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Veterans: Selected Resources

How to Find Books in the Library

How to Find Books in the Library

Books, reports from government agencies, masters theses and videos can serve as a solid foundation for a research paper, providing depth and coverage of a topic.  Books are a good choice for locating definitions, overviews, explanations of theories, and historical treatments of a topic.

OneSearch -Looking under a broad subject

Subject Searching within OneSearch

Change the pull down menu to the left of the search box from "Any" to "Subject".  Use the following Subject Headings to browse OneSearch to find books, government reports, masters theses and videos that are owned by the Sac State Library. 

Veterans
Disabled veterans 
Homeless veterans 
Older veterans 
Retired military personnel
Soldiers legal status
Soldiers civil status 
Gays in the military
Soldiers' homes 
Women veterans
African American veterans
Hispanic American veterans  
Indian veterans 
United States. Armed Forces--Minorities 
United States. Armed Forces--Reserves
Vietnam War
Persian Gulf War
Iraq War
Afghan War
War on Terrorism

You can check out most of the items you find by presenting your OneCard at the Library's main floor User Services Desk. 

If you wish to search more specific or more complicated topics, use the Advanced Keyword search option described in the box below.

OneSearch - Advanced Keyword Searching

Advanced Keyword Search

Use the Advanced Keyword Search to investigate more complicated topics or to correlate two or more topics.

For example:
Veterans
AND
Disab*
AND
“Alcohol Abuse” OR "Substance Abuse"

The truncation symbol, *, searches for variations of a root word.. Disab* will search for Disabled, Disability, Disabilities.

The use of quote marks surrounding a phrase (e.g. "Alcohol Abuse") searches for these word together.

The use of OR in a search box searches for ANY of those words. In OneSearch the word "or" must be capitalized as "OR".

The use of AND requires that the search find at least one word from each of the search boxes.

Masters Theses and PhD Dissertations

Follow these guidelines to find masters theses and PhD dissertations.

Search beyond the Sac State Library

Search results can be made more focused by using the limit options on the left.

Once results are displayed click the title, then click view access options, then Find it at Sac State Access.

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Last Updated: Apr 15, 2025 12:26 PM