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Leyburn Library has acquired online access to a collection of three outstanding encyclopedias which should be of value to students and faculty researching cross-cultural issues around the world.
Encyclopedia of Medical Anthropology
Encyclopedia of Sex and Gender
Links to each of these titles are available in various locations in our Web site, including here.
Duke University Law School.
Available online.
This article, published in the William and Mary Law Review, "argues that commercial pressures are determining the news media’s contemporary treatment of crime and violence, and that the resulting coverage has played a major role in reshaping public opinion, and ultimately, criminal justice policy. The news media are not mirrors, simply reflecting events in society. Rather, media content is shaped by economic and marketing considerations that frequently override traditional journalistic criteria for newsworthiness. This article explores local and national television’s treatment of crime, where the extent and style of news stories about crime are being adjusted to meet perceived viewer demand and advertising strategies, which frequently emphasize particular demographic groups with a taste for violence."
This article will be available through our Periodical Finder.
Career Education Institute.
Available online. (W&L subscription)
Listing of over 2,300 organizations which offer internships and/or summer jobs for students, including compilations in community and social service agencies, women's rights, human rights, environmental affairs, and Washington internships in law and policy.
Note: This is one of the few W&L library subscription databases which uses passwords for security, so please do not share this password information with anyone outside the W&L community.
Links are maintained in several locations in the library Web site, including here
American Psychological Assocation.
Available online. Printed copy to be added to the library collection.
This report "found evidence that the proliferation of sexualized images of girls and young women in advertising, merchandising, and media is harmful to girls’ self-image and healthy development.... To complete the report, the APA Task Force on the Sexualization of Girls studied published research on the content and effects of virtually every form of media, including television, music videos, music lyrics, magazines, movies, video games and the Internet. They also examined recent advertising campaigns and merchandising of products aimed toward girls."
ABC-Clio.
Available online. (W&L subscription)
Three-volume encyclopedia (2006) contains signed entries on 79 revolutionary movements "of the past two-and-a-half centuries, from the American and French revolutions to the present, including historical backgrounds, analysis, domestic and international impacts, biographies, and references and further readings."
Links will be maintained in several locations in the library Web site, including here
American Political Science Association.
Available online.
The January 2007 issue of the journal PS; Political Science and Politics contains a collection of seven essays on issues associated with the recent presidential election in Mexico.
Articles in PS can be found in several databases via the library's Periodical Finder, as well as in printed form.
Leyburn Library has initiated a subscription to the Blackwell Synergy collection of online journals, which is particularly strong in the social sciences.
Our collection includes over 700 online journals, including over 600 which are new to W&L.
For example, there about 25 journals categorized as Sociology, seven as Anthropology, etc., and five more as Archaeology.
Links to these journals will appear in Annie, the library's Periodical Finder, and elsewhere in our Web site.
One of the nice things about this collection is the fact that you can opt to have the tables of contents of new issues -- complete with links to the texts of articles -- delivered to you via e-mail or RSS feed. For more information, see "Continue reading...," below.
To set up e-mail delivery, you should register in the Blackwell site, creating your own account (password, e-mail, etc.).
Then go to any individual journal's page, such as the Journal of Marriage and Family and select the "Sign Up for E-Mail Alerts" option (upper-left of page). The next page will offer you a list of all journals, with access to each subject collection, where you can click next to any title to set up e-mail delivery.
To set up RSS delivery, you need not register. Instead, go to any individual title's page and copy the URL into your own RSS reader (Bloglines, for example).
If you have questions about the above, please let me know.