Research Guides: Women's and Gender Studies: Home

Essential Women & Gender Studies Sources

Gender Watch
Articles on gender studies including the women's movement, men's studies, the transgendered community, and the changes in gender roles.
Women's Studies International
Covers the core disciplines in Women’s Studies and feminist research from before 1972 to the present with over 2,000 periodical sources are represented.

JSTOR This link opens in a new window
Provides complete full-text coverage of over 1000 leading journals in the humanities, social sciences and sciences as well as over three million licensed, high-quality images previously in Artstor.

Academic Search Complete
A good place to start for most topics with a wide range of scholarly journals and articles, along with some newspaper and news magazine content.
America: History and Life with Full Text
A research database covering the history and culture of the United States and Canada from prehistory to the present. It includes hundreds of full-text history journals, plus useful features such as the ability to search by time period.

Oxford Reference This link opens in a new window
Two million digitized entries spanning 25 different subject areas.
CQ Researcher plus Archive This link opens in a new window
Collections of original reports and analyses on issues of current interest such as health, social trends, criminal justice, international affairs, education, the environment, technology, and the economy.
Project MUSE This link opens in a new window
Provides full text of articles from 440 scholarly journals in the humanities and social sciences.

Google Scholar
Google's search engine for locating scholarly literature. Searches scholarly articles, books, and other technical or research content. Often helpful for locating specific articles when you already know the title.