General Research in Women's Studies
First: your last resort! (finding items in other libraries when Tufts doesn't have what you need)
ILLiad
Tufts' online Inter-Library Loan request system for all items (anywhere in the world) not available through the BLC, and for all journal articles.
Virtual Catalog of the Boston Library Consortium
An online inter-library request system, involving just the libraries part of the Boston Library Consortium (BLC)--the advantage is that it can deliver items sooner than an ILLiad request. Use your library barcode number (on the back of your ID) to access the database. NOT for article requesting (use ILLiad).
WorldCat
A catalog of materials held by libraries worldwide, including books, periodicals, sound recordings, musical scores, videos, manuscripts, and maps. Search this if you are looking for a specific item not available at Tufts; it will show you the libraries that own the item and will help you choose between using the BLC Virtual Catalog and ILLiad.
Dissertation Abstracts (1861-present)
Selectively covers masters theses and dissertations including dissertations from Canada, Great Britain, and Europe.
General Reference and Interdisciplinary resources
Search for books and articles using the Tufts Library Catalog
Oxford Reference Online. Oxford University Press, c.2002-
Provides web access to 100 major Oxford University Press dictionaries, encyclopedias, and other reference works (see subject areas below). Works can be searched separately or across the entire databases. Includes over 1.5 million entries.
Subject areas include:
Art & Architecture~Biological Sciences~Classics~Computing~Earth & Environmental Sciences~Economics & Business~Food & Drink~History~Law~Literature~Medicine~Military History~Mythology & Folklore~Names & Places~Natural History~Performing Arts~Physical Sciences & Mathematics~Politics & Social Sciences~Prehistory~Religion & Philosophy~Science
Credo Reference
Provides access to 162 online reference resources from numerous publishers. The collection features over 2 million entries; 180,000 audio pronunciation files; 66,000 art, science, and medical images; and 90,000 atlas images of places and geographic features throughout the world. It includes 4 women's studies-specific titles:
The Macmillan Dictionary of Women's Biography
The Penguin Biographical Dictionary of Women
Who's Who in Gay and Lesbian History, Routledge
The Cambridge Guide to Women's Writing in English
Academic OneFile (1980-present)
Articles from more than 1,500 scholarly, trade, and general-interest publications, including national news and commentary. Coverage is from 1980 to current and is updated daily. Some full text is available.
Lexis-Nexis
Major full-text resource including articles from major American newspapers, in addition to many periodicals and regional papers, among other sources.
ARTstor
ARTstor is an image database of architecture, painting, photography, sculpture, decorative arts and design, and archaeological and anthropological objects - with associated catalog data - from many major collections.
IBSS: International Bibliography of the Social Sciences and Sociological Abstracts (Once you've entered the database, click on "specific databases" and select both these titles in order to search both at once.) IBSS provides more than two million references to articles and books going back to 1951 in the social sciences. It is produced by the London School of Economics and Political Science. Sociological Abstracts provides citations and abstracts from over 2,600 journals, dissertations, conference papers, books and book reviews.
Arts & Humanities Citation Index (1974-present)
Arts & Humanities Citation Index is a multidisciplinary index covering the journal literature of the arts and humanities. It covers 1,144 of the world's leading arts and humanities journals, and it indexes individually selected items from over 6,800 major science and social science journals.
FULL-TEXT Project MUSE
Women's Studies journals found in Project MUSE:
ridges: A Jewish Feminist Journal (2006-)
Camera Obscura (2000-2004; archive only)
Canadian Journal of Women and the Law (2005-)
differences: A Journal of Feminist Cultural Studies (fall 1998-2004; archive only)
Frontiers: A Journal of Women Studies (2001-)
Hypatia (1999-)
Journal of Feminist Studies in Religion (2005-)
Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2006-)
Journal of Women's History (1999-)
Legacy (n.2 2000-)
Meridians: feminism, race, transnationalism (2003-)
Nashim: A Journal of Jewish Women's Studies & Gender Issues (2003-)
NWSA Journal (sum 1999-)
Social Politics: International Studies in Gender, State and Society (2003-)
Tulsa Studies in Women's Literature (2007-) NEW
Women and Music: A Journal of Gender and Culture (2004-)
GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies (n.3 1999;2000-)
Journal of the History of Sexuality (2001-)
FULL-TEXT JSTOR Warning: JSTOR's most recent articles are normally 5 years old or older; go elsewhere for the very latest research!
Feminist and Gender Studies Journals covered in JSTOR:
Feminist Studies 1972-2001
Gender and Society 1987-2003
Signs 1975-2002 (plus links to recent content 2003-2006)
Tulsa Studies in Women's Literature 1982-2001
Woman's Art Journal 1980-2006
Women's Studies-specific sources
GenderWatch
GenderWatch is a full-text collection of international sources, including journals, special reports and conference proceedings on a wide range of women's issues. It includes archival materials dating back to the 1970s. GenderWatch allows both full-text and indexed searching.
Gerritsen Collection
Begun in the late nineteenth century, the Gerritsen Collection represents books and periodicals tracing the development of feminist consciousness through four centuries and fifteen languages. The Collection is one of the most important single sources in the study of women's history.
Women and Social Movements
Primary sources in the study of women's social movements from colonial times to the present. This database contains books, pamphlets and proceedings from national conventions on women's rights, abolition, and the Women's Christian Temperance Union. It includes 78 document projects that interpret and present documents, most of which are not otherwise available online; more than 30,000 pages of documents pertaining to Women and Social Movements; a dictionary of social movements and organizations; a chronology of U.S. Women's History; Teaching Tools with lesson ideas and document-based questions related to the website's document projects; and quarterly news from the archives about U.S. Women's History.
Women Working, 1800-1930
Digitized historical, manuscript, and image resources selected from Harvard's library and museum collections. This collection explores women's roles in the U.S. economy between the Civil War and the Great Depression.
Women Writers Online
A full-text collection of works written by women, in English or in English translation, before 1850.
The database only gives me a citation/just an abstract. How do I find the full text?
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- look up the journal title (not the article title) by using the JOURNAL TITLE search option in the library catalog to find out if we own it electronically or in print. Be sure to check the range of dates we own before running to the shelves!
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