Find Books
MountainLynx Catalog
Learn more about MountainLynx, the WVU Libraries' Online Catalog by reading a brief handout or exploring a brief instructional web page.
Use it to find out what books, periodicals, microforms, and audiovisual materials the WVU Libraries own. It contains holdings for all the WVU Libraries including the Downtown Campus Library, Evansdale Library, Health Sciences Library, Law Library, and Math Library.
Ever lost track of how many books you have checked out? Want to renew a book when the due date is approaching? Want to put a hold on a book that is currently checked out? You can do all of these and more on your own by clicking the Request or Patron button. Simply enter your WVU ID number and your last name to access your personal information and borrowing records.
E-ZBorrow
- If the WVU Libraries do not own the book you want or it is currently checked out, click on the E-ZBorrow button from MountainLynx or from the Libraries home page.
- Log in with your WVU ID number and search the combined catalogs.
- When you find a copy of the book available, request it directly from the lending library.
- If you don't find the book you want, you can get it through the Libraries' Interlibrary Loan service.
New Books
Lists of books the libraries have recently acquired are generated monthly and listed by library, including the Downtown Campus Library, Eliza's Cafe, the Appalachian Collection, the West Virginia Collection, and the Evansdale, Health Sciences, and Math libraries. Books are then listed by call number. A compiled list of new books received in all the libraries is also available for browsing. An RSS feed of this list is available.
WorldCat
Search 20,000+ library catalogs for books and other materials in libraries worldwide. WorldCat contains the collective records of books, periodicals, maps, scores, films, recordings, web sites, etc., cataloged by over 41,000 libraries. Coverage extends to 83 nations, with more than 47 million records in the database. After verifying that WVU does not own the materials you find, you can conveniently order them through E-ZBorrow or Interlibrary Loan.
Find Articles
Popular Databases
Databases
Explore over 100 databases the WVU Libraries subscribe to for WVU students, faculty, and staff. If you know which database you are looking for, they are arranged alphabetically. They are also arranged by subjects, which you can choose from the left of the screen. Each entry indicates if the full text of articles or other publications is available. A service called Article Linker sometimes links out to full text available outside of the current database you are using.
Electronic Journals
The Libraries provide access to thousands of online journals either directly from a database search or through various search capabilities on the electronic journals web page.
Find 3 Articles Fast
Follow these three easy and fast steps to getting the articles you need for that undergraduate research paper when you need them, now!
Full Text Databases
Select from over fifty databases with rich content, search for your topic, then read save or print entire online journal and newspaper articles.
Find Web Sites
Evaluating Web Sites
Use this checklist to help you decide whether or not to use a particular web page in your research.
Search Engines
Use a variety of search engines to find web sites of interest.
Web Directories
Use these directories to find reviewed and reliable web resources.
Find Images
Library Sources
Library sources WVU's searchable collections, including thousands of historical photographs.
Web Sources
Web sources include over ten image search engines, including Google and Yahoo! image search.
Free Stock and Image Collections
Free Stock and Image Collections provide several links to copyright free works that you can use for papers and presentations. You should always give credit to the source.
Find Sound & Video
Library Sources
Library sources for sound and video include streaming video, a library database with theatrical performances, and access to lists of thousands of DVDs and videos of films in the Libraries' collections. We also provide streaming videos through MediaSite on the Libraries server that include support for faculty lectures and teaching.
Web Sources
Web Sources include You Tube and Google Video search, along with lesser known sources and MP3 search engines.
Find Movies
Media Services
The Media Services web pages provide instructions for searching for movies the Library owns. It also has lists of DVDs, videos, new media, and movies by genre. There are also links to movie databases you can use to identify movies we don't own that you can request through Interlibrary Loan.