How can you tell the difference between and scholarly and popular periodicals? The table shown below lists some differences between scholarly and popular sources.
Scholarly
Popular
Geared to scholars, researchers, professionals
Geared to the general public
Long articles; in-depth coverage of research/study
Short articles summarizing research/issues
Articles include many bibliographical references
Few, if any, bibliographical references
Few ads; few photos unless related to research
Many ads and photos
Often issued quarterly
Usually issued weekly or monthly or daily (newspapers)
University
Library subscribes to hundreds of article indexing databases which are
available to you on campus or from home once you have logged in with
your user ID and password. These databases are important because they
allow to search for articles by keyword, topic, title, author, etc.
Remember, a library catalog such as IUCAT will allow you to search for
journal titles, but will not allow you to search for specific articles
within the journal.
Search Tips
To find out which
databases are most likely to have the kinds of articles that will be
helpful to you, check the "Database Descriptions", "Title List", or
other "information" or "about" options available in a particular
database. See the section below on Suggested Databases for Women's Studies specific databases.
Before
you start entering any search terms, spend a few minutes trying to
think of as many relevant terms and combinations of terms as you can.
This will help you to avoid getting stuck in a rut with the first terms
that come to mind.
If you need help in coming up with terms, you may want to try the databases' "Thesaurus" or "Subject Headings" features.
Check
out the "Help" or "Search Tips" to learn some of the search features
specific to that database. Most databases provide similar features, but
the methods may vary.
Try the databases' Advanced Search feature,
which usually gives you the ability to search multiple fields (author,
title, keyword, subject, etc) with one search and may offer additional
ways to expand or limit your search.
If your first search strategy does not work, try another approach. Remember, too, that you can ask for Reference Help.
Looking for a way to find out which electronic full-text journals IUPUI has access to? Then try here...
Women's Studies Journals Online Alphabetical
listing of all electronic full-text journals to which IUPUI University
Library has access. Use when you would like to search or browse a
specific journal that is not necessarily in the field of Women's
Studies or when you already have a specific citation and want to see if
the article is available online.
or, if you want to see a listing of all of the Women's Studies journals IUPUI subscribes to, try here:
School of Liberal Arts Library Journals Database (Available inside Cavanaugh Hall and University Library only) "The
Liberal Arts Journals database contains journal titles to which the
University Library subscribes from the resources account for Liberal
Arts." (from website) To see which Women's Studies journals IUPUI
subscribes to, go to the Search by a specific Liberal Arts Department: menu and select Women's Studies, and then select Individual Report. This will yield a listing of all Women's Studies journals. The listing is updated at the beginning of the fiscal year.
Full-Text, Abstract, and Citation Databases (Journals, Magazines, Book Reviews, and some Newspapers)
Academic Search Premier(access via Academic Search Elite link or EBSCOhost Web link) "Academic
Search Elite offers full text for more than 2,000 serials, including
more than 1,500 peer-reviewed titles. This multi-disciplinary database
covers virtually every area of academic study. More than 100 journals
have PDF images back to 1985. This database is updated on a daily basis
via EBSCOhost." (from website)
Arts and Humanities Citation Index (1987-) Available
through ISI's Web of Knowledge's Web of Science. This database features
humanities citations from 1987 to the present. Features general,
advanced, and cited reference searches.
Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) Gender Studies Links to Open Access (or freely available) full-text, peer or editorial reviewed, gender studies related journals.
Expanded Academic ASAP Includes
citations and lots of full-text. Very general database, but includes
articles from women's studies, and sociology journals.
GenderWatch “A full text database of unique and
diverse publications that focus on how gender impacts a broad spectrum of
subject areas. With its archival material, dating back to 1970 in some cases, GenderWatch
is a repository of important historical perspectives on the evolution of the
women's movement, men's studies, the transgendered community, and the changes
in gender roles over the years. Publications include scholarly journals,
magazines, newspapers, newsletters, regional publications, books, and NGO,
government and special reports.”—database website
Humanities Full-Text (via Wilson Web) Includes
full text of social history. Good source for examining how various
topics have been presented in literature throughout history.
Humanities Index International(access via EBSCOhost Web link) "Humanities
International Index is a comprehensive database covering journals,
books and other important reference sources in the humanities. Produced
by Whitston Publishing (an imprint of EBSCO Publishing), Humanities
International Index provides cover-to-cover indexing and abstracting
for over 2,000 titles and contains more than 2 million records." (from
website)
IngentaConnect Includes
citations and lots of full-text. Very general database. Not all content
is peer-reviewed, but you can limit your search to return only
peer-reviewed items.
