Books
Library Services
Article Research
Search Technique
19th C Sources- Use Your Guide!
100
The floor of Ellis Library where a book with this call number will be: B3305.M74 K37 2009
What is 3rd Floor East
100
The name of the place on the 4th floor, northwest corner, where you will find rare books and also the London Times on microfilm
What is Special Collections
100
If you already know exactly what article you want, what's your first click from the library homepage?
What is Find A Specific Article
100
Which search gives you a shorter, more focused results list? "Giusseppe Mazzini" AND nationalis* "Giusseppe Mazzini" OR nationalis*
What is "Giusseppe Mazzini" AND nationalis*
100
Database containing images of hundreds of British magazines and journals
What is British Periodicals
200
From the library homepage, one of the THREE main ways to find books
What is Search & Find, Books & Media, or Find a Specific Book
200
What do you need to do in order to access most library databases from off campus?
What is log in with your PawPrint OR use VPN
200
If you are using Search & Find on the library home page, how do you limit your results to scholarly or peer-reviewed articles only?
What is "Limit to articles from scholarly publications, including peer-review" in left margin of search results page
200
If you are looking for articles related to the idea of internationalism and also want to find related words such as internationalist and internationalists, but NOT international and internationalized where would you put the asterisk?
What is internationalis*
200
The name of the database where you can find indexing for the London Times newspaper
What is C19
300
What is MERLIN? What is MOBIUS?
What is the library catalog for MU and UM, and the shared catalog for most academic libraries in Missouri
300
What's your first click from the homepage to find the Course Guide for History 4971: Karl Marx?
What is Research Guides tab, or Class Resources > Course Guides
300
What is being searched when you use the top search box in the ARTICLES & DATABASES tab?
What is EBSCO databases only (includes Historical Abstracts).
300
When looking up books ABOUT (not BY) a well-known person, what kind of search is best when using the MERLIN or MOBIUS catalog?
What is a SUBJECT search?
300
The database that takes a select number journals still in existence today "all the way back" to when the journals began.
What is JSTOR
400
Why does a search for "Karl Marx" AND contemporar* give more results than "Karl Marx" AND contemporary?
Using the asterisk finds all words that start with a string of letters. This is known as "truncation" or "stemming."
400
Name three items you can check out from the Ellis Library Reserve desk?
Any of the items listed here: http://library.missouri.edu/about/equipment/list/ - and also, umbrellas.
400
Name 1 database that is good for finding recent (last 3 years or later) scholarly articles on 19th century European history
What is Historical Abstracts, Academic Search Complete, Project Muse, maybe Scopus, but NOT JSTOR because of moving wall.
400
What typological trick sometimes works to give you articles spelled the American way (e.g., "labor") AND the British way (labour)? It also works for finding either "workingman" or "workingmen."
what is lab?r, workingm?n
400
The reason that narrowing your search to the time period, "Gilded Age, 1878-1889" in the Early American Newspapers series will produce zero results
What is: we only subscribe to Early American Newspapers, Series I, 1690-1876, and the Guilded Age time period does not apply to the portion of the database we have access to.
500
If a book has no call number listed in our system (either in Search & Find or in the MERLIN catalog), what is happening and how can you get the book?
What is e-books and "click to request a purchase" books
500
What is the name of one of the two citation management software products the library supports through instruction and individual assistance?
What is EndNote OR Zotero
500
Where do you go to find out the most often-cited articles on a topic?
What is Scopus or Google Scholar
500
What is an example of using search fields to FOCUS or NARROW results?
What is force your search terms to appear in the article title or subjects or author
500
The best method to make sure your search in the New York Times ONLY produces items written on the occasion of a person's death.
What is - limit Document Type to Obituary
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