Subject Guides: * Women & Gender Studies: Find an Article

General Databases

Academic Search Complete This link opens in a new window
Academic Search Complete is a large scholarly, multidisciplinary, full-text database, with more than 7,400 full-text periodicals, including more than 6,300 peer-reviewed journals. In addition to full text, this database offers indexing and abstracts for more than 11,500 scholarly, popular, trade, and special interest serials, and a total of more than 12,000 publications including monographs, reports, conference proceedings, and more. Updated daily.
CQ Researcher This link opens in a new window
CQ Researcher provides in depth reports on current issues in the news each week from 1923 to present. Reports often contain lengthy discussion plus graphs, pro/con articles, a chronology, and links to organizations and other associated resources. Topics range from social and teen issues to environment, health, education and science and technology.
Project MUSE This link opens in a new window
Project Muse, a project initiated by John's Hopkins University Press, provides PDF full-text access to more than 600 peer-reviewed journals from 250 university presses and scholarly societies. Project MUSE covers the fields of literature and criticism, history, the visual and performing arts, cultural studies, education, political science, gender studies, economics, and others.
JSTOR This link opens in a new window
JSTOR is a full text digital archive of scholarly journals in the humanities, social sciences, and sciences. Coverage generally begins with the first issuse running to within 3 years of present. Current issues of journals are often available from other USM databases.

Subject-Specific Databases

Databases search across multiple journals dedicated to women's studies and scholarship.

American History & Life
Research on the history of the United States and Canada.

Humanities International Index This link opens in a new window
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Journals, books, and references in the humanities as far back as 1925.
American Periodicals Series Online This link opens in a new window
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Digitized images of the pages of American magazines and journals published from colonial days to the early 20th century.

Journals

Women's Studies:

National Women's Studies Association Journal (in print or online)

Feminist Studies (in print or online)

Gender & Society: Sociologists for Women in Society (in print or online)

Gender & History (online)

Hypatia: Philosophy & Women (in print and online)

Journal of Women's History (online: 1992-2004 and 1999-present)

Sex Roles (in print and online)

Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society (in print or online): International journal in women's studies.

Other Feminist periodicals available online.

LGBT Studies:

Journal of Lesbian Studies (in print or online)

SQS: Peer reviewed articles, published twice a year in three languages (Finnish, Swedish, and English). Browsing by issue only, not searchable by keyword.

Other Gay and Lesbian periodicals available online.

More Journals with links to Databases:

Gender & Sexuality Studies

Statistical Reports

Facts About Women in the US
The Advocate
Longest running GLBTQ magazine. Search by keyword in the top right corner.
American Civil Liberties UnionGLBT Project
Very specific searching possible by state, date and issue.
Human Rights Campaign (HRC)
Search by keyword within document type and website section.
International Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission (IGLHRC)
Searches website by keyword.
Lambda Legal
Search their publications by issue and publication type.
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