Updating the Content

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This guideline section will instruct Project Coordinator and Assistants how to update GWonline with the latest relevant historical scholarship and recent primary sources. The workflow for each kind of source is presented, then a list of resources for finding the new content.

General Principles

  • The central goal of the updating is to keep GWonline as current as possible with recent publications of secondary literature, women's autobiographies, films, and institutional/academic websites on the topics of military history, the history of war, and gender, and the intersections between them, from 1600 to the present.
  • Our three target audiences are undergraduate and graduate students, scholars, and teachers at high schools, community colleges, colleges and universities. Every new entry added to GWonline should be useful to one or more of these groups.
  • The goal of metadata (e.g., publication information, Keywords) that you enter is to provide users as many entry points as possible to locate sources through the search functions.
  • Before entering any new source, first ensure it is not already on the website by searching Search Options > Full Text Search > [search by full title or author's last name].
  • NB: In all drop-down menus, if you select a sub-category (ex. North Africa "Regions"), you must also select the category it corresponds to (ex., Africa), or it will not display properly.

Collaboration with UNC Libraries

We agreed on a collaboration with UNC Libraries who will forward us all new acquisitions in the field of gender, military and war , which we will integrate in GWonline.  Contacts in the UNC library are:

  • Renée Bosman, Government Information Librarian, email: rbosman@email.unc.edu
  • Kristan Shawgo, Social Sciences Librarian and Liaison to Public Policy, Sexuality Studies, Sociology, and Women's & Gender Studies, email: shawgo@email.unc.edu.

Update by Regular Searching Selected Catalogues and Websites

For Secondary Literature and Women’s Autobiographies

Resources:

  • UNC Updates
  • WorldCat
  • Library of Congress
  • Bibliothèque nationale de France
  • British Library 
  • Deutsche Nationalbibliothek Leipzig
  • EBSCO database  Historical Abstract
  • EBSCO database Project Muse
  • EBSCO database Military & Government Collections
  • Internet Dissertation Database
  • Virtual Library of Women’s History

For Films:

Resources:

For Websites:

Resources:

  • Google

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