Women & the U.S. Military: Journal Articles

Off-campus Access:

Log in with your W# and Library Password.

• Your Library Password is the SAME as your ClassWeb PIN.
• If you don't know your PIN, go to the college's ClassWeb page, type in your W#, and select "Forgot PIN?".
• Whenever you change your ClassWeb PIN, it will also automatically update your library password.

To locate magazines and scholarly/ academic journal research articles on women in the military, use the LPC library periodical databases listed below:

Let's say you want to find an article that discusses the harassment of women in the military.  Here are some suggestions to go about doing this: 

1) Determine the key words: women, harassment, and "armed forces"

2) Use quotation marks around any phrases:
Example: "armed forces"
(This will ensure that your search returns articles that are specifically about the armed forces, not just contain the word "armed" or just the word "forces".)

3) Use connector terms such as and or or between search terms:
Example: women and harassment and "armed forces"

(The more words you use, the more narrow/limiting your search will be, resulting in fewer articles. Using a connector word such as or will result in a broader search.  For example: Women or females and harassment will search for articles about women and harassment and articles about females and harassment)

4) Having trouble getting results? Broaden or change your search strategy.
Suggestions:

-Try searching with synonyms (words with similar meanings) of your key terms.

women: woman, female

harassment: abuse, discrimination

armed forces: military, army, navy

-Try removing one or more of your search terms to broaden your search. 

**As always, if you need research assistance, please contact a librarian.  A librarian can suggest further search terms, strategies, or databases to try.**

Locating Scholarly/ Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles 

To only include scholarly/academic/peer-reviewed articles, select the box labeled "Scholarly (Peer Reviewed) Journals" on the search page of the database. 

Also, be sure to select the box labeled "Full Text".
This will ensure that you receive full/complete articles in your search results.     

Learn More: What is a scholarly/peer-reviewed journal?

If you need research assistance, please contact an LPC librarian. 

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