Penn State - Brandywine - Vairo Library
Women’s Studies 100 - News & Research Databases
To connect to the databases below: (a) Go to the Vairo Library (http://www.libraries.psu.edu/Brandywine)
(b) Click on: DATABASES to go to the DATABASES BY TITLE List (c) Click on the database name.
Ø Topic Overview/Background Information : Books
The CAT
The CAT is a database of resources in the Penn State University Libraries. In The CAT, you can: search all Penn State libraries or a single location, limit search results by format, request books online (I WANT IT button).
Ø News and Research
ProQuest
Multidisciplinary database including articles from over 5,000 popular and scholarly publications. Display results by periodical type: Scholarly Journals, Magazines, Trade Publications, Newspapers.
PsycINFO
The most comprehensive database for psychology and related disciplines. Includes journal articles, book chapters, books, technical reports, and dissertations. More than 1,300 periodicals written in over 25 languages.
Sociological Abstracts
Indexes the international literature in sociology. Includes citations and abstracts of journal articles, books, book chapters, dissertations, and conference papers.
Medline (PubMed)
National Library of Medicine’s premier bibliographic database. Indexes research journals in the fields of medicine, nursing, dentistry, the health care system, and the preclinical sciences.
Women's History Online, 1543-1945 (Gerritsen Collection)
Full text database focuses on the impact of gender across a broad spectrum of subjects. Publications include scholarly journals, magazines, newspapers, newsletters, books, conference proceedings, & special reports.
Contemporary Women’s Issues
Provides access to full text sources covering global information on women. Include periodicals, newsletters, reports, factsheets, & pamphlets. Topics range from human rights to health and reproductive issues to legal issues.
Women’s Studies International
Provides access to over 232,000 records drawn from ten important Women's Studies databases, including Women's Resources International, Womens Studies Abstracts, Popline Subset on Women, and Women's Health and Development.
Women and Social Movements
Includes books, images, audiofiles, documents, scholarly essays, commentaries, and bibliographies on women’s social movements from colonial times to the present.
Ø - Full Text Articles Online
provides direct links from a citation in a database to online full-text of an article (when available). When full text is not available, the Get it! button provides a link to request an item via Interlibrary Loan (ILLiad).
Ø ILLiad – Photocopy Requests
ILLiad provides free photocopies by electronic desktop delivery. Connect to ILLiad through a link in the Get it! window, or go directly to ILLiad at https://ill.libraries.psu.edu/
-- Log in with your ACCESS ID and password. If prompted, complete a personal profile to register.
-- Since ILLiad is web-based, you can check on the status of your requests and renew or cancel requests as needed. Plan Ahead! Processing and delivery of your requests may take 5-7 days.
Penn State - Brandywine - Vairo Library
Women’s Studies 100 - News & Research Databases
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Ø Did You Remember To:
§ Confirm your library registration?
Go to the Vairo Library circulation desk to have your “privilege extended.” This procedure will allow you to place holds on items in the CAT using I WANT IT.
§ Create a Free netLibrary Account?
Go to netLibrary from the Databases By Title List and click on “create a free account” in the upper right corner. Once your netLibrary account is created, you can log in to view the full text of e-books in netLibrary.
§ Register with ILLiad?
Go to ILLiad, (https://ill.libraries.psu.edu) log in with your Penn State ID and Password, and complete the Registration Form. When you are registered, links to ILLiad from a Get It! Window will automatically complete photocopy request forms for articles that are not full text in Penn State databases.
§ Ask the Vairo Library Staff or the Virtual Reference Service for Help?
Susan, Mary Fran, and Sara at the Vairo Library or the Penn State librarians covering the Virtual Reference Service will be happy to answer your questions and help you with search strategies. Don’t be surprised if you are helped by one of us through Virtual Reference, too!