Subject headings allow you to search for resources on a particular author or topic and are often more productive than keyword searches.
Keyword searches work best if you have multiple concepts or topics. Think of the words that best describe your topic and then connect them with the boolean operators AND OR NOT.
One strategy to find books on your topic is to use a keyword search to find relevant subjects that you can click on to find more books on the same topic.
Search Technique |
What It Does |
quotation marks |
Searches for exact phrase |
Truncation * |
Searches for all forms of a word |
Boolean operators (AND, OR, NOT) |
Lets you broaden or narrow your search |
Subject Headings
Knowing the right subect heading can help you get to information more quickly in Omni.
Asia Economic conditions
Cambodia History
China Politics and government
Confucius
Genghis Khan, 1162-1227
Japan Foreign relations United States
Korea North
Mao, Zedong, 1893-1976
Nanking Massacre, Nanjing, Jiangsu Sheng, China, 1937
Political culture Asia
Social change Asia
Standard Subdivisions
Library of Congress Subject Headings use standard subdivisions under place names (countries, states, cities and other geographic divisions) to classify works. Here are some for history, which can be further subdivided by time period.
--history
--civilization
--economic conditions
--foreign relations
--intellectual life
--personal narratives
--politics and government
--social conditions
--social life and customs
Cambridge Histories Online provides access to Cambridge history volumes published since 1960, including: