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European Women & Gender since 1650 Professor Tilburg Spring 2005 Reference Works Primary Sources General Search Tools Periodicals Other Examples Secondary Sources Finding Books Finding Articles History Related Disciplines Electronic Journal Collections Tips & Further Help Questions? Please contact Susanna Boylston (704.894.2494). Reference Works Biographies | General Works on History | Culture & the Arts | Women, Gender, & Women's History Biographies Biography Reference Bank. H.W. Wilson, 2003- . Feminist Writers. Ed. Pamela Kester-Shelton. Detroit, MI: St. James Press, 1996. Reference R 928 F3291 Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. ed. H.C.G. Matthew and Brian Harrison. 60 vols. New York: Oxford Univ. Press, 2004. Reference R 920 N2111 Women: A Modern Political Dictionary. Cheryl Law. New York: I.B. Tauris, 2000. Reference R 305.42 L415w Women in World History: A Biographical Encyclopedia. Ed. Anne Commire. 17 vols. Waterford, CT: Yorkin Publications, 1999. Reference R 920.7 W872 General Works on History The Columbia Dictionary of European Political History since 1914. Ed. John Stevenson. New York: Columbia Univ. Press, 1992. Reference R 940.28 C726 Dictionary of 20th Century European History. Edward Townley. Chicago, IL: Fitzroy Dearborn, 1999. Reference R 940.5 T746d Encyclopedia of the Enlightenment. Ed. Alan Charles Kors. 4 vols. New York: Oxford Univ. Press, 2002. Reference R 940.25 E56 Encyclopedia of the Enlightenment. Ed. Michel Delon. Trans. Gwen Wells. 2 vols. Chicago: Fitzroy Dearborn, 2001. Reference R 940.25 D554-T Europe 1450-1789: An Encyclopedia of the Early Modern World. Ed. Jonathan Dewald. 6 vols. New York: Scribner's, 2004. Reference R 940.2 E89 Europe since 1945: An Encyclopedia. Ed. Bernard Cook. 2 vols. New York: Garland, 2001. Reference R 940.55 E892 Historical Dictionary of the Enlightenment. Harvey Chisick. Lanham, MD: Scarecrow, 2005. Reference R 940.25 C542h International Historical Statistics: Europe, 1750-2000. B.R. Mitchell. 5th ed. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2003. Reference R 314 M681e5 The European Population, 1850-1945. Franz Rothenbacher. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2002. Reference R 304.6 R846e British History Britain in the Hanoverian Age, 1714-1837: An Encyclopedia. Ed. Gerald Newman. New York: Garland, 1997. Reference R 942.07 B862 The Cambridge Historical Encyclopedia of Great Britain and Ireland. Ed. Christopher Haigh. New York: Cambridge Univ. Press, 1985. Reference R 942 C1781 The Encyclopedia of Britain. Farmington Hills, MI: Gale, 1999. Reference R 942 E56 Historical Dictionary of London. Kenneth J. Panton. Lanham, MD: Scarecrow, 2001. Reference R 942.1 P198h Historical Dictionary of Stuart England, 1603-1689. Ed. Ronald Fritze and William Robison. Westport, CT: Greenwood, 1996. Reference R 942.06 H673 Twentieth-Century Britain: An Encyclopedia. Ed. Fred Leventhal. Rev. ed. New York: Peter Lang, 2002. Reference R 942.082 T971 Victorian Britain: An Encyclopedia. Ed. Sally Mitchell et al. New York: Garland, 1988. Reference R 942.08 V645 French History Historical Dictionary of France from the 1815 Restoration to the Second Empire. Ed. Edgar Leon Newman. 2 vols. Westport, CT: Greenwood, 1987. Reference R 944.06 H673 Historical Dictionary of Napoleonic France, 1799-1815. Ed. Owen Connelly. Westport, CT: Greenwood, 1985. Reference R 944.04 H6731 Historical Dictionary of Paris. Alfred Fierro. Trans. Jon Woronoff. Lanham, MD: Scarecrow, 1998. Reference R 944.36 F465h-T Historical Dictionary of the French Revolution, 1789-1799. Ed. Samuel F. Scott and Barry Rothaus. 2 vols. Westport, CT: Greenwood, 1985. Reference R 944.04 H673 Historical Dictionary of the French Second Empire, 1852-1870. Ed. William E. Echard. Westport, CT: Greenwood, 1985. Reference R 944.07 H673 Historical Dictionary of the French Fourth and Fifth Republics, 1946-1991. Ed. Wayne Northcutt. Westport, CT: Greenwood, 1992. Reference R 944.082 H673 Historical Dictionary of the Third French Republic, 1870-1940. Ed. Patrick H. Hutton. 