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Resources for exploring topics and background information
- Gale eBooks This link opens in a new window
Gale EBOOKS is a collection of searchable subject encyclopedias and reference books from Gale Publishing and many other publishers.
- Daily Life of Women: An Encyclopedia from Ancient Times to the PresentThis reference book provides an overview of the daily life of women through history, and a timeline highlights key events in women's history. It draws upon a wide array of cultural settings and time periods in which women displayed agency by carrying out their daily economic, familial, artistic, and religious obligations.
- Encyclopedia of Women in Today's WorldLooks at women today and delves into contexts of being female in the 21st century. Focuses on women's status starting approximately in the year 2000 and going forward and covers the spectrum of defining women in the contemporary world.
Databases for finding articles
- Sociological Abstracts This link opens in a new windowSociological Abstracts provides access to U.S. and international literature on sociology and related disciplines and may be useful for research in social work and women and gender studies.
International in scope. - APA PsycInfo This link opens in a new window
Key database in the field of psychology. Includes information of use to psychologists, students, and professionals in related fields such as psychiatry, management, business, and education, social science, neuroscience, law, medicine, and social work.
- Academic Search Complete This link opens in a new window
Good database for most research topics and contains lots of full text, peer reviewed articles. More than 18,000 of the journal titles indexed are peer reviewed and almost all of the full text is. Provides searchable cited references for more than 1,000 journal titles so you can easily see what sources a given article cites.
Wondering how to find the full text of an article? Find it @ Ball State can help out. Here's more information about it.
Databases for locating primary sources
- Women's History Resources in Ball State Archives and Special CollectionsExplore women's issues close to home!
During the late 19th and 20th centuries, millions of American women of all classes, races, and ethnic backgrounds created and joined a wide variety of women’s organizations. Like-minded clubs created federations on the local, state, and national levels. The women of Muncie and Delaware County were active participants in that development, beginning with the organization of the Woman’s Club of Muncie in 1876. They created dozens of women’s organizations of all kinds.
- Gender: Identity and Social Change This link opens in a new window
According to the publisher Gender: Identity and Social Change provides access to primary resource materials "for the study of gender history, women’s suffrage, the feminist movement and the men’s movement." Materials reveal gender roles and relations during the 19th and 20th centuries. Some subjects included are women's suffrage, feminism, the body, sex and sexuality, domesticity and the family, employment and labor.
- Women and Social Movements in the United States, 1600-2000 (scholar's edition) This link opens in a new window
Women and Social Movements in the United States provides access to an online journal of the same name, a chronology of U.S. women's history, more than historical 4,000 documents, a dictionary of social movements, and book and website reviews. Documents include 90,000 pages of federal, state, and local publications on the status of women between 1961 and 2005. Other documents are articles, editorials, book chapters, speeches, biographical portraits, proceedings, ephemera, photographs, charts, and tables.
OneSearch: For finding books
- OneSearch This link opens in a new windowOneSearch is a tool that cross searches much of the content our databases and other online sources. You can search across many collections in one search box simplifying the resource discovery process.
To limit to just books, look under "Refine your search" for the "Physical Books in Library Catalog" limiter.
Database for finding documentaries
- Kanopy Streaming Films This link opens in a new window
Kanopy is a film database containing more than 30,000 films from more than 1,000 producers. It includes the Criterion Collection, Media Education Foundation, The Great Courses, News Day Films and more.
Note: Kanopy blocks video viewing on mobile devices in the device's native browser.
Find It @ Ball State: Helping you find the full text of the title you want
When you'
re using a database, and can't find a link to the full text of an article, look for a Find It @ Ball State button.
Find It helps you to search the Libraries' other databases and subscriptions to see if the full text is available through another resource.
- If it is available, Find It provides a link to the text of the article.
- If it cannot find the full-text, Find It provides a link to Interlibrary Loan so that you can request that we get a copy of the article from another library.
To use Find It, click on the red Find It @ Ball State button.
If we DO have full text access to the article, a page will be displayed with options for access under "Full Text Format Options." The typical options are:
- PDF: the file format reflecting the formatting for a printed page
- Link: taking you to the webpage version of the article
If we do NOT have immediate full text access to the article, the OneSearch record for the article will be displayed.
- Look under "Links" for "Request this item with InterLibrary Loan / ILLiad."
- Click there, and log in with your Ball State username and password.
- More information about placing an Interlibrary Loan request.
