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MERLIN Tricks
100
The main index database for the field of PHILOSOPHY
What is...Philosopher's Index?
100
This subject, along with Political Science, is part of MU's Kinder Institute on Constitutional Democracy.
What is...History?
100
The broad term for the type of sources history seminar students always need to find
What are...PRIMARY SOURCES?
100
What daily newspaper has published for over 100 years by journalism students at Mizzou?
What is...The Columbia Missourian ("Missourian" is acceptable).
100
The institutional entity all MERLIN libraries are part of
What is...the University of Missouri?
200
The main subject covered in the ATLA database
What is...Religious Studies?
"Religion" or "Theology" are also acceptable.
200
This subject, founded in the 1980's at MU, does NOT have a doctoral program.
What is...Religious Studies?
200
The subject for which grad students may be interested in LIDAR imaging, for looking at the remains of ancient cities?
What is...ANTHROPOLOGY?
200
The database through which we get historical coverage of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, the New York Times, and several other major newspapers
What is...Proquest Historical Newspapers?
200
The name of the library consortium you should check if no local holdings are available
What is...MOBIUS?
300
The database containing fully transcribed documentary films about world cultures, and other anthropological video material
What is...Ethnographic Video Online?
300
The department in which André Ariew is a faculty member
What is...Philosophy?
300
You send people to this part of the MU Libraries if they are looking for old university photos or papers.
What is UNIVERSITY ARCHIVES?
300
The free online newspaper project run by the Library of Congress, where you can find pre-1924, mostly small town newspapers online
What is...Chronicling America?
300
The way to answer the question, "If this book is an eBook at UMKC, can I access it?"
What is, "Only if you are a UMKC student."
400
The database containing systematically organized, but often very old, written material describing cultures around the world
What is...Human Relations Area File (HRAF)?
400
The old or the new name of the place in Columbia where historical materials and art from all over Missouri are kept
What is...State Historical Society for Missouri, OR Center for Missouri Studies (new name)?
400
This organization preserves old websites.
What is...the Internet Archive?
(Wayback Machine is also acceptable)
400
The African-American newspaper from Chicago that we have in full text for most of the 20th century
What is...the Chicago Defender?
400
The single word that will drastically improve the number of primary sources among your search results, if you add it to a keyword search
What is SOURCES?
500
The database containing primary sources from colonial and early U.S. history, that is better BROWSED than SEARCHED
What is...Early American Imprints? (Archive of Americana is acceptable)
500
Where was the Center for Missouri Studies located?
What is...605 Elm Street ("across from Peace Park" also acceptable)?
500
The free online resource that aggregates lots of religious statistical and polling data
What is...ARDA? (Association of Religion Data Archives, www.thearda.com)
500
This Chicago institution is the go-to source of archived newspapers from around the world - some in print, some on microfilm, some scanned?
What is...the Center for Research Libraries?
500
The type of search that is particularly useful if you are searching for books about a PERSON or well-known, NAMED EVENT such as a war
What is...SUBJECT? (Library of Congress Subject is also acceptable).