Finding Secondary Sources
Basic Search Tips
- Place quotation marks around keyword phrases
"trench warfare"
"Haitian Revolution"
- Capitalize Boolean logic connectors (AND, OR).
Bay of Pigs Invasion OR Invasion of Cuba
"American Involvement" AND World War I
- Click either "View all formats and languages" or "View all editions" to view all library holdings for a particular title.
- Items at UD appear first in the list of search results. Other items can be requested via interlibrary loan.
- Use the limiters on the left-hand side of your results page to change the language of the material.
Advanced Search Tips
- Type au:, su: or ti: before your keywords to specify author, subject or title words.
su:Haitian Revolution
- A title search may identify items that have matching words in their chapter titles or contents lists.
- See Searching WorldCat: Index Quick Reference for other options.
- Academic OneFile This link opens in a new windowA premier source for peer-reviewed, full-text articles for academic libraries from the world’s leading journals, this comprehensive resource covers the physical and social sciences, technology, medicine, engineering, the arts, technology, literature, and many other subjects. Provides millions of articles from over 17,000 scholarly journals and other authoritative sources, including Nature, The Economist, and The New York Times, in PDF and HTML full-text formats. In addition, thousands of podcasts and transcripts from NPR and CNN and videos from BBC Worldwide Learning are also available.
- Clase and Periodica This link opens in a new windowIndex of Latin American journals in the sciences and humanities. CLASE indexes documents published in Latin American journals specializing in the social sciences and humanities. PERIODICA covers journals specializing in science and technology.
- Historical Abstracts This link opens in a new windowHistorical Abstracts covers the history of the world (excluding the United States and Canada) from 1450 to the present, including world history, military history, women’s history, history of education, and more – essential for libraries supporting upper-division and graduate research. This authoritative database provides indexing of more than 2,300 academic journals in over 40 languages dating back to 1953, with some coverage for titles back to the early 20th century.
- JSTOR This link opens in a new windowJSTOR is a digital library of more than 2,000 journals and more than 25,000 books in the humanities, social sciences, and sciences. Included are peer-reviewed scholarly journals, literary journals, and academic monographs. JSTOR includes material in more than 75 disciplines including area studies, the arts, business and economics, history, the humanities, law, medicine and allied health, science and mathematics, and the social sciences. JSTOR has both primary and secondary sources.
- PAIS Index This link opens in a new windowAn index to the world’s public and social policy literature in the fields of business, economics, local and federal government, political science, international relations, finance, and other social sciences. Includes public policy literature in English, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, and Spanish—periodicals, books, and government documents.
- Project MUSE Journals This link opens in a new windowProject MUSE is a provider of digital humanities and social science content for the scholarly community. MUSE is a trusted source of complete, full-text versions of scholarly journals from many of the world’s leading university presses and scholarly societies, with over 120 publishers currently participating.
- Archives of Latin America and Caribbean History 16th-20th Century This link opens in a new windowWorld Scholar: Latin American & the Caribbean is a multidisciplinary database designed to meet the needs of researchers, postgraduates, and undergraduates with interests in regional studies, history, political science, anthropology, sociology, economics, and international relations. It includes a comprehensive range of content for the region, providing research across the humanities both for current issues and events in Latin America and the Caribbean as well as for historical perspective back to the colonial period. **This database has both primary and secondary sources.**
Browsing the stacks in Morris Library can be extremely helpful when you are looking for additional sources for your research. Most books related to Latin American and Iberian history can be found on the 3rd floor of Morris Library and fall under the following Library of Congress classifications:
D History - General
F1201 - 3799 Latin America. Spanish America
If you would like to see a full list of where Latin American countries are within the above call number range, please visit the Latin American & Iberian Studies research guide. You can also "browse" the shelves virtually by searching by Call Number through DELCAT.