SCSU Hilton C. Buley Library: Women's & Gender Studies: Databases

Database Information

The Library subscribes to more than 250 online interdisciplinary, multi-disciplinary and subject-specific databases. Some databases only provide indexing and abstracts. Other databases provide indexing, abstracts and full text.

This page provides links to subject-specific, interdisciplinary and multi-disciplinary databases for Women's & Gender Studies.

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Women's & Gender Studies Databases

Genderwatch This link opens in a new window
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GenderWatch is a full text database of unique and diverse publications that focus on how gender impacts a broad spectrum of subject areas. Publications include scholarly journals, magazines, newspapers, newsletters, regional publications, books, and NGO, government and special reports.
Gerritsen Collection: Women's History Online This link opens in a new window
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The broad scope of the collection allows scholars to trace the evolution of feminism within a single country, as well as the impact of one country's movement on those of the others. In many cases, it also provides easy access to primary sources otherwise available only in a few rare book rooms. The Gerritsen Collection consists of two segments: the Periodical Series and the Monograph Language Series.
LGBT Studies in Video, Volumes 1 & 2 This link opens in a new window
LGBT Studies in Video is a cinematic survey of the lives of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender people as well as the cultural and political evolution of the LGBT community.
This first-of-its-kind collection features award-winning documentaries, interviews, archival footage, and select feature films exploring LGBT history, gay culture and subcultures, civil rights, marriage equality, LGBT families, AIDS, transgender issues, religious perspectives on homosexuality, global comparative experiences, and other topics.
LGBT Thought and Culture This link opens in a new window
LGBT Thought and Culture is an online resource hosting books, periodicals, and archival materials documenting LGBT political, social and cultural movements throughout the twentieth century and into the present day.
The collection illuminates the lives of lesbians, gays, transgender, and bisexual individuals and the community with content including selections from The National Archives in Kew, materials collected by activist and publisher Tracy Baim from the mid-1980s through the mid-2000s, the Magnus Hirschfeld and Harry Benjamin collections from the Kinsey Institute, periodicals such as En la Vida and BLACKlines, select rare works from notable LGBT publishers including Alyson Books and Cleis Press, as well as mainstream trade and university publishers.
Women and Social Movements, 1600-2000 This link opens in a new window
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Includes document projects or archives with almost 2,800 documents and 125,000 pages of additional full-text sources, written by more than 2,240 primary authors. It also includes book, film, and website reviews, notes from the archives, and teaching tools. It continues to grow with two new issues/releases annually.
Women and Social Movements, International This link opens in a new window
Women and Social Movements, International is a landmark collection of primary materials. Through the writings of women activists, their personal letters and diaries, and the proceedings of conferences at which pivotal decisions were made, this collection lets you see how women’s social movements shaped much of the events and attitudes that have defined modern life.

Other Subject-specific, Interdisciplinary & Multi-disciplinary Databases for WGS

Academic Search Premier This link opens in a new window
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This multi-disciplinary database provides indexing, abstracts and much full text for academic journals, magazines, trade publications, and newspapers on every topic.
America: History & Life This link opens in a new window
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America: History & Life is a database of literature covering the history and culture of the United States and Canada, from prehistory to the present. Indexing, abstracts and some full text from journals and books.
ATLA Religion Database This link opens in a new window
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ATLA Religion Database provides information on topics such as biblical studies, world religions, church history, and religion in social issues. Includes article citations journals, essay citations from multi-author works, and book review citations.
Dissertations & Theses from SCSU This link opens in a new window
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Dissertations & theses by SCSU students.
Gale Literature Resource Center This link opens in a new window
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Find up-to-date biographical information, overviews, full-text literary criticism and reviews on more than 130,000 writers in all disciplines, from all time periods and from around the world.
LION: Literature Online This link opens in a new window
English and American poetry drama prose full-text literature journals criticism reference resources authors poets novels novelists poetry fiction non-fiction prose literature review interpretation literary analysis works Shakespeare plots books book reviews journals magazines reference works biographies chronology essays commentaries writers works poems poets essayists literary genre literature criticism bibliographies biographies English American world literary figures international classic contemporary plays theatre film graphic novels writing journalism humor comics television radio composition grammar vocabulary diction writing collections motion pictures anthologies creative medieval early modern post-modern
Fully searchable library of more than 350,000 works of English and American poetry, drama and prose, 251 full-text literature journals, and other key criticism and reference resources.
Opposing Viewpoints (Gale) This link opens in a new window
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Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center is a one-stop source for information on today's hottest social issues. OVRC features viewpoint articles, topic overviews, full-text magazine, academic journal, and newspaper articles, primary source documents, statistics, images and podcasts, and links to Websites.
Philosopher's Index This link opens in a new window
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Current and comprehensive bibliographic database covering scholarly research in all major fields of philosophy. The Philosopher۪s Index, considered the most thorough index of journal literature on the subject, features author-written abstracts covering scholarly research published in journals and books, including contributions to anthologies and book reviews. The Philosopher's Index contains research published since 1940 including nearly 570 journals from 43 countries with content representing a variety of languages.
Project Muse This link opens in a new window
Area studies Ethnic Studies Architecture Creative Writing Education Film Theater Performing Arts History Language Linguistics Library Science Publishing Literature Medicine Health Music Philosophy Religion Science Technology Mathematics Social Sciences Women's Studies Gender Sexuality authors poets novels novelists poetry fiction non-fiction prose literature review interpretation literary analysis works Shakespeare plots books book reviews journals magazines reference works biographies chronology essays commentaries writers works poems poets essayists literary genre literature criticism bibliographies biographies English American world literary figures international humanities authors poets novels novelists poetry fiction non-fiction prose literature review interpretation literary analysis works Shakespeare plots books book reviews journals magazines reference works biography chronology essays commentaries 1800s 1900s writers works poems poets essayists literary genre literature
Provides 100% full-text, affordable and user-friendly online access to a comprehensive selection of prestigious humanities and social sciences journals.
Proquest Dissertations & Theses This link opens in a new window
Social Sciences Citation Index This link opens in a new window
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Find out who has cited who, and who has cited you. Access covers 1965-present. The Social Sciences Citation Index, part of the Web of Science, is a multidisciplinary index to the journal literature of the social sciences. It fully indexes over 1,950 journals across 50 social sciences disciplines, including anthropology, history, law, philosophy, political science, public health, psychology, social work, sociology, urban studies, women۪s studies, and more.

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