Library Guides: PHL 278: Origins of Life: Finding books

Finding Books at MSU and Beyond

CatSearch
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CatSearch is a simple and fast search engine that helps you discover relevant information on any topic from the MSU Libraries collections. Limit results to books by choosing "Books" in the left hand "Content Type" column on your results page.
WorldCat
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WorldCat is a catalog of library catalogs around the country and beyond. Items found in WorldCat that are not owned by MSU Libraries can be requested via interlibrary loan.

Google Books
Search the full text of many scanned books. Note that many of the copyrighted, post-1923 books will only have limited viewing available.

Selected Reference Resources

Want quick, basic information? Background? Use Reference Books (print and online) to learn basic information, check facts, understand relationships and contexts, get ideas for further research, generate topics, etc. The online reference books can be used on or off-campus; the print reference books listed below are located in the Reference Stacks on the 1st floor or 3rd floor of Renne Library. Ask for help at the RESEARCH CENTER desk.

ONLINE: Encyclopedia of Astrobiology
Call Number: Online
ISBN: 3642112749
Publication Date: 2011
PRINT: Encyclopedia of Astronomy and Astrophysics by Murdin, Paul, Editor-in-Chief
Call Number: QB14.E534 2001 v.1-4 [3rd Floor]
ISBN: 0333750888
Publication Date: 2001
PRINT: Encyclopedia of Bioethics
Call Number: QH332.E52 2004 v1-5 [3rd Floor]
ISBN: 0028657748
Publication Date: 2004
ONLINE: Oxford Reference Online
Call Number: Online
Provides searchable full-text of Oxford University Press reference books across disciplines.
PRINT: Scientific Thought: In Context by Lerner, K. Lee and Brenda Wilmoth Lerner, Editors
Call Number: Reference [1st Floor] Q175.S4238 2009 v.1-3
ISBN: 9781414402987
Publication Date: 2009

Selected E-Books on Astrobiology, Exobiology, the Origins of Life, etc.

Here are some suggested online e-books held in the Renne Library collection. You will also find many print and additional online books on your topic by searching the MSU Library Catalog or CatSearch (see the Finding Books box above).