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Selected Library Databases

• AccessUN
  Index to United Nations Documents including Official Records, masthead documents, and draft resolutions with full-text of several thousand UN documents.s.

• Access World News
  Access World News from NewsBank provides full-text information and perspectives from over 600 U.S. and over 500 international sources, each with its own distinctive focus offering diverse viewpoints on local, regional and world issues.

• Alternative Press Index (1991-present) and Alternative Press Index Archive (1969-1990)
  Indexes 300 alternative, radical, and left magazines, periodicals, and newspapers. Articles cover cultural, economic, political, and social change.

• America: History and Life
  Covers United States and Canadian history from prehistory to the present.

• American Memory
  American Memory is a gateway to rich primary source materials relating to the history and culture of the United States.

• American Periodical Series (APS) Online
  Access to over 1,100 periodicals published between 1740 and 1900; includes women's magazines such as The Ladies' Home Journal, Ladies Afternoon Visitor, and Ladies Weekly Museum.

• Arts and Humanities Search
  Indexes articles from over 1,300 arts and humanities journals.

• Contemporary Women's Issues
  CWI is a full-text database which includes information concerning women's issues worldwide. Major sources of information include Human Rights Watch, the Alan Guttmacher Institute, United States Government Reports, FEMNET and the Center for Women's Global Leadership.

• Current Contents Connect
  Current Contents Connect provides access to current awareness research from seven broad disciplines.

• Digital Dissertations
  Authoritative source for information about U.S. doctoral dissertations and master's theses. This database represents the work of authors from over 1,000 graduate schools and universities.

• Ethnic NewsWatch and Ethnic NewsWatch: A History
  Features articles to ethnic, minority, and native magazines, journals, and newspapers.

• FACTS.com (Facts on File)
  Provides information about events, issues, statistics and people.

• Feminae: Medieval Women and Gender Index
  Free index that features citations to journal articles, book chapters, and book reviews about women, sexuality, and gender in the Middle Ages. Books by single authors are not indexed here.

• GenderWatch
  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 information on subjects such as 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. It also includes content on the impact of gender and gender roles on areas including the arts, popular culture and media, business and work, crime and criminology, education, research and scholarship, family, health care and medicine, politics, policy and legislation, pornography, religion, sexuality and sexology, sports and leisure. GenderWatch contains archival material dating back to the mid 1970's; additional archival material continues to be added.

• Historical Abstracts
  Indexes journals covering the history of the world from 1450 to the present (excluding the United States and Canada, which are covered in a companion database America: History and Life).

• Humanities Full Text
  Subject areas include archaeology, area studies, art, classical studies, communications, dance, film, folklore, gender studies, history, journalism, linguistics, literary and social criticism literature, music, performing arts, philosophy, religion and theology.

• JSTOR
  Journal Storage (More than 500 scholarly journals in education, humanities, mathematics, science [including the General Science Collection and Ecology and Botany Collection], and social science disciplines).

• MLA International Bibliography
  The MLA Bibliography indexes critical materials on literature, languages, linguistics, and folklore. The database provides access to citations from over 4,000 journals and series published worldwide, as well as books, essay collections, working papers, proceedings, dissertations, and bibliographies.

• OmniFile Full Text Mega Edition
  Wilson OmniFile Full Text, Mega Edition is a multi-disciplinary database providing the complete content - indexing, abstracts, and full text - from six of Wilson's full-text databases: Education Full Text, General Science Full Text, Humanities Full Text, Readers' Guide Full Text, Social Sciences Full Text, and Wilson Business Full Text.

• Social Sciences Full Text
  Subject areas include addiction studies, anthropology, area studies, community health and medical care, corrections, criminal justice, criminology, economics, environmental studies, ethics, family studies, gender studies, geography, gerontology, international relations, law, minority studies, planning and public administration, policy sciences, political science, psychiatry, psychology, public welfare, social work, sociology, and urban studies.

• Web of Science
  Arts and Humanities and Social Science Citation Indexes
  Three unique citation databases which allow searching cited references as well as traditional searches independently or in combination: the Science Citation Index Expanded, Social Sciences Citation Index, and Arts and Humanities Citation Index.

• Women and Social Movements in the United States
  Arts and Humanities and Social Science Citation Indexes
  The resource, which examines perspectives on women’s social movements from Colonial times to the present, brings together books, images, documents, scholarly essays, commentaries, and bibliographies, documenting the multiplicity of women’s reform activities.

• Women's Studies International
  This resource includes access to Women Studies Abstracts and Women's Studies Database.  Coverage includes the core disciplines in Women’s Studies to the latest scholarship in feminist research. Women's Studies International supports curriculum development in the areas of sociology, history, political science & economy, public policy, international relations, arts & humanities, business and education. Nearly 800 essential sources include: journals, newspapers, newsletters, bulletins, books, book chapters, proceedings, reports, theses, dissertations, NGO studies, important websites & web documents, and grey literature. [This database is restricted to one user at a time.]

More Resources Women's Studies Subject Guide