CNX 247: Cross-Examining the Witness

On the Library web site, library.fandm.edu, search DISCOVER for books/ebooks @ F&M

• Click on the BOOKS tab.
• Type in your topic, and add the word university -- doing so will likely retrieve books/ebooks published by scholarly publishers
  • Example: "challenger disaster" AND university
• Search!
• Before looking at your results, scroll down the list of options to filter -- under the option Limit To select: Non Fiction

When you find a book in which you are interested:

• Click on the title of the book to open the full catalog record for it.
• The publisher information appears under the author information.
  • If the word "university" appears, e.g. Columbia University Press, it is a scholarly book.
    • You will still need to confirm the author is a historian!
    • Also know that historians sometimes publish with non-scholarly publishers -- such books are still good to use!

To discover print books available beyond F&M:

• Go back to the results page:
• Change the Library Location to: Libraries Worldwide
• Select the Source type: Print book--because we can borrow print books (but not ebooks) from other libraries.
• You can request the library borrow a copy of a book from another library via EZ-Borrow or Interlibrary Loan!
• You can also request the library obtain a pdf of book chapters via Interlibrary Loan!

Use EZBorrow (EZB)/Interlibrary Loan (ILL) to request articles, book chapters, books, and other materials not available at F&M.

If you find a print book in DISCOVER to which we do not have immediate access, click on the button in DISCOVER to request the book from another library.