Women's Studies
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- CWI (Contemporary Women's Issues)
Description : Indexes a variety of sources covering topics related to women including journals, newsletters, research reports, government and international agencies. Information on women in over 150 countries is compiled in a single collection bringing together such disciplines as sociology, psychology, health, education and human rights. Lexis Nexis provides access to part of the database but in Full-Text; FirstSearch provides access to all of the database, but in abstract format.
Coverage: 1992 -
- Women's Studies International
Description: Covers the core disciplines in Women’s Studies to the latest scholarship in feminist research. Women's Studies International covers sociology, history, political science & economy, public policy, international relations, arts & humanities, business and education.Includes: journals, newspapers, newsletters, bulletins, books, book chapters, proceedings, reports, theses, dissertations, NGO studies, important websites & web documents, and grey literature. Over 2,000 periodical sources are represented.
Coverage: 1972-
- GenderWatch
Description: GenderWatch is a full-text collection of international journals, magazines, newsletters, regional publications, special reports and conference proceedings devoted to women's and gender issues. The database provides in-depth coverage of the subjects that are uniquely central to women's daily lives, including family, childbirth, birth control, daycare, domestic abuse, work and the workplace, sexual harassment, aging, aging parents, body image, eating disorders and social and societal roles.
Coverage: Mid 1970 -
- Academic Search Complete from EbscoHost
Academic Search Complete is a comprehensive scholarly, multi-disciplinary full-text database, with more than 7,000 full-text periodicals, including nearly 6,000 peer-reviewed journals. In addition to full text, this database offers indexing and abstracts for more than 11,000 journals and a total of more than 11,600 publications including monographs, reports, conference proceedings, etc. The database features PDF content going back as far as 1887, with the majority of full text titles in native (searchable) PDF format. Searchable cited references are provided for more than 1,000 journals.
- Humanities Full Text
Description: Provides indexing and abstracting to 400 English- language periodicals on disciplines including literature and language, history, philosophy, archaeology, classical studies, folklore, gender studies, performing arts, history, religion and theology.
Coverage: 1984 -
- Social Sciences Full Text
Description: Indexes and abstracts over 400 English language periodicals. Topics include anthropology, area studies, community health and medical care, criminal justice and criminology, economics, family studies, geography, gerontology, international relations, law, minority studies, planning and public administration, policy sciences, political science, psychiatry, psychology, social work and public welfare, sociology, urban studies, women's studies, and related subjects.
Coverage: 1983 -
- Project Muse
Description: Project Muse provides worldwide, networked, subscription access to the full text of the Press's 40+ scholarly journals in the humanities, social sciences, and mathematics.
Coverage: 1995 -
- America: History and Life
Description : America: History and Life is a complete bibliographic reference to the history of the United States and Canada from prehistory to the present. Published since 1964, the database comprises almost 400,000 bibliographic entries, providing an incomparable research tool for students and researchers of US and Canadian history.
Coverage: 1964 -
Vendor: ABC-CLIO
- British and Irish Women's Letters and Diaries
Description : The initial database contains writings of 91 women from Great Britain and Northern Ireland from diverse backgrounds, and is expected to grow to over 1,000 authors.
Coverage: 1500-1900
- Gerritsen Collection
Description: Contains more than 4,700 publications from continental Europe, the U.S., the United Kingdom, Canada, and New Zealand, dating from 1543-1945 that trace the evolution of feminism movement.
Coverage: 1543-1945, with the majority of the coverage from 1860-1900.
- North American Women's Letters and Diaries
Description: North American Women's Letters and Diaries (NAWLD) includes the immediate experiences of 107 women, as revealed in more than 9,000 pages of diaries and letters.
Coverage: Colonial to 1950
- Women and Social Movements
Description: This site is currently a prototype that includes several hundred documents, teaching tools and document projects about woman and social movements. Eventually it will include 1,2000 primary documents and 400 images.
Coverage: 1600-2000
- Twentieth Century Advice Literature
Description:. Conduct, behavioral, advice, and etiquette literature reveal how society grappled with these changes during the rapid and drastic cultural changes of American life in the 20th century. Focus is on gender roles and relations, views of democratic citizenship, character development for children, class relations, and adjustments to new technology.
Coverage1890's-1990's.
- Scottish Women Poets of the Romantic Period
Description: Covers 60 volumes of rare lyric poetry from over 50 Scottish women poets.
Coverage: 1789-1832
- Early English Books Online
Description : From the first book published in English through the age of Spenser and Shakespeare, this collection contains over 96,000 titles listed in Pollard & Redgrave's Short-Title Catalogue (1475 - 1640) and Wing's Short-Title Catalogue (1641-1700) and their revised edition.
Coverage: 1475-1700
- Eighteenth Century Collections Online
Description : Contains searchable pages based on the English Short Title Catalogue, a machine readable union list of holdings of the British Library, as well as holdings from university, private and public libraries worldwide.
Coverage: 1701-1800
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