Gender Studies Databases/Indexes
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Description |
| Contemporary Women's Issues | Provides full text access to over 2,245 journals, books, newsletters, and research reports that provide information on a full range of women's issues. Topics covered include pay equity, reproductive issues, violence and exploitation, legal status, and workplace issues. Coverage spans 1992 to the present. |
| Sociological Abstracts | Draws information from an international selection of over 1,800 journals, serials, conference papers, books and dissertations published from 1952 to the present. Subjects include community development, family and social work, group interactions, human biology, religion and science, welfare services, women's studies, social psychology, health, medicine and law, environmental interactions and demography. It includes a thesaurus and links to many full-text articles. How to Search This Database |
| Social Sciences Citation Index | ISI Web of Knowledge (formerly- ISI Web of Science) provides seamless access to three citation indexes: the Science Citation Index, the Social Sciences Citation Index, and the Arts and Humanities Citation Index. These can be searched together or separately. Approximately 8,500 of the most prestigious research journals are indexed with abstracts within the Web of Science. Complete bibliographies are included for each citation allowing for cited reference searching. Social Sciences Citation Index is a multidisciplinary index with searchable author abstracts, covering journals in the social sciences (anthropology, economics, geography, law, political science, psychology and sociology) from 1956 to the present. The Cited Reference Search option in Social Sciences Citation Index allows users to find other works which reference a specific work or author. How to Search This Database |
| PAIS (Public Affairs Information Service) is an index to periodicals, books, and international, federal and state documents published since 1915. Subjects covered include economics, the media, health conditions, banking and business, politics, law and ethics, social issues, and public administration. How to Search This Database | |
| The database provides abstracts for articles in political science and its complementary fields, including international relations, law, and public administration / policy. This new database is created from the merger of Political Science Abstracts and ABC POL SCI. The database indexes articles written from 1975 to the present. How to Search This Database | |
| Gender Studies POWERSEARCH | Searches the following databases
simultaneously: Academic Search Complete , Business Source Complete, Essay & General Literature Index, Humanities Abstracts, Humanities International Index, PsycArticles, Psychology and Behavioral Sciences Collection , PsycInfo, Social Sciences Abstracts. How to Search This Database |
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| Gerritsen Collection - Women's History Online | An electronic collection of books and periodicals reflecting the evolution of feminist consciousness and women's rights. These books and articles span four centuries and fifteen languages. This is the best place to begin research on any aspect of women's history. How to Search This Database |
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North American Women's Letters and Diaries is a searchable, full-text, primary source database containing letters, diaries, and manuscripts written by women from Colonial times to 1950. The database brings to life the personal experiences of some 1,325 American women. Advanced search options allow users to focus their search to specific keywords, time periods, geographic locations, ethnicities, major social and life events, or association with major historical events. How to Search This Database |
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Letters and Diaries from 1500-1900 provides a collection of primary sources from journal articles, pamphlets, newsletters, monographs and conference proceedings. The personal experiences of more than 500 women are represented and include all age groups and life stages, all ethnicities, many geographical regions, the famous, and the not so famous. How to Search This Database |
| Early American Imprints, Series I: Evans (1639-1800) | Online full-text database based on the renowned American Bibliography first published by Charles Evans. For many decades Evan's Bibliography served as a cornerstone for research into American history, literature, philosophy, religion, agriculture, witchcraft, and virtually every aspect of American life in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. With Early American Imprints, Series I, every item in Evan's Bibliography has been digitized and is now available online. It contains more than 37,000 publications. The database may be searched by title, author, subject, genre, language, date, publisher, place of publication, or by simple keywords. How to Search This Database |
| Early American Imprints, Series II: Shaw-Shoemaker (1801-1819) | Early American Imprints, Series II is an online full-text database based on the renowned Bibliography of Ralph Shaw and Richard Shoemaker. Containing more than 36,000 publications, the database provides access to the rich primary source material for the early decades of nineteenth century America, including coverage of politics, religion, war, economics, and social and cultural thought. Early American Imprints, Series II may be searched by title, author, subject, genre, language, date, publisher, place of publication, or by simple keywords. |
| Eighteenth Century Collections Online | Provide access to digital images of every page of 150,000 books published during the 18th Century. With full-text searching of approximately 26 million pages, the product allows researchers new methods of access to critical information in the fields of history, literature, religion, law, fine arts, science and more. How to Search This Database |
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