Databases in Women's Studies
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Database details Academic OneFile

Coverage: 1980-present
Scope: A huge and highly heterogeneous multidisciplinary mix of scholarly, journalistic, practitioner and popular sources, with much direct full-text included. Use the tabs to identify scholarly, newspaper or other sources as necessary.
Notes: Scholarly, journalstic, practitioner, popular sources. Thanks to Mel
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Database details Blackwell Encyclopedia of Sociology

Scope: Comparable to the print version of the Blackwell Encyclopedia of Sociology.
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  Encyclopedia of Gender and Society

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Database details Google Scholar

Scope: You can check the availability of article full text from within Google Scholar - see how!.
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Database details Humanities Abstracts

Coverage: 1984 to present
Scope: Abstracts covering diverse subject areas of the humanities. Includes feature articles, book reviews, interviews, obituaries, bibliographies, original works of fiction (including dramas and poems), and reviews of plays and television and radio programs.
Notes: Scholarly.
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Database details JSTOR

Coverage: 1665 to present
Scope: Full text of core scholarly journals from their beginning to approximately one year ago. Disciplines include botany, business, ecology, general science, humanities, mathematics, social sciences, and statistics. Browsable by discipline and full-text searchable across all disciplines. Especially good for historic or classic articles in most fields.
Notes: Scholarly.
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Database details MLA Bibliography

Coverage: 1925-
Scope: a subject index for books, articles and websites published on modern languages, literatures, folklore, and linguistics. It is produced by the Modern Language Association (MLA), an organization dedicated to the study and teaching of language and literature. The electronic version of the Bibliography dates back to 1925 and contains over 2 million citations from more than 4,400 periodicals (including peer-reviewed e-journals) and 1,000 book publishers.
Notes: Scholarly.
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Database details Nineteenth Century British Pamphlets

Coverage: 19th century
Scope: Online access to the most significant British pamphlets from the 19th century held in UK research libraries. Focus is on the political, economic and social issues of the time.
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Database details Opposing Viewpoints

Scope: The premier full-text resource covering today’s hottest social issues, from Terrorism to Endangered Species, Stem Cell Research to Gun Control. Drawing on acclaimed series published by Greenhaven Press and other Gale imprints; brings together all the information that’s needed to fully understand an issue: pro and con viewpoint articles, reference articles that provide context, full-text magazines, academic journals, and newspapers, primary source documents, government and organizational statistics, multimedia, including images and podcasts, links to hand-selected web sites, and more!
Notes: Limit 4 users. Please log off when done.
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Database details Project Muse

Notes: Scholarly.
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Database details PsycINFO

Coverage: 1806 - present.
Scope: PsycINFO provides access to international literature in psychology and related disciplines such as psychiatry, education, business, medicine, nursing, pharmacology, law, linguistics, and social work. PsycINFO is a department of the American Psychological Association (APA) and contains over 2,487,286 records as of December 2007.
Notes: Scholarly.
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Database details Social Sciences Abstracts

Coverage: 1983-
Scope: Use this for sociology, anthropology,psychology and economics. Some links to full text.
Notes: Scholarly.
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Database details Social Sciences Citation Index

Coverage: 1980-
Scope: Use this for sociology, anthroplogy.,political science and economics.It will tell you who cited someone's research.
Notes: Who has cited?
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Database details Sociological Abstracts

Coverage: 1960-
Scope: Some of the entries are full text.
Notes: Scholarly.
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