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Contact info

For Library research help, please contact Moninder Lalli, Librarian for Gender, Sexuality, and Women's Studies by email (moninder_lalli@sfu.ca) or Ask a librarian.

Selected encyclopedias

Research process

Start Your Research Here -- This page gives you an overview of the research process, or in other words how to find materials for your essay.

Find journal articles

How to find journal articles
Search for journal articles on your topic using the databases, below. 
Use the "Get@SFU" icon will to find copies of articles which are not full-text within the database or to request the article through Inter-Library Loans.

  • Women's Studies International  Major index for Women's Studies
  • ProQuest Sociology Collection - for issues related to class, gender, racism, sexuality and sexism and theoretical and applied sociology, social science, and policy science. For information of immigrants, racism, society, structural barriers, etc.
  • Social Sciences Citation Index: Multi-disciplinary social sciences index which allows citation searching
  • CBCA Complete -- for Canadian topics. Indexes scholarly journal articles, trade publications, dissertations, books, newspapers and magazines
  • PsycINFO: The most inclusive database for research in psychology. PsycINFO Quick Guide
  • Education Source [search tips] - A comprehensive education database, covering all levels of education from early childhood to higher education as well as multilingual education, health education and testing. Includes journals, books, conference papers, book reviews and educational tests.
  • Criminal Justice Abstracts with Full Text - Index to all aspects of criminal justice, including psychological
  • MEDLINE / PubMed - biomedical and health literature, covering research, clinical practice, administration, policy issues, and health care services
  • Web of Science - multidisciplinary database covering the sciences, and provides citation counts, journal impact factors, and more
  • CINAHL Complete - database focused on nursing and allied health
  • Global Health - covers global health, biomedical life sciences, non-communicable diseases, public health nutrition, food safety and hygiene, and much more
  • Google Scholar -- multi-displinary - use this database by going through the the Library's link to search for articles
  • CanLII  Canadian case law and statutes
  • HeinOnline - Law and law-related research material, including legal journals, government documents, classic legal treatises, and world trials. Contains Canadian, American and international laws and agreements.
    Canada Commons (formerly, Canadian Electronic Library from desLibris) - for public policy documents from Canadian institutes, think-tanks and research groups.
  • ELDIS Gateway to Development Information - Fulltext of research & policy documents on ageing, gender, globalization, health and more.

Find books in the Library

The Library Catalogue provides access to books, journal articles, videos, government documents and much more. 

Library Catalogue search guide

Search the SFU Library Catalogue, either the Basic or the Advanced search

Note: In the searches below, search results can be limited to "Resource type" of "Books", and by "Subject"

Combine different concepts using AND
Combine same concepts using OR
Use quotation marks to search for a phrase
Use brackets for synonyms
Use asterisk (*) for different endings of words

Use pulldown menu and select, "Source Types" as "Books"

Note:  For Catalogue Search, when combining concepts, use CAPITAL letters ( "OR", "AND")

If you have found one book that is particularly relevant to your research, but need more, search that book in the library catalogue and use the subject headings associated with that book!

 

Selected books

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Children

Subject headings

Use "Browse by subject" to find books by topic (use the pull-down menu and change "title" to "subject"). Also try searching for "Subject heading" -- [country or region]

Government

Canada

United States

United Nations

Feminist theory website

Other websites