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Use the UCSB Library Catalog to find books, chapters, journal subscriptions, media, microforms, and more at the UCSB Library.

• When keyword searching, use keywords that best describe your topic.  The objective is to get a small group of relevant records.  People, places, time periods, events, types of information (e.g., ethnography, interview, etc.), issues, and more can be keywords.

• Evaluate your search results.  Click on the title to view the entire record, including chapters and subject headings.  If you don't see related material in the top 10-20 items of your search results, reconstruct your search using alternative keywords, synonyms, narrower terms, more terms, etc. 
  

• In the library, like materials are shelved together.  Whenlooking for a particular book on the shelf, scope out what's shelved next to it.

• For locating primary source material, consider these "subject keywords": sources, documents, personal narrative, documentary history, archives, manuscripts, correspondence, speech, oration, statistics, cartoon* interview"ral history*

Use the Next Generation Melvyl Catalog to find books at UC and other academic libraries (e.g. WorldCat libraries).

Use the Center for Research Libraries Catalog to find international newspapers, microfilm sets, international theses/dissertations, foriegn government documents, U.S. Ethnic newspapers, and more.

Use the Dissertations and Theses (Disseratiaon Abstracts) database to search for theses and dissertations.  UC dissertations are available full text; request others via Interlibrary Loan.