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Databases: Gender Studies

 

Alphabetical:

  • Academic Search Premier
    • 4,500+ general and academic journals, including gender studies
    • coverage from 1985+
    • mostly full-text

  • Arts and Humanities Citation Index
    • indexes 1,300+ arts and humanities journals
    • indexes articles, bibliographies, editorials, letters, reviews, and more
    • mostly citation; some full-text
    • coverage from 1980+

  • Contemporary Women's Issues
    • global information on women in over 150 countries from 1,500+ sources
    • indexes books, journals, newsletters, research reports from non-profit groups, government and international agencies, & fact sheets
    • mostly full-text
    • coverage from 1992+

  • JSTOR
    • 440+ scholarly journals, including gender studies
    • complete run of all journals except for the most recent 3-5 years
    • full-text

  • Primary Sources in African American History
    • provides access to selected primary sources, including autobiographies, speeches, legislation, and Supreme Court decisions
    • provides access to selected secondary sources, including reference books and scholarly articles
    • coverage from colonial times to 1990s
    • full-text

  • Primary Sources in American Women's History
    • provides access to selected primary sources, including autobiographies of prominent activits and respresentative women, manuscripts on political and social change, legislation, and Supreme Court decisions
    • provides access to selected secondary sources, including reference books and scholarly articles
    • coverage from colonial times to 1990s
    • full-text

  • Project MUSE
  • Studies on Women and Gender Abstracts
    • indexes books, journal articles, and conference proceedings on women's studies and gender studies
    • citation and abstracts; some linked to full-text resources
    • coverage from 1995+

  • WilsonWeb
    • 3,500+ general and academic journals, including gender studies
    • two components: OmniFile Full Text Mega; Humanities & Social Sci Retro
    • OmniFile Full Text Mega: indexing begins in 1982, abstracts in 1984, and full-text in 1994
    • Humanities & Social Sci Retro: index only, 1907-1984
    • 1,750 journals are full-text
Additional:

  • Dissertation Abstracts
    • indexes all doctoral dissertations in the U.S., including gender studies
    • coverage from 1861+
    • abstracts
    • order from Interlibrary Loan

  • WorldCat
    • most distinguished database of books in the world
    • searches over 52 million records held by OCLC libraries worldwide
    • over 400 languages represented

 

 

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