Cynthia Lee Katona, Professor - English and Women's Studies Departments

Resources: Books/Bookfinder

This is the page where you will find links to sites about books, dictionaries, book searches, plays, and anything else to do with books.

Amazon.com

A clean, brightly-colored site, a powerful search engine, and one-click buying make it easy to find your way around five million books, as well as thousands of CD and video listings. Don't overlook this as a works-cited tool. [Source: Prof. C. Katona]

Banned Books Online

From Ulysses to Huckleberry Finn, this is the place to go to read books that somebody, somewhere, sometime, thought shouldn't be read by anyone. [Source: MacUser]

Bibliofind

An aggregation of inventories from 750 sellers of old, rare, and used books in the U.S. and abroad. If your search turns up empty, the database can keep your query on file for six months and send you an automatic email if the elusive volume crosses its transom. [Source: Newsweek]

California Digital Library

Users can access the online library catalogs of the University of California system, as well as an array of digital resources such as indexes and databases, electronic journals and texts, archival finding aids, and digitized photographs and images. [Source: Prof. J. Klent]

Dictionary Resource

This page searches around 140 different dictionaries for obscure meanings, synonyms, and homonyms. [Source: Prof. D. Owen]

Ebsco Full Text Periodicals Database

Using the Ohlone User name and Password, Ohlone College students have access to Ebsco's full text periodicals database. Use this service to track down book reviews. [Source: Prof. C. Katona]

http://www.ebscohost.com - User name: ohloneuser; Password: ohlone

Merriam-Webster

Simple to use, but full-featured, the Merriam-Webster Site provides definitions, synonyms, and antonyms for common and not-so-common English words. It checks your spelling and offers alternatives to words it can't locate. [Source: MacWorld]

http://www.m-w.com/dictionary.htm

The Online Books Page

The Online Books Page indexes thousands of online books which can be read directly from the Internet. Many of the books are in hypertext format or have links to resources and commentaries related to the books. [Source: The Wired Society, by Carol Lea Clark]

http://www.cs.cmu.edu/Poeple/spok/aboutolbp.html

Project Gutenberg

Project Gutenberg archives full-text copies of classics such as Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Paradise Lost, and Emma, as well as reference books such as encyclopedias and dictionaries. The project began in 1971 with the aim of putting 10,000 books online that can be freely downloaded by anyone who wants to read them. [Source: The Wired Society, by Carol Lea Clark]

http://promo.net/pg

Roget's Thesaurus

A book of synonyms for when you have difficulty remembering the perfect word. [Source: MacUser]

SIRS Knowledge Source–SIRS Researcher and SIRS Renaissance

Full text articles on social issues (SIRS Researcher), as well as topics in the Arts and Humanities (SIRS Renaissance). [Source: K.G. Goldstein]

Varsity Books

A good source for textbooks which are out of stock at the Ohlone College Bookstore. [Source: Prof. C. Katona]