Barnard College Library
 Research Guide

V3521: Senior Seminar in
 Women's Studies
Professor Alison Wylie

see caption below
Margaret Sanger, The Fight for Birth Control
(New York: Max Maisel, 1916; HQ763.P3 pamphlet 47).
Rare Book and Special Collections Division.
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/awhhtml/awrbc4/pamphlet.html

 
Reference Books | Online Indexes and Databases | Full-Text Resources
Useful Web Sites | Request a Consultation

 

Searching CLIO
  • For a title search, leave off the initial article (the, an, le, etc.)
  • For an author search, put last name, then first name
  • For a keyword search, you must use and, or or not between the terms, or quotes for a phrase
  • Only use a uniform title search for anonymous works
  • In a keyword search with relevancy ranking, do not use and, or or not between the terms, but put + in front of terms that must be in the record; if + is not used, or is assumed
  • You can limit to books in the Barnard library using the More Limits or Post Limits options
  • Works on women's studies have call numbers starting with HQ.  Browse the shelves in the HQ section of the library

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.

To find REFERENCE BOOKS, use these terms in your 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.
 

REFERENCE BOOKS

Title Barnard Reference Call Number
Women in Psychology: a Bio-Bibliographic Sourcebook BF109.A1 W65 1990
The IVP Women's Bible Commentary BS521.4 .I97 2002
Who's Who in the Middle Ages CT114 .S56 2001
Gender Roles: a Handbook of Text and Measures HM253 .B43 1990
Protest, Power, and Change: an Encyclopedia of Nonviolent Action from ACT-UP to Women's Suffrage HM278 .P76 1997
The International Encyclopedia of Sexuality HQ21 .I68 1997
Adolescent Pregnancy and Parenthood: an Annotated Guide HQ759.64 Z64 1990g
Historical and Multicultural Encyclopedia of Women's Reproductive Rights in the United States HQ766.5.U5 H57 2002
Many other abortion titles can be found in the HQ767s HQ767
Girlhood in America: An Encyclopedia HQ777 .G5745 2001
Encyclopedia of Feminist Theories HQ1190 .E63 2000
Routledge International Encyclopedia of Women HQ1115 .R69 2000
Women's issues HQ1115 .W6425 1997
Women’s Studies Encyclopedia HQ1115 .W645 1999
American Women HQ1421 .A486 2002
The Greenwood Encyclopedia of Women's Issues Worldwide. North America and the Caribbean HQ1154 .G743 2003
Women in the Biblical World: a Study Guide Call number change requested. Check CLIO.

 

ONLINE INDEXES AND DATABASES

The Databases (Reference Works & Indexes) list, which you can access from the Barnard Library home page or Columbia LibraryWeb, gives links to indexes for finding citations to journal articles.  The following will probably be the most relevant to your research:

America: History & Life
Citations for publications related to U.S. and Canadian history.

ATLA Religion Database + ATLAS
Citations, abstracts, and some full-text articles from religion journals and essay collections.

Dissertation Abstracts (Digital Dissertations)
Citations and abstracts for dissertations and theses covering all academic subjects.

ERIC
Citations, abstracts, and full-text for articles in education periodicals and other publications.

Feminae: Medieval Women and Gender Index
Citations to journals and essays about women and gender during the Middle Ages.

Guides to Microforms (Primary Sources in U.S. History)
Guides to microform sets in American history, foreign relations, women's studies.

Hispanic American Periodical Index Online
Citations to articles and book reviews about Latin America, the Caribbean, and Hispanic Americans.

Historical Abstracts
Citations and abstracts for publications related to world history, excluding the U.S. and Canada, from 1450 to the present.

International Bibliography of the Social Sciences
Citations for articles from over 100 countries in more than 90 languages, in the disciplines of anthropology, economics, political science and sociology, from 1951 to the present.

Kvinnsam
An international index to journal articles and essays in books dealing with all aspects of women, feminism, and gender studies, from 1981 to the present.

Oral History Online
Index to oral history collections in English from around the world.

PsycINFO
Citations and abstracts for publications about psychology and related disciplines.

Social Sciences Abstracts
Abstracts for journal articles on anthropology, business, community health, economics, foreign affairs, geography, international relations, law and criminology, medical care, political science, politics, psychiatry, psychology, public welfare, social work, and sociology, 1983 to the present.

Social Sciences Citation Index Expanded
Cited references, bibliographic information, and abstracts, with some links to full-text articles, in various areas including anthropology, communication, criminology & penology, demography, economics, education, ethnic studies, health policy & services, industrial relations & labor, international relations, planning & development, political science, psychology, public administration, public health, social sciences, transportation, urban studies, and womens studies, 1973 to the present.  Useful for tracing which authors cited a given article or book

Women's Studies International
Citations for articles on women's studies, gender studies, employment, family planning, feminism, feminist studies, feminist theory & history, gender, gender studies, international feminism, political/social activism, racial/ethnic studies, reproductive rights, sex discrimination, women’s studies, 1972 to the present.

WorldCat
Interface to the OCLC bibliographic database (36 million records).

Worldwide Political Science Abstracts
Abstracts of books and articles from professional journals and major news magazines, devoted to North American and international politics, 1975 to the present.

 

FULL-TEXT RESOURCES

These are also on the list of Databases (Reference Works & Indexes).

Barnard Bulletin Newspaper Archive
Digital archive of the Barnard Bulletin

Contemporary Women's Issues
A selected full-text resource (some material is abstract only) for information about women in over 190 countries. Particularly useful for material relating to current topics in the social sciences disciplines, such as political science, psychology, reproductive rights, as well as contemporary cultural studies. 

Education Full Text
Citations, abstracts and full-text of articles in education periodicals and other publications.

GenderWatch
Full-text and abstracts of a wide variety of feminist and gender studies periodicals.

Humanities Full Text
Citations, abstracts, and full text for articles in humanities periodicals.

JSTOR
Full-text articles from more than 320 scholarly journals, from the first issue of each journal (including some started in the late nineteenth century) up to 3 to 5 years ago.  Only the science and social science articles have abstracts, so searching in the title is the most direct search for articles in humanities journals; searching for a term in the full text of an article will often find too many irrelevant articles     

Latin America Data Base
Full-text news on Latin America and the Caribbean.

Lexis-Nexis
Full-text coverage of general news, medical, legal, business, governmental and reference topics.  Coverage varies by source; generally begins in mid-1980s.

The Nation Digital Archive
Searchable full text and page images of a major U.S. journal of left/liberal opinion, 1865-1999.

Project Muse
Full-text articles from more than 100 scholarly journals in history and the humanities, the social sciences, and the sciences

ProQuest Direct
Full-text articles and abstracts from newspapers and periodicals in many disciplines, including international affairs, law, psychology, public affairs, sociology, women's studies, from 1988 to the present.  For scholarly journals, click on "Databases selected" at top, clear all databases and select PA Research II Periodicals, click on "Continue" at top, and select Advanced Search.

Readers' Guide Full Text
Citations, abstracts, and fulltext for articles in popular and general-interest periodicals, 1983 to the present.

 

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

Women's Studies: Periodical Indexes lists both online and print indexes that can help in tracking down articles in periodicals.

 

Updated 10/12/2004
Jenna Freedman
Reference Librarian
Barnard College Library