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Hey there, this is Sherri Saines of Alden Library
your gender studies librarian.
Today, we're going to look at how to put
a couple of the most important gender studies databases together
to do a targeted, specific, academic
database search.
I'm going to start on the library home page.
I'm going to go to the database search
and see if there are any gender studies databases.
Oh look, here's one: Gender Studies Database.
Let's open it up and see what it looks like.
This is an EBSCO database.
EBSCO sells us many databases of which
Gender Studies is just one.
I'm going to go to 'choose databases'
so I can add some other gender studies databases to my search.
We can see here Gender Studies is already checked.
I might want to add, for example, Women's Studies International.
Depending on what my topic is,
I might also include, for example, LGBT Life,
If I want a political slant, I might add Left Index or Alternative Press Index,
I could consider Sociology or psychology.
Whatever makes sense.
When I say OK, I come back to my search screen
and I have the databases I chose now in a grouping.
and I can do my search here.
Notice that because I'm in a women's studies database set,
I'm not going to add 'women' as my search term.
I'm going to do something more specific.
I'm searching a set of high level, academic journals
and I can get pretty much in depth.
So here I have a whole set of academic journals
about women's studies and my topic.
So, that's it. Pretty easy.
Let me know if you have questions,
I'll be glad to help