SISSE 343/POLS 343 - Spring 2013: Burma

Judith Henchy

judithh@uw.edu

Emily Keller

emkeller@u.washington.edu

Tips for Searching the UW Catalog for Books on Burma

• Try these subject headings...
• Burma -- Economic Conditions
• Burma -- Social Conditions
• Human Rights -- Burma
• Burma -- Politics and Government
• United States -- Foreign relations -- Burma
• Economic sanctions, American -- Burma
• Use the Advanced Search to limit your search to words in the title or subject, to items at a specific UW library, or by other criteria.
• Try Author:  United States. Dept. of State for State Deparment documents.  Limit to Journals or add Burma as Keyword or Subject Heading.
• Getting too few results? Try searching UW WorldCat for items available through the Summit consortium.

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UW Worldcat is especially useful when you want to search as broadly as possible for a topic or when you are seeking a relatively rare item that isn't likely to be available at the UW. It also facilitates borrowing books from other libraries.

Tips for searching UW WorldCat for Books on Burma:

• To get started, try keyword searches using the geographic terms "Burma" or "Myanmar" in combination with any of the following:
• political participation
• ethnic minorities
• freedom of speech
• political violence
• National League for Democracy
• nationalism
• military rule
• foreign relations China
• Tatmadaw
• Use the Topic limit (one of the links along the left of your search results) to narrow the scope of your search to for ex. language.
• Getting too many results? Don't want to wait for interlibrary loan? Try searching the UW-only Catalog for items *only* in our system.
• See more info on UW WorldCat >>