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We make a living from what we get. We make a life from what we give.-- Winston Churchill

These resources are above and beyond the basic Academic Search Premier database we used in class.






Computer Database has articles on women in I.T. for Grace Gilmore. She should type "women and careers" on the basic search line. Since the whole database is specific to computer science, she does not have to add the words information technology. National Center for Women in Information Technology is another resource. Here is a list of associations for women in information technology. Don't forget the expert interview is another research resource.


Philosopher's Index has 194 articles for Meredith Hudson. She should type "postmodernism" on line one of the search box and "feminism" on line two.


Left Index will have articles on radical feminism for Paige Burns. Paige should type both words as a subject phrase on line one of the search box. Left Index includes not only standard scholarly titles but alternative press publications and lesser known journals that may have a different take on the topic. Sage: an Online Journal Collection will have many articles on the topic.



Avalon Project Country Reports on Human Rightsand United Nations Statistical Databases will have information on gender and violence for Alisa Velonis. At http://www.senate.gov she will find the full text testimony of expert witnesses on gender and violence.


NCJRS.gov has many resources on sexual predators for Ashley McKee. For example, the search "sexual predators and treatment" produces 30 reputable websites, 64 article abstracts, and 156 links to other useful sources.


GenderWatch (Proquest) has lots of good articles on pornography. The database service will suggest subtopics, such as "personal relationships and pornography", from which our student can choose.

Social Services Abstracts has articles for Kseniya Bakhtiu on acculturation and depression. She may want to use the third line of the search box to specify a particular group of immigrants.



Social Services Abstracts has 189 articles for Jordan Glaude on grandparents raising grandchildren. She should type "grandparents" on line 1, "caregivers" on line 2, and "grandchildren" on line 3. Here are some tips for getting full text http://library.auraria.edu/~ksobel/tutorials/fulltext/index.html


PsycINFO has a lot of articles on children and grief for Cristen Calamari. Enter "children" on line 1, "grief" on line 2, and change the pull-down boxes to "Keyword". Communication Studies Full-Text Collection also has many articles. Select the advanced search and type children (and) grief (and) communication (and) variables (click on "add a row").

Jerbonian will find 7,000 articles on women and body image inPsycINFO . Contemporary Women's Issues (CWI) has 206 articles. She should enter body image on line 1 of the search and women on line 2. She may want to consider further focusing her topic. For example, African American women AND body image or girls AND body image, etc. Perhaps the media's influence on body image? Here are some excellent films owned by the library...Killing Us Softly 3 Advertising's Image Of Women Killing Us Softly Iii Bell Hooks Cultural Criticism & Transformation Dreamworlds 2 Desire/Sex/Power In Music Video Playing Unfair The Media Image Of The Female Athlete Slim Hopes Advertising And The Obsession With Thinness Killing Us Softly Advertisings Image Of Women Communication Studies Full-Text Collection will have many articles on the topic.



Health Topics (U.S. National Library of Medicine) has a demographic category of seniors that will help Deborah Roth home in on health care for the elderly. PAIS International (Cambridge Scientific Abstracts) focuses on policy and communities. Since it is international in its scope, she could compare U.S. policy with other countries or just focus on the U.S.


Renee Gillespy will find much information on her topic of rape and warfare. USA Search contains thousands of documents on rape and warfare, drawing data from U.S. and foreign governmental agencies. Country Reports on Human Rights (U.S. Department of State) is another excellent source.GenderWatch (Proquest) has 84 articles on the topic. Avalon Project has an interesting collection of source documents.



Robert Levy will find 155 full text articles on neglected teens in Criminology Full-Text Collection (Sage). He should enter teenagers on line one of the search box and neglect on line 2.

Josh Brossman will find 220 full text articles on ADHD and teenagers in EBSCO Access to the ERIC. He should remember to break out these key terms on separate lines.

Keeley Morris will find 45 articles in PsycARTICLES (Cambridge Scientific Abstracts) . She should enter the term teenage suicide on line 1 of the search box. Professional Development Collection will have 60 articles using the same search strategy.

Mary Alice will find articles such as: Developing the Health Care Workforce: A Comparison of Two Work-Based Learning Models in EBSCO Access to the ERIC database. She should enter concept mapping on line one of the search box and nursing on line 2. CINAHL (Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health) will have 154 articles and Emerald Full Text will have 164. She should do a second search using the terms nursing students and assessment. She should be cautioned not to try to stuff too much into one search or she may get nothing.

