Subject: Women's Studies
Key Databases
GenderWatch
Full-text access to international journals, magazines, newsletters, regional publications, special reports and conference proceedings discussing a wide variety of women’s issues.
Contemporary Women's Issues
Full text access to information on women in more than 150 countries. Includes articles from journals, newsletters, research reports from non-profit groups, government and international agencies
Related Databases
Academic Search Premier
This large multidisciplinary database includes full-text for approximately 4,500 journals, including more than 3,600 peer-reviewed publications. Searchable cited references are also included for 1,000 titles.
CQ Researcher
Published weekly, this publication offers summaries of current, controversial topics. Each report includes a summary, background information, an analysis of the current situation, the outlook, pros and cons, a chronology, and an annotated bibliography.
Expanded Academic ASAP
Indexes approximately 3,500 journals including 2,100 peer-reviewed titles. Many citations lead directly to full-text links. Coverage goes back to 1980.
Humanities and Social Sciences Index Retrospective
Provides indexing to journals in the social sciences and humanities dating back to 1907.
PsycINFO (Ebsco)
Produced by the APA, this database is considered the primary index to scholarly, psychological literature. Indexes articles in more than 2,100 journals as well as relevant books and book chapters. The Ebsco version of this database provides easy ways to limit searches and to export citations to ProCite, EndNote, or RefWorks. Added features in this version are cited references and a convenient link to the Thesaurus of Psychological Index Terms. 1806-date.
Social Sciences Full-Text
Indexes more than 600 journals relating to the social sciences. Searches are easily limited to peer-reviewed journals. Coverage goes back to 1983.
Social Services Abstracts
Indexes journal articles in social work, human services, and related disciplines. Coverage back to 1980.
Social Work Abstracts Plus
Indexes resources relating to social work and human services. Coverage is from 1977 to present.
Sociological Abstracts
Indexes journal articles, book reviews, books, book chapters, dissertations, and conference papers relating to the social sciences. Coverage goes back to 1963.
Sociology: A SAGE Full-Text Collection
Searchable access to 28 journals relating to the social sciences.
Web of Science
Includes Science Citation Index Expanded and Social Sciences Citation Index. One of the most comprehensive databases with indexing to more than 5900 journals. This resource may be best known for its extensive forward and backward links to cited references. Also links to full-text articles when available through USF subscriptions. 1900-date.
Wilson Omnifile Full Text Mega Edition
A large multi-disciplinary resource indexing research on a wide variety of subjects. Many citations link to the full-text of the article. Searches are easily limited to peer-reviewed journals. Coverage goes back to 1982.
E-journals
Annual Reviews
Searchable full-text access to the entire content of the Annual Review titles including Anthropology, Law and Social Science, Psychology, Public Health, Medicine, and Sociology.
Blackwell Synergy
Searchable access to the journals from Blackwell Publishing including a number of titles relating to women’s studies such as: Gender & History, Gender, Work & Organization, and Psychology of Women Quarterly.
Directory of Open Access Journals
Provides full-text access to free scientific and scholarly journals. More than 2500 journal titles are included in this resource with approximately 750 of them searchable at the article level.
HighWire Press
A partnership between Stanford University Libraries and influential scholarly societies, university presses, and publishers, HighWire provides searchable, full-text access to a large number of the 200 most frequently cited journals.
JSTOR
This unique resource was created to provide searchable, full-text access to the older editions of a vast number of scholarly journals. Coverage goes back to volume one of the journal but does not include the most recent few years of the title. Relevant titles include Feminist Review, Feminist Studies, Frontiers: A Journal of Women Studies, Gender and Society, and Signs.
OCLC ECO: Electronic Collections Online
A large, searchable database with full-text articles from a wide variety of journals and publishers.
Project Muse
Provides the full-text of more than 300 scholarly journals. Relevant titles include Frontiers: A Journal of Women Studies, Hypatia, Journal of Feminist Studies in Religion, Journal of Women’s History, and Social Politics: International Studies in Gender, State and Society.
Sociology: A SAGE Full-Text Collection
Searchable access to 28 journals relating to the social sciences.
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