Helpful Links
Databases
Academic Search Complete
A comprehensive, scholarly, multi-disciplinary database that includes full-text from thousands of peer-reviewed journals and citations from many more. State of Maine funded.
Alt-PressWatch
Full text articles from newspapers, magazines and journals from alternative and independent presses, providing an alternative to mainstream media perspectives.
GenderWatch
A full-text database focusing on the impact of gender across a broad spectrum of subject areas. Topics include family, childbirth, domestic abuse, work, sexual harassment, aging, body image, eating disorders ,social roles and more. Includes content on the impact of gender on areas such as the arts, education, politics, religion, and more.
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women's diaries and correspondence through history and to digitize and index over 1,000 volumes of published and unpublished material.
PressReader
Online access to today's newspapers and publications from around the world in full-color, full-page format including articles, ads, classifieds and notices. Current issues to 90 days back.
ProQuest Central
A multidisciplinary database, over 160 subject areas are covered extensively including business and economics, health and medical, news and world affairs, technology and the social sciences .
RefWorks
Web-based reference management tool to collect references from online databases, websites and other sources. Easily insert citations into papers and automatically format reference lists. Sharing tools for groups.
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 creates tables, charts, export the information to a spreadsheet for printing and data crunching, and also link to country articles in Encyclopedia Britannica. State of Maine funded.
Catalogs
The following is a listing of selected subject headings relating to this subject. Each is a live link directly into the UNE Libraries catalog.
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
Contact Info
For assistance with research on this topic, please contact Cadence Atchinson at catchinson@une.edu, (207) 602-2497.
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