The Book Search
The name of the catalog, both for MU alone, and (if the scope is expanded), for all UM campuses.
What is Merlin?
The European newspaper for which we have a database of it contents, from 1785 to 2013
What is the London Times?
The Europeana Photography Collection is listed in the course guide as containing more than this many photographs.
What is 4 million?
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?
The length of time an undergraduate student may check out a normal book, before it must be renewed
What is 4 months?
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?
This primarily British index for 19th century magazines also indexes some newspaper articles.
What is C19?
The video archive from which you can search the British Pathe and Movietone video archives at the same time.
What is News On Screen?
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?
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*.)
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?
What is 2?
What is 16?
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?
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)
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?
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?
The name of the "collection" within the Advertising Archives that is focused on "life in Paris"
What is La Vie Parisienne?
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?
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?
The name of the reference book database that contains a visually colorful "topic finder"
What is Gale Virtual Reference Library?
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?
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?
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)
The amount of scholarship money the SECOND prize winner of the Undergraduate Research Contest receives
What is $250?