Interlibrary Loan
Use Interlibrary Loan to request books not owned by the Five Colleges. Please allow up to two weeks for delivery.
Library Catalogs and Book Resources
- Center for Research LibrariesA collection of over 5 million "unique and little-known documents." Materials are available to the Smith community by inter-library loan or by on-demand digitization.
- Five College Library CatalogSearch for books, media, and more at all Five Colleges, or limit your Search to Smith only.
- National Library of Medicine Locator Plus Catalog of books and other materials.
- WorldCat (all dates) This link opens in a new windowExtensive catalog (OCLC) of books, serials, media, web resources, and more worldwide.
E-Books Full-text:
(Please note that the individual records for many of the e-books in the databases below are in the 5-College Catalog. However, these collections provide the capability of searching the full-text of each book, whereas the 5-College Catalog does not.)
- Ebook Central [ProQuest] This link opens in a new windowA very large collection of eBooks, mostly scholarly, spanning the humanities, social sciences, and sciences. If you’re using your own laptop or desktop, install Adobe Digital Editions; for offline reading, go to the App Store or Google Play to download the Bluefire app for iOS and Android devices. Help.
- eBook Collection [EBSCO] This link opens in a new windowFull text eBooks on a broad range of reference, scholarly and professional topics. Includes books formerly in netLibrary.
- Google Books This link opens in a new windowIndexes the full text of a growing number of books. For some books complete text is online; for others only a small portion. No printing or downloading.
- Springer E-books 1815+ This link opens in a new window250,000 eBooks published by Springer and its subsidiary imprints, covering every scientific discipline, with some coverage of the social sciences & humanities. Includes access to Springer's Print on Demand Service (MyCopy).
More Catalogs
- Center for Research Libraries (CRL) Catalog This link opens in a new window Smith College is a member of the Center for Research Libraries (CRL), which acquires and preserves "unique and little-known documents." The collections, which number about five million items, are international in scope and made available to researchers at member institutions through interlibrary loan, electronic delivery, and on-site use at CRL in Chicago. Read more....
- National Library of Medicine Locator Plus Catalog of books and other materials.
- WorldCat (all dates) This link opens in a new window Extensive catalog (OCLC) of books, serials, media, web resources, and more worldwide.