Searching for Sources
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Search grants you access to all library resources, in a variety of formats, from a variety of databases. Searching here is ideal for general, beginning searches, as it allows for a wider pool of results.
SearchSpecialized Databases
When searching for sources, consider the following subject-specific databases:
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Gender Studies Database This link opens in a new windowGender Studies Database covers a wide spectrum of gender-engaged scholarship inside and outside academia. Several thousand links to freely available and indexed full-text articles and documents on the Web are available. Source documents include professional journals, conference papers, books, book chapters, government reports, and more.
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PsycInfo 1887-present This link opens in a new windowPsycInfo contains more than 4 million bibliographic records for journals, book chapters, dissertations, and technical reports. Coverage spans from the 17th century to the present, with publications from more than 50 countries.
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SAGE Journals Online This link opens in a new windowSAGE Journals contains over 1,000 journals in a broad array of subject areas, providing excellent interdisciplinary coverage.
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ScienceDirect College Edition Social & Behavioral Sciences Journal Collection This link opens in a new windowIncludes 350 Elsevier journals in the fields of Social & Behavioral Sciences
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SocINDEX with Full Text This link opens in a new windowSocINDEX with full text combines SocINDEX's comprehensive abstracting of over 2,000 sociology journals, covering subjects such as abortion, anthropology, criminal justice, demography, ethnic & racial studies, gender studies, politics, social psychology, social work, and more, with full text coverage in over 600 core journals.
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Taylor and Francis Journals This link opens in a new windowTaylor & Francis is a provider of specialist information to the global academic & scientific, professional and commercial communities via publishing, events and performance improvement.
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Women Working, 1800 - 1930 This link opens in a new windowWomen Working, 1800-1930, focuses on the impact of women on the U.S. economy, documenting issues including working conditions and workplace regulations, health and hygiene, recreation, cost of living, home life, and more. Women Working contains digitized books, trade catalogs, archival and manuscript items, and 1,400 photographs.