Find Books in the UC Davis Library Collections
Searching in a library catalog requires looking for broader topics such as cognitive neuroscience or vertebrate physiology rather than the more specific synaptic plasticity or frog muscular physiology.
Search for print and ebooks:
- UC Library Search
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Locate books in person:
Neurobiology is an interdisciplinary field of study that encompasses fields such as biochemistry, behavior, and cognition which includes books shelved in both the life sciences (Q) stacks and medicine (RM) shelved on the 3rd floor of the Shields Library stacks, as well as psychology (BF) located on the Lower Level stacks. Books on physiology will be located in the QP stacks.
Call Numbers:
- Understanding Call Numbers
Explains how to read a Library of Congress call number.
Access eBooks online via the databases:
- ScienceDirect eBooksThousands of e-books with broad and favorable rights for scientific, scholarly and educational uses. Subjects include life, health and physical sciences, social sciences, and the humanities. [NOTE: Green symbol on right indicates if accessible]
- Taylor & Francis eBook CollectionAcademic, science, technology and medical e-Book content from Taylor & Francis and its imprints: CRC Press, Routledge, and Garland. Former CRCnetBASE collections are incorporated in this collection including: BiomedicalSCIENCEnetBASE and CHEMnetBASE.
- Springer eBooks CollectionSpringer eBooks includes more than 60,000 titles in English (and selectively in German) from every scientific discipline and many social sciences. [Coverage: 2005-2022].
- Ebook Central Ebooks (ProQuest) This link opens in a new window
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Thousands of ebooks from a wide range of publishers covering many subjects, including business, economics, technology and engineering, humanities, life and physical science, and social and behavioral sciences.
[Coverage varies: 1970s-current] - Ebook Collection (EBSCO) This link opens in a new windowThousands of scholarly, reference, and professional full text books covering a broad range of disciplines. Includes titles from academic, university presses and commercial publishers. Scholarly societies, including health sciences host titles, including American Academy of Ophthalmology, on this platform. Individual titles on the Ebook Collection platform can also be found in the library catalog. Some books limited to single user per given borrowing period.
[Coverage varies: 1950s-current]
