WST 2416 Women of the Third World
Library Resource Page 

Dr. Beoku-Betts

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Before You Start

**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 the card activated. 

Search FAU Library's Online Catalog for Books and Print Journals

Search FAU Library's Collection of Electronic Journals

Online databases

The Online Databases are where you will look for articles for most of your 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.

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.

• Anthropology Plus
  Anthropology Plus brings together into one resource the highly respected Anthropological Literature from Harvard University and Anthropological Index, Royal Anthropological Institute from the UK. Anthropology Plus provides extensive worldwide indexing of journal articles, reports, commentaries, edited works, and obituaries in various fields. Coverage is from the late 19th century to the present.

• AnthroSource
  Provides digital access to current issues regarding 11 of the AAA's most critical peer-reviewed publications.

• Arts and Humanities Search
  Indexes articles from over 1,300 arts and humanities journals.

• ATLA Religion Database  
  The ATLA Religion Database is the premier index to journal articles, book reviews, and collections of essays in all scholarly fields of religion.

• Biography and Genealogy Master Index
  The Biography and Genealogy Master Index is a comprehensive index to more than 12.7 million biographical sketches in over 3400 volumes and editions of current and retrospective reference books, covering both contemporary and historical figures throughout the world.

• Biography Index 
  Biography Index is a bibliographic database that cites biographical material appearing in periodicals indexed in other Wilson Company databases and additional selected periodicals, current books of individual and collective biography, and incidental biographical material in otherwise non-biographical books. Periodicals indexed are selected from all subject areas represented by other Wilson Company databases. Biographical subjects indexed range from antiquity to the present and represent all fields and nationalities.

• Biography Resource Center + The Complete Marquis Who's Who®  
  A comprehensive database of biographical information on more than one million people from throughout history, around the world, and across all disciplines and subject areas.

• 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.

• Current Contents Connect
  Current Contents Connect provides access to current awareness research from seven broad disciplines.

• Digital Dissertations
  Authoritative source for information about U.S. doctoral dissertations and master's theses. This database represents the work of authors from over 1,000 graduate schools and universities.

• Expanded Academic ASAP
  Includes scholarly journals, news magazines and newspaper articles regarding arts and humanities, social sciences and science and technology disciplines. 

• Historical Abstracts
  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).

• Humanities Full Text
  Subject areas include archaeology, area studies, art, classical studies, communications, dance, film, folklore, gender studies, history, journalism, linguistics, literary and social criticism literature, music, performing arts, philosophy, religion and theology.

• Human Population & Natural Resource Management
  The database deals with issues arising from the conflict between the ever-increasing population of the Earth and the Earth's limited environmental and natural resources. Human Population & Natural Resource Management explores human population and demography topics, as well as societal issues involving natural resource management.

• Human Relations Area Files: eHRAF Collection of Ethnography
  A multi-cultural database.

• Humanities & Social Sciences Retrospective 
  This resource is a bibliographic database that cites articles from English-language periodicals.

• 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).

• MLA International Bibliography
  The MLA Bibliography indexes critical materials on literature, languages, linguistics, and folklore. The database provides access to citations from over 4,000 journals and series published worldwide, as well as books, essay collections, working papers, proceedings, dissertations, and bibliographies.

• OmniFile Full Text Mega Edition
  Wilson OmniFile Full Text, Mega Edition is a multi-disciplinary database providing the complete content - indexing, abstracts, and full text - from six of Wilson's full-text databases: Education Full Text, General Science Full Text, Humanities Full Text, Readers' Guide Full Text, Social Sciences Full Text, and Wilson Business Full Text.

• Reference Guide to Africa: a Bibliography of Sources (E-Book)
  This is an electronic book full of resources that may be of use.  You can view this book for 15 minutes, or you can check out the book for 4 hours.  You will need to sign up for an account to check out an electronic book.  There are directions on the website.  Only one person can access this item at a time.  Not all the items can be found at the FAU library, but some may be available through the interlibrary loan office. 

• Social Sciences Full Text
  Subject areas include addiction studies, anthropology, area studies, community health and medical care, corrections, criminal justice, criminology, economics, environmental studies, ethics, family studies, gender studies, geography, gerontology, international relations, law, minority studies, planning and public administration, policy sciences, political science, psychiatry, psychology, public welfare, social work, sociology, and urban studies.

• 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. [This database is restricted to one user at a time.]

• xreferplus
  xreferplus is an online reference library that provides access to a selection of 162 reference books including encyclopedias, dictionaries, thesauri and books of quotations and a range of subject-specific titles covering everything from art to accountancy and literature to law.

 Primary Resources

• Black Thought and Culture 
  This resource provides access to the published works of numerous historically important black leaders. Along with well-known works, the collection features approximately 5,000 pages of unique, fugitive, and never-before-published materials.

• 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.

• World Map Collections  
  World Map Collections are a cooperative project of several public and private universities of Florida and the Florida Department of Environmental Protection to make digitized modern and antique maps available on the Web. The Florida and Caribbean collections are particularly strong, but Africa, the Americas, and the Middle East are also represented.

 News and Statistics

• AccessUN
  Index to United Nations Documents including Official Records, masthead documents, and draft resolutions with full-text of several thousand UN documents.s.

• Access World News
  Access World News from NewsBank provides full-text information and perspectives from over 600 U.S. and over 500 international sources, each with its own distinctive focus offering diverse viewpoints on local, regional and world issues.

• Alternative Press Index (1991-present) and Alternative Press Index Archive (1969-1990)
  Indexes 300 alternative, radical, and left magazines, periodicals, and newspapers. Articles cover cultural, economic, political, and social change.

• CountryWatch  
  Up-to-date information and news on the countries of the world.

• Ethnic NewsWatch and Ethnic NewsWatch: A History
  Features articles to ethnic, minority, and native magazines, journals, and newspapers.

• FACTS.com (Facts on File)
  Provides information about events, issues, statistics and people.

• GenderWatch
  A full-text collection of international journals, magazines, newsletters, regional publications, special reports and conference proceedings devoted to women's and gender issues. GenderWatch contains archival material dating back to the mid 1970's; additional archival material continues to be added.

• WorldAlmanac
  A full text searchable database containing the World Almanac and Book of Facts 1998, World Almanac of the U.S.A. 1998, World Almanac of U.S. Politics 1997, and the World Almanac for Kids Dec. 1997  

Print Resources

Books and Journals are located in the library in the stacks, cataloged by subject. There is a separate section for materials such as reference, microfilm, microfiche, videos, audio, and DVD’s. Journals will not necessarily all be in the same area on the shelves. You can search the library catalog for where the materials are located as well as whether they are checked out or not. If you are having problems navigating the library catalog click here for a tutorial.

Interlibrary Loan

If you have looked in the catalog and in the databases and still cannot find the material that you are looking for, or if you know the specific name of the book or article that you are trying to find that you know is not at FAU, you can use interlibrary loan (ILL). Interlibrary loan uses a program called ILLIAD to process you requests and find them at other schools. You can also use ILLIAD to track your requests once they have been entered. Materials can then be picked up at Boca Raton or the branch closest to you. Remember that FAU will not interlibrary loan required texts for your class or materials that are already owned by FAU, so if an item is missing from the shelves place a lost or stolen material form and submit it at the circulation desk. REMEMBER Interlibrary loan takes time (7-10 days), so you cannot wait until the last minute to request these materials.

If You Still Need Help

You can use the Ask A Librarian Feature, you can call the reference desk at 561-297-3785, or you may contact my office at 561-297-0032 or jboxen@fau.edu.

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