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The Cornell University Library Gateway is the Library's homepage on the World Wide Web. The Gateway lists information about the CU Library and provides access to library resources and services.
For background information
A searchable collection containing 100 reference sources including subject dictionaries, encyclopedias, biographical sources and quotations. Contains over 150,000 entries of facts, words, concepts, and people.
Focusing on the psychological aspects of gender, articles include explanations of terms and concepts and lists of recommended readings.
Includes entries on Images of Women, Television, and Stereotypes. Articles conclude with references for further reading.
A searchable database of back-of-the-book indexes to subject encyclopedias and other reference works in a wide variety of subject areas. Search the contents of more than 6,000 reference titles. To locate items held at Cornell (books, journals*, etc.) *Note: See Databases, below, for information on finding articles in journals.
Search by title in the Library Catalog: From the Library Gateway, choose the Library Catalog:Enter the first several words of the title. Leave off leading articles such as "a" or "the". For example, to find Sex and the slayer : a gender studies primer for the Buffy fan type, Sex and the Slayer
Note the library location and call number. Check a stacks directory to locate the call number in the stacks. To find related titles, open the Long View of the record for the item and click on the Subject Heading links.
Search by keyword in the Library Catalog: The Guided Keyword search is another approach to finding materials on a topic.
From the Basic Search, select the Guided Keyword Search tab:
Don't forget! When you find titles that look promising, click on the Long View button to see the Subject Headings links. Searching by Library of Congres Subject Heading in the Library Catalog. A Subject Heading search relies on a controlled vocabulary -- the Library of Congress Subject Headings. As outlined above, one way to identify useful subject headings is to start with either a Title search or a Guided Keyword search. Once you have found a promising title, click the Long View button to view the subject headings.
Periodical indexes (databases) identify and locate the articles published in magazines, journals and newspapers. Many databases also index essays, book chapters and monographs. Some databases provide the complete article online (the full-text). When full-text articles are not provided, click on the Get it! Cornell link to determine if the library owns the periodical you need, or search the Library Catalog directly for the book or journal title.
Recommended Databases General Periodical indexes:
Provides indexing, abstracts (summaries) and some full-text. Includes over 200 linguistics journals. Indexes and abstracts general interest magazines and scholarly journals in the social sciences, humanities and sciences. Many articles are available full-text. Specialized Indexes:
Good coverage of media topics. Follow the Get it! Cornell links to locate the journal (either online or in print, here in the library).
GenderWatch is a full text database of publications that focus on the impact of gender across a broad spectrum of subject areas. The database provides in-depth coverage of the subjects that are uniquely central to women’s lives, including family, childbrith, birth control, daycare, domestic abuse, work and the workplace, sexual harassment, aging, aging parents, body image, eating disorders and social and societal roles.
IIPA Full Text covers a broad spectrum of the arts and entertainment industry--including dance, film, television, drama, theater, stagecraft, musical theater, broadcast arts, circus performance, comedy, storytelling, opera, pantomime, puppetry, magic and more. Each full text in the file contains an abstract.
An index to scholarly articles from over 4000 journals dealing with languages, literature, folklore and linguistics
Includes social psychology and group interactions, as well as women’s studies.
Provides citations and some abstracts to the core areas of Women’s studies. The Find it! feature on the Library Gateway Using Find it!, you can do a simple search in 4 general resources or you can select a list of subject-specific databases to search. For more precise searching, it's best to search the databases individually. See the Recommended Databases above.
Requesting items not available at Cornell Borrow Direct BorrowDirect is a book request and delivery system that enables Cornell faculty, staff, and students to request items from the combined collections of Brown, Columbia, Dartmouth, University of Pennsylvania, Princeton and Yale. If an item is available through BorrowDirect, delivery can be expected in approximately 4 days. Please note: BorrowDirect can only be used for books and printed music. For journals, see Interlibrary Loan, below. Interlibrary Loan Services Please note: Unlike BorrowDirect, Interlibrary Loan cannot be used for a book the library owns, even if the book is currently checked out to another user. Evaluating the sources you find is a crucial step in the process of scholarly research. The questions you ask about books, periodical articles, or multimedia sources are similar whether you're looking at a citation to the item or have the item in hand.
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