Nicole Herman will find 167 articles in Wiley Interscience on the wisdom of indigenous people concerning climate change. She should enter the search indigenous and climate change. Abstracts in Anthropology has 3 articles using those terms and GeoRef has 17 articles using the terms indigenous people and climate change. Another accepted term is ethnometeorology but I did not have much luck with that. Nicole may want to give it a try in WorldCat

Meredith Hudson will find information on abortion politics during the Bush era in GenderWatch . Enter the site by clicking on the "continue" button and enter the search "George Bush and abortion". There are 59 articles. Contemporary Women's Issues (CWI) has 12 articles. Enter George Bush on line one and abortion on line 2. LexisNexis Congressional will have entries too. Use the single term abortion. Select the Congress to be searched. The Bush era covered the 107th Congress till the inauguration. Campus Research (Westlaw) has a beautifully annotated section on Roe v. Wade, including all the recent challenges during the Bush years. Click on the "law" tab and look in the left margin under "famous documents". Health Reference Center Academic has 37 articles.

Susan McPartland can use several resources for her topic of critical geography.GEOBASE has 174 articles to be found using critical geography as a subject term. (change the pull-down menu) Left Index (Biblioline) has 20 articles to be found by typing "critical geography" in quotes. Library of Economics and Liberty has 31 articles and book references. Environmental Sciences and Pollution Management has 4 articles.


Duncan McBogg will find 2,700 articles using the search term screen capture in Engineering Village .

Shaina Stephenson will find articles on sex education in EBSCO Access to the ERIC. Since there are 756 articles, she will need to focus her topic. For example, she could put "abstinence" in line 2 of the search box.

Social Services Abstracts will have articles for Birhan Abruha, Anthony Gonzalez, Jessica Aragon, Becky Madison, and John Morarie on their topics of teenagers and drug abuse and teenagers and alcohol. Many, though not all, are instantly available in full text. Others can be had with a few extra steps. Toxnet will have entries on "designer drugs" and "club drugs" in the Hazardous Substance Databank. Some entries are book chapters but others are peer-reviewed scholarly articles.

Sociological Abstracts may appeal to Rosa Villalobos for her topic. She will find 64 articles if she enters teenagers on line one of the search and immigrants on line 2. Don't forget about Interlibrary Loan Service for those articles that are not immediately available.


Emely Hernandez and Nellie Dones will find information on their topic. ICPSR ,the Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR), maintains and provides access to an archive of social science data. There are 1,000 entries on teen pregnancy. EBSCO Access to the ERIC database has many full-text articles using the search term early parenthood. This search can be customized by using the second line of the search box. For example: early parenthood and income, early parenthood and educational attainment. Health Reference Center Academic has 39 full-text articles to be found by entering teen pregnancy on line one of the search box and prevention on line 2. Communication and Mass Media Complete has 8 full-text articles using the search teen pregnancy and media.

Andrew Blunck will find 125 articles on community gardens in Agricola . USDA.gov has 2,000 very good articles on community gardens.

Rebecca Boyd will find 739 articles using the term "self-mutilation and teenagers" in Medline (PubMed) . She will also find 5 articles in Contemporary Women's Issues (CWI)

Neil Breska will find 40 full text articles on homeless gay youth in LGBT Life w/Full Text . She should enter "gay youth" on line one of the search box and "homeless" on line 2. Don't forget to mark the "full text" box.


Literacy and Homelessness

National Institute for Literacy

Literacy and Welfare Facts

National Assessment of Adult Literacy

Poverty, Race, Women and Literacy

NAAL Overview

Office of Adult Education and Literacy

The Mythology of Homelessness

Be not forgetful to entertain strangers; for thereby some among you have entertained angels unaware--Book of Hebrews

According to Greek mythology, Zeus and Hermes disguised themselves as poor travelers and went to the land of Phrygia. They sought shelter but were turned away by everyone except an old couple, Philemon and his wife, Baucis. They gladly shared what little food they had with the gods. Zeus granted them two wishes as a reward for their hospitality. They asked to serve as priest and priestess to the gods and asked that when their time came that they die together. When they died, Baucis and Philemon were transformed into trees with intertwining branches and their humble home became a temple.

In another story, the goddess Demeter disguised herself as a poor, old woman. The daughters of Keleos took her into their home and showed her great kindness. Demeter thus became the benevolent goddess of the hearth. Athena, too, was known to disguise herself as a poor transient and rewarded those who aided her.

Record other traveler myths here....


