Subject Resources

Good Starting Points

Contemporary Women`s Issues
Provides full-text access to global information on women.  more info

Academic Search Premier
Provides full text for many topics. Great place to start research.  more info

More Databases

Sociological Abstracts
Abstracts on all aspects of sociology and related disciplines. NOTE: This database has changed from FirstSearch to Cambridge Scientific Abstracts.  more info

Alternative Press Index
Indexes journals covering cultural, economic, political, and social change.  more info

Essay and General Literature Index
Find contents in collected works focusing on humanities and social sciences.  more info

Social Sciences Abstracts
Abstracts of articles on the social sciences.  more info

Wilson Select Plus
Provides full text for many topics. Great place to start research.  more info

Recommended Web Sites

Digital Librarian: Women`s Resources
A librarian`s choice of the best of the Web.  more info

Archives of Women in Science and Engineering
Archive of historical information.  more info

Discovering American Women's History Onlilne
Thie website from Middle Tennessee State University, provides access to digital colleections of primary source material  more info

Documents from the Women`s Liberation Movement
An on-line archival collection from Duke University.  more info

Gifts of Speech
Women's speeches from around the world.  more info

Institute for Women's Policy Research
Public policy research organization dedicated to issues of critical importance to women.  more info

Internet Women's History
Clear and comprehensive web index covering Women's history from ancient to modern times  more info

Women
From the Librarians' Index to the Internet.  more info

Women and Gender Studies Web Sites
Provides access to a wide range of resources in support of Women's Studies.  more info

Women's History
A comprehensive list of links and articles from about.com  more info

Women's Studies Database
Great overview of women`s studies from the U of Maryland.  more info

Selected Print and CD-ROM

A to Z of American Women Leaders and Activists
Biographies of American women active in social movements.  more info

Women in Communication
Edited by Nancy Signorielli ; foreword by Alan M. Rubin.  more info

Women in World History
Comprehensive biographical encyclopedia of women in history.  more info

Women Studies Abstracts
Indexing and abtracting resource.  more info

Women`s Issues
Consulting editor, Margaret McFadden.  more info

Women`s studies encyclopedia
Edited by Helen Tierney.  more info