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Intro to Women's and Gender Studies 

Course guide for Andrea Walsh's SP401: Introduction to Women's and Gender Studies
Last update: Oct 07th, 2008 URL: http://libguides.mit.edu/sp401  Print Guide  RSS Updates

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Finding Newspaper Articles

The databases listed below are great sources of newspaper articles. Note: Some resources only allow a set number of simultaneous users. If you can't get in, try your search again later.

  • Lexis Nexis Academic  
      
    Good source for newspaper and magazine articles. Allows you to limit your search to articles from online magazines.
  • Alternative Press Index  
      
    Covers many alternative, radical, and left publications that address political, economic, social and cultural issues.
  • Ethnic NewsWatch  
      
    A full-text collection of newspapers, journals and magazines published by ethnic and minority presses.
  • World News Connection  
    Contains full text and summaries of foreign newspaper and periodical articles and radio and television broadcasts in English translation. Allows 1 simultaneous user.
  • Factiva  
    Primarily a business database, but also provides access to many domestic and foreign newspapers and magazines such as NY Times, Washington Post, and Newsweek. Allows 5 simultaneous users.
 

Finding Scholarly Articles

I've included the databases below for those of you who wish to dig deeper into your topic.

  • Women's Studies International  
    Includes over 232,000 records from a variety of essential women's studies databases, including Women Studies Abstracts. Allows 1 simultaneous user(s)
  • Vera Multi-Search  
      
    Much like a search engine of search engines, Vera Multi-Search will search through several article databases at once to find you information. Click on "Databases by Subject" to get a list of databases for a specific field.
  • ProQuest Research Library  
      
    Covers many different subject areas and many different media, from scholarly journals to newspapers to magazine.
 
 

Questions?

Mark Szarko
Instruction Coordinator, Humanities Library
szarko@mit.edu
(617) 258-8022

 

Marlene Manoff
Women's Studies Librarian
mmanoff@mit.edu

 

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