J-STOR All
full-text. All scholarly. Presents the backfiles or the complete run of
important journals No controlled vocabulary or subject headings used.
May limit keyword search to abstract, title, full-text. Please view
this tutorial for guidance in searching within JSTOR.
LexisNexis For
more current full-text articles in newspapers and magazines search the
News section of LexisNexis. Most articles are from late 1980's-present.
Master File Premier(access via EBSCOhost Web link) "Designed
specifically for public libraries, this multidisciplinary database
provides full text for more than 1,700 general reference publications
with full text information dating as far back as 1975. Covering
virtually every subject area of general interest, MasterFILE Premier
also includes nearly 500 full text reference books, 84,774 biographies,
100,554 primary source documents, and an Image Collection of 202,164
photos, maps and flags. This database is updated daily via EBSCOhost."
(from website)
Periodicals Archive Online "Periodicals Archive Online
is the new name for PCI Full Text - an archive of hundreds of digitised
journals published in the arts, humanities and social sciences." (from
website)
Periodicals Index Online "Periodicals Index Online
is the new name for Periodicals Contents Index - a database of millions
of article citations published in the arts, humanities and social
sciences, across more than 300 years." (from website)
Original
research and scholarship on all aspects of violence against women,
including sexual assault and coercion, sexual harassment, female
infanticide, domestic violence and incest.
A
major international journal whose aim is to provide a forum for the
publication of new scholarly articles in the rapidly expanding field of
women's history.
Bimonthly
journal to aid the distribution and exchange of feminist research in
the multidisciplinary, international area of women's studies and in
feminist research in other disciplines. (Elsevier Science Direct)
Historical New York Times(ProQuest Newspapers) Searchable
online database which houses full-text digitized version of New York
Times from 1860's-2004. Includes advertisements and images.
Indiana Newsstand(ProQuest Newspapers) "Full-text
coverage of major Indiana newspapers including the South Bend Tribune,
and the Evansville Courier, plus selected coverage of other regional
sources and indexing for the Indianapolis News and Star." (from the
website)
Indianapolis Star(via NewsBank) Online version of the Indianapolis Star, covering from 1/1/1999 to the present.
LexisNexis For
more current full-text articles in newspapers and magazines search the
News section of LexisNexis. Most articles are from late 1980's-present.
Los Angeles Times(ProQuest Newspapers) "Major
daily newspaper from Los Angeles. With the nation's largest editorial
department, it offers extensive coverage of national, international,
and local news." (from website) Covers from 1985 to the present.
McClasky-Tribune Collection(access via EBSCOhost Web link) "The
McClatchy-Tribune Collection includes a 90-day archive of approximately
290 newspapers from the McClatchy-Tribune Information Services. This
database is updated daily." (from website)
Newspaper Source(access via EBSCOhost Web link) "Newspaper
Source provides selected full text for nearly 30 national (U.S.) and
international newspapers. The database also contains full text
television & radio news transcripts, and selected full text for
more than 200 regional (U.S.) newspapers. This database is updated
daily via EBSCOhost." (from website)
When you find a reference for an article by using a database:
In
the record for the article, if there is an icon for the PDF of the
article (PDF Full Text - or something similar), click on it and the PDF
of the article will open. You can then read, print, email, or save it.
(If you want to print, be sure to use the Adobe printer icon or you
will only get blank pages.)
If there is a
choice between PDF and HTML, use the PDF because it will look like a
photocopy of the article. If you need to quote something from the
article, you will be able to see the correct page numbers of the quote
(which you will need when citing your sources). In most cases, the HTML
version will not indicate page breaks and will sometimes not include
graphics.
If full text is not an option in the database you are searching, there should be an "SFX" linking icon shown.
Clicking on this icon will lead you to a menu of Access options. Please see this brief Flash tutorial if you have questions about this menu.
If
the article is not available electronically or in print through
University Library, or if you are a Distance Education student and the
article is only available in print, you can place an Interlibrary Loan
for the article. When the article comes in (which usually takes at
least a week), you will receive an email explaining how to access it
electronically.
When you find a reference for an article from some source other than a database:
To find out if University Library has access to an article that you have found in a bibliography or some other source, you can:
Enter the citation (reference) information into Citation Linker. This should bring you to the Access menu. Please see this brief Flash tutorial if you have questions about this method.
Or
Check the Electronic Journal List
to see if the journal and issue are available electronically. If not,
search IUCAT by Periodical Title for the journal and check to see if
University Library has access to the journal and issue you need. If you
would like to see how to check IUCAT for access to journal holdings,
please see this brief Flash tutorial.
