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Women's Studies Indexes
and Databases
Cross Disciplinary Indexes and Databases
Subdisciplinary Indexes and Databases
Reference Sources
Women's Studies Indexes and Databases :
GenderWatch:
Collection of international journals, magazines, newsletters, regional
publications, special reports and conference proceedings devoted to women's
and gender issues. Full text coverage.
Women's
Studies Encyclopedia: A multidisciplinary reference on the collective
experiences of women. Prepared by 425 scholars from all disciplines, features
701 alphabetically listed entries, coverage of 1,250 historical figures,
analysis of women and society and culture throughout history, cross-references,
and bibliography.
Women's
Studies Index: Covers journals in the field of women's studies, including
topics such as feminist philosophy, politics, health care, family life,
and more. Index and abstracts only.
Women
Writers Online: Database of pre-Victorian women's writing. The initial
release of Women Writers Online includes over 200 English texts by women
written before 1830, with a broadly interdisciplinary range of subjects
and genres. Together with poetry, fiction, and drama, the collection includes
women's contributions to religious and political debates, and to science,
history, philosophy and medicine. The collection offers broad coverage
of authors from many different backgrounds, those of recognized stature
and those whose work is still unknown, selected with the aim of presenting
texts which are hard to find in print. Each primary source is linked to
a brief biographical sketch of the author. Full text coverage.
Cross
Disciplinary Indexes and Databases(disciplines
across the human sciences):
Academic
Universe: Access to a wide range of current events, news, magazines,
business, legal, medical, and reference information. Full text coverage.
Ebsco
Host : Access to social sciences, humanities, general science, education,
multicultural journal literature; newspapers, and reference sources. Citations,
abstracts; partial full text coverage.
First
Search Databases: Web interfaces to a group of 20
online databases, including ArticleFirst, Book Review Digest; ContentsFirst,
NetFirst, and WorldCat.
Global NewsBank:
Contains comprehensive coverage of news summaries, broadcasts and
transcripts from hundreds of international sources. Full text coverage.
Humanities
Abstracts: Covers humanities and related subjects. Citations and abstracts
only.
JSTOR: Provides
image and text access to back issues of selected scholarly journals in
history, economics, political science, demography, mathematics, and other
fields of the humanities and social sciences. Full text coverage..
MLA
Bibliography: Consists of bibliographic records pertaining to literature,
language, linguistics, and folklore. Citations and abstracts only.
Periodicals Contents
Index: Index to the contents of thousands of periodicals in the humanities
and social sciences, from their first issues to 1991. Citations only.
Project
MUSE: Access to scholarly journals in politics from the
John Hopkins University press. Full text coverage.
ProQuest
Newspapers : coverage of over 150 U.S. and international newspapers.
Ninety days of full text articles to the New York Times and Wall Street
Journal are included.
ProQuest
Digital Dissertations: Access to the first 24 pages of dissertations
that have been published since 1997. Full text access to University of
Utah Dissertations published from 1997 and forward, and citations only
to dissertations before that date.
Reader's
Guide Abstracts: Includes popular magazines, news, business, politics,
and more. Citations and abstracts only.
SIRS Government Reporter:
Documents and graphics concerning a wide variety of topics: health,
science, economics, environment, politics, foreign affairs, workplace
issues, business and industry. Full text coverage..
SIRS Researcher:
Contains articles relating to social, political, global, scientific, health,
historical, economic, and business issues. Full text coverage.
Social
Sciences Abstracts: Covers all of the political and social
sciences. Citations and abstracts only.
Subdisciplinary
Indexes and Databases(subject
specific disciplines of the human sciences):
Ageline: Includes aging topics in both academic and general publications.
Citations and abstracts only.
America: History
and Life: Historical coverage of the United
States and Canada from prehistory to the present. Citations and abstracts
only.
Art
Index : Indexes periodical literature in art and art-related fields.
Full text coverage.
BioDigest:
Citations from about 190 magazines and journals which have articles suitable
for undergraduate research in biology and the health sciences. UU (Marriott
and Eccles) owns most of the journals indexed.
Biological
Abstracts: Indexes periodical literature in the life sciences. Citations
and abstracts only.
Chicano
Database: Identifies all types of material on Mexican-Americans, Chicanos,
and the broader Latino experience, including Puerto Ricans, Cuban Americans,
and Central American immigrants.
