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GenderWatch 1970 - present GenderWatch is a gender, women, and gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender (GLBT) issues database with thousands of English-language full-text articles from over 200 magazines, academic journals, ... Access Database GenderWatch

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Academic Search 1975 - present Academic Search Premier is a multidisciplinary database that provides full text for more than 4,600 journals, including approximately 3,900 peer-reviewed titles. A total of 8,500 journals are index... Access Database Academic Search
Alternative Press Index and Alternative Press Index Archive (combined) 1991 - The combined search of Alternative Press Index and Alternative Press Index Archive includes entries from more than 300 alternative, radical, and left publications. Subjects covered include social a... Access Database Alternative Press Index and Alternative Press Index Archive (combined)
Archives of Sexuality & Gender : LGBTQ History and Culture Since 1940 1940 - 2014 The Archives of Sexuality & Gender facilitates scholarly research in the area of LGBTQ history and activism, cultural studies, psychology, sociology, health, political science, policy studies, huma... Access Database Archives of Sexuality & Gender : LGBTQ History and Culture Since 1940
Black Thought and Culture 1700 - present This collection contains approximately 100,000 pages of non-fiction writings from the past 250 years by over 1,000 American black leaders, including artists, politicians, religious leaders, athlete... Access Database Black Thought and Culture
GenderWatch 1970 - present GenderWatch is a gender, women, and gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender (GLBT) issues database with thousands of English-language full-text articles from over 200 magazines, academic journals, ... Access Database GenderWatch
Independent Voices Drawn from the special collections of libraries here at the University of Wisconsin - Madison, SUNY-Buffalo, Duke University, Northwestern University, and others, the Independent Voices project pro... Access Database Independent Voices
LGBT Life with Full Text Dates vary; earliest is from 1950s Includes the fulltext of more than one hundred current or historically significant Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender (LGBT) journals, magazines and regional newspapers, as well as more than 11... Access Database LGBT Life with Full Text
LGBT Thought and Culture LGBT Thought and Culture is an online resource hosting the key works and archival documentation of LGBT political and social movements throughout the 20th century and into the present day. The coll... Access Database LGBT Thought and Culture
Women's Studies Archive 1780 - 2000 The Women's Studies Archive documents the social, political, and professional aspects of women’s lives, offering resources pertaining to the roles, experiences, and achievements of women in society... Access Database Women's Studies Archive
Women's Studies International 1972 - present Women's Studies International indexes women's studies, women's issues, and gender-focused books, book chapters, journal and magazine articles, dissertations, and reports from throughout the world, ... Access Database Women's Studies International

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African History and Culture, 1540-1921: Imprints from the Library Company of Philadelphia 1540 - 1921 Archival collection of books, pamphlets, almanacs, broadsides and ephemera covering the history, peoples, and social and economic development of the African continent from the 16th century to the e... Access Database African History and Culture, 1540-1921: Imprints from the Library Company of Philadelphia
America : History and Life 1910 - present America : History and Life indexes and abstracts more than 1700 social science and humanities journals in the field of United States and Canadian history. (See Historical Abstracts for non-North Am... Access Database America : History and Life
American Pamphlets, Series 1, 1820-1922 1820 - 1922 This is a fully searchable resource of over 25,000 pamphlets and other short works from the collections of the New York Historical Society spanning the varied history of the United States from the ... Access Database American Pamphlets, Series 1, 1820-1922
British and Irish Women's Letters and Diaries 1500 - 1950 1500 - 1950 This database is a collection of the diaries and correspondence of over 500 British and Irish women, and encompasses approximately 100,000 pages of writing. Most of the material is published, but s... Access Database British and Irish Women's Letters and Diaries 1500 - 1950
Cairn (French) This journal database covers subjects in the humanities and social sciences, representing primarily French and Francophone scholarly publications. Since February 2006, the National Library of Franc... Access Database Cairn (French)
Cairns Collection of American Women Writers to 1930: Author List US Independence to 1940 This is a searchable list of names, variant names, and pseudonyms used by American women writers whose works are held in the William B. Cairns Collection of American Women Writers, a non-circulatin... Access Database Cairns Collection of American Women Writers to 1930: Author List
Canadiana Online 1600 - 1920 Canadiana online is a full-text searchable database that includes books, journals and government publications documenting Canadian History. The e-book collection, spans three and a half centuries o... Access Database Canadiana Online
Defining Gender 1450 - 1910 Defining Gender contains some 50,000 images of original documents from five centuries of advice literature and related material, from diaries, advice and conduct books, as well as articles from med... Access Database Defining Gender
