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Albert S. Cook Library

Metropolitan Studies

Research & Instruction Librarian

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Elizabeth De Coster
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edecoster@towson.edu
410-704-6075

Research in Metropolitan Studies

Metropolitan Studies research requires different types of information depending on your assignment or your interests. 

You may want to:

Best Bets

Do you want to...

...find a scholarly article in Metropolitan Studies? Try searching Academic Search Complete.

...locate a specific article from a citation? Try searching the library's Journal List.

...format or cite something for a writing assignment? Use the resources on the Writing and Citing page.

... get help? Contact the Metropolitan Studies Librarian or the library's Research Help Desk.

Find a book about your city

You may want to find a book about your city. You can do this by searching tools like Cook OneSearch, or the TU Library Catalog.

You will get the best results if you can find books with your city listed as a subject tag, along with keywords for other general topics or information you are looking for. For example, you could search for:

[Baltimore] (with matches in the Subject field)

AND

["community development"]

This would find books about Baltimore which also mention community development. You might also need to limit the results to just book resources, and exclude other results like articles. Here's what your search boxes might look like: 

Image of search terms Baltimore and "community development" in Cook OneSearch boxes.