Sample keyword searches
The search strings below are examples of combining key words, and including alternate terms (using OR).
- Telephone
[and] Gender OR Women - automobile OR motor vehicle OR car
[and] Gender OR Women - gender OR women
[and] sewing - computing OR computer
[and] gender or women - technology
[and] gender OR women
[and] power - technology and gender
[and] feminis* - etc.!
Selected Databases: Science, Business and Engineering
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Business Source CompleteProvides full text for scholarly business journals and a variety of other sources.
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Engineering VillageBest comprehensive engineering database. Search scholarly articles and conference papers in Compendex.
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ScienceDirectFull-text articles on a wide variety of science topics.
Selected Databases: History
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History of Science, Technology and MedicineProvides references to articles, books, and book chapters, on medical, scientific, and cultural/social histories of disease.
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America: History and LifeIdentifies articles, essays, books chapters and monographs on the history of the United States and Canada.
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Historical AbstractsFinds articles published in journals, as well as book chapters and monographs on political and social history worldwide. Like its companion database, America: History and Life, this database allows you to search by era/time period.
Selected Database: Gender Studies and Sociology
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GenderWatchFocuses on the impact of gender across a broad spectrum of subject areas .... including family, childbirth, birth control, daycare, domestic abuse, work and the workplace, sexual harassment, aging, aging parents, body image, eating disorders and social and societal roles.
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Women's studies internationalStudies on women and gender abstracts online Indexes books and journal articles on education, employment, women in the family, medicine and health, gender role socialization, social policy, the social psychology of women, female culture, media treatment of women, biography, literary criticism and historical studies.
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LGBT LifeIdentifies articles, essays, chapters and books on gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender issues.
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Sociology SourceA key sociology database. A great complement to the historical databases (America: History and Life and Historical Abstracts, above) for this kind of topic.
Search across multiple databases with the Articles & Fulltext search
The Articles & Fulltext search, from the library homepage, searches the contents of multiple, EBSCO databases.
Tips:
- The default is limited to Full Text. UNcheck that box! Leave only "Available in Library Collection." You will still get full-text links, and a much broader range of publications.
- You can also use the filters under Refine Results to select "Academic Journals."
In some cases, you may wish to search discipline-specific databases directly. See above!