Women in World War

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• Westmount Collegiate Institute Library Catalogue (search our catalog)
  
  • Dewey Decimal Classification (where to browse)

  355s -    Military sciences
  620s -    Technology (including weaponry, aeronautics, etc.)
  940-990s - History of the modern world
      940s - History of Europe
      970s - History of North America 

• VPL Library Catalogues (restrict searches to our Bathurst/Clark or Dufferin/Clark branches)

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• EBSCO eBooks ca. 168,000+ fulltext books online - Login same as for EBSCO databases) - EBSCO access extended to Apr30/2018 only
  • if searched within EBSCO Databases limit by Source Types (left column of search results) to eBooks only
  • eg/
  • canad* world war (subject) AND women OR female* OR gender (no field selected)
  • military "world war" canad* women (no field selected)
  • "world war" canad* (subject) AND women (no field selected) AND work OR role OR employ* OR homefront OR "home front" (no field selected)
  
  
• GALE eBooks


• Britannica Online

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• Curio.ca : CBC Documentaries(Browse by program title or search by keywords eg./ rum running canada) offline access available upon personal registration using your school email account
• NFB offline access available upon personal registration using your school email account
• Learn360 Multimedia Resources - pls. see Library for login info (or create new account)

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WCI Magazines / Newspapers / Journals Archives & Indexes(incl. all periodical sources and instructions)

• GALE Infotrac Databases
• EBSCO Databases EBSCO access extended to Apr30/2018 only (includes:)
• Canadian Points of View - great for writing editorials (specifically Canadian)
• Points of View Reference Center - great for writing editorials (larger range of topics)
• Academic Collection eBooks (ca. 165,000+ fulltext books online)
• Advanced Placement (cross-curricular academic resources)

Sample Subject keywords to use:
eg/

• women (subject) AND world war (subject) role OR work OR employ* (subject)
• women (subject) AND world war, 1939-1945 (subject)
• women (subject) AND world war, 1939-1945 (subject) NOT book review* (all text)
• women (subject) AND world war, 1939-1945 (subject) AND home front OR homefront (subject)
• women (subject) AND world war, 1939-1945 (subject) AND AND military (subject)




Source Types may be viewed by: All Results, eBooks, Magazines, Academic Journals, etc.

 

How to Find Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles

How to Find News Articles

Newspapers & Other News Sites

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VPL eBooks, Databases and Other Resources

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Search Google Now
alternately use Advanced Search OR Google Scholar
eg/

Advanced Search:
women world war ii see also Google's relate searches at the bottom of the first page of search results
women world war home front
women military world war 2
women non-military world war 2
role of world war ii in the rise of women's employment

Google Scholar:
women world war ii -[citation]
role world war women OR gender -[citation]
wwii women role OR employment -[citation]
women military world war 2 -[citation]
women non-military world war 2 -[citation]

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World War

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