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Women and Gender Studies

Indexes & Databases

    • Women's Studies International
    Format: Internet
    Remote Access: Available
    Index to the interdisciplinary field of women's studies, this database covers material in the fields of arts and humanities, business, economics, education, history, international relations, political science, public policy, and sociology. Covers from 1972 forward, and includes journal articles, books, book chapters, and dissertations.

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    • Academic Search Premier
    Format: Internet
    Remote Access: Available
    Provides full text for nearly 4,000 scholarly publications of which 3,100 are peer reviewed. Academic areas of study include: social sciences, humanities, education, computer sciences, engineering, language and linguistics, arts & literature, medical sciences, and ethnic studies.

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    • Business Source Premier
    Format: Internet
    Remote Access: Available
    Provides full text for more than 2,800 scholarly business journals of which 912 are peer reviewed. Coverage includes: management, economics, finance, accounting, international business and much more

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    • America: History and Life
    Coverage: From 1954
    Licensed Number of Users: 6
    Format: Internet
    Remote Access: Available
    Index to research on the history of the United States and Canada, from prehistoric times to the present. Includes references to journal articles, books and book reviews, dissertations, and collective works.

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    • EconLit
    Format: Internet
    Remote Access: Available
    Contains citations and abstracts to economic research dating back to 1969. Provides comprehensive information on accounting, capital markets, econometrics, economic forecasting, government regulations, labor economics, monetary theory, urban economics and much more.

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    • ERIC - Education (EBSCO)
    Format: Internet
    Remote Access: Available
    Coverage: From 1966
    The Education Resources Information Center (ERIC) provides a database of journal and non-journal education literature for K-12 teachers, school administrators, education faculty, school psychologists and education students. ERIC is sponsored by the Institute of Education Sciences (IES) of the U.S. Department of Education. This database contains more than 1.2 million citations going back to 1966. More than 110,000 full-text non-journal documents (from years 1993-present) are included in the database. The EBSCO version connects to many full-text journal articles through Linked Full Text and Article Linker.

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    • Historical Abstracts
    Format: Internet
    Remote Access: Available
    Coverage: From 1969
    Index to articles, dissertations, and books on the history of the world, except the United States and Canada, from 1450 to the present. Works on U.S. and Canadian history are covered in America: History and Life.

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    • Official documents of the United Nations
    Format: Internet
    Remote Access: Available
    Coverage: From 1993
    Official Document System of the United Nations(ODS)covers all types of official United Nations documentation, beginning in 1993, and selected earlier coverage

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    • ProQuest Dissertations & Theses
    Format: Internet
    Remote Access: Available
    Index to dissertations from 1861 to the present, representing the work of authors from over 1,000 North American graduate schools and European universities. Includes the 350-word abstracts written by the author for those dissertations published after 1979. More limited coverage of master's theses from 1962 on (UM theses are not included); citations for those published after 1987 include 150-word abstracts. Database includes full text of dissertations written at the University of Maine after 1996.

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    • PsycINFO
    Format: Internet
    Remote Access: Available
    Index to the professional and academic literature in psychology and related disciplines, including medicine, psychiatry, nursing, sociology, education, pharmacology, physiology, linguistics, and other areas. Coverage includes references and abstracts to over 1,300 journals in more than 20 languages, and to book chapters and books in the English language. The database includes information from empirical studies, case studies, surveys, bibliographies, literature reviews, discussion articles, conference reports and dissertations. Updated weekly.

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    • Sociological Abstracts
    Format: Internet
    Remote Access: Available
    Coverage: From 1974
    Covers sociology and related disciplines including anthropology, criminology, demography, education, gerontology, mental health, minority studies, political science, public health, social psychology, social work, urban studies, welfare programs, and women's studies. Comprehensive and international in scope. Covers about 2,600 journals in 30 different languages from 55 different countries. Also includes books, conference papers,and doctoral dissertations.

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    • Women and Social Movements in the United States 1600-2000
    Format: Internet
    Remote Access: Available
    Coverage: 1600-2000
    A collection of documentary projects pertaining to women and social movements in the United States. Primary source materials include books, images, manuscripts, journal articles, phamplets, letters, commentaries and bibliographies, documenting the multiplicity of women's reform activities. This database has been made available through USM Faculty Technology Grant awards to the History and Women's Studies programs.

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    • Worldwide Political Science Abstracts
    Format: Internet
    Remote Access: Available
    Coverage: From 1975
    This database supplies citations, abstracts, and indexing of the international serials literature in political science and its complementary fields, including international relations, law and public administration/policy.

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Susie Bock
Library Liaison

Phone: 780-4269
E-mail: bocks@usm.maine.edu
Glickman Library, Portland

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Subject Guides:
Women and Gender Studies

Course Guides:
SOC 393 - Fall 2006

 

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