The eBook holds narratives of minority and queer truckers about the working-class struggle to earn a living while preserving one's safety, dignity, and selfhood.
The Kinsey Institute is the premier research institute on intimate relations and includes data and statistics related to a variety of topics.
Studies in this highly respected journal analyze gender and gendered processes in interactions, organizations, societies, and global and transnational spaces.
the emotional story of members of the LGBTQ community who challenge stereotypes about gender and sexuality and demonstrate their diverse journeys in overcoming physical and figurative mountains.
Gender studies, health, and psychology disciplines all tend to look at the behavior of people in terms of sex and gender, and looking in these resources way provide additional information on your topic.
Historical records of political and social organizations founded by LGBTQ individuals, as well as publications by and for lesbians and gays.
Dedicated to presenting feminist women and gender studies research from multiple disciplines.
Aimed toward academic generalists and nurses, this database provides access to many sex and gender related topics.
Comprehensive to psychology and related disciplines, this focuses on resources in the behavioral sciences and mental health.
An asterisk ( Shift+8 to get *) after a series of letters tells the search to provide results that match the letters you typed along with any word ending as long as it is part of the same word. Keep in mind that this may not always work the way you expect! Applications for this could be:
| Base plus * | Sample of Possible matches |
|---|---|
| LGBT* | LGBT, LGBT+, LGBTQ, LGBTQ+, LGBTIA, LGBTIA+, etc. |
| roman* | romance, romantic |
Placing quotes around two or more words tells the search to provide results with those words in that exact order with only one space between them. This is especially helpful when words have meanings separately that are changed when combined or are given a more specific meaning when used in conjunction. Some examples are:
The word "or" means something very different to databases, and might be helpful when searching for similar concepts that either don't all start with the same letters or has too many irrelevant matches.
| Instead of just... | Try... |
|---|---|
| prostitute | prostitut* OR "sex work*" OR hooker |
| "domestic violence" | "domestic violence" OR "domestic abuse" OR "intimate partner violence" OR "sexual violence" |