HIS 221/222 (American History)

It is helpful to break your topic down into keywords that you can plug into the databases. Searching with full sentences does not turn out well. Try something like this:

My research topic is how did disease affect soldiers in the civil war?

I would pull out my keywords and think of synonyms.

After you run your initial search, try to get ideas for other terms using your initial results. You can also limit your search results by the Subject terms you see listed under your article citations and rework your search! You can see from our results that the database refers to the Civil War as the American Civil War, 1861-1865.

OneSearch defaults to a Delta Library Resources search, this means you should be able to access the full-text of all search results through a link-out in the database or on the shelf in the Delta Library.

If you want to expand your search you have the option to remove that filter. Uncheck the Delta Library Resources limit. This will search all citations and abstracts and will return more results. You will need to request sources without a full-text link through interlibrary loan. Use the Request this item through interlibrary loan link below the citation or use the form below to request a book or article. 

If you want to search for articles in a specific journal you can use the search box to search by Journal Name, just select Journal Name from the drop down menu and enter the name of the journal you want to search. You can put the title in quotes to search for the exact title. Remember to take the full-text filter OFF if the journal is only indexed in the database.