCRL collects unique and little-known humanities, science, and social science documents. The University of Virginia Libraries is a member of CRL and can obtain its materials via interlibrary loan.
- CiNii Books (Japanese Library Catalogs)Search catalogs of Japanese libraries. Search interface in English or in Japanese.
- COPAC: Consortium of University Research Libraries This link opens in a new windowSearch simultaneously the catalogs of over 70 of the largest university research libraries in the UK and Ireland, plus the British Library and the National Library of Scotland.
- European LibraryA portal to searching the national libraries of over 48 European countries.
- Guide to National Libraries, Bibliographies and Union CatalogsThis guide is intended as a repository of resources specifically for research using materials produced and collected in other countries. The main resources included here are links to national libraries, national bibliographies and union catalogs. Additional regional resources have been included where appropriate. (San Jose State University Library)
- Karlsruhe Virtual Catalog: KVK This link opens in a new windowSearch simultaneously many library catalogs from Germany, Austria, and Switzerland, as well as other major catalogs worldwide.
- Linda Hall Library of Science, Engineering and TechnologyA premier private science and technology library located in St. Louis, MO
- WorldCatAn online catalog of books and journals from thousands of libraries, mostly from North America.