Use the Tripod catalog for your home institution This link opens in a new window This link opens in a new window to look for all books (print and digital) owned by your college as well as the print titles at the other two schools.
The following searches are a sampling of possibilities. To find materials on a topic, try doing a keyword search in the Tripod Catalog to find relevant materials and then use the subject headings assigned to those titles to find more books. Note that all these searches are in the Books+Media channel. In example #2 below, using keywords [Any Field] (rather than subjects) will pick up results from chapter titles.
syria* AND (civil war 2011) [Subject Search] Limited to publications from 2011 to 2022]
** Try opening a search above and replace one of the topics with your research interest.
An important place to look for many materials not owned by the Tricollege Libraries. This combined library catalog contains more than 500 million title records owned by libraries around the world. Many of these items are available to you though interlibrary loan. Use the button to place requests. Also note that you can find reports from research centers and think tanks in WorldCat with URLs for free access. Choose the Internet tab in results and check the material listed near the end (which represent fewer reporting libraries).