AMH
6939
Research in US Women's History
Dr. Anna Lawrence
Instructor: Lyn LaVigne
mlavigne@fau.edu
297-4318
The selected sources listed below are useful for finding books,
articles, and primary sources.
HOW TO FIND
LIBRARY RESOURCES AND ELECTRONIC RESOURCES
FAU LIBRARIES CATALOG
BOOKS
For example: women's suffrage movements
Click on the
"Catalog" . This source lists the books,
government documents, videos, and other materials owned by the FAU
libraries. It will tell you what books and journals, etc. the
library owns. To find the actual journal articles you may choose to
search by subject or keyword in the databases listed below.
A. Keywords: May search for two keywords using the
terms and/or/not to limit search.
B. Author's Name: Use last name first with no commas.
C. Title: If the title begins with A, An or The, skip
the first word and begin searching with the next word.
D. Subject: Must be specific to Library of Congress
search terms. Use dashes in narrowing your search.
YOU NEED TO KNOW
A. Use
EZ Proxy link for off-campus access. The link is on the
Libraries' Home Page under Connect from Off Campus
B.
Interlibrary Loan
a service through which one library lends an item from its
collection, or provides a photocopy of an item, to another library.
C. SFX
is extremely helpful in searching for articles that cross databases.
OTHER HELP
D.
Research Help
E.
Primary Source Research Guide
F.
What's Your Major
ELECTRONIC DATABASES
Electronic Databases are available from
the FAU Libraries home page at
http://www.fau.edu/library
by selecting "Indexes/Databases" under the heading "Quick Links."
When accessing the databases remotely, be sure to select the "Off
Campus Connect" link for the "EZproxy"
server.
Databases help you locate journal and magazine
articles that are relevant to your specific research topic. You may
search the databases by title or subject.
Central Search available off of the Library's Home Page
provides 360 degree searching of all FAU databases.
Early English Books Online (EEBO) | Full Text |
From the first book printed in English by William Caxton, through
the age of Spenser and Shakespeare and the tumult of the English
Civil War, Early English Books Online (EEBO) will contain over
125,000 titles listed in Pollard & Redgrave's Short-Title
Catalogue (1475-1640), Wing's Short-Title Catalogue (1641-1700),
and the Thomason Tracts (1640-1661).
Florida Memory Project | Full Text | Vendor: State Archives of
Florida
Contents/Info: The Florida Memory Project presents a
selection of historical records that illustrate significant moments
in Florida history, educational resources for students of all ages
and archival collections for historical research. The Project
utilizes selected original records, photographs and other materials
from the collections of the State Library and Archives of Florida.
FloridaCat | Before 1000 BC- present |
Contents/Info: OCLC catalog of books and other materials in Florida
libraries.
HarpWeek | 1857-1912 | Full Text |
This resource provides electronic access to Harper's Weekly:
1857-1912.
Historical Abstracts | 1954-present |
Contents/Info: Indexes journals covering the history of the world
from 1450 to the present (excluding the United States and Canada,
which are covered in a companion database America: History and Life)
History Resource Center: U.S. | Full Text |
Contains a vast collection of primary sources, magazine and
newspaper articles, and reference works covering U.S. history.
JSTOR
| Full Text |
Contents/Info: Journal Storage (More than 500 scholarly journals in
education, humanities, mathematics, science [including the General
Science Collection and Ecology and Botany Collection], and social
science disciplines)
ProQuest Dissertations and Theses |
1861-present |
Contents/Info: Covers every doctoral dissertation completed in the
U.S. at accredited institutions for the last 150 years. Includes
some master's theses and foreign language dissertations.
Ulrichsweb.com | Some Full Text |
Contents/Info: Provides information on prices, frequency of
publication, addresses, publishers' phone and fax numbers, e-mail
and Web site addresses for over 270,000 journals, magazines,
annuals, series, newspapers, and other periodicals published
worldwide. Identifies special features, such as: the presence
of reviews or indexes; whether a journal is refereed; and which
indexing/abstracting services cover the periodical.(Includes
reviews).
Women and Social Movements in the United States Scholar's Edition |
1600-2000 | Full Text |
The resource, which examines perspectives on women’s social
movements from Colonial times to the present, brings together books,
images, documents, scholarly essays, commentaries, and
bibliographies, documenting the multiplicity of women’s reform
activities. This edition includes the Women's Commission
Reports.
Women's Studies International | 1972 (&
earlier)-present |
This database covers the core disciplines in Women's Studies to the
latest scholarship in feminist research. This resource
includes the following database files: Women Studies Abstracts,
Women’s Studies Bibliography Database, Women’s Studies
Database, Women Studies Librarian, Women of Color
and Southern Women: A Bibliography of Social Science Research,
and Women’s Health and Development: An Annotated Bibliography
WorldCat
Contents/Info: The world's most comprehensive bibliography, with
over 48 million bibliographic records representing over 400
languages and covering information from 4,000 years of knowledge.
ADDITIONAL HELP
Ask-A-Librarian: email
reference help
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Messenger Reference help, M-F, 9am-5pm
Reference desk phone number: 561-297-3785
Make an appointment with a librarian:
One-on-one reference consultation
