Finding Books

Scotty is the catalog for the UCR Libraries. Use Scotty to find books by topic, title, or author OR to identify if the Library owns a particular magazine or journal.

• Search by keyword for materials on your topic.
• To retrieve variations of a word use (*)
  example: immigra* retrieves immigrant, immigrate, immigration, etc.
• Remember, a "subject" search must use official "subject headings". Most subject terms can be subdivided by name of country/region/etc.
• Refine your search by using Subject Headings
  • World's Columbian Exposition (1893 : Chicago, Ill.)
  • Ellis Island Immigration Station (N.Y. And N.J.)
  • Indians Of North America -- Arizona.
  • Panama Canal (Panama)
  • Earhart, Amelia 1897-1937 

Finding Articles

Academic Search Complete - A scholarly  database covering nearly all academic areas of study, includes newspaper, magazine, and academic journals. Includes  full text of over 5,300 journals, 4,600 of which are peer-reviewed with links to HTML and PDF formats.

America History and Life - Includes scholarly articles, reviews, dissertations, and collections in U.S. and Canadian history from pre-history to present, most with abstracts and some full-text; 1964-present

Historical Abstracts - Scholarly articles, books, dissertations, and collections in world history (excluding US and Canada) from 1450 to modern times, most with abstracts and some full-text; 1954-present

Avery Index to Architectural Periodicals - Covers architecture and related disciplines; 1934 - current, with selective coverage back to 1741.

Historical Newspapers

If you would like to find newspaper articles that offer first-hand reports of an event, person, or time try using historical newspaper databases such as the New York Times and Los Angeles Times.

• Chicago Tribune (historical), 1849-1987
• Los Angeles Times (historical), 1881-1985
• New York Times (historical), 1857-2003
• San Francisco Chronicle (historical), 1865-1922
• Washington Post (historical), 1877-1994

Web Searching

Infomine -Use INFOMINE to find sites that have been carefully selected for usefulness.