Librarian
Alison Wessel
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Social Sciences Librarian
Research and Engagement Department
Request a consult: https://calendly.com/alisonwessel/60min
Research and Engagement Department
Request a consult: https://calendly.com/alisonwessel/60min
(302) 831-1730
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UD librarians are ready to support you as you're here working hard. Check out some of these key resources, chat with us using the Ask the Library box, or email your subject librarian, Alison Wessel. For all of our resources, visit library.udel.edu.
Exploring Your Topic
Spend several minutes exploring your topic using Google, Wikipedia, or the library reference databases linked below. To access the databases, use the “Connect to Resource” button and login with your UD credentials (just like email) if prompted.
- Credo Reference This link opens in a new windowOnline collection of encyclopedias, dictionaries, and other ready-reference books
- Opposing Viewpoints in Context This link opens in a new windowPro and con articles and other resources on social issues
Scan a few articles.
- List important or new vocabulary related to your topic.
- List people or groups impacted by your topic.
- What is something new or unexpected you discovered about your topic?
- What do you still want to find out? Make a list of questions (large or small) that you’d like to address through your research.
Finding Sources
Search in DELCAT for books and articles on your topic
- Use the CITE button to save the citation for sources you want to explore further.
- Use the SHARE button to save a link to the catalog record so you can get back to it quickly.
Identify subject databases related to your topic.
- Perform a search using different combinations of keywords you identified when exploring your topic.
- Note SUBJECT TERMS listed in articles of interest. Consider adding those into your search.
- Use the CITE tool on the source page to save citations of sources you want to explore further.
- Download the PDF of the articles you want to read.
TIP: The easiest way to get back to articles you didn't download but have the citation for is to paste just the title into the DELCAT search box. You can then download the article or use the SHARE button to save a stable link to get back to it.
Searching for Sources
- Sociological Abstracts This link opens in a new windowCitations, with abstracts, to journal articles on sociology and related disciplines
- PsycINFO This link opens in a new windowCitations, with abstracts, to publications on psychology and related disciplines
- Family and Society Studies Worldwide This link opens in a new windowCitations, with abstracts, to publications on research, policy, and practice in family science, human ecology, and human development
Multidisciplinary Databases
- JSTOR This link opens in a new windowFull text of core journals in the humanities, social sciences, and sciences
- Academic OneFile This link opens in a new windowComprehensive database of more than 8,000 journals, the majority in full text, covering all subject areas
- Web of Science This link opens in a new windowCitations, abstracts, and cited references to material published in scholarly journals in all subject areas
- Global Newsstream This link opens in a new windowProvides global news content from 2,500+ news sources, 1980s to present. Coverage varies by title.
- GenderWatch This link opens in a new windowContains a mixture of news sources as well as scholarly articles
- Ethnic NewsWatch This link opens in a new windowFull text of articles in ethnic, minority, and Native American periodicals
- Nexis Uni (formerly LexisNexis Academic) This link opens in a new windowFull text information from newspapers, legal publications, and other sources.
Explore the Newspapers research guide for other titles and collections.
- Statista This link opens in a new windowA statistics portal integrating over 80,000 diverse topics of data and facts from over 18,000 sources onto a single platform.
- ProQuest Statistical Insight This link opens in a new windowProQuest Statistical Insight provides abstracting, indexing, and full text for publications from hundreds of public domain and licensed sources.
- PolicyMap This link opens in a new windowPolicyMap is a cloud based data and mapping platform that facilitates the analyses of large amounts of data and quickly displays the data through maps, tables, charts and reports.
PolicyMap enables users to create maps and provides access to more than 37,000 indicators related to demographics, income/spending, housing, lending, quality of life, economy, education, health, jobs, crime, and education. The data is available across a wide range of geographies (address, block groups, census tract, zip code, county, city, state, MSA) in addition to school districts, HUD neighborhoods, and political boundaries.
- Gender Data Portal | World BankData on key gender topics from the World Bank, national statistics agencies, United Nations databases, and World Bank-conducted or funded surveys. Includes data on fertility, contraception, age at marriage, literacy, employment, health and other vital statistics.
- Archives of Sexuality & Gender This link opens in a new windowA significant collection of historical primary source publications relating to the history and study of sex, sexuality, gender research and gender studies research. Materials span the sixteenth to twentieth-first centuries. Documentation covering disciplines such as social, political, health, and legal issues impacting LGBTQ (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer) communities around the world are included, as well as rare and unique books on sex and sexuality from the sciences to the humanities.
- Women's Studies Archive This link opens in a new windowConnects archival collections concerning women’s history from across the globe and from a wide range of sources. Focusing on the evolution of feminism throughout the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, the archive provides materials on women’s political activism, such as suffrage, birth control, pacifism, civil rights, and socialism, and on women’s voices, from female-authored literature to women’s periodicals.
- Gender: Identity and Social Change This link opens in a new windowOffers three centuries of primary source material drawn from across the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom and Australia. From traditional constructions of femininity and masculinity, to the struggle for women’s rights and the emergence of the men’s movement, this resource documents three centuries of expansive developments in gender roles and relations.
Start your search in the above Google Scholar link so that you are identified as a UD student. This will display the Get It! links to articles held at the library.
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Log Your Research
- Research LogMicrosoft Word File
- Research LogGoogle doc - opens as a copy