Librarian
Starter Searches: topic and known item
Known title
If you know the title of a book, article, report, etc: start with "search the library"
Tips: Use whole title or distinctive portions. Use quotation marks to get fewer but more exact matches. Select "catalogue only" box on the main library page before you search, or databases > "university of Alberta library" in left menu of search results. Journal articles: start with article title but if necessary, search for the journal title.
Topic or Keyword search starters (if you don't have a known title)
- Search the LibraryBooks (print, ebook), journal, articles (and films, music, maps, primary sources, etc) from UAlberta/NEOS catalogues and 300+ specialized search engines via ebsco). Use advanced search for boolean, wildcards, truncation, proximity, field limiters).
NOTE: this does NOT search everything we have access to!!
- Proquest - All DatabasesCross searches 150+ databases. Academic articles, ebooks, historic and current newspapers, theses/ dissertations, reports, etc. Often better for Canadian content.
Specialized History Searches
- America: History and LifeAcademic articles on all aspects of the history of Canada and the United States specifically, from pre-historic times to the present.
More Resources
- Oxford Scholarship Online This link opens in a new windowFull text access to scholarly books published by Oxford University Press.
History Visualization
A fun timeline of the past through wikipedia articles. A dot for every event.