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Women's and Gender Studies Subject Guide
Databases
| For a brief online tutorial click this link How to...Using Databases |
| Sociological Abstracts |
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Major international resource for sociology. Good source for feminist theory. (1974+) |
| Women's studies international |
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Broad ranging coverage of women's issues. (1972+) |
| Historical Abstracts |
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Covers world history from 1450 to present day, including social history. |
| Alternative Press Index |
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Indexes resources outside mainstream academic literature. Strong emphasis on women's issues, feminism, gender studies. (1991+) |
| JSTOR full text 1800+ |
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Provides retrospective full text access to a range of journals. Click on browse to see the range of journals included, or search across a range of journals. |
| Communication & Mass Media Complete Full text |
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Broad coverage of media and related topics. |
| Defining Gender 1450 - 1910 |
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This new online project brings together approximately 50,000 images of original manuscript and printed material, including a strong core of documents from the Bodleian Library, Oxford . Ephemeral material such as ballads, cartoons and pamphlets is featured alongside diaries, advice literature, medical journals, conduct books and periodicals. Structured into five sections, Defining Gender, 1450-1910, Online addresses Conduct and Politeness (Section I), Domesticity and the Family (Section II), Consumption and Leisure (Section III), Education and Sensibility (Section IV) and The Body (Section V).
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Related Databases
| APAIS (Australian Public Affairs Information Service) full text |
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Major index to journals published in Australia. |
| ASSIAnet : Applied Social Science Abstracts |
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Indexes practical and theoretical issues in the Social Sciences. (1987+) |
| Bibliography of Asian Studies |
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Indexes Western language periodicals. Includes coverage of gender in Asian societies. (1971+) |
| Expanded Academic full text |
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Covers a wide range of academic journals (1980+) |
| FAMILY : Australian Family and Society Abstracts |
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Compiled by the Australian Institute of Family Studies. Includes coverage of women's and gender issues (1980+) |
| International Bibliography of the Social Sciences : IBSS |
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One of the premier social sciences databases. (1951+) |
| International Political Science Abstracts |
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Includes coverage of women in politics, gender politics and feminist politics. (1989+) |
| Left Index |
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Covers a broad range of literature of the left. Includes coverage of social issues. |
| MAIS : Multicultural Australia and Immigration Studies |
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An Australian database focusing on multiculturalism, ethnicity and race relations within Australia. Useful for coverage of migrant women in Australia. (1940+) |
| PAIS (Public Affairs Information Service) |
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International coverage of international relations and current events. (1972+) |
| Poole's index to periodical literature |
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Indexes newspapers and journals from the 19th century
Only in print at SREF050/8/(1-6) |
| PsycINFO |
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Scholarly content and the main resource for psychological research. |
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| Open J-Gate |
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Open J-Gate is an electronic gateway to global journal literature in open access domain and provides access to millions of journal articles available online. |
Libraries Australia, Scopus & Web of Science
| Libraries Australia |
| Formerly called Kinetica. Useful database for finding the location of items in other libraries in Australia. Includes holdings for 850 Australian libraries. |
| Scopus |
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Scopus is an abstract and citation database of research literature including peer-reviewed titles, Open Access journals, conference proceedings, trade publications, patent records, scientific web pages, and seamless links to full text articles and other library resources. It is updated daily.
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| Web of Science |
| Provides citation indexing, which is searching to find out who has cited a particular book or journal article. |
Theses Databases
| Sirius Theses page |
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This is a link to the Sirius Thesis page which lists all the main resources for theses including Writing and presenting your thesis or dissertation . This can be independently navigated by clicking Sirius, clickingFind Resources, clickLocate and using theType dropdown menu, selectTheses. |
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Replaces Digital Dissertations. Covers North American theses from 1861 onwards, with abstracts included from 1980. Includes UNSW doctoral theses (from 1974) and theses from most universities in Great Britain (from 1988). Of the more than 2 million listed, more than 600,000 of the more recent theses are now available for immediate free download.
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| Index to theses |
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Contains records of theses accepted for higher degrees by the Universities of Great Britain and Ireland. |
| Australian Digital Theses Program full text |
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Australian theses. The ADT database provides access to PhD and Masters by Research theses only. Theses available to download in PDF format. |
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