Women's Studies
Databases & Journals | Catalogs | eBooks | Websites | Writing the Paper
Databases & Journals
Databases listed below will help you locate journal articles on your topic.
How to Find a Specific Journal Article
Is It a Scholarly Journal or Isn't It?
Full Text Journals
ILLiad: Interlibrary Loan
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| Academic Search Complete Provides full text for nearly 7,100 scholarly publications of which 6,000 are peer reviewed. Covers the social sciences, humanities, general science, multi-cultural studies, education, more, 1990 on. Funding provided by Maine State Library and University of Maine System. |
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| Alt-PressWatch Alt-PressWatch is a full text database of the newspapers, magazines and journals from alternative and independent presses. This interdisciplinary resource provides a valuable source of alternative viewpoints and perspectives to complement and challenge mainstream media coverage. Many of these publications are difficult to locate and acquire in their printed format. The independent and critical sources presented offer a unique perspective in the pursuit of freedom of the press. |
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| GenderWatch GenderWatch is a full-text database that focuses on the impact of gender across a broad spectrum of subject areas. Topics include family, childbirth, birth control, daycare, domestic abuse, work and the workplace, sexual harassment, aging, aging parents, body image, eating disorders and social and societal roles. Also included is content on the impact of gender and gender roles on areas such as: the arts, popular culture and media, business and work, crime, education, family, health care and medicine, politics, policy and legislation, pornography, religion, sexuality and sexology, sports and leisure. |
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| North American Women's Letters and Diaries, Colonial-1950 A massive, ongoing project to catalog and index Canadian and American women's diaries and correspondence through history and to digitize and index over 1,000 volumes of published and unpublished material to the highest standards. |
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| PressDisplay PressDisplay provides online access to today's newspapers from around the world in full-color, full-page format. The ever-expanding collection currently includes over 250 titles. Titles boast a 60 day backfile, and include articles as well as other key content, such as advertisements, classifieds, and notices. Users can take advantage of the keyword searching capability within each issue or simply browse through the pages of their favorite title. |
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| ProQuest Central ProQuest Central is a multidisciplinary database with over 11,000 titles, with over 8,000 titles in full-text. It serves as the central resource for researchers at all levels in all markets. Over 160 subjects areas are covered extensively in this product including business and economics, health and medical, news and world affairs, technology, social sciences and more. ProQuest Central Searching Tips. |
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| Women Writers Online The Brown University Women Writers Project is a long-term research project devoted to early modern women's writing and electronic text encoding. Founded in 1986, the project aims to provide accurate electronic editions of printed texts by women in English up to 1850. |
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| World Data Analyst Online World Data Analyst offers detailed statistical comparisons of countries around the world, using both the most recent statistics and historical figures. One create tables, charts, export the information to a spreadsheet for printing and data crunching, and also link to country articles in Encyclopedia Britannica. Funding provided by Maine State Library and University of Maine System. |
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Mobile Website
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Catalogs
The following is a listing of selected subject headings relating to Women's Studies. Each is a live link directly into the UNE Libraries catalog.
Feminism
Feminism -- United States -- History
Women
Women -- United States -- History.
If you need a book that is not available through the UNE Libraries catalog, you can request it through MaineCat or ILLiad: Interlibrary Loan.
Reference Sources
Subject specific dictionaries, encyclopedias and handbooks are a good place to begin your research. They are written by scholars in the field and usually provide definitions, background information, and bibliographies on your topic/s. The following is a general list.
American women's history
A Companion to American women's history
A concise glossary of feminist theory
Girlhood in America
Historical dictionary of feminism
Historical dictionary of feminist philosophy
A History of women in the United States : state-by-state reference
Male and female : a study of the sexes in a changing world
The Routledge critical dictionary of feminism and postfeminism
Thinking feminist : key concepts in women's studies
Women's studies encyclopedia
Websites
Web Site Evaluation criteria.
Discovering American Women's History Online
Maine Women Writer's Collection
Statistics Division of the UN Department for Economic and Social Affairs
The Maine Women's Policy Center
The United Nations Development Programme Human Development Reports Website
The Institute for Women’s Policy Research
The World Health Organization
Writing the Paper
Writing the Paper & Style Manuals
For assistance with Women's Studies research, please contact Cadence Atchinson at the Biddeford Campus library, catchinson@une.edu, 207-602-2497 or Ask a Librarian.