Guides: HIS 354 China: From Ancient Empire to Economic Superpower: Suggested Search Tips

How to Find Books & Articles on a sample topic, "The environmental cost of China's economic development" :

You could start with a Simple Search in WorldCat, our library catalogue:

Go to the Description of relevant books and scroll down to the Subjects field. Take note of relevant subject headings.

Useful Subject Headings on the topic, "The environmental cost of China's economic development":

Environmental policy China
Economic development
Environmental aspects
Sustainable development
Sustainability
Economic history
Environmental policy
China Economic conditions

Then try an Advanced Search in WorldCat using keywords from the Subject headings:

AND finds all terms

OR finds either term

econom* finds any ending (economy, economic)

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.

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.

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. History or Economics. For more help with JSTOR, go to the library website and look under the Databases tab.