Gender and Women's Studies

Collection Description

mphillip@library.berkeley.edu (Margaret Phillips) — Tue, 19 Mar 2013 13:32:18 -0700

The UC Berkeley Library maintains a research-level collection in Gender and Women's Studies which supports the research and teaching programs not only of the Department of Gender and Women's Studies (GWS) but of many other disciplines, interdisciplinary programs and professional schools. Gender and Women's Studies at Berkeley "offers interdisciplinary perspectives on the formation of gender and its intersections with other relations of power, such as sexuality, race, class, nationality, religion, and age. Questions are addressed within the context of a transnational world and from perspectives as diverse as history, sociology, literary and cultural studies, postcolonial theory, science, new technology, and art." The UC Berkeley Library also supports research for the Designated Emphasis in Women, Gender and Sexuality (DEWGS) graduate program.

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Purchase Recommendation

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You can suggest items that the Library should consider purchasing. Use the Purchase Recommendation form to submit your suggestion.

Conditions of Use

mphillip@library.berkeley.edu (Margaret Phillips) — Mon, 18 Mar 2013 14:57:34 -0700

The Library subscribes to thousands of ejournals, ebooks and other databases for use by authorized users (current faculty, students and staff and, in most cases, on-site visitors). The terms and conditions for using these resources are set out in license agreements with each publisher; these agreements generally prohibit users from systematic or programmatic downloading, downloading entire issues of journals, or from transmitting licensed content to unauthorized users (i.e. posting an article on a publically available website).

For more information see the Library's Conditions of Use for Online Resources.

Connecting from off campus

mphillip@library.berkeley.edu (Margaret Phillips) — Mon, 18 Mar 2013 14:57:41 -0700

Before you can access UCB Library resources from off campus or via your laptop or other mobile devices, make sure you have configured your machine using one of two simple methods (Proxy Server is the quickest and easiest):

Proxy Server
After you make a one-time change in your web browser settings, the proxy server will ask you to log in with a CalNet ID when you click on the link to a licensed resource. See the setup instructions, FAQ, and Troubleshooting pages to configure your browser. Make sure you check the proxy configuration before you start researching.

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After you install and run the VPN "client" software on your computer, you can log in with a CalNet ID to establish a secure connection with the campus network.

Article databases

mphillip@library.berkeley.edu (Margaret Phillips) — Tue, 19 Mar 2013 13:33:56 -0700

News databases

mphillip@library.berkeley.edu (Margaret Phillips) — Tue, 19 Mar 2013 13:34:12 -0700

Library Catalogs

mphillip@library.berkeley.edu (Margaret Phillips) — Mon, 11 Feb 2013 10:22:01 -0800

Use OskiCat to locate materials related to your topic, including books, government publications, and audio and video recordings, in the libraries of UC Berkeley. OskiCat will show you the location and availability of the items that we own.

Use Melvyl to locate materials related to your topic located at other campuses in the UC system. Melvyl also allows you to expand your search to libraries worldwide. Clicking on the REQUEST button in the detailed view of a catalog record prompt you to fill out a form to request the item through our Interlibrary Loan office.

Search the catalogs

mphillip@library.berkeley.edu (Margaret Phillips) — Mon, 11 Feb 2013 10:22:15 -0800

ebrary = ebooks

mphillip@library.berkeley.edu (Margaret Phillips) — Mon, 11 Feb 2013 10:23:24 -0800

ebrary is our largest collection of full text ebooks, with almost 80,000 titles on a wide range of subjects. Find them in the UCB catalog, OskiCat (keyword: ebrary or limit to "Available Online"), or search the ebrary site directly:

eBooks Collections

mphillip@library.berkeley.edu (Margaret Phillips) — Tue, 19 Mar 2013 09:42:19 -0700

The Library offers over 100 e-book and e-text collections in specific subject areas.

ebrary (80,000+ online books)
Gutenberg-e (ebooks selected by the American Historical Association)
Humanities E-Book Project (humanities)
Oxford Scholarship Online (political science, religion, philosophy)
Social Theory (full text of the works of major social theorists)
Springer Electronic Book Package (Melvyl only; sciences and social sciences)
Complete list from the Electronic Resources Finder

Faculty publications

mphillip@library.berkeley.edu (Margaret Phillips) — Tue, 19 Mar 2013 13:37:03 -0700

Selective list of books authored by GWS faculty held in the UC Berkeley Library.