There are 96 full text articles for Tammy and Jordan on educating homeless youth in ERIC EBSCO database. They should first mark the "full text" box and then enter "homeless youth" on line one.

Perla' s topic is the homeless elderly. Social Services Abstracts has 83 articles. Perla should enter "homeless" on line 1 of the search box and "elderly" on line 2. Health Topics has 29 articles on the health problems of homeless elderly. Perla should type "homeless and elderly" in the search box.

Hannah will find many sources on homeless veterans. The Auraria Library “Book Search” brings ups 63 items using the keyword search “homeless veterans”. This includes a fine selection of Government Publications from Congress and the Veterans Administration. Many are full text online like these: Connect to http://purl.access.gpo.gov/GPO/LPS87904 Connect to http://purl.access.gpo.gov/GPO/LPS44425 Documents in paper may be checked out just like any other book. The problem of homeless veterans is not a new one. For historical perspective on the topic, American Memory Collection has 12 reading selections on homeless veterans, some dating back to World War I. GenderWatch has 30 articles on homeless women veterans. In this database, separate the terms. Put “homeless” on line one and “veterans” on line 2 of the search box. JSTOR has 38 articles on homeless vets. “Just enter “homeless veterans” on the search line. Many, though not all the articles in JSTOR, are full text. Look for the PDF link first. If that is not available, try some of the other options under the title. These resources are, of course, in addition to databases listed elsewhere on this page such as Sociological Abstracts or PAIS International Follow other links on this page to get more on homeless vets.

In addition to the sources above, Alicia could check out NPR . There are 17 well-researched stories on vets with PTSD. Health Reference Center Academic has 347 articles. On the "Basic Search" blank line type "veterans and PTSD".


Tammy, Melissa, and Jordan
will find 13 articles on homeless youth in PAIS International database. They should enter "homeless youth" on line one of the search box and "united states" on line two next to the "and" box. Leave the other boxes alone and hit the search button. Many, though not all, of the articles will be immediately available in full text.
1. Pick out the articles first that have the full text icon and click on the words "full text" to get the article
2. If the full text notation does not appear, click on the "find full text" button. If "your article from" link appears in the article access box, click on the link and you will get the full text article.

Tammy, Melissa, and Jordan will also find 30 articles in Criminal Justice Abstracts . This database works exactly like the one above. Tammy and Jordan need only to enter the term "homeless youth" on line one.
Avery Index to Architectural Periodicals Online has articles on homeless shelters for Jordan. If the articles are not available in full text, Jordan can click on 'interlibrary loan" for this easy-to-use service and her articles will be emailed to her. Urban Studies and Planning Full-Text Collection has 705 articles on shelters for homeless youth. Jordan should select "Search All Journals" and enter "homeless" in box 1, "shelters" in box 2, and "youth" in box 3.

Articles on homelessness youth and abuse will be found in Sociological Abstracts . Enter "homelessness" on line one, "family relations" on line 2, and "abuse" on line three.

Health Reference Center Academic will have articles on homeless youth and substance abuse especially for Melissa. At the "basic search" line, type "homeless youth and substance abuse" (you will need to type out the word "and"). This will bring up 19 articles.

Mary may want to look at PsycINFO . There are articles such as this one...Homelessness and dog ownership: An investigation into animal empathy, attachment, crime, drug use, health and public opinion. This particular article has 50 references at the end of the article which Mary could also acquire--either through the library or through interlibrary loan. She should enter "homelesness" on line one of the PsychInfo search box and "pets" on line two. Health Reference Center Academic has 3 articles using the terms "homeless persons" and "pets".
Sociological Abstracts has a few articles on the topic. In all cases Mary will want to follow up the references at the end of the articles.




Alyssa will find 236 articles on homeless women and domestic violence in PsycINFO . She should enter "homelessness" on line one of the search box, "domestic violence" on line 2, and "women" on line 3. Many, but not all, of these articles will be available in full text.
1. Pick out the articles first that have the full text icon and click on the words "full text" to get the article
2. If the full text notation does not appear, click on the "find full text" button. If "your article from" link appears in the article access box, click on the link and you will get the full text article.

Michael will find articles on homelessness and trafficking/prostitution in Criminal Justice Abstracts . He should enter "homeless*" on line one of the search. The asterisk will catch "homeless", "homelessness", or any variation of the word. On line two he should put "prostitution" OR "trafficking"--not both in a single search. For articles not available in full text he should click on the "interlibrary loan" link and use that easy-to-order process.



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