Course Guides
Databases
Scholarly, peer-reviewed journals are available from our subscription databases. Listed below are suggestions for starting your research. A complete list of our Digital Resources are available from the Databases link.
- Academic Search Premier [INFO]
- MLA Directory of Periodicals[INFO]
- PsycARTICLES (select index; all full-text) [INFO]
- Humanities International Index (many full-text) [INFO]
- PsycINFO (huge index; links to full-text) [INFO]
- Contemporary Women’s Issues (all full-text) [INFO]
- LexisNexis Academic (business/law/reference; all full-text) [INFO]
Books and More
The Library catalog is a collection of books and other print materials, such as videos/DVDs, music CDs, and scores. The catalog offers a variety of searches - Keyword, Subject, Author, Title, and Call Number. Examples of searches are below:
- Subject search for Feminism
- Subject search for Women, subdivided geographically
- Subject search for Women’s rights
- Subject search for Women’s studies
Reference Material
Reference sources may provide a good starting point for research and include encyclopedias, dictionaries, handbooks, and statistical sources. Some key resources are listed below. Additional titles may be located by seaching the Library catalog
- Women’s studies : a recommended bibliography
- American women : a Library of Congress guide for the study of women’s history and culture in the United States
- The women’s movement today : an encyclopedia of third-wave feminism
- Our bodies, ourselves : a new edition for a new era
- Encyclopedia of American women in business : from colonial times to the present
- Encyclopedia of feminist literature
- Women and political participation : a reference handbook
- The undergraduate’s companion to women poets of the world and their web sites
Web Sites
- WWW Virtual Library: Women’s History
- Gender Equity in Sports
- Feminist.com
- CEDAW: United Nations Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women
- Plymouth State University Women’s Studies Program
- National Organization for Women
- WSSLINKS Women and Gender Studies Web Sites
- Thirdspace: the Site for Emerging Feminist Scholars
- Institute for Women’s Policy Research
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