For research assistance, contact a librarian. The Research Assistance desk is staffed during business hours Monday to Friday. Drop in with research questions, or set up in-depth research appointments with a librarian.
Our librarians will gladly assist you with research questions and problems in person, by phone or by email.
Once you have found your sources, be sure to cite them correctly using one of these Citation Styles:
More help can be found at Cite Sources and Purdue OWL.
See our Citation Management guide for free tools to help you organize and store your citations.
In our library catalogue, type your topic, e.g.
Select a relevant book in your results list, and then View the Description for accurate subject headings (under Subjects).
Once you know the subject headings for your topic, do a subject (su:) search.
You could also try an Advanced Search, combining keywords from several Subject Headings:
For more help on searching, go to our library website.
From the library Databases page, go to EBSCOhost and then select EBSCOhost Web. Then choose your database(s). and create a search similar to the example below. Finally, you may limit your results by using the filters on the left-hand side of the screen, e.g., recently published (in the past 5 years), full text articles in peer reviewed journals.
The Sample topic below is Canadian Residential Schools for First Nations people:
For more help with EBSCOhost databases, go to the library website and look under the Databases tab.
From the library Databases page, go to JSTOR, select Advanced Search and then and try a search like this. By placing quotation marks around a phrase, JSTOR will search this exact phrase only, bringing up more accurate results. You may also limit your results by item type, language and discipline.
The Sample topic below is Canadian Residential Schools for First Nations people:
For additional help with JSTOR, look under the Databases tab on the library website.
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