Women's Studies Research Guide: Find Articles

A guide to finding and using library resources on women's studies topics.

Recommended Resources

Lovejoy Library has OVER 200 different databases with full text articles and online media on various subjects!

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Good online resources for women's studies research:

General

Academic Search Complete This link opens in a new window
CONTENTS: text, images. COVERAGE: portal to 11,600+ journals, monographs, reports and conference proceedings, with 7,000 in full text and nearly 6,000 peer-reviewed. Easily searchable by subject, places and people. DATES: varies. UPDATES: daily. VENDOR: EBSCO
SocINDEX with Full Text This link opens in a new window
Sociology, Social Work, Criminal Justice, Anthropology
CONTENTS: citations, abstracts, text. COVERAGE: 2,200+ journal citations/abstracts, 300+ core & priority journals in full text, Searchable cited references for 241 core journals, 500+ books in full text, 6,700+ conference papers in full text. DATES: 1895 to present (varies by title). UPDATES: weekly. VENDOR: SocIndex/EBSCO.

Gender Equality Data and Statistics

United States

Women's Bureau Data and Statistics
Current and historical statistics from the United States Department of Labor.

Women & Social Movements in the U.S.: Scholar's Edition This link opens in a new window
Documents about women in social movements in the U.S. between 1600 and 2000.
CONTENTS: citations, text. COVERAGE: primary documents, books, images, scholarly essays, book reviews, website reviews, and teach tools, all documenting the multiplicity of women's activism in public life. DATES: varies. VENDOR: Alexander Street Press.

Biography

Dictionary of Literary Biography This link opens in a new window
Literature, history, biography
CONTENTS: Biographical and critical essays on the world's most influential literary figures. Coverage: 16,000+ essays from the Dictionary of Literary Biography(DLB) series, DLB Documentary Series and DLB Yearbook Series. DATES: 1978 –. UPDATES: Yearly. VENDOR: Gale.
Something About the Author Online This link opens in a new window
Humanities
CONTENTS: text, images. COVERAGE: comprehensive access to all 215 volumes of the main and autobiographical series of this respected title, including 19,000+ entries and 17,000+ images. VENDOR: Gale.
Oxford Art Online This link opens in a new window
SIUE subscribes to the Grove Art Online portion.

Every aspect of art, architecture, and archaeology from prehistory to the present.
CONTENTS: text, images, links. COVERAGE: portal to a variety of art resources, such as Grove Art Online, The Oxford Companion to Western Art, Encyclopedia of Aesthetics, and the Concise Dictionary of Art Terms. DATES: varies. UPDATES: monthly. VENDOR: OUP.
Oxford Music Online This link opens in a new window
All aspects of music
CONTENTS: text, images, links. COVERAGE: portal to a variety of music resources including Grove Music Online, The Oxford Companion to Music, Encyclopedia of Popular Music, and the Oxford Dictionary of Music. DATES: varies. UPDATES: quarterly. VENDOR: OUP.
International Encyclopedia of Dance This link opens in a new window
All aspects of dance; as well as music, costumes, performances, and biographies of dances and choreographers
CONTENTS: text, images, links. COVERAGE: 2,000 articles by scholars from 50 countries. DATES: c. 1998; 2005. VENDOR: Oxford University Press.
Women & Social Movements in the U.S.: Scholar's Edition This link opens in a new window
Includes the biographical dictionary Notable American Women.
CONTENTS: citations, text. COVERAGE: primary documents, books, images, scholarly essays, book reviews, website reviews, and teach tools, all documenting the multiplicity of women's activism in public life. DATES: varies. VENDOR: Alexander Street Press.

Documentaries/Oral History

Filmakers Library Online This link opens in a new window
Choose "Women's Studies" from the "Disciplines" options.
CONTENTS: video. COVERAGE: Over 1,000 documentaries across the curriculum. DATES: 1974-present. VENDOR: Alexander Street Press

Suffragists Oral History Project

Journals

Lovejoy Library has several journals relating to women's studies topics.

If you have a citation to an article, you can look up the title of the journal to see if it is available online.

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