Conditions of Use

mphillip@library.berkeley.edu (Margaret Phillips) — Mon, 18 Mar 2013 14:57:34 -0700

For more information see the Library's Conditions of Use for Online Resources.

Connecting from off campus

mphillip@library.berkeley.edu (Margaret Phillips) — Mon, 18 Mar 2013 14:57:41 -0700

VPN (Virtual Private Network)
After you install and run the VPN "client" software on your computer, you can log in with a CalNet ID to establish a secure connection with the campus network.

About eJournals

mphillip@library.berkeley.edu (Margaret Phillips) — Mon, 18 Mar 2013 14:58:00 -0700

This is a selective list. Access to most of these journals is restricted to current students, faculty and staff. For a complete list of eJournals go to Electronic Journals A-Z. Also included in this list are selected open access titles.

eJournals

mphillip@library.berkeley.edu (Margaret Phillips) — Mon, 18 Mar 2013 16:10:11 -0700

Biographical sources

mphillip@library.berkeley.edu (Margaret Phillips) — Tue, 19 Mar 2013 13:41:18 -0700

Selective list of print resources including biographical dictionaries and resources with significant biographical information. For online resources see the Electronic Resource Finder: Biographical Resources.

Statistics and Numeric Data

mphillip@library.berkeley.edu (Margaret Phillips) — Tue, 19 Mar 2013 13:41:33 -0700

Selective list of print resources that provid tables of numeric information and other statistics. For online resources go to Electronic Resource Finder: Statistics and Numeric Data (Gender and Women's Studies).

Encyclopedias and Dictionaries

mphillip@library.berkeley.edu (Margaret Phillips) — Tue, 19 Mar 2013 13:41:45 -0700

Subject-specific encyclopedias in print. For online resources, see Electronic Resource Finder: Encyclopedias (Gender and Women's Studies).

Organizations

mphillip@library.berkeley.edu (Margaret Phillips) — Tue, 19 Mar 2013 13:42:01 -0700

Selective list of gender and women's studies associations, learned societies, or professional organizations.

Web Gateways

mphillip@library.berkeley.edu (Margaret Phillips) — Tue, 19 Mar 2013 13:42:14 -0700

Feminist.com
International Organizations: Women and Gender (compiled by UC Berkeley International Documents Librarian)
Women's Studies Librarian's Office University of Wisconsin
Women Watch: UN Information and Resources on Gender Equality and Empowerment of Women
Women's Studies Database (University of Maryland)
Women's Studies Online Resources
Women's and Gender Studies Section (Association of College and Research Libraries/American Library Association)

Other Collections and Libraries

mphillip@library.berkeley.edu (Margaret Phillips) — Tue, 19 Mar 2013 13:42:27 -0700

Library collections or archives related to gender and women's studies.

Schlesinger Library (Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Harvard University)
California Feminist Presses Collection (Bancroft Library, UC Berkeley)
Emma Goldman Papers (UC Berkeley)
Sophia Smith Collection (Women's History Archives at Smith College)

Primary Source databases

mphillip@library.berkeley.edu (Margaret Phillips) — Tue, 19 Mar 2013 13:42:43 -0700

Videos

mphillip@library.berkeley.edu (Margaret Phillips) — Tue, 19 Mar 2013 13:42:56 -0700

The Media Resources Center (MRC) at Moffitt Library is the UC Berkeley Library's primary collection of materials in electronic non-print (audio and visual) formats. These formats include: videocassettes, DVDs; compact audio discs; audiocassettes; and online (streamed) audio and video. Materials in the MRC collection may be used on-site in the Center by current UC Berkeley students and staff. See a list of Gender and Women's Studies videos housed at MRC.

More electronic resources

mphillip@library.berkeley.edu (Margaret Phillips) — Tue, 19 Mar 2013 13:44:33 -0700

The Electronic Resource Finder lists significant online resources, both free and online, by subject and resource type (e.g. Article Databases, Encyclopedias, Statistics, etc.). For a complete list of useful resources in Gender and Women's studies, along with a description, go to:

Electronic Resources Finder: Gender and Women's Studies

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mphillip@library.berkeley.edu (Margaret Phillips) — Mon, 11 Feb 2013 10:31:03 -0800

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