Sarah Forbes's List: UTSC Library

• America: History and Life
• The Cold War

  • Hint: This guide lists some useful resources and search strategies to use for your research essay.
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• Your search for "cold war" found 7 e-Journals
• Your search for "cold war" found 7 e-Journals
• Your search for "cold war" found 1 Encyclopedias, Dictionaries...
• Your search for "cold war" found 84 e-Books
• Your search for "cold war" found 84 e-Books

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• • Search the library catalogue for the name of a key individual (last name, first name) or organization as an author in order to find relevant primary sources.
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        memoirs     

  • Terms to designate primary sources:
    sources, memoirs, photographs and posters photographs, posters, newspaper ads and stories, oral histories, pamphlets, anecdotes, diaries, pictorial works, archives, documentary, films, portraits, audio recordings, autobiography, cartoons, interviews, songs, manuscripts, catalogs, maps, speeches, notebooks, statistics, correspondence, personal narratives, and more....

  • Use the advanced search option to build search statements that may include names, events or topics combined with terms to designate primary sources.
    
    You can also conduct a simple subject or keyword anywhere search using the AND operator to combine your different search terms and increase the likelihood that you will find relevant materials.
    
    Using a Keyword Anywhere will generally you more but less focused results than a subject search.
    
    For more general search strategies go to:
    http://content.library.utoronto.ca/robarts/reference/ilu/
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• • Click any of the words listed below to help refine search results.
    
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• • Remember get materials from other libraries sent to the UTSC library so you can borrow them!
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• • Hint: Select History by Topic or History-General
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• • Use the Table of Contents to navigate through the different types of research materials.
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• should be of interest to all those starting research into Cold War History

• original data
• firsthand information
• Any published or unpublished work that is one step removed from the original source, usually describing, summarizing, analyzing, evaluating, derived from, or based on primary source materials
• In the humanities and social sciences, primary sources refer to first-hand accounts of events, or works produced during the time period under study
• Best Research Resources Pages
• select your topic area here

  • For resources relevant to the Cold War - check out the Cold War research guide located under the History by Topic Best Research Resources Page: http://www.diigo.com/067fd
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• For some topics, you can search the U of T Library Catalogue advanced search screen to find material related to topic and published in the time period of your topic. Documents that meet both criteria may be appropriate primary sources for your research.
• Newspaper articles written at the time the historical events of your topic

• Historical New York Times http://simplelink.library.utoronto.ca/url.cfm/18979

   

  This database offers full-text and full-image articles for The New York Times dating from 1851 to 2001. The collection includes digital reproductions of every page from every issue--cover to cover--in downloadable PDF files.
• coverage from 1951 to the present.

• JSTOR http://simplelink.library.utoronto.ca/url.cfm/1566

   

  The JSTOR archive holds the complete digitized back runs of core scholarly journals, starting with the very first issues, some dating as far back as the 1600s. Provides access to over six hundred journals in the arts, humanities, and social sciences.
• Reader's Guide Retrospective http://simplelink.library.utoronto.ca/url.cfm/1709
  Indexes popular magazines and journals, primarily American, from 1890 to 1982. This database contains abstracts only, but for full text availability, click the Get it at U of T button in the record.
• Repositories of primary sources. A listing of over 5000 websites describing holdings of manuscripts, archives, rare books, historical photographs, and other primary sources for the research scholar. Compiled by Terry Abraham of the Special Collections and Archives department of the University of Idaho. http://www.uidaho.edu/special-collections/Other.Repositories.html

• Using Primary sources on the web. A useful guide on how to evaluate sources found on the Internet, and suggestions for further sites to consult. Created by the Reference & User Services Association of the American Library Association.

   

  http://www.lib.washington.edu/subject/History/RUSA/

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• A primary source is a document or physical object which was written or created during the time under study

  • For additional search strategies on how to find primary sources in the U of T Scarborough Library go to http://content.library.utoronto.ca/utsc/generalinformation/howtofindprimarysources
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• Reference Materials
• overview of an event or time period and will help to determine key participants, dates and publications
• Look at the bibliographies to determine other secondary and possibly primary sources
• • the letters REF means that the material is located in the Reference section of the library
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• Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1990 DA28 .D413 1993 REF
• Dictionary of American History E174 .D52 1976 REF
• provide lists of specific primary and secondary sources
• To determine if the U of T Scarborough Library holds the book, search for the book title in the Library Catalogue.
• Materials that were written or produced by them during the time period of your topic or later, will, in most cases, be primary sources.
• Perform a subject keyword search for your topic, along with specific subheadings that identify materials as primary sources
• American Memory Historical Collections from the National Digital Library. A digital library of reproductions of Library of Congress archival material with the purpose of supporting the study of the history and culture of the United States.

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