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Subject Coverage

Use these features to see if this book covers your topic. Keep in mind that not all the books have all these features:

• Search Inside - Enter keywords or phrases you wish to find.
  
• Contents - This section features the table of contents, often linked to the content.
  
• Common terms and phrases - Hyperlinks words to quickly locate all relevant passages. Keywords can lead you to more sources and help you refine the search for your topic.
  
• References to this book - Results from Google Scholar that mention the book you are looking at. What are scholars saying about this book?
• Related Books - Books closely related to the one you are looking at. Guess what? This feature is like using the Subject headings in your library catalog!
• Popular Passages - You've probably never used a feature like Popular Passages! Google has mined data from readers of Google Books who have highlighted favorite sentences and presented the most popular sections.
  

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IRIS 4-2 is an Information Literacy project developed with a grant from the Distance Learning Council of Washington, 2007-2008. Some content, images and activites were inspired by, and/or copied/adapted from TILT: The Texas Information Literacy Tutorial. This material may be distributed only subject to the terms and conditions set forth in the TILT Open Publication License (the latest version: http://library.utb.edu/tilt/yourtilt/docs/).