History 281

MiamiLink exercise

Using the topic below, search Miami's Online Catalog, OhioLINK, and Worldcat. Record your searches so that I can replicate them and provide two COMPLETE citations to materials found in your results.

Topic: Women in colonial africa. Look for materials that discuss women in some phase of the foreign rule of any or all of the states of africa. First plan out your search in the following table and then execuit it in Miami's Online Catalog, OhioLINK, and Worldcat,

Concept I	Concept II	Concept III

I. Miami's Online Catatlog

a. Perform a keyword search and record your terms in the manner in which you entered them into the catalog.

b. Perform a subject search using one of the best subjects linked in one of your catalog records from the above search. Record what subject you used and how many itmes resulted.

c. Limit your subject search for items published since 1990.

d. Describe the difference in results between the keyword search (a) and the subject search (b)

e. COMPLETELY cite two GOOD sources:

1.

2.

II. Do the same search (subject or keyword) in OhioLINK.

a. How do the results differ from Miami's Catalog?

b. COMPLETELY cite two GOOD sources:

1.

2.

III. Do the same search (subject or keyword) in Worldcat..

a. How do the results differ from Miami's Catalog? OhioLINK?

b. COMPLETELY cite two GOOD sources:

1.

2.

IV. In Miami's catalog, look up the journal: Journal of American History and answer the following:

1. Where is/ are the 1964 issues located?

2. What would you do to see when the next issue is due and if we received the May issue?

3. What is the previous title and when did it begin?