General Tips on Searching in CLIO
- Reference works or statistical publications -- in print or electronic
- Combine name of country or language or ethnic group as “Subject” -AND- another term as a “Subject”….such as:
bibliography | handbooks | statistics | atlas -or- maps
biography | congresses (for conferences) | dictionaries | grammar
- Historical sources—published
- Combine name of country --or-- name of region ("East Africa" ; "West Africa'" ; "Southern Africa" ; etc., ) with “Subject” keywords like:
“economic development” | “economic conditions” | “women in development“
“poverty“ | “slavery“ | “colonialism“ | “refugees“ | “land“ | “drought“ | “famine“
“history“ | “agriculture“ | “labor or labour“ | “ rural -or- urban“ | “migration“
“trade“ | “ecology -or- environment“ | “description and travel“
- Colonial government publications
Search [name of the colonial territory], Great Britain Colonial Office, France, etc. as “Author” or “All Fields”
Primary Sources?
- Autobiographies and memoirs
- Historical newspapers
- Unpublished government records & published government reports
- Ethnographic surveys & case studies
- Travellers’ accounts & descriptions
- International organization & national NGO reports based on field investigations
- RECOMMENDATION: Routinely search & read articles in the back issues of journals, especially: