Resources for History Topic: Modern Middle East

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Resources for HistoryTopic Modern Middle East

• Jeremy Richard Library

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Library Homepage
http//norman.lib.uconn.edu/NewSpirit/Redesign/
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Locating Material

• HOMER for books
• Databases / Shortcuts for articles
• eJournals to locate Electronic Journals
• Document Delivery for items in other libraries

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HOMER Searching by Keyword

• Use quotations around phrases middle east
• Use to indicate essential terms 20th
  century
• Limit to Stamford

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http//homerweb.lib.uconn.edu/
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HOMER Citation
Call
Status
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Homer Subject Headings
Detailed Record
Subject Headings
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Databases

• To find articles
• Magazine vs. Journal
• Full Text vs. Abstract

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Infotrac
Peer-reviewed or Refereed Publications
Advance Search middle east and oil and
politics
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Infotrac Citation
Abstract? Text? Extended Citation?
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Creating your Searches
Relationships Between Search Terms
OR one or the other or both of the words
Politics
Islam
Muslim
AND
OR
AND both words must
appear
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Try other databases
JSTOR backfiles of core scholarly journals
beginning with the first issue up to a moving
wall of 2- to 5-years for such titles as
American Historical Review, American Quarterly,
Economic History Review, Eighteenth-Century
Studies,, History and Theory, Journal of American
History, Journal of Economic History, Journal of
Modern History, Journal of the History of Ideas,
Military Affairs, Speculum, William and Mary
Quarterly, Reviews in American, Mississippi
Valley Historical Review


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Library Links
Library Homepage http//www.lib.uconn.edu/ Librar
y Session http//www.lib.uconn.edu/sroseman/Histo
ry/History290.htm
Questions/Comments shelley.roseman_at_uconn.edu Te
l. 203 251-8522