Research by Subject: FOUN 098 70: Taboos in the Arab World: Our Library Session

Practice

Pick one topic below:

Women’s rights in Saudi Arabia
Egyptian divorce law and women’s rights
Homosexuality and Muslim identity

Do these things:

Search for a book in the WorldCat (library) catalog
Find a scholarly journal article about your topic in JSTOR
Find a scholarly article about your topic in one of these other databases:

Databases for Practice

WorldCat Library Catalog
Search for books, articles, and more that are held by Bucknell and beyond.
JSTOR
An archive of core, scholarly journals from a variety of subject areas. Coverage begins with the very first issue through all but recent years.
GenderWatch
A full text database of periodicals, books, conference proceedings, and other publications that focus on how gender impacts a broad spectrum of subject areas. Coverage spans 1970 to the present.
Social Sciences Full Text
Includes full-text articles from hundreds of journals, covering the latest concepts, theories and methods from both applied and theoretical aspects of the social sciences.
Sociological Abstracts
One of the most comprehensive databases in the social sciences, Sociological Abstracts includes coverage of fields including anthropology, economics, education, medicine, community development, philosophy, demography, political science, and social psychology. Includes abstracts of journal articles, conference papers, dissertations, books, and book reviews.
HeinOnline

HeinOnline Academic includes more than 100 million pages of multidisciplinary content in more than 1500 subject areas, including women’s studies, social justice, education, law, history, political science, criminal justice, religious studies, international relations, and many more. With more historical content than any other database, HeinOnline provides access to 300+ years of information on political development and the complete history of the creation of government and legal systems around the world. Among the many databases included HeinOnline’s journal collection features 3300+ periodicals relating to a variety of subject areas, with all coverage dating from inception to the most currently published issues in most cases.