Library
catalogs have been created to help you find out what a library has in
its collection and where these items are located. IUCAT and WorldCat
are two libraries catalogs that will be helpful to you.
IUCAT
IUCAT can be used to find out what is available in all of the Indiana University Libraries.
This
catalog is open to the public, but as an IU student, staff or faculty
member you have special privileges. For example, if you live near any
of the Indiana University Libraries, you will want to log in so that
you can use Request Delivery to request that books not available at your local IU campus library be delivered to the campus library of your choice.
OCLC's WorldCat can be used to find out what is available in many public and university libraries in this country and in some other countries.
If
you find a book, CD, DVD, or video in WorldCat that is not available
through the Indiana University libraries, you can make an Interlibrary Loan
request for the item. Keep in mind that it will usually take at least
7-10 days for the item to come in and these items must be picked up and
returned to IUPUI University Library if you are an IUPUI student, staff
or faculty member. If you are not able to pick up items at IUPUI,
please make an Interlibrary Loan request through your local public
library instead of through University Library.
If you are searching by keyword or subject heading:
Before
you start entering any search terms, spend a few minutes trying to
think of as many relevant terms and combinations as you can. This will
help you to avoid getting stuck in a rut with the first terms that come
to mind.
If you are searching by title:
Leave out the first word of the title if it is a common article such as "the" or "an"
If you are searching in WorldCat, do not include punctuation such as a ":"
Learn at least a few of the search features
The most common one is Boolean searching:
using AND between terms to narrow the results to items containing both (or all) of the search terms
using OR between terms to expand the results to include items containing any one of the search terms
Subject Searching
Searching
library catalogs by Subject Heading, rather than by Keyword, can help
to target your search. The catalog records for most of the books and
other items in IUCAT and WorldCat include Subject Headings that come
from a list defined by the Library of Congress. This can be helpful
because it narrows down the options for useful search terms, but you
need to know the approved Subject Headings in order to take advantage
of this system.
Options for finding/using applicable Library of Congress Subject Headings:
Most library Reference departments will have a copy of the "Red Books" containing the Library of Congress Subject Headings
WorldCat has a feature that allows searching for subject headings.
When
you do run across a catalog record for a book that is relevant to your
topic, both IUCAT and WorldCat allow you to click on the hyperlinked
subject headings to find more books on that topic.
This Word document shows a list of some Subject Headings relevant to Women's Studies topics.
When you want to find an item on the Library shelves:
University Library and many other academic libraries use the Library of Congress Classification System and Call Numbers, not the Dewey Decimal System that you may have seen at your local public library.
At the bottom of an IUCAT record, you will see the call number and basic location for the item as shown in this example:
Indpls - IUPUI University Library (I-UNIVLIB)
Location
P90 .G354 2006 (this is the call number)
1) Stacks
If the location for an item in the University Library collection says "Stacks" the item will be on the:
3rd floor shelves if the call number starts with the letters A-N
4th floor shelves if the call number starts with the letters P-Z
Reference materials, Current Periodicals, Microforms, and Government Documents are all in the Reference Room on the 2nd floor.
IUPUI's Philanthropic Studies Library is on the 2nd floor.
DVDs are kept behind the Circulation desk on the 2nd floor.
If
you are looking for full-text books that can be accessed and read
online, then e-books are for you. Most of our e-books can be found by
title in our catalog, IUCAT, but they can also be accessed or browsed
directly in the database through which they are provided.
E-Book databases
ACLS Humanities E-Book A
fully searchable collection of high-quality books in the Humanities,
recommended and reviewed by scholars and featuring unlimited
multi-user. The majority of the titles are older but foundational
works. Pages from the e-books are NOT designed for easy printing.
Ebrary A
multi-discipline collection of recent and older published books both
scholarly and popular in nature. Workstation must have special, free
Ebrary viewer downloaded to view the books. One can print multiple
pages at a time and multiple users can view the same title at the same
time.
Google Book Search Google
has photocopied and made available online thousands of books, both
scholarly and popular, from libraries across the county. Some books can
be viewed in full-text while others provide only snippets from the
book. Because of the controversial (due to copyright issues) nature of
the Google Book Search project you may want to make sure it is OK with
your professor before using Google Book Search as means for class
research.
Net Library A
multi-discipline collection of recent and older published books both
scholarly and popular in nature. You can print one page at a time and
only one user may view a specific title at a time.
This
is a selected list of some of the more useful Women's Studies reference
sources. Check IUCAT for more options. Keep in mind that you can search
for a topic and add the terms Handbooks, Manuals, etc.; Dictionaries;
Encyclopedias; or Bibliography to your search. If you need to find an
e-book, you can also add the keywords electronic resource. For help
with searching IUCAT, please see Books/DVDs/CDs/Videos or Reference
Help.
