Gender and Women's Studies

All books (print or ebook), can be found by searching Omni, the library’s search tool.  A complete search guide for using Omni is available here.  

Enter your search words in the main search box.  You can put quotation marks around a phrase. Results are displayed using a relevancy ranking, but you can change this to display your results by newest date first.   Change the “Sort By” option to “Date - Newest” 

To limit your search results you can use the limiters on the left side of your search results screen. 

A few tips to filter your results: 

• To limit your search to online content or ebooks, under “Availability” select the “Available Online” filter. 
• You can limit these results further by selecting a “Resource Type”. For example if you are interested in an ebook, you can select the “books and ebooks” filter. 
• To find print books available in a specific physical location you can select the specific library under the “Library Locations” filter

Locations are listed below each title and in alphabetical order - if there are multiple locations you should click on the Location line to display additional locations: 

Additional locations will be listed on the next screen: 

Physical items can be requested from Lakehead libraries through the Library's Request Service. .

You can find books using information from the title, author name or subject keywords:

• Enter one word or multiple words from title (put quotation marks to enclose phrases; use * for alternate word endings)
• For author, enter last name followed by first name or initial
• Use "Advanced Search" for combining search words and for searching with specific information (ie title, author, subject, ISBN etc)