• CLIO Columbia's online catalog for books, journals, films and music
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• WorldCat Search for books and journals in major library collections around the world

• BorrowDirect A borrowing service offered by the university libraries of Columbia, Brown, Cornell, Dartmouth, Pennsylvania, Princeton, and Yale. It is designed to allow students, faculty and staff to request (and receive in four days) books directly from each other's collections

• Oxford Reference Online Search across hundreds of Oxford University Press encyclopedias and companions.
  
  
• Gale Virtual Reference Library Search across subject encyclopedias in many disciplines.
  
  
• Biography Resource Center Biographies contemporary and historical.
  
  
• Encyclopedia Britannica The classic reference source.
  
  

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• ProQuest Use the suggested topics to search by subject.
  
  
• JSTOR Scholarly articles from more than 600 peer-reviewed journals in the humanities, sciences, and social sciences. Note: this database does not include the most recent issues of journals; there is usually a 4-5 year lag. 
  
  
• Project Muse Coverage typically starts with journal issues after 2000.
  
  
• LexisNexis Academic Articles from newspapers, wire services; law reviews, case law, government documents.
  
  
• Web of Science Provides access to the Arts & Humanities Citation Index, Social Sciences Citation Index, Science Citation Index. Click E-Link to see full text.
  
  
• Ebsco Academic Search Premier Articles from a multi-disciplinary database; many peer-reviewed journals.
  
  
• Google Scholar Useful for broad searches of scholarly literature. Click Preferences option to link directly to Columbia's collection of e-journals.
  

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Library Services

The Columbia University Libraries offer a wide range of research, instruction, and borrowing services to support all levels of academic research.

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Check the hours of our libraries, departments and services. We offer a variety of study spaces and venues.

Reference & Research Help

Librarians are available to assist you with research in person, via email, phone, IM, or by appointment. If you need help, Ask Us.

Library Essentials and Workshops

Library Essentials are short video tutorials to help you with your research. Many of the Columbia Libraries offer hands-on research skills workshops to help you make better use of the libraries.

Finding Library Materials

The Libraries' website is a gateway to collections and services, including access to a wide variety of databases and e-journals.

CLIO is the online catalog for the Columbia, Barnard, and Union Theological Seminary libraries. Search CLIO for print and electronic books, journals, videos and dvd's, sound recordings, newspapers, and other materials. Use CLIO to request materials from Offsite, renew books, place recalls and holds.

Borrow Direct  enables you to borrow books directly from six other Ivy League university libraries in the event the book you need is: (a) unavailable because it is circulating; or (b) is not owned by a Columbia University library. Typical delivery time is 4 business days.

Interlibrary Loan  is the service to use for all other items not available through Borrow Direct such as journal articles. Delivery time may be within 1-2 days for articles; 2-3 weeks for books.

For more information about library services at Columbia, use the drop down menus (under "Libraries & Collections," "Catalogs," etc. located at the top of this page).