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
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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
- GenderWatch This link opens in a new windowInterdisciplinary database on all issues related to gender. Publications include academic and scholarly journals, magazines, newspapers, newsletters, regional publications, books, booklets and pamphlets, conference proceedings, and government, NGO and special reports.
- MLA International Bibliography with Full Text This link opens in a new windowCore database in the field of literature, languages, and linguistics.
- Project MUSE This link opens in a new windowInterdisciplinary database with full text copies of scholarly journals in the humanities and social sciences.
- ProQuest Research Library This link opens in a new windowInterdisciplinary database focusing on core scholarly journal articles.
- JSTOR This link opens in a new windowA growing full text collection of core social science, humanities, and science journals and books.
- Women's Studies International This link opens in a new windowThis is an index to the core disciplines in women's studies and feminist research. Coverage includes more than 586,600 records and spans from 1972 to present. Over 2,000 periodical sources are represented.
- LGBTQ+ Source This link opens in a new windowProvides scholarly and popular LGBTQ+ publications in full text, plus historically important primary sources, including monographs, magazines, newspapers and videos. It also includes a specialized LGBTQ+ thesaurus containing thousands of terms. A collection of 200 videos from the nonprofit organization "I’m From Driftwood" provides first-person accounts from those in the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer community. Provided by EBSCO.
- Race Relations in America This link opens in a new windowBased at Fisk University from 1943-1970, the Race Relations Department and its annual Institute were set up by the American Missionary Association to investigate problem areas in race relations and develop methods for educating communities and preventing conflict. Documenting three pivotal decades in the fight for civil rights, this resource showcases the speeches, reports, surveys and analyses produced by the Department’s staff and Institute participants, including Charles S. Johnson, Dr Martin Luther King, Jr., and Thurgood Marshall. The resource is provided by Adam Matthew.
- Black Studies Center This link opens in a new windowThe Black Studies Center provides access to several resources at once: Schomburg Studies on the Black Experience, International Index to Black Periodicals (IIBP), 10 historical African American newspapers, Black Literature Index and 100 oral history videos in History Makers.
- Film & Television Literature Index with Full Text This link opens in a new windowThe definitive online tool for film and television research.More Info It is a comprehensive bibliographic and full-text database covering the entire spectrum of television and film.
- PolicyFile This link opens in a new windowThe database can be browsed by primary contributor or thematically and all abstracts have been linked to Home Pages, electronic mail addresses and full text documents, where available.
- Education Full Text (H.W. Wilson) (EBSCO) This link opens in a new windowSubject coverage includes adult education, multicultural/ethnic education, teaching methods and much more...
- Social Science Research Network This link opens in a new windowAccess to scholarly articles, abstracts and working papers in the social sciences including many Marshall faculty.
- PsycINFO This link opens in a new windowAbstract and citation database of scholarly literature in psychological, social, behavioral, and health sciences. Includes journal articles, books, reports, theses, and dissertations from 1806 to present.
- America: History & Life with Full Text This link opens in a new windowThe definitive index to articles and other literature (books, dissertations, book reviews, etc.) covering the history and culture of the U.S. and Canada, from the 15th century to the present. Indexes nearly 1,800 journals from 1860s to present, including all key journals in the discipline, state and local history publications, and selected articles from scholarly journals in the social sciences and humanities.
- Historical Abstracts with Full Text This link opens in a new windowHistorical Abstracts with Full Text is a full-text database covering world history (excluding the United States and Canada) from ancient times to the present. It includes hundreds of history journals and books, plus useful features such as the ability to search by time period. Provided by EBSCO.
- PsycINFO This link opens in a new windowAbstract and citation database of scholarly literature in psychological, social, behavioral, and health sciences. Includes journal articles, books, reports, theses, and dissertations from 1806 to present.
- JSTOR This link opens in a new windowA growing full text collection of core social science, humanities, and science journals and books.
- Statista This link opens in a new windowStatista is one of the first statistic portals in the world to integrate data on over 80.000 topics from over 18.000 sources onto a single professional platform and providing companies, business customers, research institutions, and the academic community with direct access to quantitative data on media, business, finance, politics, and a wide variety of other areas of interest or markets.