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Library Guide for Research Papers
I’ll be showing you a combination of print and electronic resources, don’t forget about visual resources like slides, videos and maps. Most important resource in this library is the staff: ask questions early, that is what we are here for. Desk staff will have a copy of the syllabus/assignment. Your instructor has placed a large number of titles on reserve – it is essential to spend at least an hour or two familiarizing yourself with these books before diving into your essay topics.
Use the Library's Research page as your point of departure:
Read your instructor’s guidelines for writing the essays carefully, and underline the terms you want to look up: the trick to finding library resources is knowing which words to search for.
For example try the keywords: Muslims and conversion and Granada or Philip II.
We’ll start with Cruzcat, then work our way into the full text and bibliographic electronic databases, and then move outwards to the web. The better defined your search vocabulary, the better chance you have of finding info on the web.
A keyword search is probably the easiest way to get started. Once you find some titles that are useful, click on the Library of Congress subject headings to search further.
For this assignment, the following subject headings might be useful--they are just a sample of relevant subject headings that you might want to look at:
Once you have found some useful titles, you need to look at the books and also browse the shelves, both in the reference area and upstairs in the regular stacks.
You can also do the same searches in Melvyl to check for expanded UC-wide holdings.
Once you have browsed the print reference materials, you will be better prepared for searching the electronic databases. Some of the databases listed below contain bibliographic citatations, others contain full-text.
Full text databases:
Bibliographic databases:
Outside the UC system – useful websites for Spanish history:
WESSWEB - Iberian Studies Web – History
WWW-VL History – Spanish History Index (chronological index – modern history)
Internet modern history sourcebook (from Fordham University)
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