2 vols. Westport, CT: Greenwood, 1986. Reference R 944.08 H673 Historical Dictionary of the Wars of the French Revolution. Steven T. Ross. Lanham, MD: Scarecrow, 1998. Reference R 944.04 R826h German History Dictionary of German History, 1806-1945. Wilfried Fest. New York: St. Martin's, 1978. Reference R 943 F418d Encyclopedia of the Third Reich. Ed. Christian Zentner and Friedemann Bedürftig. Trans. Amy Hackett. 2 vols. New York: Macmillan, 1991. Reference R 943.086 G878-T A Historical Dictionary of Germany's Weimar Republic, 1918-1933. Ed. C. Paul Vincent. Westport, CT: Greenwood, 1997. Reference R 943.085 V773h Modern German: An Encyclopedia of History, People, and Culture, 1871-1990. Ed. Dieter K. Buse and Juergen C. Doerr. 2 vols. New York: Garland, 1998. Reference R 943.08 M689 Italian History Dictionary of Modern Italian History. Ed. Frank J. Coppa. Westport, CT: Greenwood, 1985. Reference R 945 D554 Historical Dictionary of Modern Italy. Mark F. Gilbert and K. Robert Nilsson. Lanham, MD: Scarecrow, 1999. Reference R 945.08 G464h Spanish History Historical Dictionary of Modern Spain, 1700-1988. Ed. Robert W. Kern. New York: Greenwood, 1990. Reference R 946.003 H673 Historical Dictionary of the Spanish Civil War, 1936-1939. Ed. James W. Cortada. Westport, CT: Greenwood, 1982. Reference R 946.08 H673 Historical Dictionary of the Spanish Empire, 1402-1975. Ed. James S. Olson. New York: Greenwood, 1992. Reference R 914.6 H673 Culture & the Arts Dictionary of Art. Ed Jane. Turner 34 vols. New York: Grove’s Dictionaries, 1996. Reference R 703 D554 Encyclopedia of Contemporary French Culture. Ed. Alex Hughes and Keith Reader. New York: Routledge, 1998. Reference R 914.4 E56 Encyclopedia if Contemporary German Culture. Ed. John Sandford. New York: Routledge, 1999. Reference R 306 E563 Encyclopedia of Contemporary Spanish Culture. Ed. Eamonn Rodgers. New York: Routledge, 1999. Reference R 946.08 E56 Encyclopedia of Modern French Thought. Ed. Christopher John Murray. New York: Fitzroy Dearborn, 2004. Reference R 944.08 E56 The Feminist Encyclopedia of French Literature. Ed. Eva Martin Sartori. Westport, CT: Greenwood, 1999. Reference R 840.9 F329 The Feminist Encyclopedia of German Literature. Ed. Friederike Eigler and Susanne Kord. Westport, CT: Greenwood, 1997. Reference R 830.9 F359 The Feminist Encyclopedia of Spanish Literature. Ed. Janet Pérez and Maureen Ihrie. 2 vols. Westport, CT: Greenwood, 2002. Reference R 860.9 F329 French Culture and Society: The Essentials. Ed. Michael Kelly. New York: Oxford Univ. Press, 2001. Reference R 944 F873 French-Speaking Women Film Directors: A Guide. Janis L. Pallister. Madison, NJ: Fairleigh Dickinson Univ. Press, 1997. Reference R 791.43 P163f Guide to French Literature. Anthony Levi. 2 vols. Detroit, MI: St. James Press, 1992-1994. Reference R 840.3 L664g International Dictionary of Art and Artists. Ed. James Vinson. 2 vols. Chicago: St. James Press, 1990. Vol. 1 (Artists): Reference R 927 I61 Vol. 2 (Art): Reference R 709.2 I61 International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers. Ed. Tom Pendergast and Sara Pendergast. 4th ed. 4 vols. Detroit: St. James Press, 2000. Reference R 791.43 I611 2000 The New Oxford Companion to Literature in French. Ed. Peter France. New York: Oxford Univ. Press, 1995. Reference R 840.3 N532 Nineteenth-Century European Art: A Topical Dictionary. Terry W. Strieter. Westport, CT: Greenwood, 1999. Reference R 709.03 S917m Nineteenth-Century French Fiction Writers: Romanticism and Realism, 1800-1860. Ed. Catharine Savage Brosman. Detroit, MI: Gale, 1992. [Dictionary of Literary Biography vol. 119] Reference R 928.1 D554 v.119 Reference Guide to World Literature. Ed. Sara Pendergast and Tom Pendergast. 3rd ed. 2 vols. Detroit, MI: St. James Press, 2003. Reference R 809 R332 Women Artists: An Historical, Contemporary, and Feminist Bibliography. Sherry Piland. 2nd ed. Metuchen, NJ: Scarecrow, 1994. Reference R 016.7 P637w Women, Gender, & Women's History A Bibliography of Prostitution. Ed. Vern Bullough et al. New York: Garland, 1977. Reference R 016.3 B582 British Women's History: A Bibliographical Guide. Comp. June Hannam et al. New York: St. Martin's, 1996. Reference R 016.305 H243b Encyclopedia of Feminist Theories. Ed. Lorraine Code. New York: Routledge, 2000. Reference R 305.42 E56 Encyclopedia of Russian Women's Movements. Ed. Norma Corigliano Noonan and Carol Nechemias. Westport, CT: Greenwood, 2001. Reference R 305.42 E561 Encyclopedia of Women and Gender. Ed. Judith Worell. 