Note: All materials listed are found in the Reference Room and are listed in order by Library of Congress call number.
Bibliographies
American Indian Biographies REF E89 .A46 1999
Index to Women of the World from Ancient to Modern Times REF HQ1123 .I74 Suppl. 1988
An Index to Women's Studies Anthologies: Research Across the Disciplines, 1980-1984 REF HQ1180 .B76 1994
The Collaborative Bibliography of Women in Philosophy REF B105 .W6 C65 1997
A to Z of American Women Business Leaders and Entrepenuers REF HD6054.4 .U6 S5 2002
A to Z of American Women in the Performing Arts REF PN2286.8 .S66 2002
A to Z of American Women Writers REF PS147 .K67 2000
Amazons to Fighter Pilots: a Biographical Dictionary of Military Women REF U52 .A44 2003, v.1-v.2
American Women Historians, 1700s-1990s: A Biographical Dictionary REF E175.45.S27 1996
American Women in Science: 1950 to the Present: a Biographical Dictionary REF Q141 .B254 1998
American Women Prose Writers, 1870-1920 REF PN451 .D538, v.221
American Women Writers, 1900-1945: a Bio-Bibliographical Critical Sourcebook REF PS151 .A45 2000
Biographical Dictionary of Ancient Greek and Roman Women: Notable Women from Sappho to Helena REF HQ1136 .L54 2000
Biographical Dictionary of Congressional Women REF JK1012 .F57 1999
Biographical Dictionary of Women Economists REF HB76 .B535 2000
Biographical Dictionary of Women in Science REF Q141 .B5285 2000, v.1-v.2
Cambridge Guide to Women's Writing in English REF PR111 .S24 1999
Celebrating Women Coaches: a Biographical Dictionary REF GV697. A1 H367 2000
Concise Dictionary of Women Artists REF-HERRON ART LIBRARY N8354 .C663 2001
Contemporary Women Poets REF PS151 .C67 1998
Dictionary of Feminist Theory REF HQ1115 .H86 1995
Extraordinary Women of the Medieval and Renaissance World: a Biographical Dictionary REF HQ1143 .E93 2000
Historical Dictionary of Feminism REF HQ1115 .B65 1996
Historical Dictionary of Women's Education in the United States REF LC1752 .H57 1998
International Women in Science: a Biographical Dictionary to 1950 REF Q141 .H2167 2001
Native American Women: a Biographical Dictionary REF E98 .W8 B38 2001
Nineteenth-century American Women Writers: A Bio-bibliographical Critical Sourcebook REF PS217 .W64 N56 1997
Northeastern Dictionary of Women's Biography REF CT3202 .N67 1999
Notable American Women: a Biographical Dictionary Completing the 20th Century REF CT3260 .N5725 2004
Notable Hispanic American Women: Book II REF E184 .S75 N683 1998
Notable Twentieth-Century Latin American Women: a Biographical Dictionary REF CT3290 .N68 2001
Notable Women in Mathematics: A Biographical Dictionary REF QA28 .N68 1998
Notable Women in the Life Sciences: A Biographical Dictionary REF QH26 .N68 1996
Notable Women in the Physical Sciences: A Biographical Dictionary REF Q141 .N734 1997
Outstanding Women Athletes: Who They Are and How They Influenced Sports in America REF GV697 .A1W69 1998
Who's Who in Contemporary Women's Writing REF PN 471 .W496 2001
Womanwords: a Dictionary of Words about Women REF HQ1115 .M546 1992
Women and the Military: an Encyclopedia REF U21.75 .S54 1996
Women Composers and Songwriters: A Concise Biographical Dictionary REF ML105 .C593 1996
Women Film Directors: An International Bio-critical Dictionary REF PN1998.2 .F67 1995
Women Filmakers & Their Films REF PN1998.2. W66 1998
Women Humanitarians: a Biographical Dictionary of British Women Active between 1900 and 1950 REF HQ1595 .A3 O43 2001
Women
in Scripture: a Dictionary of Named and Unnamed Women in the Hebrew
Bible, the Apocryphal/Deuterocanonical Books, and the New Testament REF BS575 .W593 2000
The Women of the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League: A Biographical Dictionary GV875 .A56 M34 1997
Women under the Third Reich: A Biographical Dictionary REF HQ1623 .C65 1998
Encyclopedia of Associations REF AS22 .E5 1996 (Ref Desk)
Encyclopedia of Associations: International Organizations REF AS22 .E54 1997
Encyclopedia
of Women's Associations Worldwide: A Guide to Over 3,400 National and
Multinational Nonprofit Women's and Women-Related Organizations REF HQ1883 .E53 1993 Philanthropic St Ref
National Minority and Women-owned Business Directory REF HD2346 .U5 N34 2007
W.I.S.H.: International Handbook of Women's Studies REF HQ1180 .W57 1993
Professional Directory of Indy Women REF HD6054.2 .U62 I526
A Woman's Mailing List Directory REF HQ1901 .W66 1990 Philanthropic St Ref
Women in the Third World: A Directory of Resources REF HQ1870.9 .F46 1987
Women's Information Directory REF HV1445 .W67 1996 Philanthropic St Ref
Women's Organizations: A National Directory REF HQ1903 .W66 1986
The
national Women's Educational Equity Act (WEEA) Equity Resource Center
works to improve educational, social, and economic outcomes for women
and girls.
