CLIO tips

For a keyword search, you must use AND, OR, or NOT between the terms, or quotes for a phrase The truncation symbol is a ?. You can limit to books in the Barnard library using the More Limits or Pre-select Limits options Note the call numbers for the reference books below and use them as a guide for browsing the stacks. 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
The ABC-CLIO Companion to the 1960s Counterculture in America	E169.02 .H3515 1997
Encyclopedia of American Cultural & Intellectual History	E169.1 .E624 2001
Civil Rights in the United States	E184.A1 C47 2000
The 1960s Cultural Revolution	E841 .M37 2000
The Sixties in America	E841 .S55 1999
Encyclopedia of the Clinton Presidency	E885 .L48 2002
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
Violence in America : an Encyclopedia	HN90.V5 V5474 1999
The International Encyclopedia of Sexuality	HQ21 .I68 1997
Gay Histories and Cultures : an Encyclopedia	HQ75.13 .G37 2000
Encyclopedia of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender History in America	HQ76.3.U5 E53 2003
Historical Dictionary of the Gay Liberation Movement : Gay Men and the Quest for Social Justice	HQ76.5 .H86 1999
Historical Dictionary of the Lesbian Liberation Movement : Still the Rage	HQ76.5 .M94 2003
Men and Masculinities : a Social, Cultural, and Historical Encyclopedia	HQ1090.3 .M436 2004
Encyclopedia of Feminist Theories	HQ1190 .E63 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
Sexual Harassment : a Selected, Annotated Bibliography	HQ1237.5.U6 H37 1995g
Rape in America : a Reference Handbook	HV6561 .H337 1995
Women and the law : leaders, cases, and documents	KF478 .K84 2003
Homosexuality and the Law : a Dictionary	KF4754.5.A68 S74 2001
History of the Mass Media in the United States : an Encyclopedia	P92.U5 H57 1998g
Women and Mass Communications : an International Annotated Bibliography	P94.5.W65 L44 1991g
Sex Role Stereotyping in the Mass Media : an Annotated Bibliography	P96.S5 .F74 1977g
American Women and the U.S. Armed Forces : a Guide to the Records of Military Agencies in the National Archives Relating to American Women	U21.75 .S44 1992
Women and the Military : an Encyclopedia	U21.75 .S54 1996
Women in the United States Military, 1901-1995 : a Research Guide and Annotated Bibliography	UB418.W65 F75 1996

 

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.

Arts & humanities citation index
Multidisciplinary database covering the journal literature of the arts and humanities.

AUL index to military periodicals (AULIMP)
Citations for articles in military periodicals.

BioMed Central
Current full-text articles in biological and biomedical sciences.

Black thought and culture : African Americans to 1975.
Full-text non-fiction works by African-American leaders and others.

Business source premier
Covers business, marketing, management, accounting, finance, international business, econometrics/ economics; includes the Harvard Business Review.

CATNYP : the Research Libraries on-line catalog
The online catalog of the NYPL Research Libraries.

Contemporary Women's Issues
Full-text articles and reports about women from U.S. and international sources.

CQ voting and elections collection : expert analysis, demographics, and data.
Research and reference tool on voting and elections in America.

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

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

Google scholar
Retrieves references to books, abstracts, and ejournal articles from selected university and scholarly repositories.

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

HeinOnline
Full-text online access to legal journals.

Humanities & social sciences index retrospective, 1907-1984
Search journals in the humanities and social sciences back to 1907.

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

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.

Jane's Online Research
The leading source for defense and military information

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     

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.

Left index
Citations, abstracts and some full-text to the literature politically on the left.

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

Literature online : the home of English and American literature on the World Wide Web.
Large searchable collection of English-language literature, plus some literary reference tools.

Medline
Index of the biomedical literature.

MLA bibliography
Citations for articles in literature, linguistics, language, and folklore periodicals and other publications.

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

National Criminal Justice Reference Service
Citations and abstracts for U.S. publications related to criminal justice.

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

Primary sources in African American history
Selected Full-text Resources for African-American studies, including autobiographies, speeches, legislation, and journal articles.

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

ProQuest
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.

ProQuest Digital Dissertations
Citations and abstracts for dissertations and theses covering all academic subjects.

Readers' guide retrospective
Covers the popular general-interest periodicals published in the U.S., reflecting the history of 20th century America.

Sexual diversity studies : gay, lesbian, bisexual & transgender abstracts.
Index to gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender literature.

Social Sciences Full Text
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
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 women's studies, 1973 to the present.  Useful for tracing which authors cited a given article or book

Social services abstracts
Citations and abstracts for research in social work, human services, and related areas, including social welfare and social policy.

Social work abstracts
Citations and abstracts for articles in social work and social welfare periodicals.

Sociological abstracts
Citations and abstracts for articles in sociology periodicals.

Studies on women and gender abstracts online
covers scholarship related to women's studies, gender studies, and related literary, social, and historical issues.

Television News Archive
Nightly television news broadcasts from 1968 to present; selected CNN video from 1998 to present.

Women and social movements in the United States 1600-2000
a collection of primary source documents and related scholarship.

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.

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.

• Barnard Library Zine Collection gives information on what zines are and how to access them at Barnard.
• Barnard Subject Guides are available from the Barnard Library home page, includes subject guides on history, politics, and, women's studies.
• Columbia Subject Guides are available on the Columbia University LibraryWeb page (under Electronic Resources). 

The Librarians' Internet Index 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 11/11/2005
Jenna Freedman
Reference Librarian
Barnard College Library