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Modern European History

Research guide for sources in modern European and British history

Library Catalogue: Sofia

 

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 - politics, World War, 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., "Great War" will retrieve catalogue records containing the phrase Great War
Boolean operators: (...), AND, OR, NOT
default: AND
e.g., "World War" AND (women OR gender) will retrieve catalogue records containing the phrase World War AND either women OR gender
Subject headings: su:(___) e.g., su:(Soviet Union--History--Revolution, 1917-1921) will retrieve catalogue records assigned this subject heading

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