Combines Women's Studies International and Men's Studies databases with the coverage of sexual diversity issues. Source documents include professional journals, conference papers, theses & dissertations and other sources.
ERIC, the Educational Resource Information Center, is a national information system supported by the U.S. Department of Education, the National Library of Education, and the Office of Educational Research and Improvement. It provides access to information from journals included in the Current Index of Journals in Education and Resources in Education Index. ERIC provides full text of more than 2,200 digests along with references for additional information and citations and abstracts from over 1000 educational and education-related journals.
Sciences and social sciences. CogPrints
ArXiv.org
OAI
US Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO)
European Patent Office
Japan Patent Office
World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO)
UK Intellectual Property Office
SCOPUS offers coverage from 14,000 peer-reviewed titles from over 4,000 international publishers including 531 Open Access journals. in addition Scopus offers coverage of relevant scientific information on the Web, including author homepages, university sites, corporate information and other resources such as Preprint servers, CogPrints, ArXiv.org, OAI compliant resources, as well as the US Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO), the European Patent Office, the Japan Patent Office, the World Intellectual Property Organization and the UK Intellectual Property Office.
You don't have to type up your citations by hand--EndNote can format them for you.
Primary sources and data
Do you need datasets, official documents, personal narratives and other things that aren't scholarly journal articles? Christine can help you find them.
We can meet with you to discuss your research in depth.
Comparing literature reviews and annotated bibliographies
The following are examples of an annotated bibliography, a stand-along literature review journal article, and a literature review within an empirical study.
Edin, Kathryn. "What Do Low-Income Single Mothers Say about Marriage?" Social Problems 47, no. 1 (2000): 112-33. doi:10.2307/3097154. (just the introduction and lit review)
With a group, discuss one of the above sources, focusing on the following questions:
Can you find an example of theory mentioned in the text?
Can you find an example of a debate in the field described in the text?
How is it structured? Specifically, what headings do you see and how do they organize the content?
What purpose does this lit review or bibliography serve? Is it making an argument?
How are the different citations presented, and how are these sources related to each other?
Don't be stuck in the past. Try citation searching.
Scouring bibliographies is a great idea. But that will only find you older sources. What if you want newer sources?
Huge database of articles in science and social sciences. Will tell you who has cited a particular article.
SCOPUS offers coverage from 14,000 peer-reviewed titles from over 4,000 international publishers including 531 Open Access journals. in addition Scopus offers coverage of relevant scientific information on the Web, including author homepages, university sites, corporate information and other resources such as Preprint servers, CogPrints, ArXiv.org, OAI compliant resources, as well as the US Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO), the European Patent Office, the Japan Patent Office, the World Intellectual Property Organization and the UK Intellectual Property Office.
