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Database Description: Contemporary Women's Issues (CWI) is a multidisciplinary, full-text database that brings together relevant content from mainstream periodicals, "gray" literature, and the alternative press, with a focus on the critical issues and events that influence women's lives in more than 190 countries. CWI includes English-language titles from East and West Africa, Asia, and South and Central America, the Caribbean, North America and Europe. List of sources indexed.
OhioLINK ended its subscription to this database; the database was last updated in July 2006. Continue to search Contemporary Women's Issues for publications through mid-2006; be sure to search Gender Studies Database and Women’s Studies International for the most current information.
PRODUCED BY: Thomson
Gale.
DATES COVERED: 1992-2006.
UPDATES: OhioLINK no longer subscribes to updates for this
database.
| LABEL | NAME | EXAMPLES |
| .AU. | AUTHORS | (yee shirley).au. |
| .ALAU. | BOOK AUTHOR | menchu.alau. |
AUTHORS (.AU.): Author(s) of the article. All words are indexed. If you are unsure how the name is given, begin searching by surname only. For hyphenated surnames, use either surname or both.
BOOK AUTHOR (.ALAU.): Author(s) of book being reviewed.
| LABEL | NAME | EXAMPLES |
| .TI. | ARTICLE TITLE | (affirmative inaction).ti. |
| .JN. | JOURNAL TITLE | (womens history).jn. |
| .ALTI. | BOOK TITLE BEING REVIEWED | (athletic daughters).alti. |
| .PUB. | PUBLISHER | employment and carfax.pub. |
ARTICLE TITLE (.TI.): Title of article.
JOURNAL TITLE (.JN.): Title of journal or other source in which the article was published.
BOOK TITLE (.ALTI.): Title of book being reviewed.
PUBLISHER (.PUB.): Publisher of the source.
| LABEL | NAME | EXAMPLES |
| .SU. | SUBJECTS | (rural development and india).su. |
| .CT. | CONCEPT TERM | (conflict resolution).ct. |
| .PS. | PERSONAL NAME | (dyson esther).ps. |
| .SUBC. | ORGANIZATION NAME | WISE.subc. |
| .SUBG. | GEOGRAPHIC NAME | nicaragua.subg. |
SUBJECTS (.SU.) encompasses four kinds of subjects: concept terms, personal names, organization names, and geographic names. For more precise results, you may search by one of the specialized subject types listed below.
CONCEPT TERM (.CT.): Concepts covered in the article, from the list of subject terms defined by RDS.
PERSONAL NAME (.PS.): Name of person referenced in the article.
ORGANIZATION NAME (.SUBC.): Name of organization referenced in the article.
GEOGRAPHIC NAME (.SUBG.): Geographic area referenced in the article.
| LABEL | NAME | EXAMPLES |
| .AB. | ABSTRACT | (adoption and international).ab. |
ABSTRACT (.AB.): Omit stopwords when searching words from an abstract.
| LABEL | NAME | EXAMPLES |
| .YR. | YEAR | child labor and 2002.yr. |
| .VO. | VOLUME | hypatia.jn. and 17.vo. |
| .IP. | ISSUE NUMBER | (women envision).jn. and 81.ip. |
| .DATE. | FORMATTED DATE | interpress.jn. and 20020730.date. |
| .SD. | FREE-TEXT DATE | womens health letter and (march 2003).sd. |
YEAR (.YR.): Year of publication of the article.
VOLUME (.VO.): Volume of the journal in which the article appeared.
ISSUE NUMBER (.IP.): Number of the issue in which the article appeared.
FORMATTED DATE (.DATE.): Issue publication date in the format YYYYMMDD (year, month, day). For example, April 5, 1999 is 19990405. Substitute 00 for any missing element (e.g., June 1998 is 19980600).
FREE-TEXT DATE (.SD.): Issue date as it appears on the publication.
| LABEL | NAME | EXAMPLES |
| .AN. | CWI ACCESSION NUMBER | 01063926.an. |
| .AT. | ARTICLE TYPE | advertising and research.at. |
| .CP. | COUNTRY OF PUBLICATION | welfare and canada.cp. |
| .IL. | ILLUSTRATION | pay and chart.il. |
| .IS. | ISSN | 0740-6835.is. |
| .ISBN. | ISBN | 0919653235.isbn. |
| .JT. | JOURNAL TYPE | domestic violence and pamphlet.jt. |
| .RT. | RECORD TYPE | job sharing and fulltext.rt. |
| .SF. | SPECIAL FEATURES | title ix and table.sf. |
| .US. | LIMIT USA | womens shelters and 1.us. |
ACCESSION NUMBER (.AN.): Record control number assigned by database producer; unique to each record in the database. Searching by AN is a method for returning directly to a record that you have retrieved previously.
ARTICLE TYPE (.AT.): A phrase describing special article types:
Bibliography
Biography
Book Review
Column
Editorial
Instructional
Interview
Media Review
Organization Overview/Profile
Personal Story
Personal Overview/Profile
Research
Speech/address
COUNTRY OF PUBLICATION (.CP.): Place of publication, or target zone, of the journal.
ILLUSTRATION (.IL.): Type of illustration or graphics within the article. Note: to view photographs and other graphic illustrations, you will need to locate the original article or document. The full text in this database contains only the text and textual tables.
Chart
Diagram
Graph
Illustration
Photograph
ISSN (.IS.): The International Standard Serial Number of the journal.
ISBN (.ISBN.): The International Standard Book Number of the cited source.
JOURNAL TYPE (.JT.): A phrase describing the source publication:
Journal
Bibliography
Business Newspaper
Directory
Fact Sheet
Guide
National Newspaper
Newsletter
Pamphlet
Regional Newspaper
Report
RECORD TYPE (.RT.): Type of text in the record:
Abstract
Fulltext
SPECIAL FEATURES (.SF.): Special content within the article, such as "table."
LIMIT USA (.US.): To limit a search to articles referring to the United States, include "1.us.".
August 2006
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