GWS 146: Queer Visual Culture

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ebrary is our largest collection of full text ebooks, with almost 80,000 titles on a wide range of subjects. Find them in the UCB catalog, OskiCat (keyword: ebrary or limit to "Available Online"), or search the ebrary site directly:

The Library offers over 100 e-book and e-text collections in specific subject areas. 

• ebrary (80,000+ online books)
• Gutenberg-e (ebooks selected by the American Historical Association)
• Humanities E-Book Project  (humanities)
• Oxford Scholarship Online (political science, religion, philosophy)
• Social Theory (full text of the works of major social theorists)
• Springer Electronic Book Package  (Melvyl only; sciences and social sciences)
• Complete list from the Electronic Resources Finder

• Academic Search Complete
  via EBSCOhost
  
• Alternative Press Index
  via EBSCOhost
  
• Alt-Press Watch
  via ProQuest
  
• America: History and Life
  via EBSCOhost
  
• Contemporary Women's Issues
  
  
• GenderWatch
  via ProQuest
  
• Historical Abstracts
  via EBSCOhost. All aspects of world history (excludes US and Canada).
  
• JSTOR
  Note: Does not include current issues of the journals.
  
• LGBT Life
  via EBSCOhost
  
• PAIS International
  via ProQuest
  
• Sociological Abstracts
  via ProQuest. Good place to find theory.
  
• Women's Studies International
  via EBSCOhost
  

• Access World News
  U.S. and 700 new sources.
  
• LexisNexis Academic
  International, national and local newspapers, radio and tv transcripts, translations from foreign-language sources and more.
  
• ProQuest Newspapers
  New York Times (1999-present), LA Times (1985-present), Wall Street Journal (1982-present).
  
• World News Connection
  Translated transcriptions of international news.
  

The Library subscribes to thousands of ejournals, ebooks and other databases for use by authorized users (current faculty, students and staff and, in most cases, on-site visitors). The terms and conditions for using these resources are set out in license agreements with each publisher; these agreements generally prohibit users from systematic or programmatic downloading, downloading entire issues of journals, or from transmitting licensed content to unauthorized users (i.e. posting an article on a publically available website).

For more information see the Library's Conditions of Use for Online Resources.

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This is a selective list. Access to most of these journals is restricted to current students, faculty and staff. For a complete list of eJournals go to Electronic Journals A-Z. Also included in this list are selected open access titles.

• Camera Obscura: Feminism, Culture and Media Studies
• Canadian Online Journal of Queer Studies in Education
  (open access)
• Feminist Media Studies
• Gay and Lesbian Issues and Psychology
  (open access)
• GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies
  (Project MUSE)
• Hypatia: A Journal of Feminist Philosophy
• International Journal of Sexuality and Gender Studies
  (through 2002 only)
• Journal of Gay and Lesbian Social Services
• Journal of Homosexuality
• Journal of Lesbian Studies
• Journal of the History of Sexuality
  (Project MUSE)
• Journal of Visual Culture
• Sexualities
• SQS: Journal of Queer Studies in Finland
  (open access)
• Trikster: Nordic Queer Journal
  (open access)
• Visual Communications Quarterly
• Visual Studies

 
Whenever you quote or base your ideas on another person's work, you must document the source you used. Even when you do not quote directly from another work, if reading that source contributed to the ideas presented in your paper, you must give the authors proper credit.

By following these guidelines, you avoid plagiarism, which is a serious violation of the Code of Student Conduct.

In order to avoid plagiarism, you must give credit when

• You use another person's ideas, opinions, or theories.
• You use facts, statistics, graphics, drawings, music, etc., or any other type of information that does not comprise common knowledge.
• You use quotations from another person's spoken or written word.
• You paraphrase another person's spoken or written word.

Recommendations

• Begin the writing process by stating your ideas; then go back to the author's original work.
• Use quotation marks and credit the source (author) when you copy exact wording.
• Use your own words (paraphrase) instead of copying directly when possible.
• Even when you paraphrase another author's writings, you must give credit to that author.
• If the form of citation and reference are not correct, the attribution to the original author is likely to be incomplete. Therefore, improper use of style can result in plagiarism. Get a style manual and use it.
• The figure below may help to guide your decisions.
  
  

This content is part of the Understanding Plagiarism tutorial created by the Indiana University School of Education.

• Citing Your Sources - a brief online guide to the main citation styles and a brief discussion on what constitutes plagiarism.
  
• MLA handbook for Writers of Research Papers. 7th edition. New York : Modern Language Association of America, 2009.
  Doe Reference Reference Hall LB2369 .G53 2009
  Main Gardner Stacks LB2369 .G53 2009
  Many older editions available throughout the UCB libraries.
• The Chicago Manual of Style (UCB-only access)
  15th ed. Chicago: Univ. of Chicago Press, 2003. Searchable, online version of the Chicago Manual of Style (15th edition).
  Many print editions available throughout the UCB Libraries.
• Cite Right: A Quick Guide to Citation Styles--MLA, APA, Chicago, the Sciences, Professions, and More (UCB-only access) Charles Lipson. Chicago: Univ. of Chicago Press, 2006.
  Many print editions throughout the libraries.
• Columbia Guide to Online Style (UCB-only access)
  Janice R. Walker and Todd Taylor. 2nd ed. NY: Columbia Univ. Press. 2006.
  Many print editions throughout the UCB libraries.

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• Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Studies
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