Research Guide: Women's Studies

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Academic Search Premier
Provides full text for nearly 4,650 journals (including more than 3,600 peer-reviewed publications) in nearly every area of academic study.
Contemporary Women's Issues (CWI)
Available through FirstSearch. Global information on women in over 150 countries.
Early Modern Women Database
"Provides links to Web resources useful for the study of women in early modern Europe and the Americas. It focuses on the period from ca. 1500 to ca. 1800 and includes links to Web sites about the Medieval period and 19th Century as well."
Gender Inn
A "searchable database providing access to over 8,400 records pertaining to feminist theory, feminist literary criticism and gender studies focusing on English and American literature."
GenderWatch
A full text database of journals, newsletters and research reports on women. Two simultaneous users.
Left Index
Coverage of more than 247,500 citations and abstracts from 1982-present with an emphasis on political, economic, social and culturally engaged scholarship inside and outside academia. Partial full-text.
Monastic Matrix
"A scholarly resource for the study of women's religious communities from 400 to 1600 CE." Includes primary & secondary sources, images, and a bibliography.
New York Times Archive, 1851-2004
The New York Times archive provides full page and article images with searchable full text back to the first issue. It is possible to limit by article type including: classified ad, display ad, editorial cartoon, letter, comic, editorial article, review, stock quote, weather, legal notice, and real estate transaction.
Opposing Viewpoints
Contains about 2000 viewpoint articles, 1000 topic overviews, 700 court case overviews, and 30 full text periodicals and newspapers. The Research Guide provides tips on analyzing issues with opposing viewpoints, distinguishing fact from opinion, evaluating information sources, and recognizing deceptive arguments.
Project Muse
Full text of over 100 scholarly journals in fields including literature and criticism, history, the visual and performing arts, cultural studies, political science, gender studies, and economics.
PsycINFO
Covers 1887 to the present. Provides worldwide coverage to literature in psychology and related disciplines. Links to full text articles in other databases. PsycARTICLES provides access to over 100,000 searchable full text articles from 48 journals published by the American Psychological Association from 1894 to the present.
Reader's Guide Retrospective 1890 - 1982
Index to popular magazines and journals. Particularly useful for historical research. Many of the articles are available in either print or microfilm format in the Milne Library basement. Please ask a librarian if you need assistance. Four simultaneous users.
SocIndex (with abstracts)
SocINDEX is the world's most comprehensive and highest quality sociology research database. This index features more than 1,910,000 records with subject headings from a 19,300 term sociology-specific. This file also contains informative abstracts for more than 815 "core" coverage journals dating back to 1895. In addition, this file provides data mined from more than 630 "priority" coverage journals as well as 2,840 "selective" coverage journals.
Voice of the People: Daily Life in the rural Delaware County New York area
Hundreds of primary source materials such as letters, diaries, and newspaper excerpts dating from about 1810 - 1860 that can be used in teaching local New York State history.
Women in Politics: Bibliographic Database
Index to books, articles and reports concerning women in politics.