The MINERVA Center, Inc. is
a non-profit organization established for the purpose of encouraging
and sharing research on women in war and women and the military.
Women's Studies Section (WSS) of
the Association of College and Research Libraries was formed to
discuss, promote, and support women's studies collections and services
in academic and research libraries.
Living the Legacy The
Women's Rights Movement, 1848 - 1998. 1998 is the 150th Anniversary of
the Women's Rights Movement, launched at the world's first Women's
Rights Convention in Seneca Falls, New York.
Margaret Sanger Papers Project Historical editing project to locate, arrange, edit, research, and publish the papers of the noted birth control pioneer.
National Women's History Project Source for updates about events, conferences, publications, films and other resources related to U.S. women's history.
*North American Women's Letters and Diaries"Includes
the immediate experiences of 1,325 women and 150,000 pages of diaries
and letters. Particular care has been taken to index this material so
that it can be searched more thoroughly than ever before." (from
website)
Women.Com A new media network providing a centralized link to sites geared toward professional women.
Women's Internet Information Network News
and views, focus and opinion, and the writings of noted author,
activist and mentor of new generations of womenpower - Irene Stuber.
Women at IU Women who made a contribution to the history of Indiana University.
Women in Print Compilation of published articles and materials on feminist/lesbian bookselling and publishing.
Women's Rights National Historical Park The
park commemorates the First Women's Rights Convention and the early
leaders of the women's rights movement in the United States.
Women' Working, 1800-1930 "Focuses
on women's role in the United States economy and provides access to
digitized historical, manuscript, and image resources selected from
Harvard University's library and museum collections. The collection
features approximately 500,000 digitized pages and images"-collection's
website.
WSSLINKSContains women and gender studies web sites.
XYOnline.net Link to Feminist academic sites on feminist theory and women's and gender studies.
*Sites are databases of primary resource material that IUPUI University Library subscribes to. Only IUPUI affiliates will be able to access.
Other Sources
Book Reviews
Many
article indexing databases actually allow you to limit your search to
only book reviews by checking a box. Reviews can also be found by
simply adding the word "review" to your search string. For example:
women and United States and review. If you are searching for the review
of a particular title try searching by that title or author.
Book Review Digest Plus and Book Review Digest Retrospective (via Wilson Web) Indexes
book reviews from a variety of subject areas including many
peer-reviewed women's studies journals. Reviews written 1905-present.
An index with abstracts, may lead to full-text.
Find Brief Biographical Entries (that may lead to more extensive sources)
Biography and Genealogy Master Index "Biography
and Genealogy Master Index enables users to locate biographical entries
contained in more than 1,000 volumes and editions of important current
and retrospective biographical reference sources. This index contains
citations that point to over 15 million biographies on nearly 5 million
people, living and deceased, from all time periods, geographical
locations, and fields of endeavor"-- Biography and Genealogy Master
Index (Gale) Website. Includes citation only does not include full-text.
Biography Resource Center "This
database integrates award-winning biographies from respected Gale Group
sources with related full-text articles from hundreds of periodicals,
as well as tens of thousands of images and links to hand-picked web
sites. Search for people---both current and historic from all eras and
fields of endeavor---based on name, occupation, nationality, ethnicity,
birth/death dates and places, or gender, as well as keyword and full
text. Or, combine search criteria to create a highly-targeted custom
search"--Biography Resource Center (Gale) Website.
Dissertations & Theses (excellent source for "chasing footnotes")
Dissertations and Theses (ProQuest) Includes
full-text of the first 24 pages of many of the dissertations and some
items can be downloaded in entirety, free of charge. Use Illiad
(inter-library loan) to request entire dissertation.
