GEOG 9: Women, Gender and Science

CONTENTS:

1. Finding Books, Journals and More
2. Finding Articles in Magazines, Journals, and Newspapers
3. Finding Statistical Data and Other Information
4. Helpful Internet Resources
5. Managing Your References
6. Getting Items Not Available at Dartmouth
7. Getting Help

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1. Finding Books, Journals, and More

Search the Dartmouth library catalog at http://libcat.dartmouth.edu/, or link to it from the Library's home page. Use the catalog to locate books, journals, newspapers, videos, and other items in the collections of all the Dartmouth libraries. Search by subject (using Library of Congress subject headings) or keywords. You can also search by author, or by title.

Search examples:

Find books by Sue Rosser [use Author search, last name first.]
An author can also be a committee or an institution: National Research Council (U.S.). Committee on Women in Science and Engineering.

Find books about women and the sciences [Keyword search, using AND];
Women in Science [Subject search]

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2. Finding Articles in Magazines, Journals, and Newspapers

Indexes help you find articles of interest in journals, magazines and newspapers. In most indexes you can search by keyword or by specific subject; by author, by article title; by the journal or magazine name, or any combination of these fields. Some indexes cover hundreds of journals and many subjects, while others cover a narrow subject or many years of a single journal. (How do I choose an index or database?)

Selected indexes relevant to the general sciences and to social science topics are listed here. (Search or browse the Library's eResources for a complete listing of online article indexes, databases, and other electronic resources licensed by Dartmouth.).
Another strategy is to try Search 360 to search multiple article databases with one search.

Academic Search Premier
A large, multi-disciplinary article database with full text from thousands of mostly scholarly publications. Coverage varies; contains material back to 1975. Indexes articles from the Chronicle of Higher Education and the New York Times as well as many general science and social science scholarly journals.

JSTOR
Contains the complete archives of core scholarly journals in several disciplines, digitized and fully searchable from the first issues, in many cases dating back to the 1800s. Search in individual journals or disciplines, or across collections such as Feminist & Women's Studies, History of Science & Technology, General Science, Education. Note that the most recent 5 years of JSTOR journals are not generally searched.

Wilson Web Databases: These can be searched separately or together.

General Science Abstracts (WilsonWeb)
Indexes about 197 popular science and multidisciplinary journals,including: Ambio, Science, Scientific American, Nature, American Scientist, PNAS. Also indexes articles on science topics from the New York Times. Covers 1984- present.
Social Sciences Abstracts (WilsonWeb)
Indexes about 500 journals in the social sciences, including Women's Studies Quarterly, Women's Studies International Forum, The Sociological Quarterly, and Gender and Society. Covers 1984-present.

Web of Science
Web of Science indexes about 8000 journals in all subject areas. This index is unique in that it tells you who has cited a particular paper, which is useful as a way to find related papers, and to track the influence of a particular paper. You can also search by topic, and the index is very up-to-date. Especially strong in the sciences and interdisciplinary fields. Coverage varies; journals in the social sciences are indexed back to 1956; science journals back to 1900.

Women's studies international
A suite of ten databases, indexing books, articles, conference papers, government reports, and non-print resources from 1972-present.

3. Finding Statistical Data and Other Information

• Statistical Universe
  http://web.lexis-nexis.com/statuniv/

Statistical Universe is a guide to federal, state, private, and international statistical sources in print and in electronic forms. Includes full text and complete tables of many of the federal tables indexed. PowerTables provides a good starting point for your research or a quick look-up for statistics on a particular topic. Search the Abstracts for access to a much broader collection of statistical material from many sources, such as non-profit organizations, journals and trade publications.

