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HIST 115/AFST 115: Black history through the lens of Black women

Search Discovery

DISCOVERY enables you to search across most of our online databases including our book catalog in one search.  You can access DISCOVERY  from the Library Homepage. 

Please note that you can also limit your search to books/ebook, or articles or journal titles by using the tabs above.

Quick Search Hints

  • Use QUOTATION MARKS if you are searching for a particular phrase or book title
  • Use CAPs for boolean connectors (e.g. AND, OR, NOT)
  • Use FILTERS to limit your results by material type (article, book, etc.) or publication date
  • Use ADVANCED SEARCH for title, author or subject heading searches (works better than the basic search screen!)
  • If you are getting a lot of irrelevant results, try taking off the EXPAND SEARCH WITH RELATED TERMS filter

See the Helpful Handouts box for more!

Use BOOKS/eBOOKS tab to find books

You can search for books from the LIBRARY HOMEPAGE.

Click on the Books/eBooks tab to get to HUL book collections.  Please note you can limit your search to eBooks Only or you can browse ebooks by title.

Search Hints

  • Use QUOTATION MARKS if you are searching for a particular phrase or book title
  • Use CAPs for boolean connectors (e.g. AND, OR, NOT)
  • Use ADVANCED SEARCH for title, author or subject heading searches (works better than the basic search screen!)
  • If you are getting a lot of irrelevant results, try taking off the EXPAND SEARCH WITH RELATED TERMS filter
  • Locate books in other libraries by filtering results to LIBRARIES WORLDWIDE and requesting books via Interlibrary Loan
  • See the handout below for some additional search tips
  • See the WorldCat Discovery page for handouts describing additional features
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