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100

The name of the catalog, both for MU alone, and (if the scope is expanded), for all UM campuses.

What is Merlin?

100

The European newspaper for which we have a database of it contents, from 1785 to 2013

What is the London Times?

100

The Europeana Photography Collection is listed in the course guide as containing more than this many photographs.

What is 4 million?

100

The name of the database containing the full text of a few high-quality journals, from the year of their origin to a few years prior to the present

What is JSTOR?

100

The length of time an undergraduate student may check out a normal book, before it must be renewed

What is 4 months?

200

The name of our regional library consortium catalog, that allows you to check out books from throughout Missouri and a few neighboring states

What is MOBIUS?

200

This primarily British index for 19th century magazines also indexes some newspaper articles.

What is C19?

200

The video archive from which you can search the British Pathe and Movietone video archives at the same time.

What is News On Screen?

200

The name of the tool being beta-tested in JSTOR, that will generate a list of related articles for any PDF you drag into it.

What is Text Analyzer?

200
A search in many databases for IMMIGRAT* will contain all of the following except two:immigrant, immigrants, immigration, immigrating, immigrate

What is immigraNT and immigraNTS?

(IMMIGRAT* will find only words that begin with that stem, so the better choice would be to search on IMMIGRA*.)

300

If you're looking for a book, and it's not at MU or even in our regional consortium, what database should you use to find a copy you can send for?

What is Worldcat?

300
The number of newspapers from the country of Cape Verde owned by the Center for Research Libraries (CRL)

What is 2?

300
The number of PHOTOGRAPHS in the LOCATION of Berlin and taken from 1800 to 1930, that are available in ARTSTOR

What is 16?

300

The box that you can UNCHECK in Discover@MU, that will allow articles MU does not have access to, to appear in your search results

What is MU Collections?

300

The portion of Ellis Library that is closed to students due to construction during the Fall 2019 semester

What are the West Stacks? ("West floors" or "West part"or "West wing" also acceptable)

400

To find books that are primarily examples or reprints of primary sources, you should specify that the word _______ appear in the ________ field in the library catalog record.

What is SOURCES...SUBJECT?

400

The number of periodicals MU makes available in some format for the city of Belfast, for at least one year between 1790 and 1930

What is 6?

400

The name of the "collection" within the Advertising Archives that is focused on "life in Paris"

What is La Vie Parisienne?

400

Searching the Scopus database for the phrase "19th century Paris," the number of items that cite the most frequently cited article in the search results list. Hint: Sort your results list to show you that article!

What is 351?

400

The call number and section of Ellis Library where the book International Historical Statistics, Europe, 1750-2005 is located

What is  HA1107 .M5 2007  ... Ellis Reference?

500

The name of the reference book database that contains a visually colorful "topic finder"

What is Gale Virtual Reference Library?

500

Among the U.S. newspapers covered in our collection of Proquest Historical Newspapers, the newspaper that goes back the farthest in time, and the year it starts

What is the Chicago Tribune, 1849?

500

If you search in News on Screen for material mentioning Paris between 1910 and 1920, the number of hours one video shows for a journey from Paris to London

What is six?

500

In a 3-line Advanced search in Discover@MU, you can require that the term(s) in any search line be in the TITLE, in order to focus your search. Given the following search lines, which search line gives you the FEWEST results when you force it (and only it) to be in the TITLE?

Line 1: Berlin 

Line 2: film* or cinema*

Line 3: gender*

What is Berlin? (1381 results vs 4975 vs 1740)

500

The amount of scholarship money the SECOND prize winner of the Undergraduate Research Contest receives

What is $250?

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