Course Guide

Course:

WMST 302, ALL AMERICAN WOMEN: A MULTICULTURAL APPROACH

Librarian:  

Cynthia Wright Swaine, cswaine@odu.edu, 757-683-4185


Off-Campus Access:

When you select an electronic resource (database, journal, etc.) from off campus, you will be prompted to enter your student ID number. Use your 8 digit University ID Number (UIN). After entering the number, you will see two security screens. Click "yes" to proceed through them on to your chosen resource. For fuller instructions, click here .


Key Resources:

* Databases:

- America: History and Life (covers US and Canada)
- Contemporary Women's Issues (maximum of 4 ODU users at any one time)
- Historical Abstracts (covers the world except for US and Canada)
- General OneFile(formerly InfoTrac OneFile)
- Gerritsen Collection (historical materials 1543-1945)
- Sociological Abstracts

* Other:

- A variety of excellent reference books related to women are located in the Perry Library Reference Department in the HQ classification.
- Specific books and videos can be located by going to the library catalog and doing a search by keyword, author, title, etc.

> For more good resources for women's studies, click here.

>To use the interlibrary loan service, click here.

Search Tips:

To refresh your memory and learn more about search strategy, truncation, wildcards, Boolean searching, phrase searching, limiters, etc. click here.

Other Information:

Remember: when you know the title of a particular journal you want, from the library's homepage at http://www.lib.odu.edu, look for the heading "Resources." Then click on "Journal, magazines & newspapers." In the search box, type in the name (title) of the journal (not the article title). You will get links to online versions of the journal (when available) and also information about where to find a print copy in the library (assuming the library subscribes to it).