MIRLYN SEARCHING FOR INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS

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                       DATABASE SELECTION MENU

 You may search the databases listed below and on the next screens. 
 Type FOR or press  to move forward to the next screen.  To select 
 a database, enter its abbreviated name and press .  To leave  
 MIRLYN, type STOP .

    MCAT         UMich Online Catalog
    FLNT         UMich-Flint Catalog

    REMOTE       Online Catalogs from libraries outside of UMich

    INDEXES      Indexes and databases such as WILS, PSYC, etc.

• Author and title searching are used when information about a specific title is known
• Subject searching is the most accurate way of determining titles of relevant materials
• Keyword searching is used when
  • Only part of the author and title are known
  • The subject headings don't precisely identify the topic
  • For keyword protocols, see explanation below
• Call number searching is used to
  • Determine bibiliographic, circulation, and holdings information for a known item
  • Browse titles of books on a similar topic

TO SEARCH BY:       TYPE THE COMMAND:          EXAMPLES:
 Author              a=                         a=king stephen
 Title               t=                         t=catcher in the rye
 Subject             s=                         s=animation
 Keyword             k=                         k=mutation and radiation
 Call Number         c=                         c=pn 2287 m 39

• The LC Subject Headings Thesaurus is a set of four large red books located at the Graduate Library Information Center and the MIRLYN workstations in the Documents Center.
• The LC Subject Lists
  • Bold face indicates a USED heading
  • -- indicates a subject or geographic subdivision
  • NT indicates a narrower term
  • BT indicates a broader term
  • RT indicates a related term
  • USE indicates heading to be used instead of the one being consulted
  • UF indicates headings not being used instead of the one being consulted

                    Disarmament
                      UF  Military power           
                      BT  International relations
                      RT  Arms control
                      NT  Nuclear disarmament
                      --  Economic aspects (May Subd Geog)
                    Disarmament, Nuclear
                      USE Nuclear disarmament

• Sample subject headings:
  • General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade Organization
  • International courts
  • International economic relations
  • International police
  • United Nations--Armed Forces
  • United Nations Conference on Environment and Development
• Subject headings for countries may either begin or end with the country name:
  • Bosnia and Hercegovina--History--1992-
  • Canada--Foreign Relations--Soviet Union
  • Japan--Economic Conditions
  • Education--Brazil

Search Request: S=UNITED NATIONS--ARMED FORCES            UMich Online Catalog
 Search Results: 162 Entries Found                         Subject Guide
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 LINE:  BEGINNING ENTRY:                                   INDEX RANGE:
  1     UNITED NATIONS--ARMED FORCES                        1 -   12
  2     UNITED NATIONS--ARMED FORCES                       13 -   24
  3     UNITED NATIONS--ARMED FORCES                       25 -   36
  4     UNITED NATIONS--ARMED FORCES                       37 -   48
  5     UNITED NATIONS--ARMED FORCES                       49 -   60
  6     UNITED NATIONS--ARMED FORCES                       61 -   72
  7     UNITED NATIONS--ARMED FORCES                       73 -   84
  8     UNITED NATIONS--ARMED FORCES                       85 -   96
  9     UNITED NATIONS--ARMED FORCES                       97 -  108
 12     UNITED NATIONS--ARMED FORCES--LEBANON              133 -  144
 13     UNITED NATIONS--ARMED FORCES--MIDDLE EAST          145 -  156
 14     UNITED NATIONS--ARMED FORCES--ZAIRE                157 -  162

• Public Affairs Information Service
  • Indexes books, articles, U.S. and UN documents on politics and economics
• Wilson Indexes
  • Indexes periodical articles in the sciences, social sciences and humanities
• National Newspaper Index
  • Indexes the last three years of the New York Times, Washington Post, Christian Science Monitor, Wall Street Journal, and Los Angeles Times

                           DATABASE SELECTION MENU

 You may search the databases listed below and on the next screens.
 Type FOR or press  to move forward to the next screen.  To  
 select a database, enter its abbreviated name and press .
 To leave MIRLYN, type STOP .

   *WILS         Wilson Indexes to Journal Articles
   *PSYC         PsycINFO (American Psychological Assoc.)
   *NNID         National Newspaper Index
   *ENGN         Compendex*Plus (Engineering Information,Inc.)
   *PHYS         INSPEC: Physics
   *PAIS         Public Affairs Information Service
   *MATH         MathSci Database (AMS)
   *AMOF         A Matter of Fact
    AFRI         Africana (NWU)
   *MLAB         Modern Language Association Bibliography

• Keyword searches permit users to identify material without a specific subject heading or material with only partial information.
• Once a title is identified, the subject headings at the bottom of the screen should be checked for relevancy in additional searches
• Keyword searching uses Boolean logic:
  • This word AND that word
  • This word OR that word
  • This word NOT that world
• Search protocols
  • Phrases: war adj crimes
  • Truncation: crime?
  • Field after word
    • k=kissinger.au. for author
    • k=war adj crimes.ti. for title
    • k=foreign adj relations.su. for subject
    • k=1993.dt1. for date

Search Request: K=WAR ADJ CRIME? AND (BOSNIA OR YUGOSLAVIA)
 (c) Public Affairs Info 3 of 19 Entries Found            Brief View
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 TITLE:          Making rules for war.

 JOURNAL TITLE:  Economist (London): 334:21-3 Mr 11 1995

 SUBJECT HEADINGS:
                 War (international law)
                 Crimes against humanity
                 Genocide
                 United Nations
                 Courts, International
                 Yugoslavia--Government and politics
                 Rwanda--Government and politics
                 War criminals
                 Massacres
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 Held by library--type HOL for holdings information.

The Economist.
 LOCATION:       GRADUATE LIBRARY
 CALL NUMBER:    HG 11 .E19

 CURRENT ISSUES: v.336 no.7921-7926 1995 Jul 1-Aug 5
                 v.335 no.7908-7920 1995 Apr 1-Jun 24+ index
                 v.334 no.7896-7907 1995 Jan 7-Mar 25
                 v.333 no.7883-7895 1994/1995 Oct 1-Jan 6
                 v.332 no.7870-7882 1994 Jul 2-Sep 24
                 v.331 no.7857-7869 1994 Apr-Jun 25+index
                 v.330 no.7844,7846-7856 1994 Jan-Mar 25
                 See separate record for microfilm holdings
 NOTES:          CURRENT ISSUES IN SERIALS SERVICES
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• Books: consult MCAT in MIRLYN
• United States and United Nations Documents: consult Documents Center

Grace York, Coordinator, Documents Center
The University of Michigan Library
Send comments and suggestions to graceyor@umich.edu

http://www.lib.umich.edu/govdocs/intmir.html
Last updated on August 10, 1995

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