Suggested Resources for Women's Studies

Indexes & Databases to Articles
Good places to start your research ...

Info	Database Name	Access	Database Description
	Academic OneFile		Interdisciplinary index of major academic periodicals. Partially paid for by Electronic Library of Minnesota.
	Academic Search Premier		Interdisciplinary index to academic journals; provides full-content for over 3400 titles. Paid for by Electronic Library of Minnesota.
	Women's Studies International		Provides access to Women's Studies core disciplines and to the latest studies in feminist research.

Indexes & Databases to Articles
For further research ...

 

Info	Database Name	Access	Database Description
	Access UN		Indexes documents produced by the United Nations
	Alternative Press Index		Alternative Press Index (API) is a bibliographic database of journal, newspaper, and magazine articles from over 300 international alternative, radical, and left periodicals. Covering theories and practices of socialism and revolution alongside ecology, democracy and anarchism, feminism and organized labor, indigenous peoples and gays/lesbians, API coverage is both international and interdisciplinary. Coverage begins in 1991.
	America: History and Life (EBSCO)		Index to articles on United States and Canadian history.
	Census		Information on how to find data from Census 2000 and earlier censuses
	Ethnic News Watch		Full-text newspapers, magazines and journals of the ethnic, minority and native presses.
	FEDSTATS		Statistics from over 70 federal agencies on demographics, business, taxation, environment, politics, crime, employment, military, climate, health, and education.
	Feminism in Literature: a Gale Critical Companion (2005)		This is a reference book in electronic format, accessible to UMD students, faculty, and staff over the internet by authentication. For more information about this resource, please find it by searching the UMD Library Catalog.
	Historical Abstracts (EBSCO)		Index to articles on world history from 1450 to the present (excluding the U.S. and Canada).
	JSTOR		Full text and index of over 1200 scholarly journals from various disciplines.
	LexisNexis Academic		Business, law, medical, news
	LexisNexis Law Reviews & Journals		Law
	NCJRS Abstracts (National Criminal Justice Reference Service)		Indexes articles and book chapters on criminal justice
	PAIS International		Indexes articles on public affairs.
	Project Muse		Arts, humanities. social sciences and mathematics
	Sage Knowledge (eBooks)		Electronic reference books published by Sage.
	SAGE Premier		Provides access to 485+ SAGE journal titles in the social sciences, humanities, medicine, engineering, and physical and life sciences, with backfile to 1999.
	Science Direct (Elsevier)		Full text of selected journals and selected reference books published by Elsevier. Full text indexing available for all Elsevier journals from v. 1, issue 1.
	Social Services Abstracts		Indexes current research articles focused on social work, human services, social welfare, social policy, and community development.
	Social Work Abstracts (EBSCO)		Indexes articles in the social work profession and areas of service.
	Sociological Abstracts		Indexes articles in sociology and social policy
	Web of Science		Online versions of ISI's citation indexes--Science Citation Index, Social Sciences Citation Index, and Arts & Humanities Citation Index. This database will not work in Internet Explorer 9. Please us another browser (e.g. Safari, Firefox, Chrome).
	WorldCat -- UMD Students, Staff & Faculty		U.S. and International library holdings

 

 

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For searching assistance or help using any of the above databases, contact:

Jodi Carlson Grebinoski, Reference Librarian

Email:jlcarlso@d.umn.edu

Phone:218-726-7880

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University of Minnesota

416 Library Drive

Duluth MN 55812-2495