Resources for Doing Research

           

 

Beginning Research:

Making Sense of Evidence - a guide to evaluating primary sources.

The Good, the Bad, the Ugly - a guide to evaluating web sources.

ICYouSee: Guide to Critical Thinking - guide to critical thinking in evaluations of websites.

Duke University Library Guide - a library guide to citing sources.

Library of Congress: the Learning Page - a Library of Congress guide to citing electronic sources.

Annotated Bibliography - a guide on preparing an annotated bibliography.

Documents Analysis Worksheets - from the National Archives Digital Classroom.

UAlbany Women's Studies Library Guide - a library guide on framing research according to themes (especially in women's studies).


Research Databases:

Archives USA - includes primary source collections, searched under repository, name or by subject headings.

EBSCO - includes a broad range of full texts and bibliographic databases and abstracts, both scholarly journals and non-academic periodicals.

Historical Abstracts - includes bibliographic databases and article abstracts, reflecting subjects in either US History or history outside the US.

MLA Bibliography - includes bibliographic databases and article abstracts, reflecting subjects in areas of the humanities.

Project Muse - provides a comprehensive listing of scholarly journals and article abstracts.

Sociological Abstracts - includes bibliographic databases and article abstracts, reflecting subjects in areas of the social sciences.

Women's Studies International - includes a broad range of bibliographic databases and abstracts, both academic and non-academic, in the area of women's studies.

WorldCat - A comprehensive catalog of primary source material and bibliographic information, including manuscripts written as early as the 12th century.


Sites Featuring Primary Sources:

American Women's History - Middle Tennessee State University Library's digital collection of primary sources.

Harper's Weekly - free features of primary sources from the nineteenth-century US periodical (including political cartoons and literary materials).

History Matters - US survey course on the web.

Library of Congress (American Memory) - national library site featuring a variety of primary sources relating to American history and culture.

Making of America - Cornell University's digital library of primary sources.

Prelinger Archives - features over 1,000 early films. For viewing, you will need to download Quicktime, RealPlayer, or Windows Media Player.

Women and Social Movements in the United States, 1775-2000 - University at Binghamton, SUNY's digital collection of primary documents.

Learning Centers:

A Force More Powerful - PBS series on a century of nonviolent conflict in the fight for social justice.

Jim Crow Museum of Racist Memorabilia - virtual museum of cultural artifacts and objects depicting racist stereotypes of African Americans.

No Logo - based on Naomi Klein's book of the same name, featuring articles, videos, interviews and discussions on issues of corporate power and its global impact.

Postcolonial Studies - academic site, based at Emory University, devoted to issues, terms and theories from postcolonial studies, including power-relations as they exist in various cultural contexts.

Race: the Power of an Illusion - PBS series on the history and social construction of race and racism.

The Triangle Factory Fire - information on the tragic Triangle Factory Fire with links to labor history and sweatshop conditions.

White Privilege.com - resource guide to articles and other sources on white privilege and other issues of race.


Journals, (Maga)Zines, and Media Watch Guides:

Breakthrough - a popular education network creating human rights culture through music, music videos, and advocacy.

Color Lines - a magazine on race, culture, and organizing.

The Commercial Closet - media watch guide on commercials portraying gays and lesbians.

Culture Jammers - "Adbusters" site, devoted to media activism and creative resistance in our information age.

FAIR - media watch network documenting media bias and censorship.

Media Education Foundation - educational resource guide on videos and online sources promoting media awareness, diversity and pluralism.

Race Traitor - a journal for white antiracist activism.

Said It - feminist news source.

Z-Communications - magazine and resource site for social justice issues.


Advocacy Sites:

Audre Lorde Project - grassroots organization for lesbian, gay, bisexual, two spirit and transgender people of color communities.

Colours of Resistance - grassroots network organizing for antiracist, multiracial movements against global capitalism.

Incite! - organization focusing on violence against women of color in the U.S.

International Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission - human rights commission devoted to gay/lesbian rights around the globe.

MADRE - human rights organization devoted to women's rights around the globe.

Southern Poverty Law Center - nonprofit organization combating hate, intolerance, and discrimination through education and litigation.

Women against War - woman-led organization in Albany, branching from the national WAW network, striving for social justice and an end to war and other forms of violence.

World Conference Against Racism - UN international conference of 2001, addressing racism and other forms of oppression in global perspective.


Satirical Sites:

Black People Love Us - by Sally and Johnny.

Exoticize This! - by Mimi Nguyen.

The Meatrix - by Freerangegraphics.com.

Rent-a-Negro - by artist Damali Ayo.

 

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