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Indexes

General

Wilson Web OmniFile A multidisciplinary database providing abstracts and some full-text. Use SearchPlus to limit to a specific Subject Area or to filter results for peer-reviewed journals only.

Academic Search Complete Academic Search Complete is a comprehensive scholarly, multi-disciplinary full-text database, with more than 5,300 full-text periodicals, including 4,400 peer-reviewed journals. In addition to full text, this database offers indexing and abstracts for more than 9,300 journals and a total of 9,810 publications including monographs, reports, conference proceedings, etc. Full text coverage of information in: archaeology, area studies, astronomy, biology, chemistry, ethnic & multicultural studies, general science, geography, law, mathematics, music, physics, psychology, religion & theology, women's studies, and other fields. The database features PDF content going back as far as 1865, with the majority of full text titles in native (searchable) PDF format. Searchable cited references are provided for nearly 1,000 journals.

Britannica Online Full-text of the Encyclopedia Britannica including photos, drawings, flags, biographies, and geographical articles. Also includes the Merriam-Webster Dictionary.

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Subject

Battleground: Women, Gender and Sexuality, Provides a resource for understing the most pressing issues involving women, gender, and sexuality.

MLA International Bibliography, a database of citations to materials in literature, linguistics and languages.

NOTE: To locate Periodicals in Abell Library, search using the "Periodical Title" field in the online catalog. Check the record(s) to determine Location.

E-Sources

Journals

JSTOR Is an archive of scholarly journals, including 3 journals for feminist & women's studies--Feminist Studies, Signs, and Woman's Art Journal. Current issues are not available through JSTOR; its role is an archive, with new holdings added each year.

Project Muse Index of periodicals published by Johns Hopkins University Press. Most are available in full-text.

SpringerLink Journals provides electronic access to the complete contents of a vast and growing collection of SpringerLink journals in subjects including gender and sexuality. (formerly Kluwer Journals)

Reference Works

Credo Reference Center Credo Reference is a leading provider of reference services for libraries and information centers. By using unique proprietary technology that integrates information through a network of intelligent, multi-dimensional cross-references, Credo Reference delivers real added value to students, researchers, businesses and reference help desks worldwide.

Women in the American Civil War Except for those named HarrietóTubman and Beecher Stowe, to be preciseówomen are invisible in Civil War history. The traditional treatment focuses on the men who directed and fought the war. This encyclopedia lifts the curtain on the untold stories of women as warriors, spies, fundraisers, and propagandistsóthe whole range of war-related activity.

Books

netLibrarycollection of full-text electronic books (ebooks) includes a wide variety of subject content from both popular and scholarly texts. Users can search across the entire eBook collection for authors, titles, or keywords, and they can search within books for keywords and phrases. Users may read or browse through ebooks for an unlimited amount of time. A title may be unavailable temporarily when all NetLibrary copies are in use by other patrons.

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About the Catalog

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Some subject headings used for this discipline are listed below. For additional headings, refer to the Library of Congress Subject Headings volumes located behind the Reference Desk.

• Feminism and literature
• Gender identity
• Women in science
• Women's studies

Internet Sites

• American Women's History A guide provided by Ken Middleton, Reference and Microforms Librarian at Middle Tennessee State University, to biographical information, historical documents, and links to important historical events.

• A Celebration of Women Writers Browse by author's name, century, country, or century for access to novels, poems, letters, biographies, travel books, religious commentaries, histories, economic and scientific works written by women.

• Feminae: Medieval Women and Gender Index Indexes over 400 journals as well as many essay collections devoted in large part to topics dealing with women, sexuality, or gender.

• Feminist Majority Foundation Online is an Internet gateway to news, job and internship listings, events, campus activism, Women's History, journals, mazazines, bookstores, and some periodical full-text sources.

• Five College Archives Digital Access Project Provides access to digitized versions of archival records and manuscript collections relating primarily to women's history, in particularly, women's education at the Five Colleges - (Amherst College, Hampshire College, Mt. Holyoke College, Smith College and the University of Massachusetts at Amherst).

• Gender and Development describes how the World Bank seeks to reduce gender disparities and enhance women's participation in economic development through its programs and projects.

• Gender and Sexuality Publishes texts which address gender studies and queer studies, with a particular focus upon discussions of sex, gender, sexual identity and sexuality in cultural practices.

• Gifts of Speech  Women's Speeches from Around the World

• GLBTQ encyclopedia  The objective for this site is to serve as the most comprehensive, accessible, and authoritative encyclopedia of gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender, and queer (glbtq) culture.

• Women's Studies / Women's Issues Resource Sites A selective, annotated, highly acclaimed listing of web sites containing resources and information about women's studies / women's issues, with an emphasis on sites of particular use to an academic women's studies program.

• WSSLINKS Women and Gender Studies Web Sites Developed and maintained by the Women's Studies Section of the Association of College and Research Libraries, this site lists selective, annotated links to Internet resources covering a variety of disciplines (art, literature, politics, science, etc.) to support women's studies.

• Yahoo Guide to Women's Studies Resources

About the Program

Gender Studies Program

Citing Sources

Various Style Manuals may be used in Gender Studies, depending upon the aspect you are studying: history, literature, social sciences, etc. Check with your professor to determine which format you should use for a particular class. Select from a variety of Style Manuals online and on Reserve within the library.