1. Gender and Law
An Interdisciplinary Research Guide
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2. How to Get to Databases
Catalog search. Search
here for books and
journal titles.
This is the
discovery tool and
it’s good for very
broad searching of
books, articles and
more.
You may search in these
boxes but it’s better to
just click on search and
bring up the more full
featured search screen.
From the FSU Law
Research Center’s main
page:
www.law.fsu.edu/library
The name of the
discovery tool is
Serial Solutions
Summon.
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3. From the Main Library Page
This is the broad discovery
tool search. (Summon)
Florida State
University Library
http://www.lib.fsu.edu/
This is the catalog search.
This can be used to either
search for a database or
to use the A to Z list.
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4. Search for a Database
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5. A – Z List
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12. Back to the A-Z List
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13. GenderWatch
With archival material dating back to 1970, GenderWatch™
provides authoritative historical and current perspectives on the
evolution of gender roles as they affect both men and women.
GenderWatch supports gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender
(GLBT) studies; family studies; gender studies, and women's studies
with a unique interdisciplinary approach. Combining hundreds of
academic, gray, and popular literature titles, GenderWatch provides
researchers with hundreds of thousands of articles on wide-ranging
topics like sexuality, religion, societal roles, feminism, masculinity,
eating disorders, day care, and the workplace.
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14. GenderWatch – Subject Coverage
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Women studies
Men's studies
Evolution of the women's movement
Transgendered community
(Changes in) gender roles
Femininity
Gender differences
Gender equity
Gender identity
Gender studies
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16. GenderWatch – Advanced Search
• Supports basic Boolean searching
• AND, OR, NOT
Proximity searching
• Nursing NEAR/3 education
• Quotation marks for phrase searching
• Truncation and wildcard characters
• Col*or finds: colour, color
• Nurse? Finds: nurses, nursed
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17. • 23,000 academic and scientific journals
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Arts and Humanities Citation Index
Medline
Cab Global Health
Highly Cited
Journal Citation Reports
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18. Web of Knowledge - Sources
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31. Contemporary Women’s Issues (Gale)
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Multidisciplinary
Full Text
Includes “gray literature” and alternative press
http://search.rdsinc.com/texis/rds/sessions?pro
ducts=CWI
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36. Gale – Android and iPhone App
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37. Android – Gale App
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.cengage.mobile.amlcollegeedition.android&hl=en
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38. iPhone, iPad – Gale App
https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/accessmylibrarycollege/id395238743?mt=8
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