Finding books & more at Cornell
Need to find a book, journal, articles or more (either a particular title or on a topic) at Cornell and beyond? Search the library from the main search box at library.cornell.edu. See the Searching the Library Website Tutorial!
Looking for Books on a Topic?
Looking for books on a topic? See this tutorial on searching the library catalog to see how to do a very general keyword search for your subject in the library catalog, find a relevant book, check under Availability to see how you can access it in print (look for the library, call number [book location] and availability) or online (look for the full text link), and find the subject headings.
Find an overview report or background information
Instead of diving right into the article literature, try seeing if there's an overview report available.
- CRS - Congressional Research Reports Collection at UNTThe U.S. Congressional Research Service (CRS) is where Members of Congress turn for confidential, nonpartisan research and analysis on a range of issues. A number of libraries and non-profit organizations have sought to collect as many of the released reports as possible. UNT's collection is a centralized utility that brings together these collections to search.
- Office of Inspector General (OIG)--USAIDThis is the site for USAID's Office of Inspector General (an inspector general is an investigative official in a government agency). See especially the audit reports
- Journalist's ToolboxSupported by the Society of Professional Journalists, the Journalist's Toolbox lists web sites to go to for background information on current issues and more general reference sites for topics such as public records, expert sources, and statistics. Formerly housed by the American Press Institute.