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Tripod library catalog
For locating books, journals, videos, and electronic resources held at Tri-College libraries. You can mark and then email or print records for multiple items. Use the request option to ask for items from Haverford or Swarthmore. Delivery is usually within one or two days.
To find items on your topic, start with a Keyword search or a Subject search.
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Examples of SUBJECT searches using the Library of Congress Subject Headings:
Subdivisions of subject headings can help you focus on items of interest:
To find items on your topic, start with a Keyword search or a Subject search.
Examples of KEYWORD searches:
- “family planning”
- mothering
- “pregnancy loss”
- “the pill”
Examples of SUBJECT searches using the Library of Congress Subject Headings:
- Birth control
- Contraception
- Human reproduction
- Human reproductive technology
- Population policy
- Women--Health and hygiene
Subdivisions of subject headings can help you focus on items of interest:
- Cross-cultural studies
- Government policy
- Moral and ethical aspects
- Social aspects
WorldCat
Provider: OCLC
This combined library catalog is a good resource for identifying materials not owned by the Tri-College Libraries. The database contains over 60 million records describing items owned by libraries around the world. Many of these items are available though interlibrary loan.
Interlibrary Loan and E-ZBorrow
If the books and articles you need for your research are not available within the Tri-Colleges, we have two systems available to help you retrieve the materials you need. Use E-Z Borrow to request books only and Interlibrary Loan to request journal articles as well as books, reports, and documents available not available via E-Z Borrow.
Reference Works:
Encyclopedia of cultural anthropology
Publisher: New York : Henry Holt and Co., 1996.
"This encyclopedia is a compendium of knowledge produced by and relevant to cultural anthropology."
Encyclopedia of world cultures
Publisher: Boston, Mass. : G.K. Hall, c1991-c1995.
This ten volume encyclopedia is organized by area of the world. It provides detailed background information on cultures, including demographics, customs, kinship, economy, and medical practices.
SEXUALITY and REPRODUCTIVE BEHAVIOR
The Continuum complete international encyclopedia of sexuality
Publisher: New York, NY : Continuum, 2004.
Contains detailed information on sexual attitudes and behavior, including religious/ethnic/gender factors, knowledge and education about sexuality, gender diversity, contraception, abortion, and population planning for five dozen countries around the world.
An earlier edition is also available in an online version [see below].
An earlier edition is also available in an online version [see below].
The International Encyclopedia of Sexuality (1997-2001)
An online version of the four volume 1997-2001 edition of the International Encyclopedia of Sexuality.
Encyclopedia of childbearing
Publisher: Phoenix, Ariz. : Oryx Press, 1993.
Contains articles on all aspects of childbirth from scholars in a variety of fields, including anthropology, demography, ethics, political science, and sociology.
Encyclopedia of women's health
Publisher: New York : Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers, c2004.
"The Encyclopedia speaks to the health concerns that face women today, and the needs of everyone involved in preserving female health and well-being: physicians, nurses, therapists, caseworkers, educators, mentors ... government agencies, departments of public health ... [and] women's health organizations ..."
WEB SITES
Reproductive Health Gateway
RHG searches 140 selected websites with information on reproductive health. RHG is a project of the INFO Project, funded by the United States Agency for International Development and is hosted by the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.
CDC Division of Reproductive Health
The Division is a unit of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention of the US Department of Health and Human Services. Contains links to statistics and publications of the CDC and other government agencies on abortion, assisted reproductive technology, maternal and infant health and more. Not just a good source for US focused information, the Division is also interested in global reproductive health.
ELDIS Resource Guide on Sexual and Reproductive Health
Links to a reports and resources on sexual and reproductive health assembled by ELDIS (formerly the ELectronic Development Information Source), a service of the Institute of Development Studies in the UK.
Population Council
The Population Council is an international, nonprofit organization that seeks to "improve the well-being and reproductive health of current and future generations around the world and to help achieve a humane, equitable, and sustainable balance between people and resources." Research areas include Gender & Family Dynamics and Reproductive Health.
Population Reference Bureau
The Population Reference Bureau gathers and diseminates information about population, health, and the environment. You can Browse PRB publications by topic area, including Gender. Marriage/Family, Reproductive Health, and more.
United Nations Population Information Network
POPIN is a web portal that provides easy access to international, regional and national population information, particularly information available from United Nations sources. Links to numerous UN Commissions and Agencies including the UN Population Fund UNFPA), the UN Development Fund for Women (UNIFEM), the World Health Organization (WHO), and more.
