The WorldCat database contains more than 43 million records describing items owned by our libraries and libraries around the world. WorldCat contains records for the following types of materials:
* Does not include individual articles, stories in journals, magazines, newspapers, or book chapters.
The search below is for materials that search for social media as a subject along with facebook as akeyword (word in title, author, subject). You can also search by title or author, among many other options.
Here are the first few results:
The bibliographic record screen provides more useful information:
Dissertations (and to some degree masters' level theses) are an excellent resource for researchers. Literature reviews in dissertations are quite extensive and therefore can provide you with a ready-made bibliography for your own research. You can search for dissertations in WorldCat by specifying "Thesis/Dissertation" as a Sub-Type Limit.
Listed below are the first few entries from this search. Notice that they all have URLs as part of the record; many dissertations and theses are freely available online--you don't even have to use interlibrary loan!
Here's the entire dissertation linked from the first record:
Need primary sources? In WorldCat, specify "sources" as a subject, along with the topic of your research.
Below are materials retrieved from a search of "Mark Zuckerberg (as a keyword) and "sources" (subject.) (Zuckerberg is the founder of Facebook.)
