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HIST 329: Britain Since 1851

Finding Books

Search Omni to find books, journals, videos and other materials owned by the Library.  You can search by keywords, author, title or subject headings.
 
To find a specific known item, search by title or author.  To find books on a topic, either try a subject or keyword search.

Subject Headings vs Keyword Searching

Subject headings allow you to search the library catalogue 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. Use the results to find relevant titles and identify assigned subject headings for your topic in order to find similar books. 
 
To find books by a particular author/person, search Omni by author:
 
churchill winston 
 
To find books about a particular author/person, search Omni by subject heading:
 
churchill winston 
 
To find books on a topic, use a keyword search if you do not know the correct subject heading for a topic. Think of the focus (or key) words that describe your topic.
 
(poverty or poor) and (britain or england) and (19th or nineteenth)
 
Select useful titles and look at the full record for subject headings.
 
poor--great britain--history
slums--england--london--history
 
Examples of subject headings relating to British history:
 
Britain, Battle of, 1940
Churchill Winston 1874-1965
Great Britain--Economic conditions--1760-1860
Great Britain--History--20th century
Great Britain--History--Edward VII, 1901-1910
Great Britain--History--Elizabeth II, 1952- 
Great Britain--History--Victoria, 1837-1901
Great Britain--History--Tudors, 1485-1603
Great Britain--Politics and government--1837-1901
Great Britain--Politics and government--1936-1945
Great Britain--Social conditions--19th century
Great Britain--Social conditions--20th century
Nineteen sixties
Nineteen fifties
Nineteenth century
Popular culture--Great Britain
Twentieth century
 
To find bibliographies on a topic, look for the subdivision bibliography following a subject heading.
 
   great britain--social conditions--bibliography
 
To find primary sources in the library, look for the subdivision sources following a subject heading.
 
   great britain--history--sources

E-Books

The Library subscribes to a number of e-book packages which can be accessed via Databases. Packages that are of interest to history students are:
 
Provides full-text access to major works in American, European and Middle Eastern history. Topics covered include many aspects of history plus archaeology, area studies, art, folklore, literature, music, philosophy, political science, religion, and women's studies. Records for these books should be in Omni.
 
Historical reference compendium allows access to the texts of the Cambridge Histories series. Search or browse by topic. Relevant for undergraduates, graduates, lecturers and researchers.
 
Blackwell publishes a series of books of historiographic essays on many topics in history. They are available online through Wiley Online Library.
 
A collection of millions of titles digitized from libraries around the world.
 
The Internet Archive and Open Library offers over 10,000,000 fully accessible books and texts. There is also a collection of 300,000 modern eBooks that may be borrowed or downloaded by the print-disabled at OpenLibrary.org.
 
Oxford Scholarship Online                        
offers full-text access to scholarly publishing in 20 subjects from around the world,
 
Provides access to about 600,000 electronic books (ebooks) Prom a wide variety of publishers.
 
UPSO includes titles from Oxford University Press and other partner presses.  QUL has access to selected titles, indicated by a green open lock icon on search results screens