| Books
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How To Find Books and DVDs |
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To search for books or DVDs in our library, type your search terms in the box
below. If you type DVD in the box, you will mostly see DVDs in your
result list.
Books listed may be located at the UI Library, the UI Women's
Center (in Memorial Gym) the UI Law
Library, NIC (North Idaho College, Coeur d'Alene), and LCSC (Lewis-Clark
State College, Lewiston). Books from libraries not on the Moscow
campus can be ordered using the "request" button.
Books are shelved using the Library
of Congress classification scheme.
The location name for UI DVDs is UI Library Audiovisual
Collection. Write down the call number and request them at the
Library's Reserve Desk.
Electronic Books
Ebrary
The books in Ebrary are not yet in our catalog, so you may wish to search this database of electronic-only books through this link.
Below are some common subject terms and phrases to give you some ideas. You might try some of these terms,
perhaps in different combinations, to find books.
- Ambiguous genitalia
- Beauty, Personal Psychological aspects
- Bisexuals
- Body
image
- Body
image in adolescence
- Body image in men
- Coming out (sexual orientation)
- Communication sex differences
- Eating Disorders, Social aspects
- Feminism in (art, literature, etc.)
- Gay men
- Gender Identity
- Hermaphroditism
- Homosexuality
- Identity (Psychology)
- Language and languages sex differences
- Lesbianism
- Man-women relationships
- Masculinity
- Mass media and culture
- Mass media and teenagers
- Mass media influence
- Men in literature
- Nature and nuture
- Obesity
Social aspects
- Self-acceptance
- Self
esteem in women
- Sex change
- Sex determination, Genetic
- Sex differences
- Sex discrimination against women
- Sex preselection
- Sex role in literature
- Sex Roles
- Sexual behavior
- Sexuality
- Stereotype
in mass media
- Transsexuals
- Women's rights
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| Articles |
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Articles
are found in periodicals. Examples of periodicals are magazines,
journals, and newspapers. Scholarly (also called peer-reviewed or
refereed) journals are one of the primary means of disseminating ideas
in academic scholarship.
What are
the differences: scholarly journals, popular magazines and trade
journals?
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How To Find
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Articles are located by searching for your topic in an article database (sometimes called an article index). First,
select an appropriate database from the Library Find Articles
page or choosing one of those listed below. After selecting a database to search, type in search terms. Articles
are generally more specific than books and may require a narrower
search.
IMPORTANT SEARCH TIP: If you are not getting the results you want from
your search:
- Try different search terms or different combinations of terms
- Try a different database
Some more terms or phrases you
may find useful: anorexia nervosa, binge eating, body
dissatisfaction, body image disturbance, body size, cosmetic
surgery, depression (mental), gender, mass media, obesity
psychological aspects, plastic surgery, stereotype (psychology),
television advertising, self-perception
Example of an efficient
search:
- (television or media): the parentheses and OR allow you to include more
terms in one search
- The * is a wildcard, so you will find tee
 nager or teenagers
- AND requires that the concepts of oral history and gay/lesbian
sexual orientation are BOTH present in the resulting articles.
- The quotes require that the words are found as a phrase
- Article Linker
If the article in a database is not available in full text, click on the link or symbol for “Article Linker” to find out if the library has the journal and/or article available either in print or online or to request a copy of the article by Interlibrary Loan.
- In EbscoSearch, "gender analysis" or "gender
studies" could be used as subject terms with your own keywords to
find scholarly analyses.
- In the Ebsco databases, you can check a limit box to limit to scholarly journals. It reduces your results, but won't eliminate the news or editorial articles that may appear in journals.
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Selected Article Indexes for
Sex and Culture: Body Image
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Recommended Article Database Titles and
Descriptions |
| EbscoSearch A good general database of
both scholarly and popular articles in almost all subject areas,
many full text or with links to full text. An excellent
starting place. You can limit your search to scholarly journals by
checking a box under "Limit your results" called
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| Lexis
Nexis A full text database with many newspaper articles and
radio transcripts included (as well as legal and business
information). You can also search campus newspapers by
choosing the tab "Guided News Search" then the pulldown
"University News." |
| More subject specific databases |
| American Humanities Index A database of mostly
scholarly articles, many full text, in American literature, history
and the arts. |
| CQ
Researcher An excellent and reliable source for overviews
of many social and ethical topics. Each week the publication
explores a topic in depth. Broaden your topic to see what is
available. Full text. |
| Health
Source: Nursing/Academic Edition Articles focusing on medical
and health issues. Use this to explore medical aspects of your
topic. Some are full text. |
| Health
Source: Consumer Edition Use this to get more popular articles
focusing on health or medical aspects. Some are full text. |
| JSTOR: A collection of the back issues of full text
older scholarly journals. No issues in the last 3 years are included. |
| Lewiston
Morning Tribune Archives Find full text of local news articles back to 1990. To access articles, enter the username
"UIL" and password "1011738". |
| Polling
the Nations Gives questions and results of polls on various
topics. You may want to browse the list of topics and choose a
broader aspect of your topic. |
| Psychology
and Behavioral Sciences Collection For mostly scholarly
sources that deal with the psychology of gender issues. Many
full text articles. |
| ProjectMuse: A full text collection of some fairly
recent scholarly journals in the humanities and some in the social sciences. |
| Religion and Philosophy Collection A database of
mostly scholarly articles, many full text, covering topics
related to religious studies and philosophy. |
| Sociological Abstracts: Scholarly international index
for the broad field of sociology. Contains other types of
publications besides journals, including dissertations and book
chapters, but you can choose "journals" by choosing a
tab. Default search is a phrase search so use Boolean
"and" to separate terms. Our library will not own all the
articles. Use the "Locate article" link to determine if we
have access to the article. |
| Social
Sciences Databases More article databases related to the social
sciences (especially more scholarly ones) can be chosen and searched
from this list. |
| Other Useful Databases |
| Google
Scholar Google has a specific search that take you to a variety
of more scholarly publications (not just articles, but many types of
documents). It is much less defined than the databases above.
Some items retrieved are not strictly scholarly. Searching it
results in a scatter of publications, all of which need to be
scrutinized. However, it is an impressive resource, sometimes
pulling up articles not found elsewhere, old and new.
Sometimes you will see a link called "U Idaho Article
Linker" to determine if the UI Library has the journal. |
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| Government
Information |
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Government publications come from state, federal, and foreign governments, as
well as intergovernmental organizations like the United Nations. Government documents are a great place to look for statistical information.
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Selected Government
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| Internet
Resources |
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Information on the Internet ranges from the free web to electronic books,
journals, etc. that the library pays for. The Internet is a wonderful source
for many different types of information. It is important to remember that
anyone can publish something on the web and it is critical to evaluate your
source carefully. The library's Website
Evaluation Criteria or Applying
the CRAAP Test can help you choose reliable information.
Besides doing searches on www.google.com
(or Google Scholar http://scholar.google.com)or other search engines, you can use subject lists that have evaluated web
sites before inclusion: Librarians' Index to the Internet, lii.org
, the Internet Public Library at www.ipl.org,
and Infomine (scholarly sources) at http://infomine.ucr.edu/
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Selected Internet Resources for
Sex and Culture: Gender issues
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Sex and Culture