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Video Tutorials
These video tutorials were put together to support the Art + Feminism Meetup, but they are extremely helpful for all new Wikipedia editors. Thanks Art + Feminism Meetup!
- Beginner Training Video Part 1- Making Simple edits on Wikipedia
- Beginner Training Video Part 2 - Using your sandbox and adding citations
- Beginner Training Video Part 3 - Best practices and Wikipedia policies
- Advanced FAQ: Adding Images to Wikimedia Commons
- Advanced FAQ: Creating New Pages on Wikipedia
- Advanced FAQ: Talk Pages on Wikipedia
- Advanced FAQ: Wikipedia Notability Guidelines
- Advanced FAQ: Adding Infoboxes to Wikipedia Articles
- Advanced FAQ: Advanced FAQ: Adding Images to Wikipedia Articles
Get Credit for Your Contributions
[edit]You can add this userbox to your profile to let other Wikipedia editors know that you are a contributor to the Women in Science WikiProject.
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To do this, add the following code into your profile: {{Wikipedia:WikiProject Women scientists/Userbox}}
Online Research Sources
[edit]- America's News- U.S. newspaper resource.
- American Men and Women of Science
- American Physical Society, Profiles of Women in Science
- Association for Women Geoscientists, Profiles.
- Association for Women in Mathematics, Profiles of Women in Mathematics
- Chemical Heritage Foundation, Women in Chemistry
- Dean, P. Women on the Hill: A History of Women at University of North Carolina online access, 1987.
- Gale Virtual Reference (UNC campus/ONYEN access needed)
- LexisNexis Provides general, regional and international news, biographical information and other topics. (UNC campus/ONYEN access needed)
- Marquis Who's Who (UNC campus/ONYEN access needed)
- National Science Foundation, Pioneering Women in STEM
- 34 American Lady Scientists Who Changed the World
- ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Global (UNC campus/ONYEN access needed)
- Proquest Newsstand
- Other online resources from the Library's E-Research by Discipline page (UNC campus/ONYEN access may be needed for some sites).
Research Sources on hand at Reference Trolly
[edit]- Fins, A. Women in Science; National Textbook Co.: Skokie, IL, 1979.
- Gornick, V.Women in Science: Then and Now; The Feminist Press: New York, 2009.
- Holt, N. Rise of the Rocket Girls; Little, Brown and Company: New York, 2016.
- Ignotofsky, R. Women in Science: 50 Fearless Pioneers Who Changed the World; The Speed Press: Berkeley, CA, 2016.
- Jahren, H. Lab Girl; Alfred A. Knopf: New York, 2016.
- Morgan, G. Rocket Girl: The Story of Mary Sherman Morgan; Prometheus Books: New York, 2013.
- Sherr, L. Sally Ride: America's First Women in Space; Simon & Schuster: New York, 2014.
- Swaby, R. Headstrong, 52 Women Who Changed Science - and the World; Broadway Books: New York, 2015.
- Wayne, T. K. American Women of Science Since 1900, Vols. 1 & 2; ABC-CLIO: Santa Barbara, CA, 2011.
- Weitekamp, M. A. Right Stuff, Wrong Sex; The Johns Hopkins University Press: Baltimore, MD, 2004.
- Women in STEM Careers; Bilimoria, D. and Lord, Linley, ed. Edward Elgar Publishing Limited: Northampton, MA, 2014.