World War :
WWI - WWII - Cold War

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• Westmount Collegiate Institute Library Catalogue (search our catalog)
  
  • Dewey Decimal Classification (where to browse)

  350s  - Military Sciences
  909  - 20th Century History
  940.3-940.4 - World War 1914-1918
  940.53-940.54 - World War 1939-1945
  

• VPL Library Catalogues (restrict searches to our Bathurst/Clark or Dufferin/Clark branches)

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• EBSCO eBooks ca. 168,000+ fulltext books online - Login same as for EBSCO databases) - EBSCO access extended to Apr30/2018 only
  • if searched within EBSCO Databases limit by Source Types (left column of search results) to eBooks only
  • eg/
  • Some suggested eBooks on Canada : World War I
  • Some suggested eBooks on Canada : World War II
  • Some suggested eBooks on the Cold War
  • canada (subject) AND "world war" (subject)
  • ontario (no field selected) AND "world war" (subject)
  • "world war ii" OR "world war 2" OR wwii (title) AND technolog* OR engineer* (subject)
  • invent* OR technolog* (subject) AND world war (subject)
  • women (subject) AND 1920s OR "world war" (no field selected)
  • technology OR engineering (subject) AND 1920s OR nineteen twenties OR wwi OR "great war" (no field selected)
  • minority OR minorities (subject) AND 1920s OR "world war 1" OR great war" (no field selected)
  
  
• GALE eBooks
• American Home Front in World War II
• Encyclopedia of Media and Propaganda in Wartime America
• Learning about the Holocaust
• World War I Reference Library
• World War II Reference Library


• ABC-CLIO (ABC-CLIO login required)
• The Encyclopedia of World War I: A Political, Social, and Military History
• Britannica Online

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• Curio.ca : CBC Documentaries(Browse by program title or search by keywords eg./ rum running canada) offline access available upon personal registration using your school email account
• NFB offline access available upon personal registration using your school email account
• Learn360 Multimedia Resources - pls. see Library for login info (or create new account)
• YouTube Videos
• Hitler : The Rise of Evil

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WCI Magazines / Newspapers / Journals Archives & Indexes(incl. all periodical sources and instructions)

• GALE Infotrac Databases
• EBSCO Databases EBSCO access extended to Apr30/2018 only (includes:)
• Canadian Points of View - great for writing editorials (specifically Canadian)
• Points of View Reference Center - great for writing editorials (larger range of topics)
• Academic Collection eBooks (ca. 165,000+ fulltext books online)
• Advanced Placement (cross-curricular academic resources)

Sample Subject keywords to use:
eg/

• holocaust (subject) AND roma OR gyps* (subject)
• holocaust (subject) AND gay OR lesbian* OR homosexual* (subject)
• bomb* (subject) AND world war (subject) AND german cities (all text)
• women (subject) AND 1920s OR "world war 1" OR wwi (keyword) AND records OR statistics (all text)
• technology OR engineering (subject) AND 1920s OR "world war 1" OR ww1 (keyword)
• minority OR minorities (subject) AND 1920s OR wwi OR "great war" (keyword)




Source Types may be viewed by: All Results, eBooks, Magazines, Academic Journals, etc.

 

How to Find Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles

How to Find News Articles

Newspapers & Other News Sites

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VPL eBooks, Databases and Other Resources

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Search Google Now
alternately use Advanced Search OR Google Scholar
eg/

Advanced Search:
role of women in the world wars see also Google's relate searches at the bottom of the first page of search results
propaganda symbols used in world wars I and II
impact of the constant bombings on Britain
bombing of German cities (Dresden)
Canadian POWs in Hong Kong
Jewish refugees before and during WWII
Japanese control of Korea ("Comfort Women")
anti-semitism in Canada both before and during WW2
italian invasion of ethiopia
canada identity "world war"
home front during world war I
bombing of Tokyo during WW2
canada war homefront OR home-front
Roma OR Gypsy victims of the Holocaust
Gay and lesbian victims of the Holocaust
statistics world war 1 OR i OR one
casualties by country "world war i" statistics OR records
women in military service in wwi
statistics scholarly "world war 1914-1918"
statistics "world war 1914-1918" NOT .com (Google deleted the period (.) in front of the com -- add this back in to not retrieve .com sites)
military weapons technology or innovation world war 1914-1918 site:edu
women records statistics AND 1910s OR ww1 OR wwi
technology engineering during 1920s OR 1910s OR wwi
minorities during the 1920s OR ww1 OR wwi

Google Scholar:
wwii women role OR work OR employment -[citation]
women military world war 2 -[citation]
propaganda symbols used in world wars I and II -[citation]
canada war homefront OR home front -[citation]
women records statistics AND 1920s OR twenties OR "world war 1" OR wwi -[citation]
technology engineering 1920s OR "roaring twenties" OR wwi OR "great war" -[citation]
minority minorities 1920s OR ww1 OR "great war" -[citation]

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Holocaust
Women in World War

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