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British History

Research guide for sources in British history

Sofia Discovery tool | SEARCH McGILL RESOURCES

 

Search the Sofia Discovery tool for McGill's collection of resources: books, journals & articles, multimedia, and other resources, in both print or electronic format.

Tips for Searching the Catalogue

The monograph (a specialist book) is the primary means of scholarly communication in history as a discipline. Search the Sofia Discovery tool for McGill's collection of resources including books and eBooks.

You can search using words like - medieval, reformation, hist*, etc.

Search tips for the library catalogue:

Truncation symbol: * e.g., hist* will retrieve catalogue records containing the words history, historical, historically, histoire, etc.
Phrase searching: "___" e.g., "early modern" will retrieve catalogue records containing the phrase early modern
Boolean operators: (...), AND, OR, NOT
default: AND
e.g., religion AND (medieval OR "Middle Ages") will retrieve catalogue records containing the word religion AND either medieval OR Middle Ages
Subject headings: su:(___) e.g., su:(Women--Europe--History--Middle Ages, 500-1500) will retrieve catalogue records assigned this subject heading

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