Women's Studies

= Recommended Starting Database

Subject Databases

• African Woman's Bibliographic Database
• Feminae: Medieval Women and Gender Index
• ViVa: A Bibliography of Women's History in Historical and Women's Studies Journals 

 

Some Related Databases

• Academic Search Complete
• ASTIS (Arctic Science and Technology Information System) Database
• America: History and Life
• Cairn
• Canadian Business and Current Affairs
• Canadian Newsstand
• Canadian Periodical Index
• Canadian Publishers Collection
• Dissertations and Theses (Proquest)
• Diversity Studies eCollection
• Environment Index
• Erudit
• Eureka.cc (Biblio Branchée)
• Expanded Academic ASAP
• FRANCIS (International Humanities and Social Studies)
• GLBT Life & Issues Collection
• Guide to Gay and Lesbian Resources: A Classified Bibliography Based upon the Collections of the University of Chicago
• Health Reference Center Academic
• InfoTrac Diversity Studies eCollection
• MLA International Bibliography
• Ontario Scholars Portal PAIS (Public Affairs Information Service)
  • Blackwell suite (alternative access)
  • Project MUSE
• Social Sciences Citation Index
• Social Sciences Index Retrospective, 1907-1984  
• Sociological Abstracts
• WorldCat 

Primary Source Material

• Orlando Database

Some Internet Portals

• Early Modern Women
• Feminism and Women's Studies
• Voice of the Shuttle: Gender and Sexuality Studies

Research Aids

Book Reviews

• Book Review Digest
• Canadian Book Review Annual (on-campus use only)

Data Sources

• United Nations Common Database

Dictionaries

• OED (Oxford English Dictionary)

Encyclopedias

• Black Women in America
• Encyclopædia Britannica On-line
• Encyclopædia Universalis
• International Encyclopedia of the Social & Behavioral Sciences
• Oxford Encyclopedia of Women in World History
• Women's Studies Encyclopedia (In Print - 2nd Floor: Ref. HQ 1115 W645 1989)