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College Writing 4A: UC London, Summer 2017 Grover: Finding Books

Instructor: Grover

Sample Searches for Books

Sample searches in OskiCat:

keyword search, then find official subject headings:

london history

(subject)  london england history

london gentrific*
london docklands

* = truncation or wildcard symbol; child* - child, childs, children, childish, childhood...

"trafalgar square"

quotes keep words together as a phrase

in MELVYL: 

  • you may limit your results to Berkeley
  • to borrow materials owned by other campuses, use the Request button
  • pull down the "University of California Libraries" menu to "Libraries Worldwide" to search thousands of libraries

in most library catalogs you may:

  • modify your searches or use Advanced searching to limit results to English, specify years of publication, limit to a library location, limit to a format (videos, manuscripts, etc.)
  • save items to a list and e-mail the list to yourself

ebrary = ebooks

ebrary is our largest collection of full text ebooks, with nearly 50,000 titles on a wide range of subjects. Find them in the UCB catalog, OskiCat (keyword: ebrary or limit to "Available Online"), or search the ebrary site directly:

Search ebrary

 

Getting started with ebrary

You do allow embedded content.