Electronic Books (Ebooks)
OCLC catalog of online electronic books available through libraries worldwide
Why select this database?
- Contains all the online electronic books cataloged by OCLC members.
| Database details | |
|---|---|
| Subjects | All online electronic books cataloged by OCLC member libraries, including all subjects |
| Sources | OCLC member libraries |
| Number of records | Over 1.9 million books in the database |
| Dates covered | All cataloged ebooks to present |
| Updated | Daily |
| Producer information | OCLC Online Computer Library Center, Inc. Other databases by this producer: |
| Copyright | Copyright © 1978- <!--ATTN T-SYSTEMS: Sprinkle, asset ID 28885-->2012<!-- // T-SYSTEMS--> OCLC Online Computer Library Center, Inc. |
Index labels and examples of an expert search in Ebooks
- You may type an index label with your search terms rather than a selection from the list of indexes to search on any search screen. The information you type overrides all default menu selections.
- Use a colon after an index label (as in au:wang) when you are not certain of your search terms.
- Use an equal sign after an index label (as in au=saint-arroman, august) for an exact match search.
The following may be sample rather than actual searches.
| Search indexes | Labels | Examples |
|---|---|---|
| Keyword | kw: | coffee or tea and house+ [keyword searches publication date, ISBN, geographic codes, map data, and the Author, Title, Notes, Publisher, Publisher location, and Subject indexes] |
| Access Method | am: | www netlibrary com (or) netlibrary [omit http://, and use spaces instead of periods or slashes] |
| Accession Number | no: | 37993343 [OCLC number] |
| Author | au: | saint-arroman (use single quotes around 'le' and other words that are operators; operators supported in FirstSearch: Boolean search operators, parentheses, proximity operators, wildcards; operators included are le, ge, it, gt, n, near, w, with, and, or, not) |
| Author Phrase | au= | saint-arroman august (use double quotes around exact phrases; omit single quote from 'le' operator when the double quote is used to search for an exact phrase) |
| Corporate and Conference Name | cn: | netlibrary |
| Corporate and Conference Name Phrase | cn= | netlibrary inc. |
| Descriptor | de: | voice disorders |
| Descriptor Phrase | de= | voice disorders in children |
| Genre/Form | ge: | solo piano |
| Genre/Form Phrase | ge= | fiction |
| Geographic Coverage | gc: | cape |
| Geographic Coverage Phrase | gc= | cape cod |
| ISBN | nb: | 3196311821 or 31-9631-182-1 9780160760754 or 978-0-160760-75-4 [search with or without hyphens] |
| ISSN | sn: | 0000-0019 [use hyphens] |
| Language Phrase | ln= | kw:education and ln=spanish (browse the index for a complete list of languages) |
| LC Control Number | nl: | ne64-2560 or ne64002560 or ne642560 or 64-2560 or 64002560 or 642560 (prefixes can be immediately connected to the number or removed; hyphens can be included or removed; the number is searchable as it is stored, with the year and then six digits with leading zeros for unused digits, or as it is often displayed, without zeros) |
| Material Type | mt: | juvenile |
| Material Type Phrase | mt= | elementary and junior high school |
| Musical Composition | mc: | jazz |
| Musical Composition Phrase | mc= | folk music |
| Named Corporation and Conference | nc: | world conference on women |
| Named Corporation and Conference Phrase | nc= | intel corporation |
| Named Person | na: | mandela |
| Named Person Phrase | na= | mandela nelson (last name first with first comma retained) |
| Notes/Comments | nt: | translation-adaptation |
| Personal Name | pn: | lemaire |
| Personal Name Phrase | pn= | lemaire gerard-georges |
| Publisher | pb: | media |
| Publisher Phrase | pb= | new star media |
| Publisher Location | pl: | china |
| Series Title | se: | emb report |
| Series Title Phrase | se= | emb evaluation report |
| Standard Number | sn: | 1550463160 or 155-0463-160 64002560 (for all searches, hyphens can be included in the search or removed; for the LCCN number, only the number used for storage, with the year and then six digits with leading zeros for unused digits, is indexed; many other standard numbers are included in this index) |
| Subject | su: | coffee and tea house+ |
| Subject Phrase | su= | coffeehouses in art |
| Subject All | sa= | medical fees canada or medical fees--canada (phrase search of complete subject heading with all parts, so "medical fees--canada" is searched as a single phrase) |
| Title | ti: | music w3 british w3 enlightenment |
| Title Phrase | ti= | music theory in the british isles during the enlightenment |
| Uniform title | ut: | bible |
| Uniform Title Phrase | ut= | selected poems 1930-1972 |
| Update Date | up: | 20010101 |
Refine your results by adding these labels to your search terms:
| Refine by | Label | Example |
|---|---|---|
| Library holdings ¹ | li: | li:ocl |
| Number of libraries ² | cg: | history and cg:31- |
| Year(s) of publication | yr: | yr:1996-1998 |
¹ For a list of library symbols, visit the Participating Institutions List Web site.
² For a list of library codes for the Number of Libraries index, see Number of library holdings.