Criminal
Justice Abstracts: Coverage of criminology and related fields from
journals, books, and government publications. Citations and abstracts
only.
Dance
on Disk: Catalog of the dance collection of the New York Public Library.
All aspects of dance as a performing art or ritual are covered. Citations
and abstracts only.
DISCovering
Multicultural America: A multimedia reference source that offers information
on the culture, history, and current status of America's largest and most
often studied ethnic groups. Full text coverage.
DISCovering
US History: Essays devoted to diverse topics such as government and
politics, art, dance, film and music, business and the economy, science
and technology and social history. Full text coverage.
DISCovering
World History: Contains documents, essays, timelines, and biographies
of commonly studied people, events, and social movements that have shaped
the world. Full text coverage.
EconLit:
Access to literature in economics. Citations and abstracts only.
Ethnic
Newsatch:
Collection of the newspapers, magazines and journals of the ethnic, minority
and native press. Full text coverage.
Family
and Society Studies Worldwide: Research, policy, and practice literature
in the fields of Family Science, Human Ecology, and Human Development.
Citations and abstracts only.
Historical
Abstracts: Coverage of the world from 1450 to the present (excluding
the United States and Canada). Citations and abstracts only.
Index
to Legal Periodicals: Legal and law-related articles. Citations and
abstracts only.
International
Index to the Performing Arts: Covers more than 140 international periodicals
and also articles and obituaries from The New York Times and The Washington
Post covering nearly all aspects of the world of performing arts. Full
text coverage..
International
Political Science Abstracts: Access to literature in political science,
political thought, government and public administration, government process,
international relations, and area studies. Citations and abstracts only.
Latin
American Studies, Vol. 1: Multidisciplinary bibliographic citations
from the Nettie LeeBenson Latin American Collection (UT-Austin), the Hispanic-American
Periodicals Index and volume 50 and on of Handbook of Latin American
Studies. Citations and abstracts only.
Latin
American Studies, Vol. 2: Political, legal, social, business, and
economic trends of the entire Latin American region from journals, news
magazines, newspapers, and newsletters. Citations and abstracts; partial
full text coverage.
LegalTrac:
Indexes major law reviews, law-related journal articles and legal newspaper
articles. Citations and abstracts only.
Literature
Resource Center: Access to biographies, bibliographies and critical
analysis of authors from every age and literary discipline. Covers more
than 90,000 novelists, poets, essayists, journalists and other writers,
with in-depth coverage of 2,000 of the most-studied authors. Full text
coverage.
PAIS
International: Indexes public and social policy materials in journal
articles, books, government documents, and most other forms of printed
literature from all over the world. Citations and notes only.
Philosopher's
Index: Information in areas such as feminist epistemology, ethics,
social, political, and legal philosophy as well as material on the philosophy
of various disciplines. Citations and abstracts only.
Poem
Finder: Indexes poetry in English or English translation that was
published in anthologies, single author collections and periodicals. Includes
over 270,000 poems.
PsycInfo:
Index to the world's serial and book literature in psychology and psychological
aspects of related disciplines. Citations and abstracts only.
Social
Work Abstracts: References from social work and other related journals
on topics such as homelessness, AIDS, child and family welfare, aging,
substance abuse, legislation, community organization, and more. Citations
and abstracts only.
Sociological
Abstracts: Covers sociology and related disciplines. Citations
and abstracts only.
Reference
Sources:
Encyclopedia
Britannica: Contains the complete Encyclopedia Britannica, with related
Internet sites, Britannica's Internet Guide and the Merriam-Webster's
Collegiate Dictionary. Also includes interactive maps, biographies, history,
"year in review" and notable articles from past editions.
Facts
on File: Content
from seven core reference databases to answer questions about events,
issues, statistics and people of the last 20 years, and also delivers
in-depth features on "Historic Events" drawn from the 60-year
Facts On File archive. The seven databases are: Facts On File World News
Digest, Issues and Controversies On File, Today's Science On File, Editorials
On File, Funk & Wagnalls New Encyclopedia, Reuters On-Line News Service,
The World Almanac and Book of Facts
Oxford English
Dictionary: The
Oxford English Dictionary is a historical dictionary of English, covering
the language from the earliest times to the present day. It aims to show
not only the current meanings of words, but also to trace their development
through time. Entries contain detailed etymological analysis, and are
illustrated by quotations from a wide range of English language sources
from around the world, making the OED a unique historical record.
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