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A vast collection of full-text academic journals, magazines, and other resources across multiple disciplines, supporting comprehensive research needs.
This multidisciplinary resource includes full-text, peer-reviewed journals, periodicals and magazines. Also included are more than 75,000 videos from the Associated Press, including footage from 1930-present. This database offers indexing and abstracts for over 10,000 publications including monographs, reports, and conference proceedings dating as far back as 1865, with the majority of titles in searchable PDF format.
A digital library with over 12 million academic journal articles, books, and primary sources in diverse fields, ideal for research and scholarly exploration.
This archive is a collection of over 12 million full-text scholarly journal articles, e-books, periodicals, images, and primary sources in 75 disciplines. Browse subject areas including Arts, Business & Economics, History, Humanities, Law, Medicine & Allied Health, Science & Mathematics, and Social Sciences. JSTOR is part of ITHAKA, a not-for-profit organization that also includes Artstor, Ithaka S+R, and Portico.
A search tool with a Google-like relevancy ranking to help you retrieve all types of scholarly research sources with one search. New look and functionality coming June 25.
This search tool lets you retrieve all types of research sources with one search, simultaneously searching the UD catalog, OhioLINK catalog, and many of the online resources available through the University Libraries, in addition to institutional repositories and open-access resources. With UDiscover, you can access millions of journal articles, e-books, dissertations, conference proceedings, newspaper articles, videos, and primary sources. If you're looking for a variety of sources on your topic, or you're just getting started, UDiscover can help you access more information at once than ever before. It has a Google-like relevancy ranking, but helps you locate scholarly resources.
A collection of primary sources related to LGBTQ history and culture since 1940, including documents, periodicals, and personal narratives for research and study.
This resource provides a robust and significant collection of primary sources for the historical study of sex, sexuality, and gender. With material dating back to the sixteenth century, researchers and scholars can examine how sexual norms have changed over time, health and hygiene, the development of sex education, the rise of sexology, changing gender roles, social movements and activism, erotica, and many other interesting topical areas. "LGBTQ History and Culture Since 1940" highlights the crosssectionality of individuals of different races, ethnicities, ages, religions, political orientations, and geographical locations that constitute the LGBTQ community as a whole.
A resource offering access to scholarly articles, books, and reports in gender studies, covering topics related to gender, sexuality, and social justice across various disciplines.
This database provides indexing and abstracts covering the full spectrum of gender-related scholarship inside and outside academia. It indexes scholarly and popular publications, including professional journals, conference papers, books, book chapters, discussion & working papers, theses, and dissertations. Subjects include gender inequality, masculinity, post-feminism, and gender identity.
Access scholarly articles, reports, and publications focused on gender issues, including women's studies, gender equality, and LGBTQ+ topics, supporting research and advocacy.
This is a database of unique and diverse publications that focus on how gender impacts a broad spectrum of subject areas. With archival material dating back to 1970, GenderWatch provides authoritative historical and current perspectives on the evolution of gender roles as they affect both men and women. GenderWatch supports gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender (GLBT) studies; family studies; gender studies, and women's studies with a unique interdisciplinary approach. Combining hundreds of academic, gray, and popular literature titles, GenderWatch provides researchers with hundreds of thousands of articles on wide-ranging topics like sexuality, religion, societal roles, feminism, masculinity, eating disorders, day care, and the workplace. Publications include scholarly journals, magazines, newspapers, newsletters, regional publications, books and NGO, government and special reports.
Gain insight into the lives of women, the role of women in society, and the development of the public lives of women as the push for women's rights grew in the U.S. and U.K.
Historical women's periodicals provide an important resource to scholars interested in the lives of women, the role of women in society and, in particular, the development of the public lives of women as the push for women's rights—woman suffrage, fair pay, better working conditions, for example—grew in the United States and England. This Archives Unbound collection provides access to the full text of some of the most significant and least-widely held women's periodicals produced from the late Eighteenth century through the early 1930s. 57 periodicals are included in this publication, printed between 1786 and 1984.
A bibliographic database for women's studies and feminist research.
This bibliographic database for women's studies and feminist research provides indexing and abstracts for gender-focused journals, newsletters, bulletins, books, book chapters, NGO studies, websites and web documents, reports, theses, dissertations, and grey literature from throughout the world. It is relevant to many disciplines, including sociology, history, international relations and humanities. Most material cited is in English; some in French-Canadian, Spanish, or other languages.
A collection of primary sources and scholarly essays on women’s roles in social movements in the U.S. from 1600 to 2000, covering activism, rights, and societal change.
This collection is a resource for students and scholars of U.S. history and U.S. women's history, bringing together resources documenting aspects of American women's public lives and political activities. Organized around the history of women in social movements in the U.S. between 1600 and 2000, the collection currently includes more than 145 document projects and archives with more than 9,500 books and documents, 1,500 images, and 191,000 pages of additional full-text documents, written by 2,800 primary authors. This digital collection also includes book, film, and website reviews, notes from the archives, a dictionary of social movements and organizations, a chronology of U.S. Women's History, and teaching tools. This site also has an online edition of the five-volume biographical dictionary, Notable American Women (1971-2004) and an Online Biographical Dictionary of the Woman Suffrage Movement in the U.S. which includes biographical sketches of grassroots suffrage activists.
You can also browse a list of periodicals by visiting the University Libraries website, scrolling down to Journals by Title or Subject, and clicking on the subject "Women's Studies and Feminism."
The Association for College & Research Libraries (ACRL) Women's & Gender Studies Section has also compiled a list of open access journals in Women's and Gender Studies.