2 vols. San Diego, CA: Academic Press, 2001. Reference R 305.4 E56 Gender and Sexuality in Renaissance and Baroque Italy: A Working Bibliography. Patricia Simons. Syndey, Australia: Univ. of Syndey, 1988. Reference R 016.3054 S611g Historical Dictionary of Feminism. Janet Boles and Diane Long Hoeveler. 2nd ed. Lanham, MD: Scarecrow, 2004. Reference R 305.42 B688h International Encyclopedia of Women's Suffrage. June Hannam et al. Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO, 2000. Reference R 324.62 H243i Routledge International Encyclopedia of Women. Ed. Cheris Kramarae and Dale Spender. 4 vols. New York: Routledge, 2000. Reference R 305.4 R869 Women in Russia and the Soviet Union: An Annotated Bibliography. Rochelle Goldberg Ruthchild. New York: G.K. Hall, 1993. Reference R 016.3054 R974w Women in Western European History: A Select Chronological, Geographical, and Topical Bibliography. Ed. Linda Frey et al. 2 vols. New York: Greenwood, 1982- . Reference R 016.3 F8931w Supplement: Reference R 016.3 F8931w Supp. The Women's Movement in the Seventies: An International English-Language Bibliography. Albert Krichmar. Metuchen, NJ: Scarecrow, 1977. Reference R 016.3 K92wo The Women's Suffrage Movement: A Reference Guide, 1866-1928. Elizabeth Crawford. New York: Routledge, 2001. Reference R 324.62 C899w Locating Primary Sources General Search Tools | Periodicals | Other Examples General Search Tools Library Catalogue To locate primary sources, do a keyword search and add one or more of the following words:    sources    correspondence    diaries    personal narratives To locate travel literature, do a keyword search and add "travel and description" to your search terms. For more details, see below. WorldCat To locate primary sources, do a keyword search and add one or more of the following words:    sources    correspondence    diaries    personal narratives To locate travel literature, do a keyword search and add "travel and description" to your search terms. Note: Rare and archival materials cannot be borrowed on interlibrary loan. You can sometimes locate microfilm or microfiche copies of these documents in WorldCat; try doing an advanced search, enter your keywords or subject terms, and then apply a "subtype limit," choosing "Microform" as the format. For more details, see below. Periodicals L'Illustration: Journal Universel. Paris, 1843-1944. Library has: 1914-1919 Little Library Permanent Reserve: Ask at Circulation Desk The Periodical Press in Liberated Paris: A Survey and Checklist. Otis Fellows. Syracuse, NY: Syracuse Univ. Press, 1946. Reference R 016.05 F32p Women's Periodicals: 18th Century to the Great Depression [microfilm] This collection contains over 55 titles; please note that each periodical is separately catalogued and separately shelved in the regular alphabetical sequence in the microfilm cabinets. Titles include: Le Bulletin Continental / Fédération Britannique et Continentale pour l'Abolition de la Prostitution (1875-1901) L'Action Féminine: Bulletin Officiel du Conseil National des Femmes Francaises (1909-1917) Guides:    Unit 1 (Economics ; Social & Political Issues): Reference R 016.05 W872 v.1    Unit 2: Reference R 016.05 W872 v.2    Unit 3 (Fashion ; Literature & the Arts ; Religion): Reference R 016.05 W872 v.3 19th-Century Masterfile Indexes articles in 479 British and American periodicals published in the nineteenth century. Note: The print version of Poole's Index to Periodical Literature (1802-1906), which is part of 19th-Century Masterfile, is available in the Reference Index Area at call number R 050 P82. PCI: Periodical Contents Index (c. 1770-1995 [publication date of articles indexed]) Indexes journal and magazine articles as well as book reviews in a broad array of humanities, social sciences, and science subjects.    Search Syntax     Truncation: use an asterisk *.     