Women's & Gender Studies

This guide will provide an overview for how to research Women's and Gender Studies topics using the library. It covers finding background reference sources, searching for print and ebooks, finding scholarly articles, and has a collection of free web resources. If you have any questions about where and how to search, please visit us in the library or use one of the Research Assistance boxes located on each page. 

Use these to improve your database and catalog searching.

AND

• Searches for results with all words
• smoking AND cancer

OR

• Searches for results with either search word
• If combined with AND, words connected by OR need to be in parenthesis
• Great for synonyms and related concepts: (smoking OR tobacco) AND cancer

Quotations

• Combines multiple words into one search term
• Great for names: "Martin Luther King"