Research Guides: Women and Gender Studies: Databases

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Academic Search Complete This link opens in a new window
A broad multi-disciplinary database encompassing areas in art, science, and humanities. Includes full-text, plus indexing and abstracts for monographs, reports, conference proceedings, and other publications.
Gale Primary Sources (formerly Artemis Primary Sources) This link opens in a new window
Search several resources at one time, including Eighteenth Century Collections Online, The Financial Times Historical Archive, The Making of Modern Law: Legal Treatises, The Making of the Modern World, The Times Digital Archive, and Times Literary Supplement Historical Archive.
EBSCO eBook Collection This link opens in a new window
E-book collection that includes thousands of titles purchased by OhioLINK, plus thousands of public-domain e-books. Preview an e-book online, read each page in depth, jump to specific chapters or pages, or navigate using the table of contents or indexes to directly view content of interest. Every word in every book is searchable.
Feminae: Medieval Women and Gender Index This link opens in a new window
An index to journal articles, book reviews, and essays in books about women, sexuality, and gender during the Middle Ages.
Gender Studies Database This link opens in a new window
Combines "Women's Studies International" and "Men's Studies" databases with coverage of sexual diversity issues and the full spectrum of gender-engaged scholarship, both inside and outside of academia. Source documents include professional journals, conference papers, books, book chapters, government reports, discussion and working papers, theses & dissertations, websites, and other sources.
JSTOR (Books, journals, primary sources, & Artstor) This link opens in a new window
Provides electronic, full text access to the back files to hundreds of scholarly periodicals in a variety of disciplines in humanities, arts and sciences, social sciences, and business. Coverage begins with the first issue of the journal. The latest issue available is determined by a moving wall. The moving wall represents the time period between the last issue available in JSTOR and the most recently published issue of a journal. It is specified by publishers in their license agreements with JSTOR, and generally ranges from three to five years.

Artstor content has been migrated to JSTOR; select the "images" tab to search images.
Kanopy Streaming Service This link opens in a new window
Kanopy is a streaming video site for educational, documentary and feature films. A selection of films are available to CWRU for use in CWRU classes. Instructors may contact a librarian about access to additional films. For more information, visit our Streaming Video guide.
LGBTQ+ Source This link opens in a new window
Provides indexing and abstract coverage of the world's literature regarding Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender issues. Literature includes LGBTQ-specific core periodicals, core books, reference works, monographs, and gray literature, including newsletters, case studies, speeches, etc., with full text of many important and historically significant LGBTQ journals, magazines, monographs, and regional newspapers.
Nineteenth Century Collections Online This link opens in a new window
NCCO is a multi-year global digitization and publishing program focusing on primary source collections of the long nineteenth century, with archives releasing incrementally beginning in spring 2012.
OhioLINK Library Catalog (Classic) This link opens in a new window
Search for books, periodicals, electronic resources and other items in OhioLINK member libraries using the classic catalog interface.
Project MUSE - Standard Collection This link opens in a new window
Full text database covering the fields of literature and criticism, history, visual and performing arts, cultural studies, education, political science, gender studies, and others.
OhioLINK subscribes to "basic" collection. Kelvin Smith Library has upgraded to the "standard" collection. See the title list.
Women and Social Movements in the United States, 1600-2000 (scholar's edition) This link opens in a new window
This extensive collection of primary historic documents, books, images, scholarly essays, teaching tools, and book and Web site reviews documents the history of women's activism in public life, and is one of the most heavily visited resources for women's studies and for U.S. history on the Web. Organized around document projects written by leading scholars, the collection is a powerful research and classroom tool designed to help users develop the skills needed to analyze primary documents and conduct research. Document projects are organized around interpretive questions, each with 20-50 primary documents that address the question.
Women Writers Project This link opens in a new window
Texts by English and American women published between 1500 and 1830.