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Journal Articles and Theses
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BartonPlusStart with BartonPlus, MIT libraries' mega search. Barton Plus contains Political Science Complete, Econlit, Business Source Complete, Heinonline, JSTOR, and many other databases, subscriptions, and government documents.
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Google ScholarGoogle's mega search for academic articles. In settings, set your Library Links to MIT to get full text of articles we own.
WGS-specific article databases
These databases are in BartonPlus, but use individually for a more targeted search
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Gender Studies DatabaseCovers 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.
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LGBT LifeContent 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.
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Women's Studies InternationalIncludes over 232,000 records from a variety of essential women's studies databases, including Women Studies Abstracts. Allows 1 simultaneous user(s)
Article databases and resources
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America: History and LifeUS & Canadian history, prehistory-present. Indexes articles, book reviews, essay collections, dissertations, media.
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Dspace@MITMIT authored papers and theses
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Historical AbstractsResource covering world history (excluding US and Canada), 1450 to present. Indexes and abstracts articles, books, essay collections, dissertations, and media.
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Proquest Dissertations and ThesesIndexing 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.
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ScopusArticles, 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.
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Social Sciences Citation Index [Web of Science]Indexes high-impact science, social science, engineering, art & humanities research journals, 1956-present.
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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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