Higher Education-Related News and Research Sources

August 13, 2007.

Sources On What's Happening at Other Universities

• Well-formated web searches (put phrases in quotes, etc.) For effective searching in Google, use the Advanced screen http://www.google.com/advanced_search?hl=en, and read the search tips. For comparison and explanation of features of Google and other search engines, visit SearchEnginesShowdown's search engine features comparison chart at http://www.searchengineshowdown.com/features/.

• Visit websites of organizations associated with higher education. Although pages they put up will turn up under search engine searches, the content buried within pdf files and anything they've mounted in a database structure will not (called the "deep" or "invisible" web). Examples:
• American Association of University Professors: Women in Higher Education: http://www.aaup.org/Issues/WomeninHE/
• American Council on Education http://www.acenet.edu/
• Association of American Colleges and Universities http://www.aacu-edu.org/
• U.S. Department of Education:
  
  ERIC Clearinghouse on Higher Education was closed in December, 2003.
  Their Digests, Trends, and Crib Sheets may still be available through the ERIC database.
  National Center for PostSecondary Improvement http://www.stanford.edu/group/ncpi/
  Many reports are available for download.
  Higher Education page: http://www.nea.org/he/
  National Center for Education Statistics http://nces.ed.gov/
• College and University Professional Association for Human Resources http://www.cupahr.org/
  Site includes information about surveys of salaries and benefits
• Committee on Institutional Cooperation (CIC) http://www.cic.uiuc.edu/
• Additional links to Professional Organizations in Higher Education http://www.library.wisc.edu/guides/HighEd/orgs.htm

• Chronicle of Higher Education http://chronicle.com/ . If you have a subscription, you can get a username and password to search the Chronicle's archives. You can also search it from 1999 until almost the present in Academic Search Fulltext, or in Lexis-Nexis (the last month or so is not in Lexis-Nexis, either). [Earlier Chronicle articles can be found in Proquest Research Libraries database.] The pathway to find the Chronicle currently in Lexis-Nexis is News/Campus News/Chronicle. Note that transcripts from t.v. and radio broadcasts are also in Lexis-Nexis.

• Selected articles from campus newspapers are also in Lexis-Nexis. Select "University News" under news category and "University Wire" under news source.

• Women in Higher Education http://www.wihe.com/ newsletter archives are available to subscribers.

• Visit sites of professional, academic and other organizations and caucuses for women. For scientists and engineers and/or supporting girls entry into these fields, see these examples:
  • American Women in Science (AWIS) http://www.awis.org/
    AWIS Magazine http://www.awis.org/pubs/mag.html; print is in Memorial Library Stacks AP A1087 W105
  • Advocates for Women in Science, Engineering and Mathematics (AWSEM) http://www.awsem.org/
  • American Medical Women's Association http://www.amwa-doc.org/
  • American Astronomical Society Committee on the Status of Women http://www.aas.org/~cswa/
  • Anita Borg Institute for Women and Technology http://www.anitaborg.org
  • Association for Women Geoscientists http://www.awg.org/
  • Association for Women in Computing http://www.awc-hq.org/
  • Association for Women in Math http://www.awm-math.org/
    Newsletter excerpts http://www.awm-math.org/newsletter.html; print issues are in Math Library Journal Collection LH .7AS72 W84
    
  • Association for Women in Science and Engineering http://www.awise.org/
  • Center for Women and Information Technology http://www.umbc.edu/cwit/index.html
  • Committee on Status of Women in Physics (CSWP) of the American Physical Society http://www.aps.org/educ/cswp/index.html
    Newsletter is The Gazette : http://www.aps.org/educ/cswp/gazette/; print issues are inthe Physics Library Journals Collection LH 7C104 S104
  • Committee on Women in Science and Engineering of the National Research Council: http://www7.nationalacademies.org/cwse/
  • Graduate Women in Science (Sigma Delta Epsilon) http://www.gwis.org/
  • History of Science Society's Women's Caucus http://depts.washington.edu/hssexec/committee/hss_women.html
  • IEEE Women in Engineering Committee http://www.ieee.org/organizations/committee/women/
    Newsletter http://www.ieee.org/portal/index.jsp?pageID=corp_level1&path=committee/women&file=newsletter.xml&xsl=generic.xsl
    
  • Society of Women Engineers http://www.swe.org/ ; UW-Madison student section: http://homepages.cae.wisc.edu/~swe/
    SWE Magazine: http://www.swe.org/magazine/magMain.aspx ; print issues are in Wendt Library Journals Collection, 1st Fl Noncirculating S SA1057 W103
  • Women Chemists Committee of the American Chemical Society http://membership.acs.org/W/WCC/
    Newsletter http://membership.acs.org/W/WCC/newsletters/
  • Women in Engineering Programs and Advocates Network (WEPAN) http://www.wepan.org/
  • Women in Endocrinology http://www.women-in-endo.org/Pages/index.shtml
  • Women in Neuroscience (WIN) http://www.womeninneuroscience.org/

• Post queries on relevant academic discussion lists.
  Use Joan Korenman's list of Gender-Related Electronic Forums http://www-unix.umbc.edu/~korenman/wmst/forums.html. Her list is subdivided by broad fields, such as science/technology.

Educational Research Databases

• "Help & Instruction," a guide to searching for education-related information, from the UW-Madison CIMC (Center for Instructional Materials and Computing)

• ERIC, the Educational Resources Information Center database has citations from 1966 to the present. It includes citations to articles in education journals, reports and documents from agencies and elsewhere, conference presentations, etc. Journal articles have accession numbers that have EJ as a prefix; documents have have ED. About 90 percent of ERIC documents (non-journal articles) are available on microfiche in the CIMC (Center for Instructional Materials and Computing) on campus in the Teacher Ed. Bldg., 225 N. Mills. About 80 percent of the documents since 1993 are available online by clicking on the document link in the ERIC record. The General Library System has Quick Guide to Searching ERIC and other databases from that vendor (Ebsco). As of January 1, 2004, the U.S. Dept. of Education changed ERIC and other material it used to provide. Consult the Educator's Reference Desk for further information. ERIC is also available using a public interface.

• Education Fulltext database contains citations to articles in about 400 education journals, yearbooks, etc. Abstracts were added starting in 1994 and fulltext as of 1996. The General Library System has a QuickGuide to Education Fulltext and other databases from the Wilson company.

Finding Models/Research on Life-Career and Workplace Issues From Business Databases

• Use Business Databases, especially ABI-INFORM, which indexes and abstracts articles from more than 1300 scholarly and trade business periodicals (full-text articles from more than 600 of the journals from 1992 to the present). GLS QuickGuide to ABI-INFORM

Finding Research on Women/Gender From Women-Related Databases

UW-Madison Libraries currently offer 4 databases on women and gender, as well as links to various meta-websites. The easiest way to find them all is to click on "Search This Site" from the Libraries' homepage and search for "women" in the title search box.
• Women's Studies International (varying dates, some from the 1970s, more from 1984 onward) indexes books and journals in women's studies. Many of the article citations also include abstracts. The tables of contents of many recent books are included, making this a useful index to articles in anthologies.
• Studies on Women and Gender (1999- ) indexes and abstracts selected articles from social science journals. Both of these indexes are valuable for retrieving scholarly studies, as long as they were published at least one-to-two years ago, due to the lag time in abstracting.

• Two fulltext databases are more current, but on the whole less scholarly. Contemporary Women's Issues, 1992- , (particularly good for international topics, and updated very frequently,) and
• GenderWatch (particularly good at U.S. feminist activism questions from the 1980 to the present, with some coverage of the 1970s as well, and articles on women of color), updated quarterly.

Finding Research From Social Science Databases

Easiest way to find many social science-related databases and other resources linked from the Libraries' website is to do a 'Search This Site" title search for "social."
• The Social Science Citation Index is a subset of Web of Knowledge, (formerly Web of Science). Live links to electronic journals with full text are included for some publishers. This database is especially good for going forward from references in an article to where it has been cited by others. When searching names, just use initials for first and middle names (ex: andrews jh ).

• Social Sciences Full text indexes more than 415 key periodicals in the fields of economics, politics and foreign affairs, public administration, public health, sociology,criminology, environmental and urban studies, psychology and anthropology. Abstracts started in 1994 and fulltext from 112 journals in 1995. QuickGuide.

Finding Research From Legal Sources

• Use Lexis-Nexis to access law review articles in fulltext. Current pathway: Legal Research/Law Reviews. There are hundreds of law journals published at law schools, generally edited by students but containing articles written by legal scholars as well as by students. Legal aspects of sexual harassment, Title IX, and numerous other topics are frequently covered in law journals, particularly in the feminist law journals, such as Yale Journal of Law and Feminism, Women's Rights Law Reporter, Wisconsin Women's Law Journal, Berkeley Women's Law Review, Harvard Women's Law Review. American University Journal of Gender Social Policy and the Law, Columbia Journal of Gender and Law, etc. QuickGuide.

• The Index to Legal Periodicals and Books (1981- ) indexes articles from more than 760 legal periodicals and indexes more than 2000 law books.

Finding Research From Science, Engineering, and Medical Sources

• There are many indexes and databases to science research that can be found by browsing the categories "Physical Sciences, Engineering, Computing and Math," "Health Sciences" and "Agricultural, Biological, and Environmental Sciences" from the Journal, Magazine, Newspaper Databases Page of the Libraries' website. Journals focusing on education-related aspects of science are probably indexed in ERIC. There are some specific journals or journal sections that include coverage of issues and policies that may be worth browsing periodically, such as Science Careers in Science. The journal Academic Medicine is useful for the Medical School environment.

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