Decolonizing Global Education
Librarian for W's Gender & Sexuality Studies, Head, MSF Center
Criteria For Scholarly Sources
What is a reliable source of information? We usually rely on these elements below:
Authority: authors of the work who are academics, researchers, and experts or practitioners in the field
Publisher: university press, professional associations, respected scholarly publisher
Audience: academics, university students, professionals
Content: original research, experimentation
References: formal citations and references
Access: some material available open access, but often only available via subscription.
You can also view this video on Evaluating Sources.
Rutgers University Libraries - New Brunswick Website
QuickSearch
Using QuickSearch
Use QuickSearch to find materials available at Rutgers University Libraries. They include journals, books, newspaper articles, dissertations, films, conference papers, etc. in all subject areas.
Sample keywords searches in Quicksearch:
Nigeria AND "women's education"
“South Africa” AND "educati* system"
"Costa Rica" AND "women's education"
You need to use quotation marks “” to keep the phrases in your search intact. There is no need to use the quotations if your keyword has only one word. You also need to use AND in caps to link the concepts together.
Once your search generated a list of results, you can select the limiters on the left side (ex. "peer-reviewed articles”) and limit the results accordingly.
Encyclopedias
- Women’s Lives around the World: A Global Encyclopedia.This encyclopedia examines the lives of women around the world, with coverage that includes the education of girls and teens; the key roles women play in their families, careers, religions, and cultures; how issues for women intersect with colonialism, transnationalism, feminism, and established norms of power and control.
v. 1. Middle East and Africa -- v. 2. The Americas -- v. 3. Asia and the Pacific -- v. 4. Europe. - Encyclopedia of women & Islamic culturesReference work reflecting the very latest research on gender studies and the Islamic world. Covers the fields of gender studies, Middle Eastern and Islamic studies.
v. 1. Methodologies, paradigms, and sources -- v. 2. Family, law, and politics -- v. 3. Family, body, sexuality, and health -- v. 4. Economics, education, mobility, and space -- v. 5. Practices, interpretations and representations -- Supplements.