Find Materials by Subject or Topic

In UMD Discovery, you can start your search using keywords or subject terms. Here are some examples:

  • “capital punishment” debate
  • “environmental justice”
  • “Maryland basketball”
  • police racial traffic
  • (police OR policing) AND (race OR racial) AND traffic

Screenshot of the topic filters in UMD Discover

 

When searching in UMD Discover, you further refine your search by limiting to specific subject terms by using the subject term filters on the left-hand side of the screen.

 

 

When viewing details about a book or other resource, you Screenshot illustrating a list of subject terms in a UMD Discover recordcan also click on the subject terms to find more materials about that subject.

 

Arrowing pointing to location of research guide subject term dropdown menu

Arrows demonstrating location of subject librarian subject-term dropdown menu

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