Directory of Women's Media Current This is a directory of media owned and operated primarily by, for and about women. Sections list print periodicals, Internet periodicals, publishers, media organizations, and other women's media (n... Access Database Directory of Women's Media
Discovering American Women's History Online 1600s to the present This database provides access to hundreds of digital collections of primary sources (photos, letters, diaries, artifacts, etc.) that document the history of women in the United States. The database... Access Database Discovering American Women's History Online
Early Canadiana Online 1600 - 1920 Early Canadiana Online is a large-scale collection of Canadian print materials comprising twelve collections of over three million pages. The parts include Early Canadian Periodicals, Early officia... Access Database Early Canadiana Online
Everyday Life and Women in America c.1800-1920 circa 1800 - 1920 Everyday Life is a digital collection comprising thousands of fully searchable images (alongside transcriptions) of monographs, pamphlets, periodicals and broadsides addressing 19th and early 20th ... Access Database Everyday Life and Women in America c.1800-1920
Feminae: Medieval Women and Gender Index 1990 - to date Feminae is a multilingual scholarly index that covers articles about women, sexuality, and gender during the Middle Ages (450 CE to 1500 CE) collected from over 500 journals published from 1990 to ... Access Database Feminae: Medieval Women and Gender Index
Filmakers Library Online 1970s to 2011 (approximately) Interdisciplinary resource of over 1,000 issue-based documentaries and independent films from the U.S. and other countries. Topics include: race and gender studies, human rights, globalization and ... Access Database Filmakers Library Online
Gerritsen Collection: Women's History Online 1543 - 1945 The Gerritsen Collection contains the full text of over 4,700 publications from around the world documenting the condition of women, the evolution of feminist consciousness, and women's rights. The... Access Database Gerritsen Collection: Women's History Online
Harper's Bazaar Archive 1940 - present When completed this database will cover the entire run of Harper's Bazaar magazine, a fashion, arts, and culture authority from 1867 to the present. Scanned in full color and including monthly upda... Access Database Harper's Bazaar Archive
Hemispheric Institute of Performance and Politics Digital Video Library 1970 - present The Hemispheric Institute Digital Video Library (HIDVL) is a collaboration between New York University Libraries and the Hemispheric Institute of Performance and Politics that provides a digital li... Access Database Hemispheric Institute of Performance and Politics Digital Video Library
International African Bibliography Online 1971 - present The International African Bibliography (IAB) is an essential resource for all those working in the field of African studies, providing a current awareness service of the latest books, articles and ... Access Database International African Bibliography Online
International Encyclopedia of the Social & Behavioral Sciences Current (2015) The International Encyclopedia of the Social & Behavioral Sciences is a fully revised and updated second edition of the 2001 publication. It includes nearly 4000 articles curated by 71 section edit... Access Database International Encyclopedia of the Social & Behavioral Sciences
Jewish Women: A Comprehensive Historical Encyclopedia 3000 years This encyclopedia makes available to all who are interested in Jewish history and culture the varied accomplishments of Jewish women and their many contributions to the Jewish historical experience... Access Database Jewish Women: A Comprehensive Historical Encyclopedia
KVINNSAM - Women's, Men's and Gender Studies 1970 - Kvinnsam is an interdisciplinary scholarly index on women and gender, containing citations in English, Swedish and many other languages. If the page appears in Swedish, click on "English" at top of... Access Database KVINNSAM - Women's, Men's and Gender Studies
LGBT Studies in Video 1920s - present LGBT Studies in Video is a cinematic survey of the lives of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender people as well as the cultural and political evolution of the LGBT community. This collection inc... Access Database LGBT Studies in Video
Lily, The (1849-1856) 1849 - 1856 The Lily, the first newspaper for women, was issued from 1849 until 1853 under the editorship of Amelia Bloomer (1818-1894). It was published in Seneca Falls, New York and priced at 50 cents a year... Access Database Lily, The (1849-1856)
Making of the Modern World: Parts I, II, III and IV, The 1450 - 1914 This wide-ranging collection looks at history through the lens of wealth and trade with a focus on economics, political science, history, philosophy, sociology, and special collections on banking, ... Access Database Making of the Modern World: Parts I, II, III and IV, The
Mass Observation Online 1937 to 1967 Source Library: Special Collections, University of Sussex. Mass Observation Online makes available original manuscript and typescript papers created and collected by the British Mass Observation or... Access Database Mass Observation Online
Men's Bibliography, The A comprehensive bibliography of writing on men, masculinities, gender, and sexualities. Access Database Men's Bibliography, The
Multimedia Encyclopedia of Women in Today's World 2000 - present Focuses on women's status starting approximately in the year 2000 and looks forward, defining women in the contemporary world. Includes multimedia features. Especially strong on American aspects of... Access Database Multimedia Encyclopedia of Women in Today's World
