Barnard College Library
 Research Guide

V3521: Senior Seminar in Women's Studies

Professor Natalie Kampen
Librarian: Jenna Freedman


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This guide is intended as a starting point in your research; the databases and reference tools listed here are a selective list. Always remember that you can ask for assistance at the Barnard Reference Desk at any point in your research, and you can always request a consultation. 

CLIO Tips | Reference Books  | Articles and More | Web Resources
 
Searching CLIO
 
CLIO (Columbia Libraries Information Online) is the on-line catalog for materials added to the Columbia University Libraries since 1981.  
  • For keyword searches, AND is automatically inserted between term. You may also use OR or NOT between the terms, or quotes for a phrase.
  • For a title search, leave off the initial article (the, an, le, etc.)
  • For an author search, put last name, then first name
  • You can retrieve materials in English only using the Pre-set Limits or Post Limits options

To find PRIMARY SOURCES, use these terms in your search: ARCHIVES, BIOGRAPHY (this includes autobiographies), CORRESPONDENCE, DIARIES, INTERVIEWS, SOURCES. Enter them as "any of these" in a Guided Keyword search, selecting Subject from the In: menu.  
 

REFERENCE RESOURCES

To find REFERENCE BOOKS, use these terms in your CLIO search: ABSTRACTS, BIBLIOGRAPHY, CATALOGS, DICTIONARIES, DIRECTORIES, ENCYCLOPEDIAS, HANDBOOKS, HISTORIOGRAPHY, INDEXES, MANUALS, MAPS, REGISTERS, RESOURCE GUIDES, STATISTICS. Enter them as "any of these" in a Guided Keyword search, selecting Subject from the In: menu.

Title

Barnard Reference Call #
Africana : the encyclopedia of the African and African American experience DT14 .A37435 2005
Africa South of the Sahara DT351 .A35
The USA and Canada E31 .U8
American decades E169.12 .A4196 1996
Black women in America E185.86 .B542 2005
International encyclopedia of marriage and family HQ9 .E52 2003
Sex from Plato to Paglia : a philosophical encyclopedia HQ12 .S423 2006
Encyclopedia of prostitution and sex work HQ115 .E53 2006
Greenwood encyclopedia of women's issues worldwide HQ1154 .G74 2003
The feminist encyclopedia of French literature PQ149 .F47 1999
Our bodies, ourselves for the new century : a book by and for women RA778 .N49 1998

 

 
 ONLINE INDEXES AND DATABASES: ARTICLES & MORE

  • Access these indexes and databases from the Find Databases interface
  • Using these resources to find journal articles is sometimes a two-step process; first, find citations in the index, and second, click on to find the full text online or do a Journal Title search in CLIO to find out how to locate the full text online or a print copy.   

Academic Search Premier -- Large, multidisciplinary database. Full text peer reviewed and lay publications.

AccuNet/AP Multimedia Archive -- Photos, text, audio, graphics.

Africa-wide : NiPAD

Alternative Press Index and Alternative Press Index Archive

America: History & Life -- U.S. and Canadian history.

Art Full Text

Barnard bulletin newspaper archive

Cambridge Journals Online

Contemporary Women's Issues

Education full text

Education Research Complete

ERIC (Educational Resources Information Center)

Family & Society Studies Worldwide  

FIAF international index to film periodicals

Gender studies database -- journals, conference papers, books, book chapters, govt. reports, discussion and working papers, theses & dissertations and other sources

Genderstats : a database of gender statistics -- Compiles data on key gender topics from a variety of national and international sources.

Google scholar -- Be sure to use the Columbia link, rather than just going directly to scholar.google.com

Historical Abstracts

Humanities Full Text

Indiastat.com: revealing India-- statistically -- Note: this resource wasn't working on 9/11/2008.

International Bibliography of the Social Sciences

International index to performing arts: IIPA

JSTOR -- Note: few articles less than five years old.

Left index

LexisNexis Academic -- Legal news and articles. News from U.S. and international newspapers, radio, blogs, etc.

MEDLINE

The Nation digital archive

PAIS International

Philosopher's index

Polling the nations

Project Muse -- Full-text articles from scholarly journals. 

ProQuest -- includes Alt-PressWatch, Digital Dissertations, Ethnic NewsWatch, and GenderWatch, which can also be searched separately.

ProQuest historical newspapers

PsycINFO

Public Administration abstracts

Readers' guide full text -- popular general-interest periodicals.

Readers' guide retrospective -- popular general-interest periodicals, historical collection.

Readex Access UN

Social Sciences Full Text

Social Services Abstracts

Social Statistics Briefing Room

Sociological Abstracts

Television News Archive

United Nations common database (UNCDB) -- statistics.

Web of science -- citation index for articles in arts, humanities, and social science, as well as science.

Women and social movements in the United States 1600-2000

WorldCat -- catalog of thousands of library catalogs.

Worldwide Political Science Abstracts 
 

 
 USEFUL WEB PAGES

Barnard and Columbia Sites: Both the Barnard and Columbia Library home pages have lists of recommended Web pages on various topics.  These make a  good place to start with finding information on the World Wide Web.

The Librarians' Internet Index provides annotated and subject classified links to quality websites.
 


Updated 09/19/2008
Jenna Freedman
Reference Librarian
Barnard College Library