History 302
Gender & Sexuality in Modern Africa
Guide to Library Resources
Reference Resources | Locating Books | Locating Articles | Help!!!
Reference Resources
- Encyclopedia of Africa South of the Sahara
Call # DT351.E53 1997 Pattee, Arts & Humanities Reference - Dictionary of African Historical Biography
Call # DT352.5.L55 1986 Pattee, Arts & Humanities Reference - International Historical Statistics: Africa, Asia, Oceania
Call # HA4675.M551 Social Sciences Ref., 2nd Floor Paterno - Africana Book Reviews, 1885-1945: an Index to Book Reviews in Selected English-Language Publications
Call # Z3501.E35 Pattee - Stacks 2A - New Atlas of African History
Call # G2446.S1F73 1991 Maps Library, B-level Paterno - The United States and Africa : Guide to U.S. Official Documents and Government-Sponsored Publications on Africa, 1785-1975
Call # Z3501.W57 Pattee - Stacks 2A
Locating Books
Use a library catalog to determine which library owns the book you want. The CAT is the library catalog for Penn State. All of the catalogs listed below can be accessed from the Library's E-Resource List of databases.
The CAT (Penn State's catalog)
CIC VEL (Schools in the Big Ten)
OCLC WorldCat (Libraries worldwide)
Almost all Library Catalogs use Library of Congress Subject Headings. Below are a few you might use for this class.
Women-Education--Africa
Women-Legal Status
Women-Employment-Africa
Women's Rights
Feminism
Sex Discrimination
Women's Rights
Africa, Southern
Sex Roles--Africa
Gender--Africa
Sexuality--Africa
Africa-Civilization
Some subheadings to be aware of: Sources (for collections of documents), Pictorial Works (for heavily illustrated works) and Statistics. You can attach subheadings to any of the major headings above.
Locating Articles
E-Resource List of Databases
Historical Abstracts, 1964-present
Anthropological Literature, 1984-present
Ethnic Newswatch, Coverage varies, full-text since 1991.
Gender Watch, Coverage varies.
JSTOR, Full-text journals. Coverage varies by journal
MLA Bibliography (Languages and Literature), 1963-present
PAIS, (Public Policy Issues) 1972-present (have back to 1914 in paper)
Sociological Abstracts, 1963-present
Women's Resources International, 1972-present
Print Indexes
Africa South of the Sahara : Index to Periodical Literature 1900-1970 Call # Z3501.U48 Q Pattee, Humanities Reading Room - 2nd Floor
Combined Retrospective Index Set to Journals in History, 1838-1974 Call # Z6205.C2 Pattee, Arts & Humanities Index Tables
London Times Index, 1785-present Call # AI21.T5 Microforms, Ground Floor West Pattee
NY Times Index, 1861-present Call # AI21.N44 Microforms, Ground Floor West Pattee
Poole's Index to Periodical Literature, 1802-1906 Call #AI3.W3 Pattee, Arts & Humanities Indexes - 2nd Floor, W206
Reader's Guide to Periodical Literature, 1901-present Call # AI3.R4 Pattee, Arts & Humanities Indexes - 2nd Floor, W206
Questions???
Ask at the Arts and Humanities Reference Desk, 2nd Floor Pattee OR
Contact Eric Novotny, Humanities Librarian for History
W321 Pattee
814-865-1014
ecn1@psu.edu
IM: HistoryLibrarian