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WGS355H5: Wired Women: Gender, Cyberspace and New Information Technology

2022 Jan 18. Class Activity

Download the sheet from here.

Find an Article from a Citation

Finding Articles - Using Databases

Use the databases below to find scholarly, peer-reviewed journal articles for your assignment.

Make sure to use Ulrich's Web if the database does not have a peer-review option.

* Some contents can be primary sources as well. 

Connect Google Scholar and LibrarySearch


How to configure Google Scholar to have it recognize you as a member of the UofT community

If you don't see Get full text when you are off-campus using Google Scholar, connect Google Scholar to our Library resources in order to read and download articles without paying unnecessary fees. Remember that the University of Toronto Libraries have already paid subscription fees for most of the articles.

To link Google Scholar to the University of Toronto Libraries, see the instruction below.

What Type of Information Are You Using?

0:00 – How to find Ulrichsweb, using LibrarySearch
0:51 -- Remember to type in the JOURNAL title, not the article title
1:58 -- Make sure your article is a research article, since peer reviewed journals have other content
3:21 -- You can access the journal through Ulrichsweb


The following video was created by Cambridge University Press. They show the importance of the peer-review process:

Get it! UTL

In off-campus settings, you might not be able to read and download an article. In this case, try pasting http://myaccess.library.utoronto.ca/login?url= in front of the URL.

If UTL subscribes to the journal, you will be asked to login using your UTORid. You can also check if the library subscribes to a journal by searching our LibrarySearch. For the further information, visit: