Searching with keywords
natural history, botanical illustration, plant identification
Try adding the search term “illustrations” in an advanced search: change “Any field” to “Description,” as shown in the image.
Finding print books
To assist you in your analysis of a work of art, don't forget to include books in your search. Why?
- A university's collection is hand-picked by subject experts (librarians and faculty) to provide you with the best information.
- Whether a book is scholarly or not is easily determined from the book's details, where articles and web pages can be more difficult.
- There are fewer books than articles or webpages, so you have less to look through to find something useful.
- You don't have to read the entire book! Looking in the index or table of contents will show you what part of the book is useful.
- Scholarly books have great bibliographies to lead to you related and relevant materials.
- Much of our collection is in e-book format so accessible from anywhere you can log in.
To search for books go to the CSUSM University Library homepage, click on Books & More.
In the search box, you can search for a specific title, an artist or author, or a general topic and then click on the Search button.
You will be taken to a results page where you can use limiters on the left to filter the results further.
