WST 2010 Introduction to Women's Studies
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Library Instructors: Lyn LaVigne and Rachael Cathcart

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Before You Start

**Off-Campus Connect / EZ-Proxy is necessary to access databases and electronic journals from off-campus locations. Before you begin any research, click here, enter your OWL card number, and make sure that your access is working. If it is not, call the circulation desk at the Boca Library at 561-297-6911 during normal business hours to have your card activated. 

TIP: When you Define Your Research Question first, your entire research process becomes easier, quicker, and more efficient!

Want Books?

Click on the "Library 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.

Want Journal Articles?

The Online Databases are where you will look for articles for most of your on or off-campus research. Remember that not all of the databases are going to provide full-text articles and that you will want to search for articles from peer-reviewed, or scholarly journal sources for research papers.

You may browse FAU Library's Collection of Electronic Journals when you don't have a specific topic or when you do have a specific article citation.

General

• Academic Search Premier  
  Academic Search Premier, designed specifically for academic institutions, is the world's largest scholarly, multi-disciplinary full text database containing full text for nearly 4,700 publications, including more than 3,600 peer-reviewed publications. In addition to the full text, this database offers indexing and abstracts for nearly 8,200 journals in the collection.

• Women and Social Movements in the United States
  Arts and Humanities and Social Science Citation Indexes
  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.

• Women's Studies International
  This resource includes access to Women Studies Abstracts and Women's Studies Database.  Coverage includes the core disciplines in Women’s Studies to the latest scholarship in feminist research. Women's Studies International supports curriculum development in the areas of sociology, history, political science & economy, public policy, international relations, arts & humanities, business and education. Nearly 800 essential sources include: journals, newspapers, newsletters, bulletins, books, book chapters, proceedings, reports, theses, dissertations, NGO studies, important websites & web documents, and grey literature. [This database is restricted to one user at a time.]

• Contemporary Women's Issues
  CWI is a full-text database which includes information concerning women's issues worldwide. Major sources of information include Human Rights Watch, the Alan Guttmacher Institute, United States Government Reports, FEMNET and the Center for Women's Global Leadership.

•  Feminae: Medieval Women and Gender Index
  Free index that features citations to journal articles, book chapters, and book reviews about women, sexuality, and gender in the Middle Ages. Books by single authors are not indexed here.

• JSTOR
  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).

 Primary Resources

• History Resource Center: U.S.
  Contains a vast collection of primary sources, magazine and newspaper articles, and reference works covering U.S. history.

• In the First Person: An index to letters, diaries, oral histories, and other personal narratives 
  In the First Person is a new library index that lets users perform in-depth field and keyword searches across all letters, diaries, oral histories, memoirs, and autobiographies within scholarly materials that are freely available on the Web and Alexander Street databases.  The search returns citation information and links to full text, audio, and video whenever available. Every imaginable topic, historical event, and person is covered, from World War I and II to popular culture, music to medicine, Hitler to John Wayne, gay rights to September 11th.

• Original Sources 
  This site includes original source documents, critical selections, and acclaimed works across U.S. and World History, Literature, Social Sciences, Political Science, Law, Science, Mathematics, Religion, Philosophy, and Language.  It comprises more than 350,000 documents and more than 5,000 complete books.

Important 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.

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