Women and Gender Studies

Article Databases - Most Useful

• JSTOR
  *Due to COVID-19, the vendor has provided complimentary access to JSTOR Archive, and the Primary Sources collections until June 30,2022.* JSTOR is a full-text collection of scholarly journals in the sciences, social sciences, and humanities. Content from last 3-5 years is generally not available in . . .
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• GenderWatch [ProQuest]
  Over 250 full text academic journals, magazines, and newspapers covering gender, women's, and LGBT studies. Content from 1970-present.
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• Academic Search Ultimate [EBSCO]
  An excellent starting point for any topic, Academic Search Ultimate contains over 13,000 academic journals, magazines, and newspapers. Content covers all subject areas with material from 1887 to the present.
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Article Databases - Also Useful

• Anthropology Plus [EBSCO]
  A compilation of the Anthropological Index Online and Anthropological Literature databases, this resource is an extensive index of bibliographic materials covering the fields of anthropology, archaeology and related interdisciplinary research
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• CQ Researcher
  Provides in-depth reports on controversial issues. Topics include social issues, environment, science, crime, education, and more.
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• Criminal Justice Abstracts with Full Text [EBSCO]
  Criminal Justice Abstracts, the criminology database from SAGE Publications, contains comprehensive coverage of international journals, books, reports, dissertations and unpublished papers on criminology and related disciplines. Prepared in co-operation with the Don M. Gottfredson Library of Crimina . . .
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• PsycInfo (APA PsycInfo) [EBSCO]
  This database contains more than one million citations and summaries of journal articles, book chapters, books, dissertations and technical reports, all in the field of psychology.
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• Social Work Abstracts [EBSCO] **4 simultaneous users**
  Social Work Abstracts offers extensive coverage of more than 450 social work and human services journals dating back to 1965. Produced by the National Association of Social Workers (NASW).
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• Sociological Abstracts [Proquest]
  Sociological Abstracts is an index to the latest research sponsored in sociology and related disciplines in the social and behavioral sciences, including anthropology, criminology, demography, education, law, penology, race relations, social psychology, and urban studies. The database draws informat . . .
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• Google Scholar (with Fresno State library access links)
  Google Scholar provides a simple way to broadly search for scholarly literature across many disciplines and sources: peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, abstracts and articles, from academic publishers, professional societies, preprint repositories, universities and other scholarly organizations. < . . .
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Books

Images

• American History in Video [Alexander Street Press]
  Contains over 8,000 films, documentaries, interviews, newsreels, and more. More than half of the videos are contemporaneous video from the 1890s to the 1980s. Semantic indexing allows users to search videos by subject, language, person, and publisher. Video content producers include PBS, California . . .
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• ARTstor
  Provides access to over 2.4 million digital images in the arts, architecture, humanities, and sciences. Registration is required to download images, save and organize customized image groups, and use any of the instructor-le . . .
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Statistics, Reports & Data Sets

• Historical Statistics of the United States [Cambridge]
  Statistical series for the United States on subjects including population, crime economics, agriculture, and much more. Statistics from as far back as 1790 for some categories.
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• U.S. Census Bureau Data Access Tools
  The Statistical Abstract of the United States web site contains statistical tables from the print version of the Statistical Abstract, tables from USA Statistics in Brief, tables giving state rankings (in population, health, education, employment, public aid, social security, income, crime, energy, . . .
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Dictionaries, Encyclopedias & Reference

• Gale eBooks (formerly Gale Virtual Reference Library)
  A great resource for background information, Gale eBooks is a collection of full-text encyclopedias and other reference sources. Subjects covered include history, education, literature, world cultures, and many more.
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• Oxford English Dictionary Online
  Contains the complete text of the OED's 20-volume Second Edition and 3-volume Additions Series. Also includes draft material from the current OED project, representing the latest progress towards a completely revised and updated Third Edition. The OED online can be used to perform simple searches fo . . .
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