These are just a few of the almost 400 databases you have access to at Wellesley. To find additional databases relevant to your research interests, go to the Library's Databases A-Z list and filter using the Subjects menu. The Subjects reflect the academic departments and programs at Wellesley. For example, if you are researching Black visual or performing arts, check out the databases under the subject Art & Architecture or Music.
Scholarly peer reviewed articles, books, government reports, policy documents, and working papers, and conference papers on education. Strong in theoretical and sociological aspects of education as well as pedagogy.
Dates: 1966 CE-Present
Peer reviewed articles and book reviews of American and Canadian history, prehistory to present and searchable by historical time period.
Peer reviewed articles and book reviews of world history (excluding the US and Canada), 1450 CE to present and searchable by historical time period.
Peer reviewed articles on all aspects of religion, with an emphasis on Christianity, Judaism, and Islam. Also searchable by Hebrew Bible and New Testament scripture.
Full text newspapers, magazines, and journals from ethnic, minority and Native presses. Filter by ethnic group and language.
Dates: 1960 CE-Present
Full-text peer-reviewed articles on gender, sex, and sexuality in history, sociology, psychology, education, art, and more.
Full-text scholarly articles in all disciplines.
Scholarly journal articles and books in the humanities, social sciences, and sciences. Does not include the most recent 3-5 years of many journals.
Although you can find books in SuperSearch, searching the catalog can be useful for focusing a search. In the catalog, your keywords are searched in information about the books, rather than in the full text of the books themselves, so it's more likely that the books that come up will be relevant to the topic expressed by your keywords.
Try a keyword search. Once you find a book that is relevant to your topic, use the subject terms for that book to help you find "more like this" and explore different aspects of a broader topic.
Example: Keyword search: "black studies" AND history
Subject terms for books from this keyword search lead you to many more books on aspects of the topic, for example:
African Americans > Study and teaching > History >
Black people > Study and teaching
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Questions? Interlibrary Loan Guide
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