Phrase searching: automatic. Newspapers To locate newspapers on microfilm in the E.H. Little Library, do a keyword search in the Library Catalogue for the word "newspapers" and then limit by date and by material type "newspapers." You can also limit by language if you wish. To identify other newspapers that might be available on interlibrary loan, consult WorldCat and one of the following tools. Note that we can only borrow microfilm copies of newspapers. Foreign Newspapers Held by the Center for Research Libraries. Comp. Kristine Smets and Adriana Pilecky-Dekajlo. 2 vols. Chicago: Center for Research Libraries, 1992. Vol. 1: Title List Vol. 2: Geographical List Reference R 016.07 C397f Newspapers in Microform: Foreign Countries, 1948-1972. Washington, DC: Library of Congress, 1973. Reference R 016.07 N581nf Note: Ignore the "1948-1972" in the title of this work; this volume lists foreign newspapers published in the eighteenth, nineteenth, and twentieth centuries. LexisNexis Academic (Approx. 1980 to present) Includes the full text of articles from local, national, and international newspapers, magazines, and trade journals as well as the text of newswires, patents, legal documents, and transcripts of radio and television broadcasts. Note: To locate international newspaper articles, search the "World News" or "Non-English Language News" categories.    Search Syntax     Truncation: use an exclamation point.     Phrase searching: use double quotation marks " ".     Wildcard: use an asterisk *. The [London] Times (1785 to present) [microfilm] Index: Reference Index Area R 070 T58 New York Times Available online (1851-2001): Historical Newspapers: The New York Times Available on microfilm (1851 to present) Index (1851 to present): Reference Index Area R 071 N53 Personal Name Index: Reference Index Area 071 N53p Other Examples ARTFL (1700 to approx. 1960) Provides the full text of nearly 2,000 French literary, philosophical, scientific and technical texts; most are from the eighteenth, nineteenth, and twentieth centuries, although there are some medieval, Renaissance, and seventeenth-century texts. Includes novels, verse, essays, correspondence, treatises, journalism, and theatrical texts. ARTstor A collection of over 300,000 images covering art, architecture, and archaeology from a wide range of cultures and time periods as well as tools to manipulate and analyze those images. For technical requirements, see the Quick Start Guide. Bluestocking Feminism: Writings of the Bluestocking Circle, 1738-1785. Ed. Gary Kelly. 6 vols. London: Pickering & Chatto, 1999. Little Library Stacks 820.8 B658 Colette: An Annotated Primary and Secondary Bibliography. Comp. Donna M. Norell. New York: Garland, 1993. Reference R 016.84 C694n Conduct Literature For Women Conduct Literature for Women, 1640-1710. Ed. William St. Clair and Imgard Maassen. 6 vols. London: Pickering & Chatto, 2002. Little Library Stacks 170.8 C7461 Conduct Literature for Women, 1720-1770. Ed. Pam Morris. 6 vols. London: Pickering & Chatto, 2004. Little Library Stacks 170.8 C7462 The Cultural Identity of Seventeenth-Century Woman: A Reader. Ed. N.H. Keeble. New York: Routledge, 1994. Little Library Stacks 305.409 C968 Early English Books Online (EEB0) (1475-1700) Includes over 125,000 books, pamphlets, broadsides, proclamations, almanacs, and other publications printed in Great Britain, Scotland, Wales, Ireland, and British North America from the fifteenth through the seventeenth centuries. Note: Does not include periodicals or newspapers. To print more than one page of a document, you need to click in the "Add this record to your Marked List" box, then click "Marked List" and choose the option "View a complete list of the Document Image sets available for this record to download in PDF format." Finally, select the page numbers you want. Downloading can take several minutes, depending on the size of the document. Once the images are downloaded, use the print option in Adobe Reader. Eighteent-Century British Midwifery. Ed. Pam Lieske. 8 vols. London: Pickering & Chatto, 2007-2008. LC Stacks RG950.E37 European Women: A Documentary History, 1789-1945. Ed. Eleanor S. Riemer and John C. Fout. New York: Schocken Books, 1980. Little Library Stacks 301.41 E89 Female Education in the Age of Enlightenment. 