Below are links to search results. In each case I did at least one thing wrong, which is why they yield zany results.
- I want books about the the history of women in Sierra Leone. Why does the catalog give me so many results?
- I want historic books (primary sources) about Burkina Faso published between 1800-1900. In HathiTrust I conduct a Title search & limit results to publications 1800-1899. Why are there so few?
- I searched "West Africa" AND "Nation building" as a subject search in the library catalog and found some interesting books. The same search brings up a bunch of articles in Historical Abstracts, the results aren't very good. Why?
- HINT: Consider the types of questions asked by books VS articles
- I want secondary sources about the history of Islam in West Africa. How can I make this search better?
- I really want to read Writing the History of Islamic Law in West Africa: Sahelian Scholars in Aḥmad Bābā al-Tinbuktī's Biographical Works but WM Libraries doesn't have this journal. What do I do?
- I found this really interesting journal article on Pan-Africanism published by Oxford. Should I cite it as a research article in the final project?
