Libraries
 

IFS: Through the Looking Glass: Theory, Identity, and Dress

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Research Strategies

Finding Books

Finding Articles

Finding Images

Finding Newspapers and Ads

Annotated Bibliographies and Citing 

 

Research Strategies

 

Video--Boolean Operators

 

Video--Scholarly vs. Popular

 

Video--Selecting Keywords

 

Pearl Growing

Once you've found one resource you like, check the works cited, and find those resources in IUCat (books) or an article database.

 

Finding Books

 

IUCAT

 


Search Strategies

Language and research is complex.  Be flexible with your search terms (use synonyms) and be willing to search in more than one resource.  Use Visuwords (online visual thesaurus) to help you think about various possibilities for search terms.

 

Additional key words that may describe your topic:

 

apparel

attire     

clothing

dress

fashion

costumes

garments

appearance

ornament

gown

customs

aesthetics

 

Finding Articles

 

Academic Search (aka EBSCO)

A database that draws from many scholarly and popular sources

 

Art Full-Text

Provides access to articles from major art and design journals.

 

Anthropology Plus

Provides access to a wide variety of anthropology research

 

Godey's Lady Book (1830-1885)

The most popular women's periodical of its day, with stories, poems, fashion, illustrations and music

 

JSTOR

Articles from the arts, business, the humanities, and social sciences.

 

Project MUSE

Scholarly articles from across the disciplines

 

Sociological Abstracts

Includes summaries of articles (with links and connections to full articles) from psychology and related disciplines.

 

Finding Images

 

CAMIO (Catalog of Art Museum Images Online)

 

Finding Newspaper Articles and Ads

 

LexisNexis Academic

Includes articles from US and international newspapers and magazines.

 

Proquest Historical Newspapers


 

Citing and Bibliographies

 

Citing Sources