Library Research Session for Gender and Power in Cross-Cultural Context
April 8, 2013
Gender and Power Research Web Page (forthcoming):
http://academic.evergreen.edu/m/mcmillip/lib1213/genderpower
Likely To be Covered Last Thursday and Today:
The Googlezonipedia Effect: Are libraries necessary?
Background/Reference resources (see other side of this handout)
Summit: getting books delivered to you (fast) from UW, WSU, UO, OSU, etc.
Interlibrary Loan (ILL): getting digital articles from other libraries (fast)
Finding articles in general:
Library subscription databases vs. the free Web
Hybrid: Google Scholar
Library Website  Full Text
Free Web  Full Text
Google Books
The poverty of topics / The value of research questions and hypotheses.
Peer Review (and Ulrich’s Online)
Phrase searching, truncation, etc.
The Bibliography: Using one book or article to find other older books and
articles
Citation Style
Interesting things we won’t cover (but ask your librarian about them later)
Amazon Search Inside the Book
Finding Book Reviews and Review Essays
Using one book or article to find newer books and articles (including book
reviews)
Subject Headings and Subject Searching
ILL for books not in Summit
Setting up Google Scholar Library Links at home
Zotero
Journal/Article Databases of Interest to this Program:
SocIndex with Full Text (mostly scholarly)
Social Sciences Full Text (mostly scholarly)
GenderWatch / Ethnic NewsWatch / Alt-PressWatch (some scholarly)
Anthropological Index Online (mostly scholarly)
America: History and Life (scholarly)
Historical Abstracts (scholarly)
Communications and Mass Media Complete (mostly scholarly)
Academic Search Complete (some scholarly)
JSTOR (scholarly)
Humanities Full Text (mostly scholarly)
Science Direct (scholarly)
Left Index (mostly scholarly)
The Nation Digital Archive (not scholarly)
Google Scholar (some scholarly)
Some Reference Resources of Interest:
(some of these are online, and can be accessed remotely via the library’s online catalog.
Some are in print, and Evergreen Library locations can be found via the online catalog.
A few are previews in Google Books)
Routledge encyclopedia of social and cultural anthropology
Encyclopedia of women and gender : sex similarities and differences and the
impact of society on gender
International encyclopedia of marriage and family
Marriage, family, and relationships : a cross-cultural encyclopedia
Encyclopedia of gender in media
Encyclopedia of women & Islamic cultures
Men and masculinities : a social, cultural, and historical encyclopedia
Ethnic groups of Africa and the Middle East an encyclopedia
Routledge international encyclopedia of women : global women's issues and
knowledge
Encyclopedia of modern ethnic conflicts
Encyclopedia of sociology
Latinas in the United States a historical encyclopedia
The Oxford encyclopedia of women in world history
CQ Researcher (ongoing, U.S. policy focus)
Encyclopedia of the world's minorities
Handbook of language & ethnic identity
Linguistic cultures of the world : a statistical reference
The concise encyclopedia of sociology
International encyclopedia of the social & behavioral sciences
International encyclopedia of the social sciences
Encyclopedia of emotion
Encyclopedia Latina : history, culture, and society in the United States
The Oxford encyclopedia of Latinos and Latinas in the United States
Encyclopedia of women in American history
The Greenwood encyclopedia of women's issues worldwide.
Routledge international encyclopedia of women : global women's issues and
knowledge (v. 1-2)
Encyclopedia of Gender and Society
International encyclopedia of communications
The Cambridge Handbook of Sociolinguistics
The handbook of historical sociolinguistics
Sociolinguistics an international handbook of the science of language and
society
The handbook of intercultural discourse and communication
The handbook of language and globalization
The Routledge Handbook of Discourse Analysis
Google Books Preview and Full Text Search: Encyclopedia of North American
Immigration
Google Books Preview and Full Text Search: Encyclopedia of Diasporas:
Immigrant and Refugee Cultures Around the World
Google Books Preview and Full Text Search: The Making of Modern
Immigration: An Encyclopedia of People and Ideas, Volume 1
Paul McMillin / Faculty Reference Librarian / Email at mcmillip