Databases for Gender Studies
Best Bets
| Database | Description | Coverage | More Info |
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| Gender Studies Database |
Includes professional journals, conference papers, books, book chapters, government reports, discussion and working papers, theses & dissertations and other sources. |
1972-present |
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| LGBT Life with Full Text |
LGBT provides full text access to over 130 journals, indexing for 200 more, as well as access to more than 170 full-text monographs/books including Classics in Lesbian Studies, Gay Sci |
1990s-present |
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| Historical Abstracts with Full Text |
Provides citations with abstracts to over 1,700 journals,book and media reviews, and dissertations. |
1955-present |
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| America: History and Life with Full Text |
Provides access to journal articles, book reviews, and dissertations. Covers U.S. and Canadian history. |
1955-present |
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Also Useful
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| Academic OneFile |
Contains more than 11,000 academic jounals, the majority in full text and peer-reviewed, and podcasts and transcripts from major news sources. |
1980-present |
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| Academic Search Complete |
Provides full text for over 8,500 magazines and journals, and indexing for 4,100 more titles. |
1980-present |
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| Americas Historical Newspapers |
Includes more than 1,000 U.S. historical newspapers published between 1690 and 1922, including titles from all 50 states. |
1690-1922 |
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| Feminae: Medieval Women and Gender Index |
"Feminae: Medieval Women and Gender Index covers journal articles, book reviews, and essays in books about women, sexuality, and gender during the Middle Ages." |
1990-present |
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| In the First Person |
In the First Person indexes letters, diaries, oral histories, and personal narratives of more than 18,000 individuals from all walks of life. |
1558-2005 |
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| JSTOR |
JSTOR specializes in making available the back issues of academic journals (over 1,000) in a wide variety of humanities and social science disciplines. |
Coverage is the beginning of the journal until two to five years ago. |
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| North American Women: Letters and Diaries |
North American Women's Letters and Diaries (NWLD) includes the immediate experiences of 1,017 women, as revealed in approximately 150,000 pages of diaries and letters, including 7,000 pages of pre |
Colonial to 1950 |
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| Project Muse |
Project Muse provides full text access to over 335 journals, and indexing for 200 more in the humanities and social sciences. |
1996-present |
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| ProQuest Historical Newspapers |
Offers full-text and full-image articles for 13 large American daily newspapers and two daily British Newspapers (The Guardian and The Observer) |
1764-2005 |
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| Sociological Abstracts |
Sociological Abstracts indexes the international literature in sociology and related disciplines. |
1952-present |
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Even More
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| Archives Unbound |
The three major types of documents in this database are monographs of books and pamphlets, manuscripts, and newspapers and periodicals. |
1500-present |
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