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Course Name: Europe in the 20th Century, History 229
Librarian: Janice Mathews, janice.mathews@uconn.edu
Class Webpage: /campuses/hartford/classes/history229.htm

Contents:

Research Strategy

Subject: 20th Century Europe


Online sources for primary documents

Avalon Project, Yale University Law School
Internet Modern History Sourcebook, Fordham University
Faculty of History Online Resources, University of Cambridge

Learn to use your library homepage at . Customize the page to History and Greater Hartford Campus. The libraries' many resources are available at the library homepage. These resources include a vast array of electronic databases; thousands of full text journals, magazines and newspapers and numerous other resources and library services.

  • HOMER to find books and journal titles held by the libraries.
  • Databases to find resources that will direct you to articles.
  • eJournals to track down journals that are available online.
  • Document Delivery/Interlibrary Loan (DD/ILL) to request books and articles that are not available to you on your campus libary.

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Searching for Books

HOMER provides access to the University of Connecticut Libraries' collections on the Storrs and regional campuses, through the UCAT catalog.

How to do a Simple Search
The Simple Search is your quickest, easiest way to search HOMER. Type in your search terms in the box labeled "Search Terms" and choose the type of search you wish to perform using the "Type of Search" option box. You can limit some searches to Greater Hartford. Limits will not apply to Author, Subject Heading, Call Number, or Prolific Author/Composer search types.

Click here to learn more about How to Use HOMER UCAT.

To view a Simple Title Search click here.

To view a Keyword Relevance Search click here.

To search HOMER click here.

Books at other UConn campuses are now easily requested right through HOMER, our online catalog, and delivered to your local campus library for pick-up. Use Inter-Campus Express (ICE) to have books from other campuses brought to you at Trecker!

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Locating Articles

Journals, Magazines, and Newspapers are all generally referred to as PERIODICALS (or serials) because they are issued at regular periods To located specific articles on your topic, access databases from the library homepage.UConn subscribes to over 240 Web-Based, databases. Full text databases include: Infotrac, WilsonWeb OmniFile, AbI/Inform Global, InfoTrac Health & Wellness Resource Center, LexisNexis Academic, Dow Jones Interactive, Issues & Controversies.

From the Library Homepage click on Online resources then Shortcuts to Popular Databases to access the most popular databases.

Featured Database: InfoTrac
This database is very easy to use and indexes journals and magazines covering various disciplines, including the humanities and social sciences. Use InfoTrac to find background information on a topic. In some instances, you may be able to find enough information here to write your paper.
  • includes approximately 3,000 full-text access articles
  • covers journal citations, abstracts, in addition to full text
  • allows you to limit by full text only, or remove limits to search entire database for more information
  • provides option to limit by refereed publications to find scholarly sources from academic journals
  • truncates with * example: recycl* retrieves recycles, recyclable, recycling, etc.
  • permits you to Email, download or print your citations, abstracts and full text articles

Hint: Click Subject Guide to narrow down topics and Advanced Search for a framework for building searches. Remember, articles that are not full text in InfoTrac may be in the library, or elsewhere online... check eJournals.

 

Sample InfoTrac Search: reality and television

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Keyword Search lets you match words in the articles themselves.

Checking off refereed publications limits your search to scholarly, academic articles.

The word and creates a relationship between terms.
For example, reality and television finds only those records in which both the word reality and television appear

Other Databases: To access more specialized databases click Databases by subject: history


For information on the difference beween journals and magazines click here: Journals & Magazines: How to Tell the Difference.

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Tracking Down Full Text Materials

If only an abstract or extended citation is available, locate the full text of the article by clicking these options and then searching for the title of the publication:

  1. eJournals to check if a magazine or journal is available online
  2. HOMER to see what is available in the library; search by journal title
  3. DD/ILL to request an article or book that is not available in the library
    Be sure to submit requests well in advance. The standard time for material to arrive is about seven to fourteen days after it is submitted.
    Remember, use DD/ILL after you've checked eJournals and HOMER (use Journal Title Search) to confirm that the article is not available online or in print at your campus library.

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