WHO Reproductive Health and Research Section
Links to numerous WHO reports on sexual and reproductive health topics.
Searching for journal articles:
Some of the databases listed below index both popular and scholarly journals. If you want to retrieve only scholarly journal articles look for a search limit to scholarly or peer-reviewed journals
ProQuest Research Library
Provider: ProQuest
Provides citations and full-text articles from over 3800 magazines and journals, both scholarly and popular, in a wide variety of disciplines. Covers 1971-present.
Enter your terms, with one concept on each line. To retrieve articles from scholarly journals only, check the Limit results to: Scholarly journals, including peer-reviewed. If you aren’t finding enough articles, change your search selection from Citation and abstract to Citation and document text.
Enter your terms, with one concept on each line. To retrieve articles from scholarly journals only, check the Limit results to: Scholarly journals, including peer-reviewed. If you aren’t finding enough articles, change your search selection from Citation and abstract to Citation and document text.
Anthropology plus
Provides abstracts on journal articles, reports, commentaries and obituaries in many fields including social, cultural, physical, biological and linguistic anthropology; archaeology, ethnology, folklore and interdisciplinary studies. Covers the late 19th century-present.
Anthropological index online
Offers information on journals kept at the Anthropology Library of the British Museum. Provides citations on a large number of titles in all areas of anthropology. Covers 1957-present.
AnthroSource
AnthroSource provides full text articles from American Anthropological Association journals, newsletters, and bulletins. Covers 1888-present.
Contemporary women's issues
Provides full-text access to journal articles, newsletters, research, government and international agency reports on women in over 150 countries. Disciplines covered include: sociology, psychology, health, education and human rights. Covers 1992-present.
Family & society studies worldwide
Provider: NISC
Provides access to journals, books, statistical documents, etc. on family and gender related topics. Publications indexed are international in scope and are drawn from anthropology, sociology, psychology, demography, health sciences, education, economics, law, history, and social work. Covers 1970-date.
GenderWatch
Provides citations and full-text articles from over 200 scholarly journals, popular magazines, newspapers, newsletters, books, conference proceedings, government and non-governmental organization reports. Materials focus on how gender impacts a broad spectrum of subject areas and affects both men and women. Covers 1970-present.
JSTOR
Provides the full-text from more than 200 of the top journals in most academic disciplines. Coverage is from the inception of the journal through three to five years ago.
You can limit your search by Article Type, Date, Language, and Discipline. There is a good selection of anthropology journals in JSTOR and many others that may be useful for your research.
You can limit your search by Article Type, Date, Language, and Discipline. There is a good selection of anthropology journals in JSTOR and many others that may be useful for your research.
PubMed
Provider: NCBI
Provides over 17 million citations from the National Library of Medicine's MEDLINE database to articles in biomedical journals dating back to the 1950's. You can search by keyword and/or National Library of Medicine (MeSH) subject headings. To limit your search to a subset of 120 core clinical English language journals add "AND jsubsetaim" to your search string. For a simpler search interface to the MEDLINE database, try ReleMed.
Sociological abstracts
Holdings:
1963-
Publisher: Bethesda, Md. : Cambridge Scientific Abstracts,
Provider: CSA
Indexes the literature of sociology and related fields in the social and behavioral sciences. Includes journal articles, reviews, case studies, conference papers, and dissertations. In addition your search results may include links to relevant scholars and web site. Covers 1952-present.
Web of science
Provider: ISI
Provides access to the Social Sciences Citation Index (1956-date) and the Science Citation Index (1955-date). Search by author and/or topic for scholarly articles in 50 social sciences and 150 scientific disciplines including anthropology, public health, sociology, women's studies, and medicine. You can also search for articles that cite a known author or work to discover more recent articles on the same topic.
Searching for newspaper articles (including foreign and ethnic)
LexisNexis academic
Provider: LN
Provides full-text documents from over 6,000 English and non-English language news, business, and legal publications. You can search across broad categories of publications, or focus on more narrow categories, specific publications, or geographic areas. Be sure to select your desired range of dates for your search from the Specify Date pull down menu.
Access world news
Provider: NewsBank
Provides full-text documents from hundreds of U.S. and international newspapers, including the Philadelphia Inquirer (1981-date) and the Philadelphia Daily News (1978-date). You can select specific publications to search or search groups of publications by geographic area.
Ethnic newswatch
An interdisciplinary, bilingual (English and Spanish) full text database of over 275 U.S. ethnic, minority and native newspapers, magazines and journals. Uses the same search interface as ProQuest Research Library. Covers 1990-present.
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