Women's Studies Databases

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America: History and Life

Covers United States and Canadian history from prehistory to the present.

ArticleFirst

Contains bibliographic citations with some full text from more than 15,000 journals in business, science, technology, medicine, social science, the humanities, and popular culture.

Biography Resource Center + The Complete Marquis Who's Who®

A comprehensive database of biographical information on more than one million people from throughout history, around the world, and across all disciplines and subject areas.

Black Studies Center

Brings together essential historical and current material for researching the past, present, and future of African-Americans, the wider African Diaspora, and Africa itself. This resource is a fully cross-searchable gateway to Black Studies including scholarly essays, recent periodicals, historical newspaper articles, and much more. It combines several resources for research and teaching in Black Studies: Schomburg Studies on the Black Experience, International Index to Black Periodicals (IIBP), The Chicago Defender, and the Black Literature Index.

Black Women Writers

With 100,000 pages of prose, poetry, and essays, Black Women Writers brings together the many voices of women from Africa and the African Diaspora in electronic format for the first time. Facing sexism and racism at the same time, these authors have had to create their own identities and movements. This collection documents that effort from its earliest beginnings. Presenting works from many different countries in three continents, and a variety of cultural experiences, the database gives a view of black women’s struggles through time; the challenges of a group facing issues that are, together, unique to this literature.

Contemporary Women’s Issues

A multidisciplinary, full-text database that brings together relevant content from mainstream periodicals, "gray" literature, and the alternative press -- with a focus on the critical issues and events that influence women's lives in more than 190 countries.

CQ Researcher

The CQ Researcher explores a single "hot" issue in the news in depth each week. Topics range from social and teen issues to environment, health, education and science and technology. There are 44 reports produced each year including four expanded reports.

Elsevier Science Direct

1,700+ scholarly journals in engineering, science, and social science disciplines. Offers peer-reviewed articles.

Expanded Academic ASAP

Includes scholarly journals, news magazines and newspaper articles regarding arts and humanities, social sciences and science and technology disciplines.

GenderWatch

A full-text collection of international journals, magazines, newsletters, regional publications, special reports and conference proceedings devoted to women's and gender issues.

Health and Wellness Resource Center

Topics in health and medicine, medications, and wellness. Includes encyclopedias, directories, medical dictionary, magazines, journals, and newspapers.

Lexis-Nexis

Accesses over a billion full text news, magazine, legal, and business articles and reports, including newspapers, magazines and government documents, state and federal laws and regulations, case law, newsletters, company and industry information.

Project Muse

Project MUSE offers full text, affordable access to current content from prestigious humanities and social sciences journals. MUSE is the most reliable source of titles from many of the world's leading university presses and scholarly societies, journals with critically acclaimed articles by the most respected scholars in their fields..

PsycARTICLES (APA PsycNET)

Contains the full text of articles from APA journals and selected EPF journals, most from 1988 to the present.

OmniFile Full Text Mega Edition

Provides indexed and abstracted records with accompanying full text from over 1300 periodicals from H.W. Wilson General Science Abstracts, Humanities Abstracts, Readers' Guide Abstracts, and Wilson Business Abstracts, and many other Wilson databases. Some topics covered include accounting, advertising, auditing, banking, broadcasting, computers, economics,  engineering, environment, general science, health care, human resources, international trends, investment analysis, management, and marketing.

SpringerLINK

Provides access to scholarly journals in business, law, medicine, humanities, science, and social science disciplines. Previously known as Kluwer Online Journals.

Twentieth Century Advice Literature: North American Guides on Race, Gender, Sex, and the Family

Brings together the instructional, prescriptive, behavioral, and etiquette literature that defined standards of personal conduct for millions of Americans and reflected the prevailing social mores across the twentieth century. When complete, the collection will contain 150,000 pages of fully searchable handbooks, manuals, textbooks, etiquette guides, self-help books, instructional pamphlets, and how-to books that illustrate both how Americans actually behaved and how they felt they ought to behave.

Women and Social Movements Scholar's Edition

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 and economy, public policy, international relations, arts and humanities, business and education. Essential sources include: journals, newspapers, newsletters, bulletins, books, book chapters, proceedings, reports, theses, dissertations, NGO studies, important websites and web documents, and grey literature.

For a complete list of all available databases, visit our Electronic Collection.