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WGS 103: Introduction to LGBTQ Studies

Scholarly Sources

Scholarly sources are those which:

  • 1) are written by scholars
  • 2) vetted in some way for accuracy
  • 3) introduce new concepts, or new ways of thinking about existing concepts.

LibrarySearch

You can search for both books and articles in LibrarySearch, and there are filters, such as peer review for articles, that you can use. Once you've entered a search, sign in with your maine.edu credentials for the most access to full text.

Take a look at our LibrarySearch tutorial to get acquainted with this system:

Other Ways to Find Scholarly Information

For scholarly journal articles, while we can search all Fogler databases at once in LibrarySearch, we might benefit from a more focused, discipline-specific search by using individual databases. Here is a list of databases that might help you find information on LGBTQ-related topics:

You may also want to search Google Scholar, which searches a multidisciplinary, non-curated, collection of materials.  If so, be sure to first go to Menu>Settings>Library Links and type University of Maine, click the box and save, to get access to the most full text.

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