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Gender and Law . An Interdisciplinary Research Guide. How to Get to Databases. From the FSU Law Research Center’s main page: www.law.fsu.edu/library. Catalog search. Search here for books and journal titles.
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Gender and Law An Interdisciplinary Research Guide
How to Get to Databases From the FSU Law Research Center’s main page: www.law.fsu.edu/library Catalog search. Search here for books and journal titles. This is the discovery tool and it’s good for very broad searching of books, articles and more. The name of the discovery tool is Serial Solutions Summon. You may search in these boxes but it’s better to just click on search and bring up the more full featured search screen.
From the Main Library Page This is the broad discovery tool search. (Summon) Florida State University Library http://www.lib.fsu.edu/ This is the catalog search. This can be used to either search for a database or to use the A to Z list.
Summon Discovery Facets
GenderWatch With archival material dating back to 1970, GenderWatch™ provides authoritative historical and current perspectives on the evolution of gender roles as they affect both men and women. GenderWatch supports gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender (GLBT) studies; family studies; gender studies, and women's studies with a unique interdisciplinary approach. Combining hundreds of academic, gray, and popular literature titles, GenderWatch provides researchers with hundreds of thousands of articles on wide-ranging topics like sexuality, religion, societal roles, feminism, masculinity, eating disorders, day care, and the workplace.
GenderWatch – Subject Coverage • Women studies • Men's studies • Evolution of the women's movement • Transgendered community • (Changes in) gender roles • Femininity • Gender differences • Gender equity • Gender identity • Gender studies
GenderWatch– Advanced Search • Supports basic Boolean searching • AND, OR, NOT Proximity searching • Nursing NEAR/3 education • Quotation marks for phrase searching • Truncation and wildcard characters • Col*or finds: colour, color • Nurse? Finds: nurses, nursed
23,000 academic and scientific journals • Databases include • Arts and Humanities Citation Index • Medline • Cab Global Health • Highly Cited • Journal Citation Reports
Contemporary Women’s Issues (Gale) • Multidisciplinary • Full Text • Includes “gray literature” and alternative press • http://search.rdsinc.com/texis/rds/sessions?products=CWI
Android – Gale App https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.cengage.mobile.amlcollegeedition.android&hl=en
iPhone, iPad – Gale App https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/accessmylibrarycollege/id395238743?mt=8