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Cindy Ingold, Women & Gender Resources Librarian
Office hours: by appointment.
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; find quick facts; or find biographical information. The following are some useful reference sources available in the Education and Social Science Library (100 Main Library). Note: Reference books cannot be checked out.
Q.305.403 R765
Routledge International
Encyclopedia of Women. 4 vols. 2000.
Includes short scholarly essays on a full spectrum
of subjects within women’s studies. Essays
include references for further reading.
305.4203 W842
The Women's Movement Today: An Encyclopedia of
Third-Wave Feminism. 2006.
Vol. 1 has alphabetical entries contributed by women's studies scholars; vol. 2
includes a wide variety of reprinted articles by significant figures in the
women's movement included Susan Bordo, Ariel Gore, Leslie Heywood, and bell
hooks.
Q. 305.403 En198
Encyclopedia of Women and Gender: Sex Similarities and Differences and the
Impact of Society on Gender. 2001.
2 vols.
305.4203 En195 cop.2
Encyclopedia of Feminist Theories.
Edited by Lorraine Code. 2000.
This one volume source provides very brief
articles on theories, concept, people, and terms.
Use the UIUC
Online Library Catalog to find books
located within the 38 libraries here at UIUC.
Use
ILLINET Online to find books located at over
50 academic 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 www.library.uiuc.edu/ , under Online Research Resources. Find databases listed by Subject Area.
Some of the best online databases for this
class include:
Contemporary
Women’s Issues (full text; 1992 to date)
Emphasizes health and human rights globally. A
good source for research reports and fact sheets
from non-profit groups; governments; NGOs; and
international agencies.
Gender
Watch (1974 to date)
This full text database includes academic and
scholarly journals, magazines, newspapers,
newsletters, pamphlets, and n-g-o and special
reports. Covers business, education, literature
and the arts, health sciences, history, public
policy, and contemporary culture. More of a
U.S. focus then worldwide.
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.
Academic
Search Premiere
Identifies articles in several subject areas including social sciences,
humanities, education, computer sciences, engineering, medical sciences, and
ethnic studies. Also provides access to many magazines such as Time, Newsweek,
and Sports Illustrated. This multidisciplinary database provides full text
access to about 1500 periodicals and citation/summary access to articles from
about 4000 periodicals.
PsycINFO
The PsycINFO database covers the professional and
academic literature in psychology and related disciplines including medicine,
psychiatry, nursing, sociology, education, pharmacology, physiology,
linguistics, and other areas. Coverage is worldwide, and includes references and
abstracts to dissertations and over 1400 journals in more than 30 languages, and
to book chapters and books in the English language. Some materials are full
text.
SocINDEX
Identifies articles in anthropology, criminology, ethnic & racial studies,
gender studies, politics, religion, rural sociology, social psychology, and
urban studies. Indexes over 620 core coverage journals dating back to 1895, and
selectively indexes over 1,800 other journals. Extensive indexing for
books, monographs, conference papers, and other sources is also included.
LGBT Life with Fulltext
LGBT Life with Full Text indexes and abstracts more
than 120 journals and more than 200 books and reference sources. It also
includes the full text of 50 of the most important and historically significant
LGBT journals, magazines and regional newspapers. The database includes
comprehensive indexing and abstract coverage as well as a specialized LGBT
Thesaurus containing over 6,300 terms
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March 8, 2007
Cindy Ingold, Women and
Gender Resources Librarian
Email: cingold@uiuc.edu
Phone: 333-7998