Women's Studies Databases

* database contains partial or complete full-image and/or full-text coverage of journal articles

Note: Since Women's Studies is an interdisciplinary field, the general databases listed (at the end) may actually be the best databases to use for your searching.

Contemporary Women's Issues* FirstSearch 1992-
Provides bibliographic access to global information on women. Journals, newsletters, research reports from non-profit groups, government and international agencies, along with fact sheets are easily accessed through CWI. Information on women in over 150 countries is compiled in a single collection bringing together such disciplines as sociology, psychology, health, education and human rights.

Cross Cultural Studies

Abstracts in Anthropology
Contains abstracts from the print issues of Abstracts in Anthropology ranging from 2001 to present.

Asia Studies*
This databases bring together full-text reports on modern Asia and the Pacific covering a multitude of business, government, economic, and social issues.

Women and Health

Health Reference Center-Academic* InfoTrac 1995-
Provides reliable health information for nursing and allied health students, as well as consumer health research. It combines indexing of approximately 205 periodicals, six reference books, and over 500 pamphlets; selective indexing for articles in approximately 1500 additional general interest titles; and full text for more than 150 periodicals, all reference books, and all pamphlets. Index of articles on current issues in health.

Women and History

America: History and Life EBSCOhost
A comprehensive bibliographic reference to the history of the United States and Canada from prehistory to the present.

Defining Gender 1450-1910 Adam Matthew
Defining Gender provides access to a vast body of original source material from a wide range of original sources including ephemera, pamphlets, commonplace books, diaries, periodicals, letters, ledgers, manuscript journals, poetry, receipt books and conduct and advice literature. Topics covered include conduct and politeness, domesticity and the family, consumption and leisure, education and sensibility and the body.

Everyday Life and Women in America Adam Matthew Digital
Resource for the study of American social, cultural, and popular history, providing access to rare primary source material from the Sallie Bingham Center for Women's History, Duke University and The New York Public Library. It comprises thousands of fully searchable images (alongside transcriptions) of monographs, pamphlets, periodicals and broadsides addressing 19th and early 20th century political, social and gender issues, religion, race, education, employment, marriage, sexuality, home and family life, health, and pastimes. The collection is especially rich in conduct of life and domestic management literature, offering vivid insights into the daily lives of women and men, as well as emphasizing contrasts in regional, urban and rural cultures.

Historical Abstracts EBSCOhost
A comprehensive bibliographic reference to the history of the world from 1450 to the present (excluding the United States and Canada, which are covered in America: History and Life); provides coverage of 2,000 journals published throughout the world.

ViVa
Indexes women's and gender history articles in over 100 scholarly journals in history and women's studies published since 1975.

Women and Psychology

PsycINFO EBSCOhost 1872-
PsycINFO covers the professional and academic literature in psychology and related disciplines, including medicine, psychiatry, nursing, sociology, education, pharmacology, physiology, linguistics, and other areas. Communication topics such as interpersonal communication, family communication, male-female communication can be search in this database. The database includes information from empirical studies, case studies, surveys, bibliographies, literature reviews, discussion articles, conference reports and dissertations.

Selected General Databases

Academic OneFile*
Contains peer-reviewed, full-text articles from the world's leading journals and reference sources in the physical sciences, technology, medicine, social sciences, the arts, theology, literature and other subjects. Includes full-text coverage of the New York Times back to 1995.

Academic Search Premier* EBSCOhost years vary-
Provides full text for more than 3,430 scholarly publications covering academic areas of study including social sciences, humanities, education, computer sciences, engineering, language and linguistics, arts & literature, medical sciences, and ethnic studies. This database is updated on a daily basis.

JSTOR*
Full-text of 117 core journals in the Humanities and Social Sciences. Coverage includes the entirety of each journal with the exception of the current five years.

Project MUSE John Hopkins University
Project MUSE covers the fields of literature and criticism, history, the visual and performing arts, cultural studies, education, political science, gender studies, and many others.

Scopus Elsevier 1966-
Scopus is an abstracts database covering the following fields: chemistry, biology, physics, mathematics, engineering, life and health sciences, social sciences, psychology, economics, and environmental sciences.

Social Science Citation Index ISI Web of Knowledge 1956-
Includes current and retrospective bibliographic information, author abstracts, and cited references found the world's leading scholarly social sciences journals covering more than 50 disciplines.

WilsonWeb OmniFile Full Text Mega* H.W. Wilson 1982-
Contains indexing, abstracting, and full-text for everything that was in Education Index, General Science Index, Humanities Index, Readers' Guide, Social Sciences Index, and Wilson Business Index. In addition, the Mega edition contains Index to Legal Periodicals Full Text.