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Article databases

NameDescription
Academic Search CompleteMulti-disciplinary coverage. Over 5,500 full text periodicals, including more than 4,600 peer-reviewed journals. PDF content going back to 1887. Searchable cited references for nearly 1,000 journals. EBSCOhost
Alternative Press IndexCultural, economic, political, and social change. International and interdisciplinary in scope. Indexes nearly 300 alternative, radical and left periodicals, newspapers, and magazines. Coverage from 1991 to the present. OCLC
Alternative Press Index ArchiveCultural, economic, political, and social change. International and interdisciplinary in scope. Indexes over 700 alternative, radical and left periodicals, newspapers, and magazines. Coverage from 1969 to 1990. OCLC
CWI-Contemporary Women's Issue Health and Human RightsGlobal information about women in over 150 countries. Indexes books, journals, newsletters, research reports from non-profit groups, government and international agencies, and fact sheets. OCLC/Gale Group
Essay and General Literature IndexCitations for essays and chapters contained in books. Click "Library Owns?" icon to search for call numbers and availability of books. Coverage in the humanities and social sciences. H. W. Wilson
JSTOR Access to Arts & Sciences I, II, III, IV, and VII, as well as the Ecology & Botany collection. Full text.
NetLibraryAccess to more than 50,000 digitized books. Search by title, author, keyword, Library of Congress subject heading, publisher, or ISBN. Full-text searching is also available. OCLC
OmniFile Full Text MegaCitations, abstracts, and full text for thousands of popular and scholarly sources, including articles, reviews, books, and more. Multi-disciplinary coverage. H. W. Wilson
Project MuseBasic Undergraduate Collection. Full text access to 125 peer-reviewed journals in the humanities and social sciences. PLEASE NOTE: not all titles are available in full text. Check "Only content I have full access to" for full text access only.
Social Science Full TextCitations, abstracts, and full text for articles, reviews, biographies, and more. Coverage for both applied and theoretical aspects of the social sciences. H. W. Wilson
Sociological AbstractsCitations and abstracts for journal articles, book reviews, book chapters, dissertations, and conference papers. Cambridge Scientific Abstracts
Wiley-Blackwell Formerly Blackwell Synergy. Full text for over 850 journals, the majority of which are published by Blackwell on behalf of international scholarly and professional societies. Subjects range across Medicine, Science, Social Science, and the Humanities. PLEASE NOTE: not all titles or issues of titles are available in full text. Wiley InterScience
Women and Social MovementsPrimary source documents covering women's social movements in the United States from 1600 to 2000. Alexander Street Press
Women's Studies InternationalCovers the core disciplines in Women’s Studies to the latest scholarship in feminist research. Coverage includes more than 586,600 records and spans from 1972 and earlier to present. EBSCOhost
WorldCatSearch for materials in hundreds of libraries. Books, websites, computer programs, films, slides, journals, magazines, papers, manuscripts, maps, musical scores, newspapers, sound recordings, videotapes. Coverage from before 1000 BC to the present. OCLC

LC classification system

CT - Biography HQ - The Family. Marriage. Women
HQ1101-2030.7 - Women. Feminism

Reference books

BookCall number
A Companion to Feminist Philosophy A Companion to Feminist Philosophy
Encyclopedia of Feminist Theories (also available as online book)REF HQ1190 .E63 2000 or Encyclopedia of Feminist Theories
Encyclopedia of Women and World Religion (2 volumes)REF BL458 .E53 1999
Lesbian Histories and Cultures: An Encyclopedia Lesbian Histories and Cultures: An Encyclopedia

Web resources

American Women's History Research Guide
Bibliography from the International Institute of Women's History
Discovering American Women's History Online
National Women's History Project
The "Second Wave" and Beyond: Primary Sources of the Women's Movement, 1960 to Present
Women Working: 1800- 1930
Women's Studies Programs, Departments, & Research Centers