6 vols. Brookfield, VT: Pickering & Chatto, 1996. Little Library Stacks 305.409 F329 Les Femmes: Rare Works from France on Microfiche from the Bibliothèque Nationale A collection of 127 titles dating from the seventeenth to the twentieth centuries. The Library has only 27 of these titles. To identify them, do a "Series title" search for "Femmes rare works." Titles include: Les Vierges Folles. Alphonse Esquiros. Paris, 1840. Microfiche Cabinet A-2 French Popular Lithographic Imagery, 1815-1870. Beatrice Farwell. 2 vols. Chicago: Univ. of Chicago Press, 1981-1982. Library has: vol. 2 769.94 F247f v.2 French Travellers in the United States, 1765-1932: A Bibliography. Frank Monaghan. New York: Antiquarian Press, 1961. Reference R 016.917 M734f Literature Online Note: Use the following full-text databases to identify relevant works by British writers, but be sure to consult and cite authoritative print editions of the works in your paper. The databases do contain some textual errors; you'll need to verify the texts. English Poetry Contains the fully-searchable text of over 160,000 English poems dating from the 8th century to the early 20th century. Twentieth-Century English Poetry Contains the fully-searchable text of poetry by 283 poets from 1900 to the present day. Homosexuality in Early Modern France: A Documentary Collection. Ed. Jeffrey Merrick and Bryant T. Ragan, Jr. New York: Oxford Univ. Press, 2001. 306.76 H7685 Parliamentary Debates [Great Britain] 1803-1846: Little Library Stacks 328.42 G78pa Ser. 1-3 1861-1868: Little Library Stacks 328.72 G78pa Ser. 1-3 1884-1888: Little Library Stacks 328.72 G78pa Ser. 1-3 1963-2003 (House of Commons): Little Library Stacks 328.42 pa-c 1963-2003 (House of Lords): 328.42 G78pa-L The Red Virgin: Memoirs of Louise Michel. Ed. Bullitt Lowry and Elizabeth Ellington Gunter. University, AL: Univ. of Alabama Press, 1981. 923.244 M623m-T Sur les femmes en France au dix-huitième siècle: un âge de ténèbre.Colette V. Michael. Lewiston, NY: Edwin Mellen, 2006. LC Stacks HQ 1149.F8 M53 2006 Les Tracts Féministes au XVIIIe siècle. Collete Michael. Geneva: Slatkine, 1986. 305.42 T759 The United Nations and the Advancement of Women, 1945-1996. Rev. ed. New York: Dept. of Public Information, United Nations, 1996. Reference R 341.1 U58bLu Varieties of Women's Sensation Fiction, 1855-1890. Ed. Andrew Maunder. 6 vols. London: Pickering & Chatto, 2004. Little Library Stacks 823.09 V2991 Victorian Women: A Documentary Account of Women's Lives in Nineteenth-Century England, France, and the United States. Ed. Erna Olafson Hellerstein et al.. Stanford, CA: Stanford Univ. Press, 1981. 305.4 V645 Women in Revolutionary Paris, 1789-1795: Selected Documents. Trans. Darline Gay Levy et al. Urbana, IL: Univ. of Illinois Press, 1979. 301.31 W872 Secondary Sources Finding Books | Finding Articles Finding Books Library Catalogue Includes information about books, government documents, and journals, magazines, and newspapers in the Library. Note: To locate appropriate Library of Congress Subject Headings, start with a keyword search and then browse records. To locate works about a person, do a subject search for the person's name (last name first). To locate bibliographies on a person or topic, do a keyword search and add the following: su bibliography.    Search Syntax     Truncation: use a dollar sign $.     Phrase searching: use double quotation marks " ".     Wildcard: use a question mark ?. WorldCat Indexes books, periodicals, and other materials held by libraries around the world. Search WorldCat to identify additional books on your topic and then order the books on interlibrary loan. Note: It can be helpful to identify relevant Library of Congress Subject Headings in the Library Catalogue first; you can then do a subject search in WorldCat to find additional items with these subject headings.    Search Syntax     Truncation: use an asterisk *.     Phrase searching: insert a "w" between the words in a phrase (for example, "cold w war").     Wildcard: use a question mark ?. Finding Articles History | Related Disciplines | Electronic Journal Collections History Historical Abstracts (1450 to present [historical time period covered]; 1954 to present [publication date of articles and books indexed]) Indexes scholarly articles, review of scholarly books, and doctoral dissertations on world history, excluding the history of the U.S. and Canada.    