Databases and Indexes for Women's and Gender Studies
- Gender Studies Database, 1972 - present.
- Updated semi-annually. This is the primary index for Women's and Gender Studies. Contains the Women's Studies International and Sexual Diversity Studies Databases. Provides bibliographic information drawn from a variety of essential women's studies databases and publications of interest to the gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgendered (GLBT) community, covering topics such as feminist theory & history, family planning, law, employment, literary criticism, racial/ethnic studies and international feminism.
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- Gerritsen Collection (The): Women's History Online, 1543 - 1945
- A collection of books, pamphlets and periodicals reflecting the evolution of a feminist consciousness and the movement for women's rights.
The collection consists of 265 periodicals and 4471 mongraphs from continental Europe, the
U.S., the United Kingdom, Canada, and New Zealand. The ASCII text is searchable by keyword and Boolean operators, and records are linked to the corresponding page images, downloadable in the Adobe® PDF.
- Contemporary
Women's Issues, 1992-present.
- Covers a wide variety of publications
including journals, book and media
reviews, the alternative press, fact sheets and guides, newsletters, government
reports and data, personal narratives, instructional pamphlets, legislative
actions, and proceedings and is full text.
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Freely Accessible Resources:
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gender Inn
- gender Inn, the Women's and Gender Studies Database on the Internet, is a
searchable database providing access to over 7000 records pertaining to feminist
theory, feminist literary criticism and gender studies focusing on English
and American literature. Other features of this resource include a selection
of bibliographies and Weblinks.
- KVINNSAM, 1984 - present.
- KVINNSAM, freely accessible from G?eborg University, is an interdisciplinary database containing titles on
Swedish and
foreign references on women's, men's and gender studies.The references include books, journals, journal articles,
book
chapters, scholarly papers, booklets and research
reports. The database comprises titles registered 1984 onwards; in addition, titles published 1958-1983 are
consecutively
added. It is possible to search for keywords (freetext), author, title and controlled subject headings. It is
also
possible
to search for articles, monographs, journals and chapters.
Subject-specific indexes, abstracts and full-text should also be consulted.
See the list of databases for the full range of possibilities.
Women's Studies International contains:
- Women Studies Abstracts -(1984-present) provides more than 33,500 records. Approximately 2,500
abstracts are added
per year.
- Women's
Studies Database - (1972-present) provides more than 61,200 records drawn from 125 journals worldwide.
About 4,000 records are added per
year.
- Women Studies Librarian -- 4 files from the University of Wisconsin includes:
- New Books on Women & Feminism (1987-present) is the complete guide to feminist publishing and
provides
27,400 citations. About 2,800 records are
added per year.
- WAVE: Women's Audiovisuals in English: A Guide to Nonprint Resources in Women's Studies (1985-90)
is a
guide
to 800 feminist films, videos,
audiocassettes, and filmstrips.
- Women, Race, & Ethnicity: A Bibliography (1970-90) is an annotated, selective bibliography of
2,381
books,
journals, anthology chapters, and non-print
materials.
- The History of Women and Science, Health, and Technology: A Bibliographic Guide to the Professions and
the
Disciplines (1970-95 - selective coverage) is
an excellent tool for curriculum development, providing over 2,343 records from biographical and historical
books and articles.
- European Women from the Renaissance to Yesterday: A Bibliography (1610 - present) 11,170 records.
Provides book
citations from 1610 to the present
and periodical citations from 1810 to present. Records are indexed according to subject area, geographical
location, and century.
- POPLINE Subset on Women (1964 and earlier- present) 39,600 abstracts. The POPLINE Subset on Women
(PSW), part of
the well-respected POPLINE
database produced by the National Library of Medicine, with an emphasis on the health and social concerns of women
in the developing world, includes many
journals, reports, books, and published and unpublished papers. The POPLINE Subset on Women brings a social
science perspective to WSI, with an applied,
practical and empirical approach to Women's Studies.
- Women of Color and Southern Women: A Bibliography of Social Science Research (1975- 1995) is produced
by the
Research Clearinghouse on Women of
Color and Southern Women at the University of Memphis in Tennessee and provides over 7,600 citations on eighteen
different ethnic groups.
- Women's Health and Development: An Annotated Bibliography
(1995) provides 200 records drawn mainly from English-language journals and other holdings of the World Health
Organization library in Geneva.
