Guides: HIS 357: History of the Modern Middle East: Suggested Search Tips

How to Find Books on the Sample Topic, "The Middle East Peace Process." Scroll down for help with finding articles.

How to find books in WorldCat
Requesting books from other libraries

Try an Advanced Search in WorldCat using keywords from the Subject headings found in the Descriptions of relevant books:

Useful Subject Headings:

Arab-Israeli conflict Peace.
Peace-building Israel.
Peace-building Palestine.
Conflict management Israel
Peace movements Israel
Peace movements Palestine
Nonviolence Israel
Middle East Palestine

AND finds all terms

OR finds either term

peace* finds any ending (e.g., peace / peace-building)

Inter-library Loans (ILL): How much does it cost?

Students:

ILL books are free if available in a Canadian library
ILL articles are $3.00 each

Faculty:

no charge for ILL requests

Retired faculty:

allowed 5 free requests per year
If more than 5 are needed, the requester will be responsible for any fees involved.

How Long do they Take?

allow two weeks from when you submit the ILL order, but sometimes they come sooner

Further information (how to make a request) is available here.

How to Find Journal Articles on This Topic

EBSCOhost help
JSTOR help

Go to EBSCOhost services and select EBSCOhost Web. Then choose your database(s). Try the following search and refine your results. For example, you could limit your results to recently published (in the past 5 years), full text articles in peer reviewed journals. For more help with EBSCOhost databases, go to the library website and look under the Databases tab.

On the library website, go to the Databases page and select JSTOR. Select the Advanced Search. You can filter (narrow) your results by item type (e.g. Articles), Date of publication, and Language. You can also narrow by subject discipline of the journals, e.g. Language & Literature. For more help with JSTOR, go to the library website and look under the Databases tab.