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ELECTRONIC RESOURCES America: History & Life - Contains abstracts of articles and citations to book/media reviews and dissertations of interest to students and scholars of United States and Canadian history. Contemporary Women's Issues - Provides full text access to global information on women in over 150 countries. Indexes books, journals, newsletters, research reports from non-profit groups, government and international agencies, and fact sheets. Includes links to 1,506 full text titles. ERIC (EBSCOhost) - Provides citations and abstract information from over 750 educational journals and related documents from the Educational Resource Information Center and educational symposium report literature dating back to 1967. Historical Abstracts - Contains abstracts of articles and citations to books and dissertations of interest to researchers of the history of the world from 1450 to the present. MEDLINE - (EBSCOhost). A comprehensive medical database to 3, 200 international journals in clinical and research biomedicine produced by the National Library of Medicine. MLA International Bibliography - (EBSCOhost). Covers journal articles, monographs, dissertations and other materials on literature, language linguistics and folklore. PAIS International - Includes citations and summaries to journal articles, book chapters, and etc. on economic issues, governmental documents, political issues, public affairs and social issues. PsycINFO - (EBSCOhost). Provides indexing and abstracts for over one million articles in 1,500 journals from over 50 countries provided by the American Psychological Association. Also includes abstracts for dissertations, books and book chapters ranging in date from 1984 to the present. Women Writer's Online - Full text access to text by pre-Victorian women writers from 1400 to 1850.
OTHER ELECTRONIC RESOURCES GENERAL OR RELATED INDEXES Academic Search Premier - (EBSCOhost). A full-text database spanning academic disciplines with coverage of popular press and scholarly publications, including peer-reviewed journals. Lexis Nexis - Provides access to a wide range of business, news, legal and reference information. World Cat - Over 36 million records of any type of material (mostly books) cataloged by OCLC member libraries. Includes manuscripts written as early as the 11th century.
HOW TO FIND: Journals Once you have your article citations, you can use one of two tools to help locate the journal you need in the library.
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ELECTRONIC JOURNALS Electronic Journals are available through many of the databases listed above. They can also be found by searching the UM Catalog or "Journal Finder"
SELECTED MICROFORM COLLECTIONS AND PRINTED GUIDES American Women’s Diaries. Southern States. Readex Film Producers. CT 3260 B43 1990 Media/Microforms Fannie Lou Hamer Papers. Seventeen reels including correspondence, programs, photographs, newspaper articles and financial records from the Mississippi civil rights activist. Media/ Microforms. Printed guide. Special Collections E 185.97 H35 F3 1985 Papers of the League of Women Voters. Media/ Microforms. Printed Guide Z 6611 W6 L477 1985 Southern Women and Their Families in the 19th Century: Papers and Diaries. Series A: Part 3 – (6 reels) Louisiana and Mississippi. HQ 1438 A13 S235 Media/Microforms. Women’s Studies Manuscript Collections from the Schelsinger Library, Radcliff College. Series 1 – Woman’s Suffrage. Part C: The South. JK 1896 G85 Media /Microforms
SELECTED PRINTED RESOURCES A - Z of Women in World History. Encyclopedia of Feminist Theories. Routledge International Encyclopedia of Women. Encyclopedia of Women Social Reformers.
SELECTED WEBSITES Association of College and Research Libraries: Women's Studies Section. Developed and maintained by the Women's Studies Section of the Association of College and Research Libraries of the American Library Association. The site contains a listing of comprehensive sites, discussion lists, media, directories and search engines, diversity resources, libraries, archives, library schools and pathfinders.
Center for Women and Information Technology The Center for Women and Information Technology was established at the University of Maryland Baltimore County in July, 1998. It seeks to address and enhance our understanding of the relationship between gender and Information technology. The Center has a three-fold mission: 1. to encourage more women and girls to prepare for careers and become leaders in information technology. 2. to communicate information related to the richness and breadth of women's lifes, concerns, and possibilities using technology. 3. to foster research concerning gender and information technology.
Gifts of Speech is dedicated to preserving and creating access to speeches by influential contemporary, women from around the world. The idea for the project originated in 1989.
The Sarah Isom Center for Women's Studies was established at The University of Mississippi in 1981 to address the changing roles and expectations of women students, faculty and staff. The Center is named for Sarah McGhee Isom, an Oxford native who became the first female university instructor in the South when she joined the Ole Miss faculty in 1885. Sarah Isom Center for Women has a threefold mission: curriculum development, programming, and research on women/ women's issues. Courses are offered through the Center and in coordination with other departments. Regular programs include a brown bag lunch lecture series. Research focuses primarily on Southern women.
Women's Resources on the Internet. The website is maintained for archival purposes. It contains information on a number of areas in which women are involved. Women’s Studies Online Resources. Women's Studies Online Resources will help you find information web sites focusing on women's studies or women's issues; women- or gender-related e-mail lists; links to women's studies programs around the world, and other related facts.
Yahoo's Collection of Women's Studies Journals The site treats the following titles: Farzaneh - bilingual quarterly journal published in Iran. Feminism & Nonviolence Studies Journal - explores the tradition of prolife feminism and related life and death issues. Feminist Collections - quarterly journal of women's studies resources. Hypatia - journal for scholarly research in feminist philosophy. Jenda - journal of culture and African women studies. Devoted to the promotion of research and scholarship of importance to the global African community and friends of Africa. Journal of South Asia Women Studies - fields of study include law, arts, religion, and philosophy. Michigan Feminist Studies - interdisciplinary journal published annually and edited by graduate students at the University of Michigan. Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society - articles contest and reconfigure such founding terms as: woman, culture, feminist, race, and nation. Womanist Theory and Research - journal of womanist and feminist of color scholarship and art. Women & Performance - journal of feminist theory featuring essays, scripts, interviews and articles on performance from interdisciplinary feminist perspectives. Women's Review of Books, The - contemporary, feminist guide to good reading. Women's Studies Journal - for academics with an interest in gender issues, focusing on research and debate concerning women¿s studies in NZ and the Pacific.
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