HY 429 Studies in Latin American History: Latin American Revolutions: Monographs

Physical and Electronic Books

You can search the entire library catalog for physical and electronic books all at once through OneSearch.

OneSearch can be accessed at the Marx Library homepage.

Before you submit your search, please look at the checkboxes below the search bar.

• Full Text means that every search return will have the full item available to access.
• Peer Reviewed means that every search return item will have gone through the peer review process. This sometimes happens for books/monographs, but it is uncommon. A monograph can be high quality without being peer-reviewed before publication.

Once you submit a search, you can see the search results page.

I have not told the search engine to limit my results to only show books yet. (Monographs would count as books.) I can limit my source type by selecting Books and/or eBooks.

I searched with only one term: Latin America. That term is extremely broad. I had 12,833 results from my search. This will be very hard to scroll through.

I can do an advanced search with two (or three or more) terms being searched at once.

There are Open Educational Resource books that can be accessed online for free. You will need to carefully evaluate the quality of the monographs you find before using them.

Monographs are scholarly works. You can evaluate the quality of a scholarly work to check that is appropriate for your research. Every monograph should have: an expert author, a scholarly publisher, and proof that the book is built on research. Monographs may or may not have book reviews, but they can be helpful to understand a monograph's contents and quality.

• Authorship - Monograph authors should have expertise and authority in the subject. This can be shown by:
  • A doctoral degree in the discipline. Most authors you can search online to see their educational background.
  • An association with an educational institution like a University or a research organization.
• Publisher - The publisher should be academic. This can be an academic press or society.
• Proof of research - Monographs are scholarly works. They should always have a list of resources the author consulted in writing their monograph. These can we called "works cited" or "bibliography". These works might be listed at the end of each chapter or at the end of the entire book.
• Reviews - A scholarly book will likely have book reviews. These book reviews would be written by other scholars and published in academic journals. You can find book reviews by searching databases like Academic Search Complete with the book's title.

To find a physical book, you will need the book's Library of Congress call number. The call number tells you where the book is positioned in the library.

When you search OneSearch, and find an interesting book, you can look at the attached record to see if the book is available and what the Call number is.

The call number starts with F. Our bookshelves are labeled with what letter and range of numbers are contained on that row of shelves.

When you find one book that fits your research interests, you can also browse for other physical books in that same area. They will have the same or similar topics!

Latin American History ranges from F1201 to F3799. In the Marx Library, that section is currently located on the third floor, near the elevators.