SJSU Research Guides: Education (General): Books & e-Books

OneSearch: Find Books, Articles, and More

Tip: By default, OneSearch searches the SJSU collection first. If you do not find the book you are looking for in the SJSU collection, try the California State University Collections (CSU+). Find CSU+ from the OneSearch drop-down menu on the library's homepage or in the left-hand menu on the results page.

Ebook Collection

Directory of Open Access Books
The DOAB is a discovery service for peer reviewed books published under an Open Access license.
eBook Central
This collection offers ebooks covering several subjects, including subjects in education.
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Create an account to save annotations and bookmarks in ebooks. Making annotations and saving bookmarks will automatically place books on your bookshelf for later review.
EBSCO eBook Collection
Provides the full-text of thousands of recently-published ebooks and audiobooks from selected academic and commercial publishers, as well as the full-text of a large number of older works in the public domain.
HathiTrust
Includes online books in a variety of subjects. Strength especially in books from the 1920s and earlier
JSTOR
Includes eBooks and journals in several disciplines. The collections are produced by scholarly publishers, included university presses. eBook chapters are DRM-free (digital rights management-free). They work just like journal articles on JSTOR.
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Go directly to advanced search to search for books and to browse by subject.
SpringerLink Education Collection
EBooks and journals covering a wide array of subjects including education. Browse by discipline - Education. Filter to books under Content Type.
Taylor & Francis eBooks
Includes over 30 subcategories in education. Browse by subject (education) and view subcategories in the left-hand menu.
Wiley Online Library
Includes over 21,000 eBooks covering life, health and physical sciences, social science, and the humanities.
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Look under social and behavior sciences for topics in education.

Children's Books

California Reads
Rather than just one day and just one book, "California Reads" will offer teacher-approved quarterly book recommendations for multiple age groups, including adults.
Children's and Young Adult Literature Research Guide
Refer to this guide for more comprehensive help with finding and researching Children's and Young Adult Books.
Children's Literature Comprehensive Database
CLCD provides over 2 million Children's and Young Adult Literature records containing more than 550,000 professional reviews of children’s books, multimedia and audio books.
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CLCD includes Teaching Tools which shows links to hundreds of web sites with lesson plans and teaching guides.
CLDL STEMExplore
A collection of 100,000+ STEM-based fiction and nonfiction PreK-12 children’s books and media titles. The unique readers advisory topic search feature includes 21 super topics leading to over 200 sub-topics and term parameters. STEMExplore is ideal for supporting STEM literacy reading programs and as a research source for project-based learning programs. Trial ends June 30, 2021
International Children's Library
Provides access to fully digitized children's books in many different languages, both original and translations.. They are actively working to translate more books for use.
TeachingBooks.net
TeachingBooks.net is for anyone who reads, teaches, or enjoys books for children and teens. This service is primarily used in the K–12, university, and public library setting.
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Includes: original, in-studio movies of authors and illustrators, audio excerpts of professional book readings, guides to thousands of titles, booklists and a wealth of multimedia resources on children's and young adult literature. It debuted at the American Library Association convention in San Francisco in June 2001, and was launched on the Internet September 1, 2001.