SWMS 410: Senior Seminar in Gender Studies: Resources

Search Strategies

The Advance Search will allow you to combine multiple words and concepts. Use AND, OR, NOT to connect your phrases/keywords

to locate both morality AND norms

to locate either word discourse OR commentary

NOT will retrieve the first word, debate NOT argument

Example

Legin

AND

gender

AND

"science fiction"

  • Try combining multiple keywords using AND to narrow your searches. Example: LeGuin AND Gender
  • Use OR to broaden your searches and find like terms. Example "Science Fiction" AND (Queer OR Gay OR Homosexual)
  • Quotation marks typically find words as a phrase in many of our databases
  • For scholarly journal articles, look for the subject terms and keywords the article is indexed with to find other similar sources
  • Once you find one source you like, review citations to find other authors in conversation with your topic.

Types of sources:

Peer Review Journals, Magazines, Books, Case Studies, Conference Proceedings, Newspapers

Databases