This web page contains links to electronic resources useful for researching women's studies. For a complete list of electronic resources available to University of Maryland faculty, staff, and students, as well as information about the full range of library materials and services, consult the UM Libraries' home page.

Because of licensing agreements, access to bibliographic databases and electronic journals is restricted to UM faculty, staff, and students. These may be accessed from off campus; consult Remote access for further information.

UM Libraries' Catalog | Databases | Electronic Journals | Printed Sources | Internet Resources | Questions?

Libraries' Catalog

• VictorWeb
  Information on the holdings of all libraries in the University System of Maryland.

Databases

Use these to identify journal articles and other secondary sources.

Full-text Databases

• Academic Search (Ebsco)
  Interdisciplinary database, partially full-text.

  Lexis-Nexis Academic Universe

  Full-text articles from major newspapers and popular magazines; business, legal and medical materials; as well as other resources.

  Contemporary Women's Issues

  Full text of journal articles, newsletters, research reports, government and international agencies, and fact sheets from 1992 to the present.

  GenderWatch

  Full text database comprised primarily of the many ongoing periodicals that deal with gender issues, including academic and scholarly journals, regional publications, magazines, newspapers, newsletters, booklets and reports. Contains archival material, in some cases as far back as 1974.

Bibliographic Databases

• Women's Resources International
  (1972-present) The ultimate women's studies resource! Includes over 232,000 records drawn from a variety of essential women's studies databases.

  SPORT Discus

  Index and abstracts of journal articles and other publications on sports, physical fitness and physical education topics.

  Family Studies Database

  (1970 - present) is the world's most comprehensive, systematic, and non-evaluative resource of research, policy, and ctice literature in the fields of Family Science, Human Ecology, and Human Development.

  Political Science subject databases

  History subject databases

  Other subject databases

Electronic Journals

• Advancing Women in Leadership v. 1- (1997- ) ****

Feminist Studies in Aotearoa Electronic Journal v. 1- (1994- ) ****

Journal of South Asia Women Studies v. 1- (1995- ) ****

n.paradoxa v. 1- (1996- )****

Women in Judaism: A Multidisciplinary Journal v.1- (1997- )****

Print Sources

• Ready Reference Women's Issues
  McKRef HQ1115.W6425 1997 (3 vols)

  Loeb, Searing, and Stineman, Women's Studies: A Recommended Core Bibliography, 1980-85

  McKRef HQ1180.L63 1987

  Cox, Elizabeth M.,Women in Modern American Politics: A Bibliography 1900-95

  McKRef HQ1236.5.U6C69 1997

  United States Government Documents on Women, 1800-1990,

  McKRef HQ1410.H84 1993

Internet sites

• University of Wisconsin System Women's Studies Librarian's Office
• University of Maryland Libraries, Electronic Resources by Subject: Women's Studies

Questions

If you have any questions about these or other library resources, contact Yelena Luckert, humanities team manager.

Please send comments and suggestions to the Libraries' Webmaster.
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Created: 4/7/98
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