In Ellis Library
20th Century News
Magazines and Movies
From AI to Zotero
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100

The number of study rooms on the 2nd floor of Ellis Library

What is 9?

100

The city for which we have a database of all its Times newspaper issues from 1785 to 2014

What is London?

100

This database contains British magazines from the World War I era but not quite the World War II era.

What is British Periodicals?

100

The name of the browser plugin that will let you know if there's free or MU-funded access to the book/article you're looking at online

What is Lean Library?

100

Two words that will be found in your results if you search Discover@MU for totalitarian*

What are (any of these):
totalitarian
totalitarians
totalitarianism

200

Starting at this time, you must show your MU ID to enter Ellis Library.

What is midnight / 12:00 AM?

200

The library database containing full text of multiple large U.S. newspapers

What is Proquest Historical Newspapers?

200

The database with 20th-century "Topics" like Weimar Cinema and Film in the National-Socialist State

What is filmportal.de?

200

The name of the website and word processor plugin Mizzou is piloting now, that will help you find current-day articles on the topic you're writing about

What is Keenious?

200

In Discover@MU, adding this subject-heading word to this search will find primary sources such as government documents:

war AND Italy AND SU ___________

What is SOURCES?

300

According to your course guide, this Special Collection has colorful primary sources from many European countries, but especially France

What is the War Poster Collection?

300

The "Collection" that appears at the top of search results when you search British Pathe for world war ii

What is "World War II in France?"

300

The title of the first DVD to appear when you search Discover@MU for SU war films great britain

What is The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp?

300

The name of the app, word processor plugin, and browser plugin that can help organize your sources and cite them accurately in many formats

What is Zotero?

300

One of the most important search filters, limits, or refinements for historians, in almost any database

What is date (or year)?

400

The new tool focused on exploring the PRINT book collections on this campus and other UM campuses

What is "Catalog?" ("Libcat" or "Vufind" are also acceptable)

400

Searching the "History as it Happened" news site for the word freedom, the name of the newspaper with the highest number of search results

What is the Cologne Post?

400

The number of MU campus libraries that have an external CD/DVD drive you can use to play DVDs

What is 4?

400

According to our Keenious library guide, the research article database the Keenious AI uses to generate its research recommendations

What is OpenAlex?

400

The area of law that affects how much full text content you're likely to find online when using free, full-text book searches like HathiTrust

What is copyright?

500

Most books with a call number starting with D, DA, DC, DD, etc. can be found on this floor.

What is 3 East?

500

In ARTSTOR's advanced image search, the number of images assigned the Location: Berlin between 1914 and 1918

What is 77? (as of 9/3/2025)

500

From JSTOR's Advanced Search, the number of articles with totalitarianism in the title, published between 1939 and 1945 and classified as "items I can access"

What is 12?

500

The area in which generative AI is strongest and the one in which it is weakest, according to your course guide

What are language/rhetoric and facts/sources?

500

The thing that makes a subject search different from a keyword search

What is standardized, librarian-assigned terminology meant to capture the main subject of a work (anything close to this is acceptable)
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