Gingrich Library: Your Success Is Why We're Here!
This guide was created to help students find good resources for their International Relations classes. Use the tabs above to learn about the library and its resources!
Keyword searching--Watch this tutorial from the University of Missouri-St. Louis. If your search term is a phrase, e.g., organized crime, enclose the phrase in quotation marks. "Organized crime" is a more specific search than typing the words separately.
Boolean operators (AND, OR, AND NOT) These words are used to combine your search terms.
Truncation--Use the asterisk * to retrieve all variants of a word. For example, educat* will retrieve education, educating, educator. But be careful! Con* will retrieve convict, contract, constitution and all other words that start that way. You will get many irrelevant items.
Field--A field is the location in the record where your terms are located, e.g., title, subject, author.