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HIST 4433/5433 Historical Methods

An examination of research methods & historical writing.

Books & eBooks

Books on Research

From here, you can see tips on searching the library catalog.

Also, check out the lists of books on research, roughly sorted into sociological and historical categories.

Search the Library Catalog

Advanced Search

How to Find Books in the Catalog

Keyword

Type any term, such as psychology or modeling. Remember, keyword searching only looks for your term. There’s no guarantee the results will be about your term.

Title

Type any known words from the title. Avoid articles like a or the.

Author

Use Last name, First name or First name Last name order.

  • To Northwestern Oklahoma State University Library Services to discover items held at NWOSU (Figure 1).

  • By Format (book, article, etc.) to get materials of a particular type.

  • To Full Text to see materials you can read right away on your screen.

  • To Peer Reviewed to see only scholarly journal articles.

Figure 1
Limiters in the Catalog
Detail of catalog limiters.
  • Select the Advanced Search option to refine your search or use the options in left sidebar after you have begun your search.

  • Use quotes around phrases like "social media" or "college athletes".

  • A search for books will include both print books and eBooks but can be limited to either format.

    Figure 2
    An Example of Search Results
    Detail of catalog with the words book and eBook highlighted.

    Note. This example contains both books and eBooks.

  • Use the Boolean operators and, or, and not.

    Examples:

    • Soviet and Russian

    • "Soviet Union" or Russia

    • Mexico not New

    Note: Some databases and search engines require that Boolean operators be typed in all caps to distinguish them from search terms.

  • To truncate a search term, enter a minimum of the first three letters followed by a question mark (?) or an asterisk (*).

    Example: child* or infant*

  • Use parentheses to create more precise searches.

    Example: (games or toys) and (child* or infant*)

Sociology Titles

The following is a sample of books from our catalog.

History Titles

Research Librarian