Secondary Sources

Periodical Indexes

History

America: History and Life (1955- ) includes books, book chapters, journal articles, and book reviews for North American history.

Web of Science Citation Indexes allow citation searching, that is, starting with an article of interest and finding more recent articles that have cited it.

Gender Studies

GenderWatch (1974- ) provides full text of scholarly journals, magazines, newspapers, newsletters, regional publications, books, booklets and pamphlets, conference proceedings, and government, non-governmental organization, and special reports.

Studies on Women and Gender Abstracts (1995-)

LGBT Life with Full Text indexes magazines, academic journals, news sources, gray literature, and books that deal with gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender concerns.

Women's Studies International (1972- ) accesses a variety of women's studies databases.

Race/Ethnic Studies

Race Relations Abstracts (1975-Present)

 

Bibliographies

Look for specialized subject bibliographies in the HOLLIS Catalog: Search, for example, <police bibliography [Subject Keyword search]>.  The term Bibliography MUST be searched as a Subject keyword: Change Limit to:anywhere to Limit to: subject. 

Oxford Bibliographies Online are literature guides in several humanities and social sciences areas. They offer annotated lists of secondary source articles on particular subjects. See some labor-related topics below: