Course Reserves can help you obtain required material for your courses, online or in person at the library.

• Here is a SHORTCUT

An annotated bibliography is required as part of your first assignment. Though your professor's instructions should always come first, for general guidelines and examples, see the library help guide:

• How to prepare an annotated bibliography
  
  

For help formatting bibliography references and the in-text citations, use a citation style guide.
Here are two examples of popular styles, APA and MLA:

• APA Style Guides   
• MLA Style Guides  
  
• our Citation & Style Guides page provides many more examples of styles and guides. 

RefWorks can also help you keep track of your references and automate the formatting of bibliographies.

• RefWorks Import-Export Instructions tell you how to get citations from any library database into your RefWorks account
• the Libraries offer RefWorks Workshops at different times in the term.

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Books can provide more in-depth information than articles, with more history and context.
You can use our DISCOVERY SEARCH box to find books but DON'T STOP there!

Also:

• Use our  Library Catalogue  to find  books at Concordia Library.
  
  
• Explore our ebooks by publisher. Try especially Oxford, Palgrave and Project MUSE for instance. 
  
  
• See Simone's Library & Book List to find books at the Simone de Beauvoir Institute.
  
  
• Try Worldcat to search libraries worldwide, and Other Library Catalogues to locate books at McGill or other Montreal libraries.
  
  
• Use Google Books to search inside the pages of books, then use a CLUES Title Search to find out if we own the book you want. If we don't own the book use Interlibrary Loans or other library services
  
  
• See Related Library Services to find out how to obtain material from other libraries.
  
  

**TIP/WARNING:
Though books (or book chapters/essays) can prove to be useful sources for your research paper, it will take more judgment and evaluation on your part to determine if they qualify as appropriate quality sources. See Evaluating Sources for some general guidelines.

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You can use our DISCOVERY SEARCH box to find articles in peer-reviewed journals but DON'T STOP there!  It is great, but may include too many sources that are not RELEVANT enough for your research. 

Also search any of these article databases to identify material related to your research topic:

• America History & Life (Canada & U.S)
• Historical Abstracts (outside of North America)
• Academic Search Complete
• Gender Studies Database
• LGBT Life with Full Text
• SocINDEX
  TIP: you can search in all six of these databases together by selecting "Choose Databases"
  
  
• JSTOR (includes many journals covering historical topics)
• Google Scholar
  TIP: click on the "Cited By" link underneath the citations you find to get more recent sources
  
  
• With Canadian focus or containing Canadian material:
  • CBCA Complete
  • CPI-Q - Canadian Periodical Index
  • Erudit [French language sources] 
    
    

• Depending on the topic you have chosen, additional databases in Women's Studies and even other subject areas may also be useful for you.

TIPS:

• For Quick Tips on how to enter search terms in most of these databases, see this one-page CHEAT SHEET.
• Click on the Scholarly/Peer-reviewed journals tab or checkbox in most of the databases above to limit your search to accepted sources. See also Evaluating Sources.
• You can sort your results by Relevance or by Most Recent Date
• You can also sometimes find relevant historical material by adding the search terms: history OR 20th to your search.
• Use the Findit@Concordia button within the databases to try and access the text of the articles. See also Help ACCESSING the texts.
   

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Try these quality online reference sources:

• Literature Resource Centre
  
  
• Oxford Reference Online
• Gale Virtual Reference Library
  
• Feminism in literature: a Gale critical companion. 
  **To see a list of 20th Century authors:
  •     use the Table of Contents and then choose a Volume covering the 20th Century

• TIPS:
  • When using the 3 sources listed above, don't just look at the list of search results. Explore the tabs and sidebar options as well.
  • All of the other resources listed above for finding BOOKS and ARTICLES  can also be useful for either identifying a feminist author or finding out more about the one of your choice.
  • If you use web sites, be sure to carefully evaluate their quality. See Help Evaluating Sources below.
     

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Encyclopedias can sometimes help you explore or define the broader issues and themes related to your research paper topic, and get ideas or references for your searches.

• Wiley Encyclopedia of Sexuality and Gender (2017)
  
  
• Search multiple encyclopedias simultaneously in Gale Virtual Reference Library
  • **Relevant encyclopedias within this tool include Encyclopedia of Gender and Society and more.
     
• Search the Blackwell Encyclopedia of Sociology for possible background on theoretical issues and research concepts. 
  
  
• Select from a list of Sexuality Studies Encyclopedias, or find an encyclopedia related to your topic by using our Online Encyclopedias page.
  
  

**WARNING: 
Though encyclopedia articles often include bibliographies listing important books and articles, the encyclopedia articles themselves should NOT be considered as one of the 4-5 required sources in your proposal and term paper propasal and annotated bibliography.

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