Monsanto and the production of Agent Orange during the Vietnam War
		South Vietnamese Buddhist crisis (1962)						
		Orderly Departure Program (ODP)		
		Transition from French to US influence in the 1950s
		Colonized peoples and the Versailles Conference of 1919 (ie. Ho Chi Minh, Syngman Rhee, etc...)

		Monsanto, Agent Orange Vietnam War
		South Vietnamese AND Buddhist crisis AND 1962
		France AND United States AND Vietnam
		Versailles Conference of 1919

Primary sources of information present data that has not been analyzed or interpreted in any way; these are original research, eyewitness accounts, and creative works from the time period, usually presented in their original form and serve to help interpret an event. Examples: newspaper articles, speeches, photographs, interviews, internet communications or other forms of correspondence, sets of data, patents, conference proceedings, autobiographies, government records and congressional hearings.

What is a secondary source?

From the Library's home page, select RESEARCH then ARTICLE INDEXES & DATABASES to access the following select databases.
To access these databases from off campus, you must go through the proxy server.

• America: History and Life
• Historical Abstracts

• Film Literature Index
• Literature Online Master Index
• MLA International Bibliography

• Alternative Press Index
• Expanded Academic
• Gender Watch
• JSTOR
• Left Index
• Project Muse

• Social Science Databases via CSA
• Sociological Abstracts

• Newspapers
  • Ethnic Newswatch (date: varies)
  • Lexis Nexis (News section) (date: varies)
  • Los Angeles Times (historical: 1881-1976)
  • New York Times (historical: 1857-1999)
  • Newsbank (date: varies)

• Government Documents, Archives, and Special Collections
  • Archive of Americana
  • Congressional Universe
  • Declassified Documents Reference System - US (DDRS)
  • Online Archive of California: (a union database of finding guides from archival collections in 40 institutions throughout California including UC campuses)

• Statistical Information (e.g.Census data)
  • Statistical Universe

• Use the " " to search a specific phrase as it appears on the document, (e.g. "Agent Orange", "Ho Chi Minh","Treaty of Saigon".)
• Use OR to combine terms when either one will do: 1979 Geneva Conference OR Orderly Departure Program
• Use AND to force the results to have both terms: France AND Vietnam AND United States
• Most databases let you truncate by using a symbol to get other letters: Viet* gets you Vietnam , Vietnamese...
  • The truncation symbol can be a *, ?, ! or other symbols depending on the database
  • Be careful that you don't truncate too soon: ta* would also get you tagalog, tabernacle and all other words starting with "ta"

To find articles, use an article index database (e.g. American: History and Life, Historical Abstracts) to search the terms related to your topic. In order to get the article you will need to write down some information about the article that you will use to find it in the catalog.

To find books, use the Keyword search type for searching topics with keywords.

Use Pegasus, to find the periodicals that you need. The Pegasus record will indicate in what formats these titles are available i.e. microfilm, print copy or electronic text. You will need to get the Call Number and location in order to find the particular periodical in the library.

• Search Type: "Journal Title Begins with ..." New York Times          Microfilm area: AN 34.N 6
• Search Type: "Journal Title Begins with..." Los Angeles Times       Microfilm area: AN 5. L7

Reference Materials
Dictionary of the Vietnam War							   Reference DS557.7 .D53 1988
Europa World Year Book 2006 							   Reference Desk JN3 .E8
Encyclopedia of the Vietnam War						   	   Reference DS557.7 .E529 1996
Encyclopedia of the Vietnam War :   a political, social, and military history      Reference DS557.7 .E53 
Historical atlas of South-East Asia				      		   Map & Imagery Lab, Public Area G2361.S1 H5 1995
Historical Dictionary of Vietnam (2006)				   		   Reference DS556.25 .D85 2006 
Vietnam								   	   	   Reference DS556.3 .M37 1992
Vietnam War Almanac							   	   Main Library DS557.7 .S94 1985
The Vietnam War:  handbook of the literature and research                          Main Library DS558 .V58 1993
Writing about Vietnam:  a bibliography of the literature of the Vietnam Conflict   Reference Z3226 .W58 1989