North American Women's Letters and Diaries, Colonial to 1950 Colonial Times - 1950 A collection of published and unpublished women's diaries and correspondence, drawn from more than 1,000 1,300 sources, including journal articles, pamphlets, newsletters, monographs, and conferenc... Access Database North American Women's Letters and Diaries, Colonial to 1950
Oxford Bibliographies Online: Jewish Studies The Jewish Studies module from Oxford Bibliographies Online (OBO) presents a broad range of authoritative research guides on current scholarship, with original commentary and annotations, that are ... Access Database Oxford Bibliographies Online: Jewish Studies
Oxford Encyclopedia of Women and World History Pre-history to the 2000s Contains some 650 biographies of women and 600 topical entries covering geography and history, culture and society, organizations, movements, and gender studies. Scope is worldwide and from pre-his... Access Database Oxford Encyclopedia of Women and World History
Popular Culture in Britain and America 1950-1975 Original primary sources on society, music, politics, fashion and youth culture from 1950 to 1975. Photos, video, music, fanzines, magazines, press kits, ads and other archival material from the ti... Access Database Popular Culture in Britain and America
PsycARTICLES 1894 - present The PsycARTICLES® database covers general psychology and specialized, basic, applied, clinical and theoretical research in psychology. The database contains more than 150,000 searchable full text a... Access Database PsycARTICLES
PsycINFO (Psychological Abstracts) 1800s - present This database from the American Psychological Association (APA) contains more than three million citations and summaries of journal articles, book chapters, books, dissertations and technical repor... Access Database PsycINFO (Psychological Abstracts)
Scottish Women Poets of the Romantic Period This release includes some 60 volumes from 47 poets. The critical and biographical essays for some poets will be added in a future release, as will selected criticism from printed works. In additio... Access Database Scottish Women Poets of the Romantic Period
Seventeenth and Eighteenth Century Nichols Newspapers Collection 1672 - 1737 Collection of newspapers, periodicals, pamphlets and broadsheets, that make up the Nichols newspaper collection held at the Bodleian Library in Oxford, UK. All 296 volumes of bound material, coveri... Access Database Seventeenth and Eighteenth Century Nichols Newspapers Collection
Social Work Abstracts 1977 - present Social Work Abstracts contains citations and abstracts to articles from more than 450 journals in the areas of the social work profession, theory and practice, areas of service, social issues, and ... Access Database Social Work Abstracts
Sociological Abstracts 1952 - present The Sociological Abstracts database indexes and abstracts 2,000 worldwide journals in sociology. Relevant dissertations have been added since 1986. Also included is the Social Planning Policy and D... Access Database Sociological Abstracts
Studies on Women and Gender Abstracts 1993 - present Studies on Women and Gender Abstracts provides paragraph-long summaries of articles in a variety of English-language journals from around the world. The articles focus on education, employment, wom... Access Database Studies on Women and Gender Abstracts
Twentieth Century Advice Literature TWENTIETH CENTURY ADVICE LITERATURE focuses on gender roles and relations, American consumerism, views of democratic citizenship, character development for children, changes in reaction to each maj... Access Database Twentieth Century Advice Literature
Vogue Archive 1892 - present The Vogue Archive database of fashion, style, and design includes searchable content of every page of every issue of American Vogue from 1892 forward. More than 400,000 high-resolution pages includ... Access Database Vogue Archive
Web of Science Arts & Humanities, 1975 to present; Science, 1900 to present; 1965 - for Science; Social Sciences, 1900 to present; Conferences, 1990 to present The Web of Science is a combination of three databases: Science Citation Index Expanded, Social Sciences Citation Index, Arts & Humanities Citation Index and Conference Proceedings Citation Index (... Access Database Web of Science
Women and Social Movements in the United States 1600 - 2000 Women and Social Movements is divided into document projects that interpret and present materials, many of which are not otherwise available online, in U.S. history and U.S. women's history. Each d... Access Database Women and Social Movements in the United States
Women Writers Online (1400-1850) 1400 - 1850 The Women Writers Project is a long-term research project from Brown University, which is transferring to Northeastern. It is devoted to early modern women's writing and electronic text encoding. W... Access Database Women Writers Online (1400-1850)
Women's Audio Visuals in English (WAVE) Dates vary Women's Audio Visuals In English (WAVE) is a database maintained by the University of Wisconsin System Women's Studies Librarian's Office that lists documentary, experimental, and feature film and ... Access Database Women's Audio Visuals in English (WAVE)
Women's Magazine Archive 1846 - 2005 This database provides searchable access to the complete archives of leading women's interest magazines, dating from the 19th century through to the 21st. Comprised of 2 collections (Archive 1 and ... Access Database Women's Magazine Archive
World Bank Data The World Bank Group provides free online access to its comprehensive set of data on living standards around the globe--some 2,000 indicators, including hundreds that go back 50 years. The data is ... Access Database World Bank Data