More Ways to Find Books on Your Topic

Tip #1 -- Click on a subject heading

You can find more books on your topic by using the subject headings in a book record:

  • Search for your topic using keywords (for example: e-commerce).
  • Choose a book from the hit list that matches your topic. To see the Full Record for the book, click the Title link and then at the top of the item record, click View Full Record.
  • Scroll down the full record to the links beside Subject Heading(s).
  • Click on the subject heading that matches your topic.
For Example:
  1. You search for books on e-commerce.
  2. The keyword e-commerce finds several titles.
  3. When you examine the full record for one of the titles, you find the subject heading "Electronic commerce"
  4. When you click on the subject heading "Electronic commerce", the catalogue leads you to other titles on the topic.

 

Tip #2 -- Examine books on the topic.

If you can't find books that give you the exact answer to your research question:

  • Search for a book on the broad topic (like fetal alcohol syndrome).
  • Find the book on the shelf.
  • Scan the Table of Contents (at the front of the book) or the Index (at the back of the book) to find out if the book includes the topic information that you need.

For the Question:

How does fetal alcohol syndrome affect behaviour?

  1. Find a book on the topic, "fetal alcohol syndrome".
  2. Look in the index to find words like affects or behaviour

 

Tip #3 -- Choose a subject search to find books about an author or books about an author's work.

  • When you want a list of titles about an author's life or about his works, select a Subject search.
  • When you want a list of titles written by an author, select an Author search.
  • For an Author search or a Subject search, type the author's last name and then first name: Munro, Alice