GenderWatch is a full-text database of unique and diverse publications that focus on how gender impacts a broad spectrum of subject areas.
With its archival material, dating back to 1970 in some cases, GenderWatch is a repository of an important historical perspective on the evolution of the women's movement and the changes in gender roles. The 208 publications covered include:
- scholarly journals
- magazines
- newspapers
- newsletters
- regional publications
- books
- NGO, government and special reports
Search tips:
The * symbol is used as a right hand truncation character only. For example, searching for econom* will find economy, economics, economical, etc. The ? symbol is used to replace any single character, either inside a word or at the right end of a word. It cannot be used to begin a word. For example searching for wom?n will find woman or women. Searching for economic? will find economics, but not economical, economically etc.
The search engine for GenderWatch ignores the following frequently used words. To use them as part of a search phrase, enclose them in quotation marks. For example “the sound and the fury”. The stop words are: about, after, also, an, and, any, are, as, at, be, because, been, between, both, but, by, can, could, do, each, for, from, had, has, have, how, if, into, is, it, its, just, like, make, many, more, most, much, no, not, now, of, only, or, other, our, out, said, should, so, some, such, than, that, the, their, them, there, these, they, this, those, through, to, use, was, we, were, what, when, which, while, who, will, with, would.
If you are looking for lengthy, in depth articles, make use of the word count limiter. WRD(>1000) finds articles containing 1000 words or more.
Where is it: Go to the UNLV Libraries' home page http://www.library.unlv.edu. Select the Articles and Databases tab, click on the A-Z List of Databases and then on the letter G and select GenderWatch.
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