HST 296 - Bouril: Find Books
About Book Sources
Books can serve as your secondary sources as they are the main way that academic historians publish the fruits of their research. You can also find collections of primary sources published in books.
Find Books and E-books
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Look For: Call Number, Location, and Status
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Click on the title of an item to find out more information about it and to get the citation. To find the citation, click on the icon that looks like a pair of quotation marks, then find the citation style required. You can highlight, copy, and paste that into your references page. Always be sure to double-check your copied citations, though. Sometimes formatting, such as italics and hanging indents, aren’t correct. Information is typically in the correct order, but it is recommended to double-check that as well.
Change Date Range: by typing in specific dates in the "Publication Date" (red box in screenshot). Your results list will then only include items that were published within your specified date range.
Get Only Ebooks: In the left-hand column, under "Availability," check the box for "Available Online" and under Resource Type, select "Books." Then click "Apply Filters."
Continue Searching in OhioLINK for unavailable titles by selecting "OhioLINK search" when putting your title or keywords in the search box. This allows you to request books from college and university libraries all over Ohio.
Why Use Books?
You do not need to read an entire book cover to cover in order to use it as a source in your research assignment.
Look at the table of contents to see if there is a chapter that addresses your narrower aspect of a broader topic covered in a book. For example: Is there a chapter about Napoleon Bonaparte in a broad overview of French history?
Or you can use the book's index to see which specific pages a book contains information about your topic and read only those pages. (For example: Perhaps a book about the Cold War includes information about espionage on pages 72-75).