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Women's Studies

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Subject Specific Databases

• American Civil War: Letters and Diaries
• British and Irish Women's Letters and Diaries
• Gerritsen Collection: Women's History Online
  An international digital library that spans 4 centuries and documents the lives and experiences of women in public and private arenas.
• Genderwatch (Proquest)
  Full-text collection of international journals, magazines, newsletters, and other sources relating to women's and gender issues. GenderWatch Help Sheet
• North American Immigrant Letters, Diaries, and Oral Histories
• North American Women's Letters and Diarie
• Scottish Women Poets of the Romantic Period

Subject Related Databases

• FactSearch (FS)
  Facts and statistics on topics of current interest.
• Gale's Literature Resource Center
  Full-text author biographies, critical essays, and more drawn from several Gale resources, including Contemporary Authors, the Dictionary of Literary Biography and the Literary Criticism sets.
• Health & Wellness Reference Center (iCONN)
  Medical information for health professionals and general readers.
• Historical Abstracts (ABC-CLIO)
  Historical coverage of the world from 1450 to the present (excluding the United States and Canada which are covered in America: History and Life).
• LION: Literature Online
  LION is a fully searchable library of more than 350,000 works of English and American poetry, drama and prose, 136 full-text literature journals, and other key criticism and reference resources.
• MagillOnLiterature (Ebsco)
  Critical analyses and brief plot summaries, Masterplots and Masterplots II, Cyclopedia of World Authors, Cyclopedia of Literary Characters, and Magill's Literary Annual. All Ebsco databases (for combined searching).
• Social Sciences Citation Index (ISI)
  Searchable database of cited and citing articles in social science fields.
• Sociological Abstracts (CSA)
  Indexes/abstracts sociological literature.

Multidisciplinary Databases

• General Reference Center Gold (iCONN)
  Multi-source general interest reference tool.
• Lexis-Nexis Congressional Universe, and Statistical Universe
  Full text bills, statutes, regulations; statistics from local, state, national, and international sources.
• New York Times Historical Archives
  Full text articles from the New York Times, 1851-2001 (rolling window). For current articles, Lexis-Nexis indexes 1/1/69-5/31/80 (abstracts); 6/1/80 through current(full text). Academic Search Premier indexes and provides partial full-text from 1989-current. See also Newsstand above.
• Project Muse
  Full text access to 167 scholarly journals in the humanities and social sciences.
• Westlaw (iCONN)
  Articles from major and local newspapers; legal resources.
• XReferPlus
  Set of reference e-books. Online access to 150+ reference books.

Subject Guides

• Feminism/Women's Studies Internet Resources