FMS 170 - Sink
General Information
Finding Articles
Academic Search
Premier
- Use to find articles from magazines and journals
- Offers full text for over 1,200 academic journals on all subjects.
- try searches like: Bosnia and Herzegovina and United States and
military, or World War Two and United States.
Proquest
Direct
- Covers over 2,600 journals on a variety of topics.
- Includes Newsweek from 1988 to the present, US News and World Report from
1988 to the present, Time magazine from 1992 to the present.
- Limit to articles from scholarly journals by selecting the box beside “Scholarly journals, including peer-reviewed”
Newspaper
Resource Page
- Provides access to all newspapers held by Jackson Library.
- Includes access to New York Times and Washington Post
since the late 1800s.
Help Using Search Connectors
Finding Books
Library
Catalog
- Use to find books and other materials in the library's
collections
- If you are looking for a particular book, search by its title.
- If you need books on a particular topic, search by keyword;
use and, or, not to connect terms
- Sample subject searches: Vietnamese Conflict, Holocaust, Jewish
(type these in and select "Subject Begins With")
- Sample "keyword anywhere" search: Kosovo and war, military
recruiting.
Electronic Dictionaries and Encyclopedias
Oxford
Reference - History Dictionaries
- Provides brief definitions of terms and biographical information
- Articles from some books (like Oxford Companion to Military History)
are more in-depth than others.
- Articles contain cross-references to related topics.
Grenier, John. The
first way of war : American war making on the frontier, 1607-1814. New
York: Cambridge University Press, 2005.
The Hutchinson Dictionary
of World History. Oxon: Helicon, 2004.
Kutler, Stanley I. Dictionary of American History. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 2003.
Niewyk, Donald, and Francis Nicosia. The
Columbia guide to the Holocaust. New York: Columbia University Press, 2000.
Palmer-Fernandez, Gabriel, ed. The encyclopedia of religion and war. New York: Routledge, 2004
Rudolph, Joseph R., Jr., ed. Encyclopedia
of modern ethnic conflicts. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood, 2003.
Shelton, Dinah, ed. Encyclopedia
of Genocide and Crimes Against Humanity. Detroit: Macmillan Reference USA,
2005.
Help Using eBooks
Searching the Web and Additional Resources
Search
the Web
A selection of search engines and directories that can help you find the information
you need.
Guidelines for Evaluating
Web Resources
Suggestions for how to make sure the stuff you get off the web is quality
material. From our online tutorial Finding It!
APA Style Reference Sheet
MLA Style Reference Sheet
Page Author: Amy Harris
