The GSU Library buildings are closed until further notice due to the coronavirus pandemic.
**NEW!!** Access to our print books is currently available through curbside pickup (on the Atlanta and Dunwoody campuses).
Click here for information on arranging for curbside pickup.
Special Collections & Archives continues to be closed to researchers; please contact them at archives@gsu.edu for assistance.
We current cannot provide physical materials (i.e. books) via GIL Express or Interlibrary Loan.
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But all of our electronic resources remain open!
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And you can still get help!
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Use keyword searching in the GSU library catalog (called GILFind) (for books) and in relevant databases (for articles). Brainstorm different keywords for your topic and see what happens.
Use Boolean searching (AND, OR, NOT) to expand or narrow your searches. (What's Boolean searching again? Learn more here.)
When you find a relevant item, click on the record and look for subject terms. Clicking on a subject term will bring up other related items.
Try your keywords and subject terms in other databases, and see what you find!
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Looking for books?
This guide focuses on finding articles. For more information on searching for books (especially complicated during the coronavirus emergency!) please consult the Books tab on the general Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies guide. I can also help you with book searching!
For useful lists of Women's Studies journals, use these links:
Click here for a full list of the secondary- and primary-source databases held by the GSU Library.
Women's Studies is interdisciplinary!
These databases are broad, interdisciplinary article databases.
Don't forget to check related research guides to find additional databases for your topic. To see all of our databases, use our A-Z list.
These databases focus on specific social-science disciplines. To search more broadly, try the databases in the "General Articles Databases" box.
You can also use the dropdown "Find by Subject" box in the Articles / Databases tab to identify relevant databases by subject.
Subject-specific research guides can also help you find more databases for your topic.
Many databases give you only a citation telling you where to find the article, not the article itself.
This button is often a shortcut to the full article text in another database:
Click the Find It @GSU button to open a window with links to the article you need.
If the GSU Library does not have access to an electronic copy of the article, we may have a copy in print.
If that fails, try searching for the journal title in GIL-Find, or use the "Journals" tab.
If the GSU Library does not have a print or electronic version of the article, use Interlibrary Loan (ILL) to request it from another library.
Lost? Stuck? Too many options? Ask a Librarian for help, or contact your History Librarian!
If you find a journal article or book chapter that is available at the GSU Library in print only, you have two options:
To fill out an Interlibrary Loan request, start here.
This offer applies only to journal articles and book chapters and not to whole books.
For more information about Desktop Delivery, click here.
The Library of Congress Classification Outline gives an overview of what the different letters and letter combinations used in call numbers mean!
Most academic libraries (i.e. colleges and universities) use the Library of Congress Classification Outline, so once you've begun to recognize which letter/number combinations seem relevant to you, you can use that combination at any other college/university library.
I mentioned this book in class -- it's a study of how the Library of Congress has classified homosexuality and related terms. Very interesting study on how subject terms evolve:
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