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Women's Studies Databases & Descriptions
Indexing and abstracts for 3,484 journals with fulltext for over 2,000 journals, including more than 1,500 peer-reviewed titles.
VAST is a package of video collections, accessible through the new Academic Video Online cross-search.Cites biographical articles appearing in any of more than 3,000 periodicals and some 2,000 current books of individual and collective biography, as well as biographical material in otherwise non-biographical books. Besides biographies and autobiographies, you'll find citations to interviews, obituaries, and collections of letters, diaries, memoirs, juvenile literature, book reviews, bibliographies and exhibition reviews. People covered range from antiquity to the present and represent all fields and nationalities.
A comprehensive listing of biographical content to some 623,000 articles and book citations. It includes interviews and profiles of history-makers, covering 40 years. You will find citations to feature articles, biographies, obituaries, books and book parts. The number of people covered in the database is about 300,000. It covers asked-about public figures, including writers, artists, statesman, sports figures, politicians, religious leaders, scientists, educators, military leaders, teachers, actors, business people, and more.
Searchable database of all the articles contained in journals published by Duke University Press.
An index only database that provides access to essays in nearly 5,300 anthologies and collections. Coverage spans the entire range of humanities and social sciences, including literary works, art history, drama, and film. Coverage begins in 1985 to present.In the First Person is a free, high quality, in-depth index of close to 4,000 collections of personal narratives in English from around the world. The index contains approximately 20,500 months of diary entries, 63,000 letter entries, and 17,000 oral history entries.Provides full text access for scholarly journals in the areas of African-American studies, anthropology, Asian studies, ecology, economics, education, finance, history, literature, mathematics, philosophy, political science, and sociology. The Life Science Collection is also available. This database covers a complete journal run from the first issue up to the most recent three to five years.Provides access to journals, magazines, and newspapers in full text format. The subject areas covered are news, business, law, health, and reference. This database is updated daily, and sources can be searched for the last five or ten years, and in some cases back 30 plus years to provide bibliographic records. This database contains over 5200 sources.The MLA International Bibliography provides a classified listing and subject index for books and articles published on modern languages, literatures, folklore, and linguistics. It is compiled by the staff of the MLA Office of Bibliographic Information Services with the cooperation of more than 100 contributing bibliographers in the United States and abroad. The MLA International Bibliography annually indexes over 66,000 books and articles.Full-text news resources consisting of more than 500 regional, national and international newspapers and newswire sources. Covers the time period of 1991 to the present. Updated daily.The Philosopher's Index is a bibliographic database with informative author-written abstracts covering scholarly research in the fifteen fields of philosophy, published in journals and books since 1940.The POIESIS database contains 42 full-text journals, 8 conference proceedings, and 8 book series. The database is dedicated to various areas of philosophy, which include: Aesthetics, Ethics, Catholic Intellectual Thought, History of Philosophy, Peace & Violence Studies, Social and Political Philosophy, as well as many Journals which publish in all areas of Philosophy.Access to the full text of over 100 scholarly journals published by the Johns Hopkins University Press in the areas of arts and humanities, social sciences, and mathematics. The coverage is from 1990 to the present.ProQuest Social Science Journals™ includes over 535 titles, with more than 310 available in full text. Topics include Addiction studies, Urban studies, Family studies, International relations, and more.Covers over 550 periodicals in the fields of anthropology, economics, geography, law and criminology, political science, social work, and sociology. Covers 1983 to the present. Updated monthly.The SEP is a dynamic reference work, in which each entry is maintained and kept up to date by an expert or group of experts in the field. All entries and updates are refereed by the members of an editorial board before they are made public. SEP covers wide variety of subject disciplines within the sciences and humanities, including aesthetics, ethics, feminism, philosophy of law, logic, metaphysics, and philosophy of science.
