FG357/RE257 Women in Hinduism & Buddhism

Library Research Guide

Library instruction provided for Professor Tracy Coleman’ Block 3, 2009 class.

Finding Background Information

Religion reference works in the Gale Virtual Reference Library will help you find encyclopedia-style articles across an assortment of religion reference works online.

Encyclopedia of Hinduism
1st Floor North-Reference BL1105 .E53 2008

Historical dictionary of Hinduism
1st Floor North-Reference BL1105.S85 1997

Encyclopedia of Buddhism
1st Floor North-Reference BQ128 .E53 2007

Historical dictionary of Buddhism
1st Floor North-Reference BQ130.P74 1993

Encyclopedia of women and religion in North America
1st Floor North-Reference BL458 .E52 2006 v. 1-3

Encyclopedia of women and world religion
1st Floor North-Reference BL458 .E53 1999 v. 1-2

Human rights and the world’s major religions
1st Floor North-Reference BL65.H78 H8595 2005 v. 1-5

Encyclopedia of politics and religion
1st Floor North-Reference BL65.P7 E53 2007 v. 1-2

Finding Books

• Search the Tiger Catalog for books available in Tutt Library.

Search TIGER for Keyword Title Author Subject Journal Title Go

Try searching “hindu* or buddhis*” and “gender* or women*”.

• Search Prospector for books available from academic and public libraries in Colorado. Materials can come in as few as 3 days.

• Search Google Books to identify books by words in the text.

Finding Journal Articles

Google Scholar

ATLA Religion Database With ATLASerials

Coverage: 1949 - current

Contains more than a million citations from more than a thousand international titles and multi-author works in Religion. Spans over 50 years with selected records going back to 1818. Some full text.

JSTOR

Coverage: late 1800's - most recent 5 years

Archival access to many scholarly periodicals. Jstor does not cover the most recent three years of most journals.

Academic Search Premier

Coverage: 1988 - current

Provides access to basic journal index and some full text resources. Subject coverage is general and broad. Shows CC holdings.

Gender Studies Database

Coverage: pre-1972 - current

Combines the Women’s Studies International and Men’s Studies databases with sexual diversity issues and gender-engaged scholarship. Source documents include professional journals, conference papers, books, book chapters, government reports, discussion and working papers, theses & dissertations, and freely available full text articles & documents on the Web.

MLA International Bibliography

Coverage: 1963 - current

Literature, languages, linguistics, and folklore from over journals and series published worldwide.

Historical Abstracts

Coverage: 1967 - current

Covers world history.

America, History & Life

Coverage: 1967 - current

Covers American history.

Finding Journal Articles in Subject Specific Databases

Try searching a subject specific database from Sociology Databases for more articles from individual disciplines.

For example, try searching Social Sciences Abstracts listed under Databases for Sociology, for the topic “buddhis* and gender*”.

Finding Full Text Versions of Articles

When searching article indexing databases, sometimes the full text of the article you need is not provided to you by the database. Or you have identified a citation in a bibliography or footnote and need to find the full text. There are two ways of finding the full text of any article that you need.

1. Check Find Journals to see if Tutt Library subscribes to an electronic version of your journal or magazine or if we own databases which may have your article in full text. Find Journals a.k.a Tutt Link a.k.a Full Text Online is available next to the citations in most of our databases and in GoogleScholar.

1. Request an ILLiad/Interlibrary Loan of your article directly from your database (use button or hotlink) or log into ILLiad and fill out an Interlibrary Loan Request Form. (Articles can come in as few as 24-48 hours.) You must be registered with ILLiad for either method to work – see First Time User Registration for Interlibrary Loan.

Citing Your Sources

How to Cite Sources?

Gibaldi, Joseph. MLA handbook for writers of research papers.
PE1478 .M57 2003 (1st Floor North-Ref Desk, 1st Floor North-Reference, Permanent Reserves – Circ, Tutt North Basement)

The Chicago manual of style.
PE1478 .U69 2003 (1st Floor North-Ref Desk, 1st Floor North-Reference, Permanent Reserves – Circ, Tutt North Basement)

Managing Your Bibliography

RefWorks training every Wed. 1 p.m. @Tutt Library.

Additional Assistance

Contact Reference Desk, 9 a.m. – 10 p.m., x6662, IM=tuttlibrarian

Contact Krystyna Mrozek, Interdisciplinary Programs Librarian, x6669, Tutt Library 201, kmrozek@coloradocollege.edu, IM=tuttkrystyna

Last revised, 11-2-09, km.