1. Undergraduate Women’s Studies Course: Planning and delivering a library instruction session Elisheba Muturi April 15 2008

9. Database search strategy #The concept of women is redundant in women’s studies databases Some databases allow automatic stemming in the place of truncation Social emmigrat* Identit* Country or province Geographical Political Cultural Economical (labour or work*) Aspect Refugee or asylum seeker Migrant* Immigra* immigrant Construct* Perspective Represent* Experience* Synonyms Concept#

10. Studies on Women and Gender abstracts ( immigrant+ OR refugee+ ) AND ( experience+ OR perspective+ OR representation+ OR construction+ OR identity+ ) – retrieves 42 Automatically searches for variants (hence no need to truncate) when “stemming” is selected

11. Women’s studies international ( immigrant OR refugee ) AND ( experience OR perspective OR representation OR construction OR identity) - 2899 (key words - too many hits) TX ( Immigrant experience OR Immigrant women's attitudes ) and TX ( Migrant women OR refugee women ) - 29 (descriptors – manageable recall)

12. Contemporary Women’s Issues 1) Immigrant* AND experience (keywords alone with no limits) - 1346 2) experience* OR perspective OR represent* OR construct* OR identit* (keywords) immigrants and refugees AND images of women (subject areas) – 19 Additional limits - country

13. Sociological abstracts DE=(wom*n or females ) and DE=( immigr * or refugee or migrant *) and AB=( experience * or perspective * or ( identit * or represent * or construct *)) and DE=( work * or lab*r or employ *) and ( filipina or philipines ) – 62 For sociological perspective, it’s useful to add a topic (eg. Work) and geographical perspective

14. Psychinfo SU ( experiences OR events ) and SU females and SU ( immigration OR refugees OR migrants ) subject headings only to manage recall - 46

15. Internet Sources: Intute

16. Google Basic search – immigrant women experiences – 525 000 Smarter search ~women ~immigr ~experience OR ~represent OR ~identity OR ~construction, limit to .edu domain: 59 600 Google Scholar search – 1740 To search for primary documents - "primary documents" women immigrants