Librarian
Alison Wessel
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Contact:
Social Sciences Librarian
Research and Engagement Department
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Research and Engagement Department
Request a consult: https://calendar.app.google/ZGdznSTQPVoGdHqS6
(302) 831-1730
50 Feminist Texts
- Biography in Context This link opens in a new window
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Biographical information on people from throughout history, around the world, & across all disciplines & subject areas. - Literature Resource Center This link opens in a new window
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Up-to-date analysis, biographical information, overviews, full-text literary criticism, & reviews on more than 130,000 authors & their works in all disciplines, all time periods, & from around the world. - Credo Reference This link opens in a new window
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Articles from encyclopedias, dictionaries, & other reference books. Covers all major academic areas. An excellent place to start when learning the basics of any topic. Will help focus your topic, find keywords & people, & discover more in-depth books & articles. Images, audio & video files are included.
- Global Newsstream This link opens in a new windowRecent global news content, as well as archives. Content from newspapers, newswires & news sites in full-text format. Provides large collections of news from the U.S., Canada, Europe, Africa, Asia, Latin America & Australia.
(Coverage: 1980 --) - New York Times (NYTimes.com) This link opens in a new windowThis subscription allows you to simply go to nytimes.com and log in using an individual account. You can also use that account to access the New York Times app.
How to get an account: 1. Go to accessnyt.com 2. Search for and click the listing for “University of Delaware”. 3. Follow the steps based on whether you are On or Off Campus. 4. Attention Chrome users! You will get a security warning. Please go ahead and click ignore!
Important note: If you already have an nytimes.com account, you will need to log out of your personal accounts (if registered to a non-UD email address) or cancel your subscriptions (if registered to a UD email) before authenticating through the library's subscription. - MLA International Bibliography This link opens in a new window
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Citations for articles, books, book chapters, & more. When available, includes links to full-text resources from the library & in open access publications. Covers a range of humanities subjects, including world languages & literatures, linguistics, dramatic arts, film, folklore, rhetoric & writing, teaching of language, & history of publishing. (Coverage: 1926 --)
- GoodreadsGoodReads offers millions of book reviews contributed by its community members which include librarians, journalists, and many other readers.
- Barnes and NobleBarnes and Noble includes professional book reviews with the descriptions of many of the books it sells.
- AmazonAmazon.com offers book reviews of many of the book titles it sells. Some reviews are by professionals; many are by readers. Find a book and scroll down its entry to read the reviews, where present. For balance, try a variety of positive and negative reviews.
- GenderWatch This link opens in a new window
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Full-text collection of international journals, magazines, newsletters, regional publications, special reports & conference proceedings devoted to women’s & gender issues. (Coverage: mid-1970s --) - Women's Studies International This link opens in a new window
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Bbliographic database for women’s studies & feminist research. A valuable resource for many disciplines, including sociology, history, international relations, humanities. - Sociological Abstracts This link opens in a new window
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Indexes the international literature of sociology & related disciplines in the social & behavioral sciences. (Coverage: 1952 --) - JSTOR This link opens in a new windowFull text of core journals in the humanities, social sciences, and sciences
- Google Scholar This link opens in a new window
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Partial Open Access. Search engine specifically for scholarly publications. You can access the full-text of articles from open access & preprint publications, but you must be logged in to your UDel email account in order to access subscriptions provided by the UD Library.