Research Guides
Gender, Women & Sexuality Studies: Literature Reviews
Serves both the department of Gender, Women and Sexuality Studies and the Graduate Certificate in Sexuality & Queer Studies
Specialized Literature Review Resources
- Annual Reviews This link opens in a new windowLiterature reviews in the biomedical/life sciences, physical sciences, and social sciences.
- Web of Science This link opens in a new windowCitation index for the sciences, social sciences, and arts and humanities.
- Google ScholarUse the advanced search feature to limit by publication date, journal, author, discipline; use the "cited by" and "related articles" feature to connect to other scholars
- ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Global This link opens in a new windowIndex to doctoral dissertations and selected masters theses from 1861 to the present; includes 2 million+ full text dissertations published since 1997.
- Gale Virtual ReferenceSearchable library of scholarly e-books providing scholarly background articles written by top scholars in the field
- Open Access resources, Women and Gender StudiesList of Open Access scholarly materials prepared by the Women and Gender Studies Section of ACRL
About Methods
Look under these subjects in UW Libraries Search to find books on research methods:
Feminist Theory -- Research -- Methodology
Women's Studies AND Methodology
Social Sciences -- Research -- Methodology
Humanities -- Research -- Methodology
Qualitative Research -- Methodology
Quantitative Research -- Methodology
Strategies for Reading & Evaluating Scholarly Literature
These resources from the Bothell Campus Library can help you make informed decisions about which articles to include in your literature review and why.
- Strategies for reading academic articlesFrom UW Bothell /Cascadia CC Campus Library
- Characteristics of Scholarly SourcesFrom UW Bothell/Cascadia CC Campus Library
Selected books on literature reviews
Health sciences literature review made easy: the matrix method by ISBN: 9781284211184Publication Date: 2022
The literature reviewISBN: 9781412961356
Evaluating Research in Academic Journals-4th EdISBN: 9781884585784
