LibGuides: Literature: Locate books and ebooks

Scholarly Editions

MLA Committee on Scholarly Editions
The MLA CSE reviews scholarly editions of literary works and certifies those that meet professional standards. List of approved editions.

WorldCat Identities
Search for a literary author and see a data visualization of popular books and other items related to that author in libraries around the world.
Library of Congress subject headings
Use this set of PDFs if you want to browse the organization scheme for books in a subject category.
Contemporary Biography Builder
Automatically looks up birth and death dates of a person and then searches online repositories for mentions of them during their lifetime.

Voyant
User friendly tool lets you visually represent texts with word clouds or graphs
TAPOR
Directory of tools for manipulating and analyzing online text
Google Books Ngram Viewer
View the occurrence of words or phrases over time in the Google Books corpus.
HathiTrust Bookworm
Graph occurrence of words or phrases in Hathi Trust corpus
JSTOR text analyzer
Paste in a paragraph and search for similar items in JSTOR
JSTOR Labs Constellate
Learn and perform text analysis, build datasets, and share analytics course materials.

QuickSearch
Find all books and ebooks available through UNLV Libraries. Use the Books filter under the search box if you wish to exclude article results,

WorldCat
Search this database listing books in libraries worldwide to discover what's been published on a subject. The Get Text button will link you to a Document Delivery Services form to request books from other libraries.

Hathi Trust This link opens in a new window
Access to nearly any public domain (pre-1927) book owned and scanned by a library. UNLV users can login with their ACE accounts and download entire "full view" books/documents.

Internet Archive Texts
Enormous, searchable collection of scanned books - create a free account for one hour access to complete contents of many books.
Las Vegas Clark County Library District catalog
Online catalog for local public library system. Residency and library card required for access to ebooks via Overdrive, Hoopla and more.
Henderson Public Library District catalog
Library catalog for Henderson public libraries.
U Penn Online Books page
Listing of hundreds of niche full text ebook collections.

Early English Books Online (EEBO) This link opens in a new window
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1475-1700
Books on all subjects published in England between 1475 and 1700.
Eighteenth Century Collections Online This link opens in a new window
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1701-1800
Books on all subjects published in English between 1701 and 1800.
Early American Imprints, Series I: Evans, 1639-1800 This link opens in a new window
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1639-1800
Complete books, pamphlets and broadsides published in North America before 1800.
Early American Imprints, Series II: Shaw-Shoemaker, 1801-1819 This link opens in a new window
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1801-1819
Complete books, pamphlets and broadsides published in North America between 1801 and 1819.
Part of America's Historical Imprints combined search portal