Identifying New eBooks
See detailed help on finding ebooks and using our ebook collections on the The Libe from a Distance Tab.
Here you'll find advice on
- Searching for ebooks
- How to access ebooks from all the different ebook platforms
Finding New Books - Publishers
Publishers' web sites often list their new books by subject area. If you want to keep up on new books coming out in the field of anthropology, you might want to bookmark the following sites:
- Duke University PressShows the newest anthropology books. You might also monitor the newest medicine and medical humanities books.
- Harvard University PressThe link above goes to the anthropology and archaeology books. For this class, you might also check the list of medicine and health books.
- Johns Hopkins University PressIn addition to Anthropology, there are significant gender studies and sociology books here.
Newest Anthropology Books at Carleton and St. Olaf
Follow the link below to see a list of the newest anthropology books in Catalyst.
- New Anthropology Books - Most Recently AcquiredBooks with call numbers in the Gs, acquired by the library in the last three months.
- New Anthropology Books - Published 2018-2022Browse this list or add keywords to the search to narrow it to the newest anthropology books in the collection.
Finding New Books - Chronicle
The Chronicle of Higher Education used to publish weekly lists of new books, organized by academic field.
You can also search the site, but you will get lots of other content besides the book lists.
- Weekly Book List (-2018)The Chronicle's weekly books list ended in 2018, but the previous lists are still here through 2018. Scholarly new books organized by topical category.
- Chronicle of Higher Education
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Catalyst Basics
Use Catalyst, Carleton and St. Olaf's online catalog, to find books on your topic.
Begin with a keyword search:
- Try different words relevant to your topic
- When you find a good book, notice the subject headings used to catalog it
- Click on these hyper-linked subject headings to find more relevant books
Perform a subject search in Catalyst only if you know a valid Library of Congress subject heading. A few examples:
- Public welfare
- Welfare recipients
- Women -- government policy
- Women -- economic conditions
- Distributive justice
Searching WorldCat
WorldCat lets you search the holdings of academic libraries across North America.
To find the newest books in anthropology do the following:
- Go to the Advanced Search screen
- In the first box after 'Keyword' enter one or two broad terms on your topic
- Change the second drop-down to 'Subject' and enter one of the following into the search box: anthropology, "social aspects" or "social life" (with the quotes)
- Once you get your results, use the options on the left of the screen to limit to books published most recently.
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Search for library materials, especially books, that Carleton may not have. You can include searches for articles if desired. When you find something you want, order it through ILL by clicking on the "Request item through InterLibrary Loan" link.
Limited searching in Amazon
Sometimes it can be productive to use Amazon's subject categories to limit a search.
- From the main page of Amazon, hover over the link that says "Shop by Department"
- Keep hovering and go to 'Books' then 'Books' again and click the link
- On the left side, under the heading 'Books Categories' click the link labeled 'Politics & Social Sciences'
- Now the search box at the top of the page limits to this section. Try a broad search
- To get the newest books, change the drop-down menu in the upper right from 'Relevance' to 'Publication Date'
