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HISTORY 201: The Historian's Craft: The US Empire (Fall 2023) : Find Articles

Multi-Subject Databases

History Databases

Search Tips

  • Use AND to combine different words to find all those words, in any order.  
    •  Germans AND Namibia
  • Use OR to combine similar words or synonyms or variations
    • genocide OR holocaust
  • Use quotation marks ( " ") to search words as a phrase
    • "Cold War" 
  • Use an asterisk ( * ) to find varied endings of words and singular and plural forms.
    • colon* to find colony, colonies, colonize, colonial, colonialism
  • Look at Subjects to find additional keywords and use them to find relevant and specific results.
  • Look for an option to limit to Academic Journals on the left side of search results in most databases

Searching Within Databases

This tutorial shows you how to search for articles in article databases.  It shows you how to use AND to combine terms, limit to articles from scholarly journals or by date of publication, use subject headings and abstract to find keywords, find full text of articles, and use tools to generate or export citations.