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Econ/Lgst 183: Women in the Economy — Library Resource Guide

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Off Campus Access - To access the library research databases referenced on this guide from off campus, you will need to login to OCA. Click here for information regarding the service.

Background Information

Browse policy institution websites, government agency websites and locate their publications, policy briefs, working papers. Look for your topic. Collect keywords, terms, author names and make note of references to studies. Browse the bibliographies of reports/working papers and look for titles you may want to try and find in cruzcat and/or the library databases. Use the reports and briefs you find to help build your search terms for the database searches you will conduct.

***Web Search Caveat***: always verify the accuracy of information you find online. Use the library's How to Evaluate Information on the Web to help assess a site you may want to reference. Wikipedia is not a source I would cite for a paper but I may use it for keyword searching in the library-licensed databases.

• Institute for Women's Policy Research
• American Association of University Women
• NBER (National Bureau of Economic Research)
• Catalyst click on "free publications"
• EPI - Economic Policy Institute
• Urban Institute - use the keyword search, or, look under issues and drill down.
• Women Watch : United Nations Directory of UN Resources on Gender and Women's Issues - look under thematic issues and critical areas of concern, try "women and economy"
• GAO Government Accountability Office
• Congressional Budget Office
• Intute - UK-based, consortium of education institutions, provides links to research on the web in the social sciences. Pay particular attention to the section on women's studies. Useful for international perspective on wage gap.
• WSI - good database to locate names of international groups or organizations, not necessarily scholarly or peer reviewed works. Licensed by UCSC, will need to use OCA to logon from off campus.

Find Books

Cruzcat Searches

Use Crucat to find books, names of journals, and encyclopedias. The following subject headings will be useful for this assignment. This list is not exhaustive.

• Alien Labor United States
• Social networks economic aspects United States
• Women alien labor United States
• Sex discrimination in employment
• Pay equity
• Sex discrimination against women
• Divorced women United States economic conditions
• Divorced women employment United States
• Labor supply
• Sex Discrimination in Sports
• Women Coaches
• Women Social Conditions Encyclopedias
• Feminism encyclopedias
• Minorities Economic Conditions
• Women Economic Conditions
• Sexual Division of Labor
• Corporate culture United States

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if you are working off campus, login to OCA before using the databases below.

Recommended Databases

• Econlit : EconLit is a searchable database of citations with selected abstracts of literature in economics. Includes coverage of major journals as well as articles in collective volumes (essays, proceedings, etc.), books, book reviews, dissertations, and working papers.
  Subject area(s): Social Sciences. Covers: 1969-present.

NOTE: there are no direct links to full text or cruzcat/melvyl searches in Econlit; open two browsers to search for articles and check source citations in Cruzcat/Melvyl.

• CSA/Illumina: Choose from any of the 30+ databases provided by CSA (formerly Cambridge Scientific Abstracts.) Cross-database searching is allowed. Subject area(s): ['Art and Art History', 'General Subjects', 'Humanities', 'Science and Engineering', 'Social Sciences'].
  • Type CSA/Illumina in the search box.
  • Select Advanced Search.
  • Select Social Sciences from the subject drop down box located directly under the green search button.
  • Select or deselect individual databases from the link labeled "specific databases" next to the drop down box.

NOTE: Use UC-eLinks to locate items owned by UCSC.

• Business Source Premier :Searchable database of articles from scholarly business journals and other sources. Subjects include management, economics, finance, accounting, and international business.
  Subject area(s): ['General Subjects', 'Social Sciences']. Covers: 1965 - current, though a few select journals are available from the 1940's and 1950's.

  NOTE: Use UC-eLinks to locate items owned by UCSC.

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Statistics

Many of the articles you find will include data and discussions of the data. If you need additional data, or, want to look deeper into the statistics used in the journal articles you find, the library has a very thorough research guide to help determine how to find statistics.

Government-focused Search Engines:

• Google Uncle Sam

OR

• USA.gov

Both search engines will search government, .gov, websites only. Useful for focusing and narrowing your web search, tracking down statistics identified in your readings or research.

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Government Resources of Special Note:

• The Department of Labor has a "find it" by topic, audience, index. Topics include wages, health plans, unemployment. Look through these and link to the statistics referenced.
• The Bureau of Labor Statistics: The Bureau of Labor Statistics is an agency under the Dept. of Labor, it is "... the principal fact-finding agency for the Federal Government in the broad field of labor economics and statistics." Use the search box to help ascertain how to locate statistics on your topic; use your keywords or, search for surveys referenced in your scholarly articles if you are uncertain of what terminology to use.
• Equal Employment Opportunity Commission : statistics about job patterns for women and minorities along with special reports about the data are available on this site.
• Monthly Labor Review - "...is the principal journal of fact, analysis, and research from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, an agency within the U.S. Department of Labor." An index for all the volumes from 1991-2007 is available here.

NOTE:

• Statistics about the glass ceiling and women of color are available from the EEOC.
• Foreign Labor Statistics : are available from the Bureau of Labor Statistics web page.

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Citation Guides

The library has physical copies of the APA and Chicago Manual of Style citation guides at the Reference Desks.

There is an on-line How To guide for APA, as well.

Copies of the Chicago Manual of Style are located in the McHenry and S&E Libraries behind the Reference Desk, call number: Z253 .C57 2003

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Citation Tools (Works Cited/Bibliography)

• Many of the library databases will export and format citations into MLA, APA or other bibliography/works cited formats. When saving or sending an article to yourself, look for terms like "export citations," OR "choose a bliography style" and follow instructions to create a fully formatted bibliography for your paper.

• UC-eLinks will also allow you to copy and paste a formatted citation. Choose the option "copy and paste citation" link located under the header "Add Citation to Bibliography."

NOTE: Always verify the format of the citation with your style guide/manual. Sometimes exported citations can drop portions of a citation - double check. It is still significantly less time-consuming to verify the accuracy of a format than it is to manually format all of your citations.

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