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Books & Media
Search the Library Catalog to find books, video's, government publications and journal titles. The catalog can be searched by author, title, keyword or subject and contains the holdings of Connecticut College as well as Trinity College and Wesleyan University. To search for books and media outside of the local catalog, use WorldCat.

Subject Headings and Call Numbers for Gender and Womens Studies:
Listed below are selected broad subject headings that can be used to search the Library Catalog or possibly other databases, for materials related to Gender and Women's Studies. General call numbers for locating books are listed for each subject heading. The use of more specific subject headings or keywords is recommended for most topics. 

Due to the interdisciplinary nature of this subject, books on Gender and Women’s Studies can be found in many areas of the library.  A short list of general encyclopedias on this topic follow.  These encyclopedias provide a great starting place for any Gender and Women’s Studies research paper.

REF HQ 1115 .E52 2001
Encyclopedia of women and gender: sex similarities and differences and the impact of society on gender
Judith Worell, editor-in-chief

REF HQ 1180 R43 1998
Reader’s guide to women’s studies
Eleanor B. Amico, editor

REF HQ 1115 .R69 2000
Routledge international encyclopedia of women: global women’s issues and knowledge
Cheris Kramarae and Dale Spender, general editorsVol. 1 Ability to Education: globalizationVol. 2 Education: Health to HypertensionVol. 3 Identity politics to publishingVol. 4 Quakers to Zionism. Index

REF HQ 1115 .W6425 1997
Women’s issues
Margaret McFadden, consulting editor

REF HQ 1115W645 1999
Women’s studies encyclopedia
Helen Tierney, editor

Other resources for locating information on books and media include:
Books in Print
Book Review Digest

Style Manuals
A collection of style manuals and writing guides are kept on the shelf behind the reference desk. Information is also available from the Citation Guides for Print and Electronic Resources page.

Databases & Indexes
A full listing of all scholarly databases is available grouped by subject or listed alphabetically.

Contemporary Women's Issues (via FirstSearch)
Provides full-text access to global information on women in over 150 countries. Indexes books, journals, newsletters, research reports from non-profit groups, government and international agencies, and fact sheets.

Social Science Abstracts (via WilsonWeb) 
An index to articles in scholarly journals in the social sciences, covering publications from 1984 to the present. Provides broad coverage in the social sciences including anthropology, area studies, community health and medical care, economics, family studies, minority studies, planning and public administration, policy sciences, psychology, social work and public welfare, sociology, urban studies, women's studies, and related subjects.

Sociological Abstracts
A comprehensive, index with citations and abstracts to worldwide findings in theoretical and applied sociology, social science, and policy science. Entries cover sociological aspects of broad topics including anthropology, collective behavior, community development, medicine and health, racial interactions, and social psychology. Indexing begins in 1963.

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Internet Resources
http://www.library.wisc.edu/libraries/WomensStudies/core/coremain.htm
The Core Lists of books in women’s studies provided by the Association of College and Research Libraries.  This provides an amazing list of bibliographies on all topics dealing with women’s studies, written by librarians who are experts in this field.

http://vos.ucsb.edu/browse.asp?id=2711
This is the “gender” portion of Voice of the Shuttle, a site dedicated to research in the Humanities.  VoS is woven by Alan Liu and a development team in the University of California, Santa Barbara English Department.  This provides a huge assortment of links to organizations, collections, and study guides.

http://www.library.yale.edu/rsc/women/
Yale University’s “Women’s Studies Research Guide.” This is a nice guide to Yale’s collection on this topic plus links to other sources.

e-Journals
A complete listing of full text electronic journals is located on the Library homepage under the Journal Locator link.

Assistance
For assistance in locating or using these or other sources, please contact the Reference Desk or schedule an appointment for a Personalized Research Session.

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