TREX 1001: Becoming a Better Person

Books, textbooks, and encyclopedias can be helpful for the background research and historical context for a current topic. You can search by keywords and subject heading in the ONU catalog and the OhioLINK catalog. Keyword searching is better for broad searching and for when you are beginning your research. Subject searching is better for narrower searches.

Relevant books to this course:

• Virtues and their vices / edited by Kevin Timpe and Craig A. Boyd (ebook)
  • Help with accessing and downloading ebooks by vendor platform
• Glittering vices : a new look at the seven deadly sins and their remedies / Rebecca Konyndyk DeYoung (print book)

Search the Catalogs

The wildcard is an advanced search technique that can be used to maximize your search results in library databases.  Wildcards are used in search terms to represent one or more other characters.

The two most commonly used wildcards in our library databases are:

• An asterisk (*) may be used to specify any number of characters. It is typically used at the end of a root word, when it is referred to as "truncation."   This is great when you want to search for variable endings of a root word.
  • For example:  searching for educat* would tell the database to look for all possible endings to that root.  Results will include educate, educated, education, educational or educator.
     
• A question mark (?) may be used to represent a single character, anywhere in the word.  It is most useful when there are variable spellings for a word, and you want to search for all variants at once.  
  • For example, searching for colo?r would return both color and colour.  

Each of the library's databases (and internet search engines) use the wildcard differently.  To find out what works in your favorite database, look for the "help" link (usually along the top of the screen).