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Women’s Studies International
primarily fulltext
This database includes coverage of government and non-governmental agency reports in addition to indexing of journal articles and books. Provides international coverage, but for depth and timeliness of coverage may be a second choice to some of the other topical databases listed here. |
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SocINDEX with Full Text
Selected fulltext
This database will often have the most extensive coverage of journal articles in Women’s Studies in areas of history, sociology, anthropology, social work, and political science. |
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Project Muse Electronic Journals
Like JSTOR (to which it is also linked in indexing properties) this is a full-text indexed repository of the contents of a select number of high-quality academic journals, including 13 of the most important academic journals in the area of Women’s Studies. |
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JSTORfulltext; excludes most recent 2 – 5 years of coverage |
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Art Full TextSelected fulltext & full image; for visual arts, including art, art history, film and other media. |
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MLA International Bibliography (Modern Language Association)
For all topics related to literature and language—but includes no abstracts. |
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PAIS International(Public Affairs Information Service)
This database is especially useful for up-to-date indexed listings of significant sources in all areas of public affairs not limited to journal articles, including such items as government agency reports, organization reports, conference papers, and books. |
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PsycINFO
(1887- ) selected fulltext |
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| World History Collection |
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Google Scholar (advanced search)
The Google Scholar search tool allows you to search for individual published articles (rather than web pages), book sections and published organization reports which may extend beyond some of the more precisely organized research tools listed above. The results of a Google Scholar search will usually be less clearly organized than what is available in academic library databases, and will seldom have helpful abstracts, subject terms. This can make its use more time consuming and frustrating than research databases, but it is nonetheless a vital supplement to the formal article databases. Full text links are sometimes available.
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Neumann Library Historical Documents Collections: |
Herstory Women’s History Collection
Microfilm collection of significant documents, book and periodicals from the Women's History Research Center . Updated with supplements to the basic collection. Index included.
At microfilm call number: HQ 1101. W6 |
History of Women
995 reels of a comprehensive microfilm collection made from archives of the Sophia Smith Collection, the Schlesinger Library at Radcliffe, and others (including the Miriam Y. Holden private collection on medieval and Western European women) Single documents and collections, including letters, journals, reports from women’s organizations and groups, books, and speeches. Index included.
At microfilm call number: Z7965 .A79 |
The Women’s Liberation Movement,
Documents from the Women’s Liberation Movement, an On-Line Archival Collection
“The materials in this on-line archival collection document various aspects of the Women's Liberation Movement in the United States, and focus specifically on the radical origins of this movement during the late 1960s and early 1970s. Items range from radical theoretical writings to humourous plays to the minutes of an actual grassroots group.
The items in this on-line collection are scanned and transcribed from original documents held in Duke’s Special Collections Library”
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Home Economics
HEARTH: “Home Economics Archive: Research, Tradition, History”
Includes full text, scanned images of Books: 950 (1003 Volumes) Journals: 9 (222 Volumes) comprising 399,732 total pages.
Hearth is “a core electronic collection of books and journals in Home Economics and related disciplines. Titles published between 1850 and 1950 were selected and ranked by teams of scholars for their great historical importance.”
Also includes browse-able photo archive.
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Advertising “ Emergence of Advertising in America: 1850-1920” Search with typical terms such as women, woman, female, girl, etc.; products, cultural concepts, proper names, or any word that might relate to women’s experiences. Includes scanned images of varied advertising collections EAA is “over 9,000 images, with database information, relating to the early history of advertising in the United States. The materials, drawn from the Rare Book, Manuscript, and Special Collections Library at Duke University, provide a significant and informative perspective on the early evolution of this most ubiquitous feature of modern American business and culture.” |
Gifts of Speech
This site includes a searchable bank of transcribed speeches by famous women upon occasions important to women’s history. Quote from Site: “Gifts of Speech is dedicated to preserving and creating access to speeches made by influential contemporary women.” |
Google Books (advanced book search)
This site is the ongoing Google project to scan and make accessible what will eventually be millions of books and documents that are in the public domain (no longer under copyright).
The importance of these complete scanned copies of books is especially strong for studies in history and historical studies in any discipline. Women’s Studies will benefit from the wide array of texts by women, including primary source materials: organization publications and reports, volumes of published letters, journals, research works, government documents, art, musical texts, etc. These full text publications will range from some of the earliest published works in the Renaissance to the late 20 th Century. Because many important texts by women have had more limited published circulation the arrival of more texts through this project will enable us to more easily make the connection to women’s history and influence.
Users should go to the advanced book search (if starting from the Google home page, start with the menu found at the word “more” and select books, then find the advanced book search). The Google search will often retrieve individual pages of books, highlighting the terms that you put in your search.
The books being scanned are arriving to the project through collaboration between Google and more than a dozen of the largest American and British research libraries. In addition to the scanned full-text books that are freely available to anyone, Google indexes (by Internet tagging) these and an even larger number of recently published books.
The project adds value to the record for each book indexed by often including additional associated links related to the book; links leading to book reviews, other related books, selected pages, and web sites. |
Full Text Books ( and Periodicals) The Online Books Page Includes free full texts of over 25,000 books by well-known (and other) authors and an extensive collection of complete early periodicals. The site has a subset of women authors: “A Celebration of Women Writers”. This is the most comprehensive source of free online books to-date. However, there are important book collections not cataloged here, including those found at the HEARTH page listed above. The collection (actually a clearinghouse of listings of online books from other sources such as Project Gutenburg, MOA and even Google Books) evolves rapidly and will likely change with the activities of Google and Microsoft to scan book collections. |
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Historic Government Publications from World War II: Full text online original documents
Search with typical terms such as women, woman, female, girl, etc. or any terms that might relate to women’s experiences. But best with one-word search; the database will not respond to a Boolean search. |
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Images in general
Prints and Photographs Reading Room of the Library of Congress
Search using typical terms that might relate to women’s experiences or proper names. |
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