HIST 2301 - Johnson - Fall 2010  

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Welcome to the History 2301 class libguide.  We have put together a few resources that you may find useful for this research assignment.  Please use the tabs at the top to navigate through the guide.  We also have a general History Libguide that you may also find useful.

Activities:

• Guess the Google
• Boolify Project
• Visuwords
• Scholarly vs Popular Articles

 Fast Search Strategies:
Save yourself lots of time and have an easier, quicker, and more productive search by using these search strategies.

• 3 B's - Brainstorm, Browse, Boolean (AND, OR, NOT)
• Field searching - Subject, Author, Title
• Quotation marks for exact phrase
• Truncation - root + variants (*) 
• Database Limiters: date, publication type, type, peer-reviewed, etc.