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Research Databases
(Consult this list for interdisciplinary databases)
African Women's Bibliographic Database
This database contains over 22,000 citations from 1986 to current and indexes six types of materials, including books, conference papers, and journal articles.
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JSTOR
JSTOR is a database consisting of only full-text articles from interdisciplinary peer-reviewed journals. Journals are included on the basis of number of subscribers the journal has, citation analysis, recommendations from
experts in the field, and the length of time that the journal has been
published. Coverage for each title begins with the first publication, with most titles ending coverage between three and five years ago.
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Women Writers Online
The Women Writers Project is a long-term research
project devoted to bringing texts by pre-Victorian women writers, covering a period from 1400 to 1850, out
of the archive and making them accessible to a wide audience of teachers,
students, scholars, and the general reader.
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Reference Materials
Encyclopedia of Women and Gender - HQ1115 .E52 2001
Covers a broad array of topics in two volumes related to the psychology of gender, with additional contributions from allied social sciences including sociology, anthropology and communications.
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Encyclopedia of Women and Islamic Cultures - HQ1170 .E53 2003
Written by over 1,000 scholars from around the world, this multi-volume encyclopedia crosses history, geographic borders and disciplines to create a ground-breaking reference work reflecting the very latest research on gender studies and the Islamic world.
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Greenwood Encyclopedia of Women's Issues Worldwide - HQ1115 .G74 2003
This six volume set covers a broad range of women's issues in more than 130 countries around the world.
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Handbook of American Women's History - HQ1410 .H36 1990
Events, organizations, concepts, and individuals core to women's studies are covered in this volume. Concise definitions with historical significance included. Basic bibliography for each entry.
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Notable American Women - CT3260 .N57
A five volume set published by the Belknap Press of Harvard University Press. First three volumes cover 1,359 American women who died between 1607 and 1950; the next volume with the subtitle The Modern Period covers 442 women who died between 1951 and 1975; the last volume, subtitled Completing the Twentieth Century profiles 483 women who died between 1976 and 1999.
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Routledge International Encyclopedia of Women - HQ1115 .R69 2000
Addresses the concerns of women and the theory and practice of feminism around the world.
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Women in World History - HQ1115 .W6 1999
10,000 articles of prominent women across the ages are represented in these 17 volumes. Articles range in length from one paragraph to multiple pages. Each article is signed, and major articles have a list of sources or suggested reading. More than 300 scholars contributed to this work from 20 nations.
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Women's Issues - HQ1115 .W6425 1997
Addresses changing, dynamic nature of women's lives in America in three volumes. Wide variety of topics, including events, organizations, and key issues in the field of women's studies.
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Women's Studies: a recommended bibliography - Z7963 .F44 K75 2004
This over 800-page tome is now in its 3rd edition. It covers the literature in Women's Studies from 1986 to 1999. It describes the best printed and web-based information sources on women and gender.
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Web Sources
Women's Studies Librarian's Website - U. of Wisconsin
Most helpful areas and free to all web users are the homepages of magazines/journals links, the programs, research centers, libraries, and archives links, women's organizations links, and especially the links by subject area.
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WSSLinks
WSSLinks is developed and maintained by The Women's Studies Section (WSS) of the Association of College & Research
Libraries, which discusses, promotes, and supports women's studies
collections and services in academic and research libraries.
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