Feminist and Gender Studies Subject Guide

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Gender Studies Database
Coverage: pre-1972 - current
Combines the Women’s Studies International and Men’s Studies databases with sexual diversity issues and gender-engaged scholarship. Source documents include professional journals, conference papers, books, book chapters, government reports, discussion and working papers, theses & dissertations, and freely available full text articles & documents on the Web.

Complete list of databases for Feminist and Gender Studies

Academic Search Premier
Coverage: 1988 - current
Provides access to basic journal index and some full text resources. Subject coverage is general and broad. Shows CC holdings.
African Women's Bibliographic Database
Coverage: 1986 - current
Indexes English language materials: books and government documents; articles in edited books; periodical and journal articles; theses and dissertations; conference papers; videocassettes. Some full text.
Alternative Press Index
Coverage: 1991 - current
Indexes over 250 alternative, radical and left periodicals, newspapers and magazines. Subjects covered include anarchism, labor, socialism, feminism, ecology, gay and lesbian issues, political and social change.*Password required for full text. Contact Reference Desk x6662.
America, History & Life
Coverage: 1967 - current
Covers American history.
British And Irish Women's Letters And Diaries
Coverage: 1500 - 1900
The full text letters and diaries of 201 famous and unknown British and Irish women are searchable by author, historical event, personal event, family relationships, ethnicity, age, geographic region, subject and more. Includes 500 biographies.
Contemporary Women's Issues
Coverage: 1992 - current
Provides full text access to global information on women. Journals, newsletters, research reports from non-profit groups, government and international agencies, and fact sheets on women in over 150 countries. *Password required for full text. Contact Reference Desk x6662.
Gender Studies Database
Coverage: pre-1972 - current
Combines the Women’s Studies International and Men’s Studies databases with sexual diversity issues and gender-engaged scholarship. Source documents include professional journals, conference papers, books, book chapters, government reports, discussion and working papers, theses & dissertations, and freely available full text articles & documents on the Web.
North American Women's Letters And Diaries
Coverage: 1675 - 1950
The full text letters and diaries of 1,017 famous and unknown women, are searchable by author, sources, years, places, historical events, personal events, and more.
PsycARTICLES
Coverage: 1988 - current
Full text articles on current issues in psychology, general psychology, and specialized, basic, applied, clinical and theoretical research in psychology, covering journals published by the American Psychological Association and other allied organizations. NOTE: You can search both PsycINFO and PsycARTICLES at the same time. Contact Reference Desk x6662.
PsycINFO
Coverage: 1887 - current
Comprehensive international database of psychology. Covers the academic, research, and practice literature in psychology. NOTE: You can search both PsycINFO and PsycARTICLES at the same time. Contact Reference Desk x6662.
Scottish Women Poets Of The Romantic Period
Coverage: 1781 - current
60 full text volumes of poetry representing the complete works of 47 poets are searchable by keyword, author, poem, work, critical essay, and more. Includes extensive contemporary critical reviews, as well as biographical essays written by leading scholars.
Social Sciences Abstracts
Coverage: 1983 - current
International, English-language periodicals in sociology, anthropology, geography, economics, political science, and law.
SocINDEX
Coverage: 1895 - current
Indexes core sociology journals dating back to 1895. Use in place of Sociological Abstracts.
Women And Social Movements In The United States, 1775-2000
Coverage: 1775 - 2000
Free database of over 1,000 primary documents relating to American women's history. Full text and some images included.
Women Writers Online
Coverage: 1400 - 1850
Contains fulltext of nearly 400 works of early modern women writers.

Online journal archives

Unlike the subject-specific article databases, these online journal archives don’t concentrate on any one academic subject. Instead, they take leading journals from many fields, or all the journals from one publisher, and provide extensive archives of the full text of those journals online, usually in the form of PDF files.

Blackwell Journals
Coverage: varies; usually late 1990's to current
Searchable collection of full text periodicals. Scholarly sources.
JSTOR
Coverage: late 1800's - most recent 5 years
Archival access to many scholarly periodicals. Jstor does not cover the most recent three years of most journals.
Oxford University Press Journals
Coverage: varies; usually late 1990's - current
A searchable collection of full text periodicals. Scholarly sources.
Periodicals Archive Online
Coverage: 1770-1995
Fulltext journal collection covering the humanities and social sciences. Includes 500 journal titles covering the first issue of the journal until 1995.
Project Muse
Coverage: 1993 - current
Project Muse provides access to the full text of the Johns Hopkins University Press journals. Offers current and back issues.

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