Subject Librarians
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Doris WagnerGeneral History, USA, Great Britain, Continental Europe
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Denis LacroixContinental Europe, Latin American and Caribbean
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Peggy Sue EwanyshynContinental Europe, Slavic Studies
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David SulzCanada, History of Science & Technology, Historiography
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Debbie FeisstLatin American and Caribbean, Canada, Continental Europe
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Kim FrailCanada, Continental Europe, Latin American and Caribbean
Key Limitations to Know
You probably have to use several search tools
- No single, comprehensive search box
- No search tool finds our books and also articles.
- No search tool finds all our holdings of one genre/format (e.g. all books, all journals, all articles, all films).
Starter Searches
Starter Searches
Good for reconnaissance searches to see what's out there or if you have a known citation.
BOOK focus:
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"Search the Library"Searches NEOS catalogue for books (print and ebook), journal titles (NOT article titles) and some other holding types e.g. films, music, maps, etc. Minimal user search control (e.g. no Boolean, wildcard, or field specific searches)
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"Search the Library" advancedSearches NEOS catalogue for books (print and ebook), journal titles (not article titles) and some other holding types e.g. films, music, maps, etc. More user search control.
Article focus
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"Find Articles"Multi-disciplinary and multi-genre/format. Searches about 300 of our 1600+ specialized databases. Good for articles. Not good for UAlberta/NEOS books. Some disciplines are not covered at all (e.g. psychology). Also known as EDS, or EBSCO discovery service.
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Proquest DatabasesCross searches more than 100 specialized search tools (e.g. academic articles, ebooks not in "search the library", historic and current newspapers and media, theses and dissertations)
Specialized History Searches
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America: History and Life with Full TextAcademic articles on all aspects of the history of Canada and the United States specifically, from pre-historic times to the present.
Historiography Visualization
histography.io
