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 and need only a few books.
For a comprehensive subject search, search with subject headings as well as keywords.
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Start with a keyword search, but expect to revise it.
Keyword Searching TIPS|
Search Technique |
What It Does |
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quotation marks |
Searches for exact phrase |
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Truncation * |
Searches for all forms of a word |
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Boolean operators (AND, OR, NOT) |
Lets you broaden or narrow your search |
For example:
gender AND "world wars"
(women OR gender) AND "world war"
When searching OMNI for books, use the facets located on the search results screen, to limit your search results to books & ebooks.
When you find relevant results, note the subject headings assigned. Refining your search using the same subject heading terminology may yield more precise results.
Subject Headings
Quite often these headings are further qualified by topical, geographic, or chronological subheadings.
Second wave feminism United States
Sex role History
Women History 20th century
Women United States History 20th century
Women's rights United States History 20th century
World war, 1914-1918 Women
World war 1939-1945 Women
The featured title is part of the series, Studies in Gender and History, which explores the centrality of gender, race, and class to a wide range of historical events, including the Canadian suffrage movement, the Great Depression, the internment of Japanese Canadians during World War II, the rise of twentieth-century consumer culture, and much more.
To find out what titles we have, search Omni in Advanced Search and limit to title and book-ebooks.
The Blackwell Companion series of books are particularly useful for historiography since they give authoritative overviews of the scholarship that has shaped the understanding of a given subject, as well as ongoing debates among historians.
Search Omni "blackwell companions" in combination with terms like "american history," "world history," gender, etc.
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