Keyword vs. Subject Searching
WORDS ANYWHERE Search
Racial democracy AND Brazil
military AND Brazil AND music
Gilberto Gil
Identity AND Music AND Brazil
motion pictures AND Brazilgender and motion pictures and Brazil
SUBJECT BEGINS WITH Search
Motion Pictures Brazil
Brazil History 1964-1985
Brazil History Revolution, 1964
Brazil Politics and government 1964-1985
Brazil Social conditions
ADVANCED SEARCH
can limit to English language
Where to find books
- Library CatalogThe library catalog for ALL of the 9 Vanderbilt Libraries. You can use it to find:
• Books
• DVDs & Videos
• Periodical Titles
• Individual articles
• Reserve materials
and more... - Google BooksSearches the full text of books that Google has scanned, converted to text using optical character recognition, and stored in its digital database. Most titles are no longer in print or commercially available.
- WorldCat (FirstSearch) This link opens in a new windowWorldCat is the OCLC Online Union Catalog, containing more than 125 million records describing items owned by U.S. libraries and libraries around the world. Each record contains library holdings and links to our interlibrary loan service.
- Digital Collections at the Center for Research Libraries This link opens in a new windowA consortium of North American libraries that acquire and preserve newspapers, journals, documents, archives, etc. CRL holdings can be borrowed for extended periods via Interlibrary Loan.
Search Tips
Instead of searching EVERYTHING use LIBRARY CATALOG to focus your search to books, journal titles, and videos.
Use ARTICLES to search a selection of articles.
Use an asterisk * to search all possible endings of a word.
example: ecolog*
(searches for all variants of the word ecology e.g., ecological, ecologies, etc.)
Use quotes to search for a phrase
Sample Electronic Books
The Berimbau: Soul of Brazilian music by ISBN: 1282503006Publication Date: 2010
The Cerrados of Brazil: Ecology and natural history of a neotropical savannaral of by ISBN: 0231529392Publication Date: 2002
