Women's and Gender Studies for graduate students

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The MacOdrum Library is located on the unceded territories of the Algonquin nation. This guide is designed for graduate students in the Pauline Jewett Institute for Women's and Gender Studies.

Begin your thesis or dissertation

Borrowing materials from the Carleton University Library

Graduate students can borrow books and much more.

Academic support

Research support workshops are available: Check out this year's schedule.
The Centre for Student Academic Support also offers academic support workshops.

Thesis & dissertation writing guides

Literature review and citation management

Literature review writing guides

Finding academic literature

Academic journals
- Open access
  - Jurn: Search millions of free academic articles, chapters and theses
  - Directory of Open Access Journals
  - Open access at Carleton
  - Open access journals published at Carleton

Women's and Gender Studies professors recommend the following journals:

Here are key journals having to do with the discipline of Women's Studies. For other gender-based journal titles, please see the Gender Studies subject guide.

Note: Some are available only in print; others are available in print and electronic format. Check UlrichsWeb for information about individual journals. Ulrichsweb is a source of bibliographic and access information for over 300,000 serials.

Find grey literature

Grey literature is an important source of information in arts and social science research that:

adds a valuable global perspective
provides detailed overviews on specific populations
may be only source of local information

Grey literature is defined as "information produced on all levels of government, academics, business and industry in electronic and print formats not controlled by commercial publishing" ie. where publishing is not the primary activity of the producing body." ICGL Luxembourg definition, 1997. Expanded in New York, 2004

Types of grey literature

Government information
Dissertations and theses
Conference proceedings
Newspapers and magazines

Library resources

Google Scholar (change country, for example, to find international material)
Government information (customized Google search)
Databases such as Canadian Business and Current Affairs and Web of Science

Resources

Canadian Public Policy Collection
Grey Net (an international directory of organizations in Grey Literature and a respository)
Grey Literature Database - Canadian Evaluation Society
Finding the Hard to Finds: Searching for Grey Literature (University of British Columbia)

Citation management and reference rot

Use online tools to manage your sources (e.g., save citations, pdfs and create bibliographies).
Start a Perma.cc account to create permanent links for online sources (avoid reference rot!).

Research data management plan (including ethics) and analysis (NVivo)

Deposit your thesis in Carleton's institutional repository

The Carleton University Institutional Repository collects, preserves, and provides open access to the academic, research output and creative works of Carleton faculty and scholars.

Use this repository to:

Identify a topic of study
Find out what subjects have been studied in your (or other fields) of study
Identify and access theses and/or dissertations to read
Identify and access theses and/or dissertations with which you supervisor has been involved

Writing support and publishing your work

Writing process

Writing your journal article in 12 weeks : a guide to academic publishing success
Consult the writing consultants in Writing Services (fourth floor of the library).

Open Access

Predatory publishers

Identifying and avoiding predatory publishers (a guide from the Association of College and Research Libraries)

CURIE Fund

The Carleton University Research Impact Endeavour (CURIE) fund was initiated in 2011 as part of Carleton's overall strategy to support Open Access and Scholarly Publishing. The fund is intended to assist in the payment of article processing charges (APC) for open access articles authored by Carleton researchers. The terms of reference and procedures for the fund are reviewed annually to ensure that resources are being used as effectively as possible.

ORCID

What is an ORCID and do I need one?

ORCID is a digital identifier that distinguishes you from every other researcher through integration in key research workflows such as manuscript and grant submission, and automated links between you and your professional activities.

Journal rankings

Citation-based metrics used for ranking journals. This may be important for:

preparing your portfolio
assessing the impact and quality of a journal relative to a particular discipline or field
tenure and promotion in academic circles

Consult the Journal Rankings Help Guide for more information

Copyright

Thesis Guidelines @ Carleton University

Thesis & Dissertations Requirements