How to cite information found through LexisNexis Statistical Universe

• National Science Foundation
  http://www.nsf.gov/

• • Women, Minorities, and Persons with Disabilities in Science & Engineering: 2002
    http://www.nsf.gov/sbe/srs/nsf03312/start.htm
    Also see the series page for related publications: past issues, a bibliography (literature review) of readings on gender and science, and more:
    http://www.nsf.gov/sbe/srs/women/start.htm
  • Science & Technology Pocket Data Book http://www.nsf.gov/sbe/srs/nsf00328/htmstart.htm
  • Science and Engineering Indicators 2002
    http://www.nsf.gov/sbe/srs/seind02/start.htm
  • NSF Publications & Data
    http://www.nsf.gov/sbe/srs/pubdata.htm
• US Census Bureau
  http://www.census.gov/
  • Statistical Abstract of the US
    http://www.census.gov/prod/www/statistical-abstract-us.html

4. Helpful Internet Resources

More links of interest:

• The Association for Women in Science (AWIS) has a resource page entitled

  Women in Science: Statistics
  http://www.awis.org/news/statistics.html
  This page gathers a number of statistics sources which may be of use in discussion of women in science. Much of the data comes from the National Science Foundation, with additional information from a variety of sources.

• The Committee on Women in Science and Engineering (CWSE) was established in 1991 as a standing committee of the National Research Council (NRC). CWSE's mandate is to coordinate, monitor, and advocate action to increase the participation of women in science and engineering. Reports, research data, and other publications are available at the site.

• The Scout Report Archives
  A searchable and browseable collection of over seven years' worth of critical annotations of selected Internet sites, mailing lists, and other online resources. Try Advanced Search using subject terms (e.g., women in science).

• DMOZ Open Directory Project: Society: People: Women: Science and Technology.
  Contains many links to organizations and associations committed to the role of women in science. Further divisions include links relating to specific branches of science (women in physics, in mathematics etc.) and to historical and organizational sites.

5. Managing Your References

The Dartmouth Writing Program provides an online resources page for students to help you with all aspects of composition.

The Student Center for Research, Writing & Information Technology (RWIT) trains student tutors to assist with paper topics, research assignments and multimedia projects.

Style guides provide accepted standards to follow when preparing research papers for publication. Sources is the Dartmouth College general guide to citing sources, and contains required reading about plagiarism and when, and how, to cite material you are using for a paper or presentation.

Reference management programs allow you to build a personal database of your references to articles, books, websites - any information source - and then easily create bibliographies and reference lists using any particular style, without having to retype or reformat. See this overview of reference management programs widely used at Dartmouth.

RefWorks
RefWorks is a web-based reference management program that allows users to create their own personal database of references by importing references from online article databases. RefWorks makes it easy to search, sort, and cite these references in writing papers and then to automatically format the paper and the bibliography. To get started with RefWorks, go to http://www.refworks.com and click on the "User Login" button on the menu bar. Then click on the "Sign up for an Individual Account" link and fill out the form. RefWorks in-context help, or the online tutorial, will guide you through the basics. See the overview for details on importing citations from various article databases into RefWorks.

6. Getting Items Not Available at Dartmouth

BORROW DIRECT: Delivers books from the combined library catalogs of Brown, Columbia, Cornell, the University of Pennsylvania, Princeton, and Yale within 4 business days.

Please fill out the DartDoc Form for documents that are in Storage or that are not in the Dartmouth Library system (Interlibrary Loan requests). See the Document Delivery webpage for more details on these services.

You can also use the Request Selected Item feature of the Library Catalog to request books or articles from Storage.

7. Getting Help: Map, Hours, Assistance

Map of the libraries & Library Hours

Getting Started with Library Research
A quick review of the basics

Ask A Kresge-Cook Librarian

Accessing Electronic Resources from Off-Campus

"Life Cycle" of Scholarly Information slide

For assistance with any part of your research project please contact:
Jane Quigley, Reference Librarian, Kresge Physical Sciences Library, 6-3564
Ann Perbohner, Reference Librarian, Kresge Physical Sciences Library, 6-3845
Arun Sannuti, Reference Librarian, Kresge Physical Sciences Library, 6-9958

Email: Kresge.Library.Reference@Dartmouth.EDU

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