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This is one of the new freshman seminars. Each of the 10 students will research and write a paper (40% of the final grade) on some topic mentioned in class and OK'd by the instructor, Dayo Abah.
Here is their research guide.
I was "asked" (hah!) by the Committee on Women and Washington and Lee to put together a bibliography of reading on issues relating to gender equity among faculty and staff at W&L.
Some of the possible topics include childcare, salary and benefits, maternity/paternity leave, recruitment and retention, discriminatory actions, collegiality, communication, general climate and environment. And, of course, there are more -- lots more....
The members of the Committee are expected to work on reading this stuff during the summer and a law school student is charged with actually gathering the material.
It seemed to me that RefWorks might be useful for compiling the list and even as a shared online method for members of the Committee to access the materials. They also can enter their own comments on any item, and, of course, we can add to the list, if that is desirable.
So, here is the access page I set up.
Elizabeth Oliver is planning to show this thing to the Committee this afternoon, so I may yet have additional work to do.
"I am a member of Professor Wasserman's Journalism 240 class this term, and as part of an assignment to build a website I need to assemble a list of names of journalists that deal with poverty-related issues. Professor Wasserman mentioned that you may know of some databases that will facilitate this process. I would greatly appreciate any advice you could offer on this matter. Thanks for your help!"
My response:
This is a tough one -- there is no perfect solution to the question.
I have spent quite a bit of time looking through journalism Web sites for a quick-fix, but never have found anything.
Last spring I prepared this page to help students in this course (different number then).
Since LexisNexis Academic covers so many newspapers, it probably is the best place to go and you will see on the JOUR 295 page that there are 3 suggested approaches to searching LexisNexis on this topic. Try them all.
Another possibility, another database:
Go to Academic OneFile
and
Enter poverty in the first search line. But change the label for that line from "Keyword(ke)" to "Subject(su)."
Once you are looking at the list of results, click on the "News" tab above the list to see articles from newspapers. If you want to see citations from magazines, too, click on the "Magazines" tab.
Two more suggestions:
You can search through over 100 important journalism Web sites with this search engine.
Try searching for poverty. Or maybe poverty AND journalists
What you will find are discussions of relevant issues, although I do not think you will find a list of "concerned" journalists.
And...
Since last spring, the library has expanded its coverage of "poverty sources," so maybe this new site is worth a look,
especially the "Reference Sources" and "Organizations and Other Links" sections.
Finally, please let me know if you have any further questions.
I am glad to help.
Course: ECON 396 - Health Economics in Developing Countries
Presentation date: 5/2/07
Faculty: Blunch
Number of students: 2
Librarian: Tombarge
Research guide URL: http://library.wlu.edu/research/guides/business/econ396.asp
Assignment: Students working on an paper on a topic in health economics in Africa.