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Based on these descriptions, select the database that best meets your needs.
| Women Studies Abstracts, Abstracts/Indexes, 1972 - 2001 |
| Provides citations and summaries for articles relating to women's studies from more than 100 journals in various disciplines |
| Alternative Press Index |
| International coverage in nearly 300 alternative, radical and left sources in the humanities and social sciences. |
| CQ Researcher, 1991 - present. |
| Excellent background and analysis of recent national and international issues in the news. Includes CQ Global Researcher |
Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center
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| Access viewpoint articles, topic overviews, statistics, primary documents, links to websites, and full-text magazine and newspaper articles. Great for current issues research. |
| Academic Search Complete, Indexing and full-text, dates of coverage vary by title (many 1975-present).
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| This interdisciplinary scholarly collection offers information in nearly every area of academic study, including: sciences, social sciences, arts & literature, ethnic studies, and many more. Full-text for over 6,100 titles (5,100 peer-reviewed); indexing and abstracting for 10,600 titles; complete historical coverage and citation searching for select titles. |
| Wilson OmniFile Full-Text: Select, 1994 - present |
| A full-text database of almost 2000 periodical publications, including coverage of the sciences, humanities, education & other social sciences, business and information science. |
| WorldCat, covers time period from the oldest to the most recent library holdings
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| Database created from the online catalogs of books, media and other materials located in many libraries worldwide. (This is NOT AN INDEX FOR ARTICLES). Use to identify titles that you may be able to borrow through Interlibrary Loan (ILLIAD). |
| JSTOR |
| Arts & Sciences I, Arts & Sciences II, Language & Literature, and Ecology Collections. An archive of important scholarly journal literature. In most cases, full text of the journal is available from the first issue through issues from a few years ago. |
Use these sources to focus your topic, build a vocabulary, and find additional sources as you begin your research.
Use Penfield's library catalog to find print and online books and government documents, CDs, DVDs, and more. If the library catalog does not have what you need, use WorldCat or the SUNYConnect Union Catalog to identify titles that you might borrow through our interlibrary loan service (ILLIAD).
| Women and Social Movements |
| Digital library of primary source documents relevant to United States history of women and social movements. Includes dozens of document collections with tens of thousands of document pages. Images, transcriptions, and supporting information are available for each document. |
| In the First Person: An Index to Letters, Diaries, Oral Histories and Personal Narratives |
| Provides browsing, searching and full text of primary source documents available in digital collections on the Web. About 75% of the materials are freely available, and the rest are in proprietary collections that we have not yet purchased access to. |
These quality Internet resources have been selected by the librarian specializing in this discipline.
| American Women: Library of Congress Resources |
| Material includes resources from the American Memory Collection, online exhibitions, manuscripts, prints and photographs and resources on recorded sound. Not all material is available online. |
| INFOMINE: Scholarly Internet Resource Collections |
| "INFOMINE is a virtual library of Internet resources relevant to faculty, students, and research staff at the university level. It contains useful Internet resources such as databases, electronic journals, electronic books, bulletin boards, mailing lists, online library card catalogs, articles, directories of researchers, and many other types of information." |
| Internet Resources on Women: Updates |
| A frequently updated annotated listing of new and changed web sites offering information on women of particular use to educators and students. |
| National Women's History Project Resource Center |
| "The National Women's History Project Resource Center, formerly known as the Learning Place, is designed to provide you with information, resources, and educational materials about multicultural women's history." |
| NYPL:Women's Studies: A Guide to the Collections of the New York Public Library |
| "The collections consist of vast retrospective holdings relating to women, including manuscript and archival material, as well as a broad range of current Women's Studies materials reflecting new trends and thought on feminist theory and scholarship." |
| Office on Violence Against Women |
| "As part of the United States Justice Department, VAWO was created in 1995 to implement the 1994 Violence Against Women Act (VAWA) and to lead the national effort to stop domestic violence, sexual assault, and stalking." |
| Women's Studies: Core Books (ACRL/WSS) |
| The Association of College and Research Libraries Women's Studies Section has created a database project that assists "Women's Studies librarians and collection development librarians in building Women's Studies collections. It can also serve as a guide to instructional faculty in selecting available course readings. Book titles currently in print are selected by academic librarians who volunteer to maintain a subject area." |
| Women's Studies Resources |
Use the library catalog to determine whether Penfield Library owns the book or journal you need. Please also check the list of available e-journals. If the Library does not own the material, or if the material is not available, you may request it online through our interlibrary loan service(ILLIAD)