LibGuides: Women's & Gender Studies: Books and Articles

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Academic Search Complete
General academic literature database. Great for precise searching. Click "choose databases" above search box to search multiple databases at once. These databases can search the full text of articles.

WGS-specific article databases

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Gender Studies Database
Covers the full spectrum of gender-engaged scholarship with emphasis on sexual diversity issues. Source documents include professional journals, conference papers, books, book chapters, government reports, discussion and working papers, and theses & dissertations.
LGBT Life
Content related to gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender studies in journals, magazines, and newspapers. Contains a specialized thesaurus and also provides full text from a number of the most important and historically significant LGBT sources including dozens of full-text monographs.

Article databases and resources

America: History and Life
US & Canadian history, prehistory-present. Indexes articles, book reviews, essay collections, dissertations, media.
Dspace@MIT
MIT authored papers and theses
Historical Abstracts
Resource covering world history (excluding US and Canada), 1450 to present. Indexes and abstracts articles, books, essay collections, dissertations, and media.
Proquest Dissertations and Theses
Indexing and abstracting of non-MIT dissertations and theses 1861 - present. Full text for most dissertations 1997-present and selective full-text for earlier dissertations. Comprehensive coverage of North American universities and selective coverage worldwide.
Scopus
Articles, books, reports, and patents in science, engineering, social science, and arts and humanities, particularly published after 1995. Includes citation features and tools to analyze authors and journals.
Social Sciences Citation Index [Web of Science]
Indexes high-impact science, social science, engineering, art & humanities research journals, 1956-present.
SSRN (Social Science Research Network)
SSRN is an open-access online preprint community publishing research papers and conference proceedings in social science.

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