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HIST 333: Modern Chinese History (Fall 2025)
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HIST 333: Modern Chinese History (Fall 2025)
Guide to HIST 333
Introduction
Session Goals 10/17/25
Library Services & Resources (Reminder)
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Libraries Undergraduate Library Research Awards
What did I do wrong?
Subject Databases (Curated List)
Why so many databases?
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Secondary Sources
Finding Books and Chapters
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Worldcat: Accessing books we don't own
Tips!
Finding Articles
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Ordering Articles we don't own (at no charge!)
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Finding Reference Sources (Index, Encyclopedia, Directories)
Primary Sources Databases
Not Sure where to start? Primary Sources in the Catalog
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Examples
Annotated Bibliographies
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Analyzing, Summarizing, and Critiquing an Article
Analyzing, Summarizing, and Critiquing a Book
Citation
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Zotero
Stuck or need help? No problem!
Wrap Up
Compare the results of these databases
Subject Databases
"Cultural Revolution" AND "higher education" in Bibliography of Asian Studies
"Cultural Revolution" AND "higher education" in : Historical Abstracts
"Cultural Revolution" AND "higher education" in Humanities International Complete
Compared to other Databases
"Cultural Revolution" AND "higher education" in PRIMO
"Cultural Revolution" AND "higher education"
women AND education AND china in GoogleScholar
Questions
How do the results of each differ?
What is the strength/weakness of each?
How do the results reflect the disciplinary focus of the database?
NOTE TO SELF
Tell the class about the crazy donors.
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