Women's and Gender Studies Resources
Finding ARTICLES
LGBT Life with Full Text - Contains all of the content available in LGBT Life as well as full text for more than 120 of the most important LGBT journals, magazines and regional newspapers, as well as more than 140 monographs and books. (Database Service: EBSCO) user guide (PDF 170k)
Humanities International Complete - Provides full text of hundreds of journals, books and other published sources from around the world. (Database Service: EBSCO) user guide (PDF 170k)
Academic Search Complete - Provides full text to over 3,600 interdisciplinary scholarly journals dating back to 1985. (Database Service: EBSCO) user guide (PDF 170k)
ProQuest Research Library - Interdisciplinary database with coverage dating back to 1985. (Database Service: ProQuest) user guide (PDF 78k)
Academic OneFile - Covers a wide range of subject areas dating back to 1980. (Database Service: Thomson Gale) user guide (PDF 75k)
Ethnic NewsWatch Complete - A comprehensive full text database of the newspapers, magazines and journals of the ethnic, minority and native press. (Database Service: ProQuest) user guide (PDF 78k)
Credo Reference - An electronic reference book collection.
Gale Virtual Reference Library: Women's & Gender Studies - Electronic encyclopedias that cover: social science and cultural issues, biography, religion, and history.
See also specialized indexes in literature, religion, education, psychology, etc.
Finding BOOKS
Edgewood's Catalog - Books, journal titles, videos, more. See also new books.
Essay & General Literature Index - Indexing to 5,300 anthologies and collections in the humanities and social sciences accesses around 65,000 essays (chapters) from 1985 to date. (Database Service: H.W. Wilson) user guide (PDF 1.11mb)
Course Reserves - Search by course number or instructor
WorldCat - for books, videos, etc from libraries nationwide
Women's and Gender Studies WEBSITES
Women's Studies / Women's Issues Resource Sites - selected and annotated list of sites from The University of Maryland Baltimore County
Women's Studies Section links - Site developed and maintained by the WSS Collection Development Committee of the Association of College and Research Libraries.
American Women - Gateway to Library of Congress resources on women's history and culture.
Feminist Perspectives on TANF Reauthorization - An introduction to key issues for the future of welfare reform.
Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgendered and Queer Encyclopedia - Lesbian, bisexual, and transgender culture.
Gender, Science and Technology Gateway - United Nations site to more effectively incorporate gender concerns into science and technology for development.
gender Inn: Women's and Gender Studies Database - searchable; bibliographies and online journal, Gender Forum
Highlighted E-Resources - From the UW's Women's Studies Librarian's Office.
National Humanities Center - See Toolbox Library for primary documents, discussion guides and links to additional resources. Subtopics include Equality (1789-1820) and Domesticity (1815-1850).
National Museum of Women in the Arts - The museum website.
National Women's History Project links - An exhaustive site on women's history.
Women and Smoking - A Report of the Surgeon General 2001 - This report from the US Surgeon General reveals that smoking has become a leading killer of American women in just two generations. Women now account for 39 percent of the country's smoking-related deaths, more than doubling the proportion of 1965.
Women of Our Time - Photographic exhibit of notable women from the National Portrait Gallery.