Collection Spotlight: Gage, Powered by 500 Women Scientists
by Juan Denzer, Engineering and Computer Science Librarian
Are you a student in journalism who is writing about science or technology? Are you writing about a specific topic in science or technology and looking for a diverse expert? Perhaps your student organization is looking to invite a diverse speaker? Or maybe the conference committee you are serving on is looking for a keynote speaker in STEMM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics, and Medicine)? Do you find it difficult or overwhelming to search for diverse voices on social media or professional sites like LinkedIn?
500 Women Scientists has a database that can help you with your search. The Gage database powered by 500 Women Scientists has over 10,000 profiles of women from all over the world in STEMM.
The database is searchable using keywords by location such as city and country or by discipline. Search results can be further filtered by two specialties: Medicine or STEM. The Discipline filter covers several different topics from acoustics to zoology. The last filter is race and ethnicity. These filters allow users to locate a specific group of women in STEMM. Additional useful filters include:
- Identity (Cis gender female or male, Non-Binary, Transgender female or male, and other self-identify)
- Language
- Location
- Interest in:
- Career or Professional development
- Join a panel
- Deliver a lecture
- Keynote
- And more
Profiles include information that can help users decide which women in STEMM they would like to learn more about and contact, and include:
- Profile image
- Title
- Affiliated organizations
- Education
- Biography
- Expertise
- Languages and Diversity
- Societies and Groups
- Links
Two information sections that can be very useful are Past Media or Other Communications Experience and Publications. This is helpful to read or learn more about the profile’s expertise. Many authors’ profiles include citations and links to their publications. But just because an author links to their publication does not guarantee that the resource is available for free. Users might find that the publication is behind a paywall. If this is the case, we recommend searching the Libraries’ collection. Our library has access to over 4 million books, journals and other items, so chances are we will have it. If we don’t, users can request a copy through our Request, Delivery, and Interlibrary Loan service.
If you're looking for a specific publication listed in an author’s profile, use our Libraries Search, which can also be found on the Syracuse University Libraries homepage. If you want to go beyond just the author’s publication and dig deeper for more diverse voices, we recommend using our Databases A-Z list. Recommended databases in the list include Engineering Village, Scopus and Web of Science. The benefits of using these databases is that it includes links and suggestions to other publications the author might not have listed, and it may include publication suggestions relevant to the original author’s work, making the experience of searching more diverse voices more complete.
Users can create a free account which allows you to save profiles for future reference. Database users in STEMM who would like to join Gage can create an optional profile that allows others to search and connect with you.
Although Gage primarily includes women in STEMM, the resource also includes other gender-diverse STEMM professionals.
If you are looking for assistance searching the STEMM literature, please reach out to your Subject Librarian. To provide feedback or suggest a title to add to the collection, please complete the Resource Feedback Form.