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Women and the Law

    February 7, 2008

     Shirley Knight, Reference Librarian                 Peggy McLaughlin, Professor

      sknight@ramapo.edu                                     LAWS 341d

      L308, x7315

 I. Library Homepage: http://library.ramapo.edu

  • Provides access to the catalog (OPAC), databases, interlibrary loan forms, etc.

II. Finding Books at the Potter Library

  • Catalog: use this to find books, journal titles NOT ARTICLES, government documents, reserve items, music,and movies owned by the Library. You may limit a search by language, year(s) of publication, type of material, etc. This may take a few seconds to load.
  • Search the catalog using Keywords to find material.
    • For example: search for "womens right's " or " women" to locate a broad range of material and look for resources for your topics. Use quotes for phrases to have the system search your term as a phrase and not two separate words.
  • OR
  • Limit your search to Documents Without Shelves to access only online United States governmentdocuments.
  • OR

                                                           

  • Search the catalog using Subject Browse feature ONLY if you know the Library of Congress Subject Headings, for example:

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Subject Headings
  • Abortions--Law and Legislation--United States.
  • Domestic Relations -- United States
  • Sex and Law --United States
  • Sexual Harassment of Women--Law and Legislation
  • Women--Legal Status, Laws, etc.--United States
  • Women--Legal Status, Laws, etc.--United States--Cases
  • Women--Social Conditions--Encyclopedia

Tips

    1. Start with broad searches. It is much easier to discard too much rather than start with too little.
    2. If you don't know the Subject Heading, use the Subjects etc.. tab located on the top of a catalog record to get to the headings. This will help you focus in on more relevant material.
    3. Can "virtually" browse the shelves by clicking on the call number in a record.

III. Reference Materials

  • The reference stacks are located on the 3rd floor  and is also the library's entrance.

          

    Social Science Sources
    Call Numbers
    Greenwood Encyclopedia of Women's Issues Worldwide

    Ref  Ref  HQ 1115 .G816

     2003

    Encyclopedia of Women and Gender: Similiarities & differences and the impact of society and gender
    Ref  HQ 1115 .E43
    Handbook of the Psychology of Women and Gender

    Ref  HQ 1206 .H2385

    2001

    Legal Sources
    Nolo's Legal Encyclopedia
    Black's Law Dictionary

    Ref  KF 156 .B53 

    1999

    American Jurisprudence 2d
    		(See in Westlaw Campus)
    Women's International Human Rights Law

    Ref  KF 644 .W64 

    1999

    National Survey of State Laws

    Ref  KF 386 .N38 

    2003

    The Pig Farmer's Daughter & Other Tales of American

    Justice: episodes of racism and sexism in the courts from

    1865-present

    Ref  KF 4757 .B44 

    2000

    Domestic Relations: Cases & Materials

    Ref  KF 504 .W3  

    1998

    Boundaries of Her Body: the troubling history of women's rights in America

    Ref  KF 478 .R69 

    2004

    Rights of Women: the basic ACLU guide to women's rights

    Ref  KF 478 .Z9 R67 

    1993

    Human Body on Trial: a handbook with cases, laws, and documents

    Ref KF 390.5 .H85 C87

    2000

    Abortion Rights Controversy in America: a legal reader

    Ref KF 3771 .A937

    2004

    Feminist Legal Theory

    Ref 478 .L48 

    2006

         

          Tips

  1. Use reference books to gain an overview of your topic.
  2. Use the Bibliographies at the end of encyclopedia entries to find more information on your topic.

IV. Electronic Resources

Offers newspaper and journal articles on legal news, cases, law reviews and journals, legislation, statutes and codes, public opinion polls surveys, foreign language news, news transcripts, congressional hearings transcripts, medicine and other reference sources.
Provides law journals and reviews, federal and state case law, state statutes, encyclopedias, legal guides, and much, much more.
Covers archival full-text scholarly articles in the social sciences, humanities, statistics, and business etc.
See Also:  
A full-text multidisciplinary database that brings together relevant content from mainstream periodicals, "gray" literature, and the alternative press--with a focus on the critical issues and events that influences women's lives in more than 190 countries.
Covers abstracts on topics such as community organizations, criminology, child and family welfare, aging and more.
A full-text database that provides information on hundreds of topics such as community development, culture and social structure, demography, social psychology and more.
Encompasses a wide-range of topics from psychology, clinical social psychology, social welfare, criminology and more.
Contains more than two million citiations and summaries of scholarly journal articles, as well as related topics sociology,  psychology, anthropology, etc.

(Scholarly/Peer Reviewed/Refereed articles have been reviewed by a selected panel of experts in the discipline covered by that journal).

Tips
  1. Always switch to the Advance Search page in a database. This will give you more control over your results.
  2. Always use Boolean Operators-AND, OR, NOT when running a search. For Example, "women and property"
  3. Always check your Spelling if the database results are Zero.
  • Journal Finder: this provides information on whether a journal is available full-text online, in print in the library, or available on microfilm.
  • Interlibrary Loan: allows studens to borrow a book or article that the Potter library does not own. There is a link from the Journal Finder page.

Both of these links can be found under QUICK LINKS on the library's homepage.

V. Web Sources

VII. Bibliographies

 

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