SOK Research Desk
SOK Research Desk is an open research library of digitised books. Search the full text of every page, read the books online, and cite them in your work.
It is free for students, researchers, teachers and everyone curious about the books.
How to use the library
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Search
Type a word, a title, an author or a subject. Choose Inside the text to search the words on every page of every book, in Kannada, English and the other languages of the collection.
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Read
Open a book to read it page by page, and search inside it. The scans are kept safe on the Internet Archive.
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Cite
Every book has ready-made citations (BibTeX, RIS, APA, MLA, Chicago and more) and works with Zotero and other reference managers.
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Keep a reading list
Add books to your list as you go, then export it as a bibliography or share it as a link.
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Browse collections
Books grouped by subject, place, publisher or the library they came from.
See the collections
What you will find
Search inside every page
Not only titles and authors: the full text of each digitised book is searchable.
Open and citable
Each book has a stable address and the details researchers need to cite it.
For libraries too
Catalogue records for Koha and other library systems through OAI-PMH and MARCXML.
How it works