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Cindy Ingold, Women & Gender Resources Librarian
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Office: Education and Social Science Library, 100 Main Library
Phone: 217-333-7998
Email: cingold@uiuc.edu
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Use reference sources to find background information on a topic, gather statistics; verify dates, find biographical information.
African American Encyclopedia. 2nd. ed. 2001. Call no: Afro-Americana 973.0496073 Af832 2001Use the UIUC Online Library Catalog to find books located at UIUC. Use I-Share Online to find books located at over 50 libraries throughout Illinois
Find citations, abstracts, or the full text of articles from a variety of online databases. Access these databases, from the Library Gateway under Online Research Resources. Limit to databases by Subject Area.
Some of the best databases for African American Women and the Black Power Movement:
Alternative
Press Index (1991 to date)
Indexes articles from nearly 300 newspapers, magazines and journals from the
alternative and independent press. Topics include African-American studies,
ethnic and racial studies, feminism, gay/lesbian studies, labor studies, socialism,
alternative organizations, anarchism, prisons,
indigenous people's rights, and internationalism.
Contemporary
Women’s Issues (full text; 1992 to date)
Covers a wide range of topics related to women's issues including development,
human rights, work, education, politics, legal studies, reproductive rights,
family issues, and gay/lesbian issues. Includes scholarly articles, magazines,
newsletters, research reports, fact sheets
GenderWatch (full text; 1970 to date)
GenderWatch includes scholarly journals, magazines, newspapers, newsletters,
regional publications, books, and NGO, government and special reports. There
will be overlap
between GenderWatch and Contemporary Women's
Issues, but GenderWatch focuses more on the United
States.
Left
Index (1982 to date)
Includes over 162,535 citations and abstracts with
some full text to scholarly journals, radical
publications, books, book chapters, theses and
dissertations, newsletters, and internet
documents.
Sociological
Abstracts (1983 to date)
Identifies articles, conference papers, books and
dissertations in sociology and related fields.
Women’s
Studies International (1972 to date)
Provides citations only to journals, books, book
chapters, proceedings, NGO reports, and gray
literature. Over 2,000 periodical sources are
represented.
Worldwide Political Science Abstracts
(1975 to date)
Identifies articles on political science, international relations, law, public
administration and policy.
The
Main Library Gateway is the starting point to library resources
and information. The Women and Gender
Studies Information Resources page and the
Afro-Americana Library
page provide links to a variety of internet resources.
February 6, 2006
Cindy Ingold, Women
and Gender Resources Librarian
Email: cingold@uiuc.edu
Phone: 333-7998