Wonderful World of Academia: Once More With Feeling.

[gelbes_gilatier]

So. It's that time of semester again. (taking off a month from work to write at least one twenty pages paper, better two, I mean.)

This semester's first try: a paper about military women in the Vietnam War going by the (tentative) title of So Women Weren’t There: Female Soldiers in the Vietnam War - In-Country and Back in the World. and well, the

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[spandexmonkey27]

I don't know if this will be useful, but when I was doing my undergrad degree, the university had a computer system set up through the library where you could type in a word and it'd give you results that you could sift through. If yours has anything like that, they're good for finding scientific articles.

But other than that, the only thing I could suggest is the google scholar search. Similar to the uni search, but it's a bit hit and miss.

I'm sorry I can't help more. I was an anthropology graduate so my knowledge on war veterans is severely limited. But I completely agree with you about male veterans getting the majority of the attention. Especially when female veterans played a huge part in war efforts since the First World War. We need more true female role models in the world so I applaud the effort you're going to to make this happen.

Anyway, I hope you find what you're looking for.

Good luck!

[gelbes_gilatier]

the university had a computer system set up through the library where you could type in a word and it'd give you results that you could sift through.

That's actually not my problem. The problem is that there are too damn many books on male Vietnam War veterans and PTSD and adaption issues and what not and I can't sift my way through all of them.

Which is why I'd prefer articles to books (of which I found two that would fit perfectly, mentioned in the post I made on article_request) but the problem here isn't finding them, it's getting access to them. Usually, those are published in journals and if they haven't made them accessible via JSTOR, it costs a shitton of money to even only view them (it's called a pay wall and just about the most evil academia invention of all time), let alone download them. As much as those two articles would help me, I'm just not going to spend a bunch of money on the subscription to a psychology journal I'm never gonna read again :S