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HIST 135R: Senior Seminar in Russian/Soviet Modern History (Edgar, Spring 2025): Subject Headings & Keywords

Keywords

  • Think of keywords as the essential words that describe your topic.  These can be people, places, themes, characters, time periods

 

  • Keywords are your own search terms that best describe your topic alone. Avoid adverbs, conjunctions, prepositions, and any other terms that are not considered essential to your topic. 

 

  • Using keywords allows you to combine different concepts, which will find items that might not have been discoverable by using only Subject Headings. Each concept is separated by AND (migration AND climate change).  

 

  • You can add synonyms and like terms to increase your search results (migration OR displacement) AND (climate change OR global warming).

 

  • You can use the asterisk* symbol to include alternate endings to your root word:  environment* will retrieve all records with the word environment, environments, environmental, environmentalist, and so forth.

 

 

 

 

 

 

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