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 - ancient, greece, latin, politic*, 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., "ancient Rome" will retrieve catalogue records containing the phrase Ancient Rome |
Boolean operators: | (...), AND, OR, NOT default: AND |
e.g., egypt* AND (women OR gender) will retrieve catalogue records containing the word egypt or egyptian AND either women OR gender |
Subject headings: | su:(___) | e.g., su:"Egypt history to 640 A.D" will retrieve catalogue records assigned this subject heading |
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