LibGuides: Women's Studies: Databases

Women's studies is an interdisciplinary field; don't restrict your searching to one subject area. The databases below encompass the arts, humanities, and social sciences. For a complete listing of our databases click here.

Academic OneFile This link opens in a new window
Contains one of the largest collections of peer reviewed journals with an extensive coverage of full text articles. Selective full text articles come from magazines, newspapers, and broadcast transcripts as well as podcasts, video files, and RSS feeds are included. Covers subjects from the arts, business, computers, education, humanities, literature, medicine, philosophy, science, social sciences, technology and other discipline.
African-American History This link opens in a new window
Features thousands of cross-referenced entries, covering the entire spectrum of African-American history over the past 500 years.
American History This link opens in a new window
A comprehensive and authoritative reference to important individuals, events, and topics in United States history spanning more than 500 years from primarily reference books. Coverage includes biographies, events and topics, primary sources, images, maps, and charts.
Biography (Gale in Context) This link opens in a new window
Contains full text biographies of individuals covering all nationalities & time periods from reference sources and periodicals.
Gale Literature This link opens in a new window
Unlock information in primary sources, critical articles, literary and cultural analysis, and biographies. This resource combines the content of Gale Literature Criticism, Gale Literature Resource Center, and Gale Literature: Something About the Author into a single research environment.
Global Issues (Gale in Context) This link opens in a new window
Offers international viewpoints on a broad spectrum of global issues, topics, and current events. Featured are hundreds of continuously updated issue and country portals that bring together a variety of specially selected, highly relevant sources for analysis of social, political, military, economic, environmental, health, and cultural issues. Rich multimedia include podcasts, videos, and interactive graphs enhance each portal.
Opposing Viewpoints (Gale in Context) This link opens in a new window
Provides electronic access to social issues covered in viewpoint articles, topic overviews, statistics, primary documents, links to Web sites, full-text journal, magazine and newspaper articles, reference sources as well as multimedia sources.
ProQuest This link opens in a new window
Serves as the central resource for researchers at all levels in all markets with journals, magazines, newspapers as well as RSS feed. Covers 160 academic disciplines. Considered the largest aggregated full-text database in the market today.
PsycARTICLES This link opens in a new window
Contains full text articles and abstracts of journals published by American Psychological Association, APA Educational Publishing Foundation, Canadian Psychological Association, and Hogrefe & Huber.
Social Science Database This link opens in a new window
Offers indexing and full text for hundreds of academic journals, providing extensive coverage across a wide range of social science disciplines including anthropology, communication, criminology, economics, education, political science, psychology, social work, and sociology.
Westlaw Campus Research This link opens in a new window
A premier research service for the legal, news, and business-related information.

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Women's Studies: Databases

Research Databases