Catalogs & Databases
Books & Journals
- Harvest UC Davis Catalog
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Search for books, journals, and other items in the UC Davis libraries. Harvest contains records for books, journals, archives, music scores, maps, government documents and other material in the UC Davis libraries (excluding Law and departmental libraries).
Guide to using the Basic Seach in the Harvest UC Davis Catalog (http://www.lib.ucdavis.edu/ul/help/harvestbasic.pdf)
- Next-Generation Melvyl (http://ucdavis.worldcat.org)
- Fall 2009 the UC Libraries are pointing all users to the Next-Generation Melvyl Pilot to test the robustness of the system and to evaluate this tool as a replacement for Classic Melvyl. This is the richest catalog yet. It includes the records of all ten UC campuses as well as libraries from around the world.
- Classic Melvyl Catalog (http://melvyl.cdlib.org/F/?func=file&file_name=find-b&local_base=u-cdl90)
- Search for books, and other items at all UC libraries. The Classic Melvyl Catalog contains records for materials (books, journals, movies, maps, music scores and recordings, computer files, dissertations, government documents, etc.) held by the libraries of the ten UC campuses.
Articles & Other Data
- Subject Guides
- Choose an article database by academic subject. Subject Guides identify the best article databases for each academic subject area. General and multidisciplinary databases are also listed here.
- Databases A-Z
- Choose an article database from an alphabetical list. This is a list of all article and other electronic databases available to UC Davis and includes online reference sources.
- Electronic Journals A-Z
- Connect directly to an online journal. An alphabetical list of all electronic journals available to UC Davis. Note: all journals are NOT available in electronic format, use the Harvest and Next-Generation Melvyl (http://ucdavis.worldcat.org) catalogs to find journals in both print and electronic formats.
- Course Guides
- Library research guides to online and print resources for select UC Davis courses.
Online Reference
- Online Reference Shelf
- Connect to online dictionaries, encyclopedias, almanacs, and other useful sources including: biographies, directories, and guides to citing electronic and print resources.


