From Google or Safari, go to www.tbirdlibrary.com Go to Lessons Click on Gardea's IB History Goals: ->Discover the EPCC library databases & Coronado's physical reference materials. ->Use keywords and Boolean operators to research in Gale and Google Scholar. ->Find citation tools in Gale and review APA and Chicago style citations.
PW: learn
Other sites worth trying:
Archives from the Library of Congress
Choose "Advanced Search" & limit to full text
Must have epcc credentials to use
Find library books, e & audiobooks
Citation Machine: either APA or Chicago
^^^Use for APA^^^
Best practices when researching:
Use AND to link terms: women AND China; disease AND colonization
Use quotations to search a phrase: "peace corps" "Marbury v. Madison" "Colombian exchange" "Spanish flu"
Use asterisk * for wildcard search: *communism *urbanization
Vary your search terms! "Manhattan Project" "nuclear bomb" "nuclear fission"
Limit by domain: site:gov or site:edu may be helpful restrictions
Limit to country: site:de would bring results from Germany for example