Search Syntax     Truncation: use an asterisk *.     Phrase searching: use double quotation marks " ".     Wildcard: use a question mark ?.     Time period searches: search by decade or century only.         To search for a decade, use the format xxxxD (example: 1940D).         To search for a range of decades, use the format xxxxD xxxxD or the format xxxxD OR xxxxD.         Note: For more than five decades, search by century (see below).         To search for a century, use the format xxxxH (example: 1900H).         To search for a range of centuries, use the format xxxxH xxxxH. Humanities Abstracts (1907 to present [publication date of articles indexed]) Indexes journal articles and some book reviews on all humanities subjects, including history, classics, art, archeology, literature, philosophy, and religion.    Search Syntax     Truncation: unnecessary when using "All - Smart Search"; otherwise, use an asterisk *.     Phrase searching: use double quotation marks "".     Wildcard: do not use with "All - Smart Search"; otherwise, use a question mark ?. ITER: Gateway to the Middle Ages and Renaissance (400-1700 [historical time period covered]; 1842 to present [publication date of articles and books indexed]) Indexes scholarly articles and books on topics related to the Middle Ages and Renaissance.    Search Syntax     Truncation: use a dollar sign $.     Phrase searching: use double quotation marks " ".     Wildcard: use a question mark ?. PCI: Periodical Contents Index (c. 1770-1995 [publication date of articles indexed]) Indexes journal and magazine articles as well as book reviews in a broad array of humanities, social sciences, and science subjects.    Search Syntax     Truncation: use an asterisk *.     Phrase searching: automatic. Social Sciences Abstracts (1907 to present [publication date of articles indexed]) Indexes journal articles and some book reviews on all social sciences subjects, including history, political science, international relations, law, economics, area studies, gender studies, anthropology, psychology, and sociology.    Search Syntax     Truncation: unnecessary when using "All - Smart Search"; otherwise, use an asterisk *.     Phrase searching: use double quotation marks "".     Wildcard: do not use with "All - Smart Search"; otherwise, use a question mark ?. Women Studies Abstracts Reference Index Area R 050 W872 (1972 to present) Indexes popular articles, scholarly articles, and books on all aspects of women's studies, including history, education, gender, literature, religion, and art. Essay & General Literature Index (1985 to present) Indexes chapters and essays in edited collections.    Search Syntax     Truncation: unnecessary when using "All - Smart Search"; otherwise, use an asterisk *.     Phrase searching: use double quotation marks "".     Wildcard: do not use with "All - Smart Search"; otherwise, use a question mark ?. Related Disciplines ATLA Religion Database (1949 to present) Indexes journal articles and essays related to world religions, church history, and Biblical studies; also includes some book reviews. ATLA has a strong focus on Western religions.    Search Syntax     Truncation: use an asterisk *.     Phrase searching: automatic.     Wildcard: use a question mark ?. Contemporary Women's Issues (1992 to present) Indexes popular articles, scholarly articles, books, newsletters, and reports on all aspects of women's studies, including gender, sociology, education, political science, and health.    Search Syntax     Truncation: automatic.     Phrase searching: automatic. PAIS International (1937 to present [publication date of articles indexed]) Indexes journal articles, books, government documents, and conference papers in political science, public affairs, and economics. To locate articles from previous years, consult Public Affairs Information Service Bulletin, 1915-1972, shelved in the Reference Index Area at call number R 050 P976.    Search Syntax     Truncation: use an asterisk *.     Phrase searching: automatic.     Wildcard: use a question mark ?. 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