Women, Gender & Sexuality Studies: Finding Articles
Finding Recent Articles in the Library Catalog Video
This video demonstrates how to find recent newspaper and peer reviewed articles in the Portland State University Library Catalog.
Core Databases
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Gender Studies Database This link opens in a new windowCombines Women's Studies International and Men's Studies databases. Provides citations to journal articles, conference papers, book chapters, government reports, and working papers as well as theses and dissertations.
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LGBT Life with Full Text This link opens in a new windowIndexes and contains full text of international literature regarding gay, lesbian, bisexual, transexual, and transgender issues.
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Sociological Abstracts This link opens in a new windowIndexes citations to journal articles, book chapters, dissertations, and conference proceedings in the field of sociology and related disciplines in the social and behavioral sciences.
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Independent Voices This link opens in a new windowThis is an open access digital collection of alternative press newspapers, magazines and journals.
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Gerritsen Women's History Collection of Aletta H. Jacobs This link opens in a new windowIncludes digitized books, pamphlets and periodicals reflecting the evolution of a feminist consciousness and the movement for women's rights in the US, Europe, and around the world. Materials date from 1534 to 1945, with especially strong coverage of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
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Women and Social Movements in the United States, 1600-2000, Scholar's Edition This link opens in a new windowMaintains primary source documents and historical interpretations focusing on women in American social movements.
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Manuscript Women's Letters and Diaries from the American Antiquarian Society This link opens in a new windowContains the personal writings of women of the 18th, 19th, and 20th centuries, displayed as high-quality images of the original manuscripts.
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Encyclopedia of Women & Islamic Cultures This link opens in a new windowRepresenting a collaboration of international scholars, the Encyclopedia of Women & Islamic Cultures crosses history, geographic borders, and disciplines to create a reference work that reflects the current research on gender studies and the Islamic world.
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Black Thought and Culture This link opens in a new windowIncludes nonfiction works by major American black leaders and writers as well as the Black Panther newspaper.
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Family Studies Abstracts This link opens in a new windowProvides citations and abstracts on family studies research, including family therapy, marriage, children, and youth.
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Civil Rights in America: From Reconstruction to the Great Society This link opens in a new windowProvides an archive of official publications and primary source material related to civil rights in the United States.
Google Scholar Video
This video describes how to quickly access a full text article from a citation using Google Scholar.
Related Disciplinary and Interdisciplinary Databases
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Ethnic Newswatch This link opens in a new windowIncludes current newspapers, magazines, newsletters, and community publications of the ethnic, minority, and native presses. Includes scholarly journals on ethnicities and ethnic studies. Provides full text in English and Spanish.
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America: History and Life This link opens in a new windowIncludes citations of articles and books on the history and culture of the United States, Mexico, and Canada.
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Sociological Abstracts This link opens in a new windowIndexes citations to journal articles, book chapters, dissertations, and conference proceedings in the field of sociology and related disciplines in the social and behavioral sciences.
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PAIS Index (Public Affairs Information Service) This link opens in a new windowCovers public affairs, public and social policy, and international relations. Includes national and international journal articles, books, government documents, statistics, grey literature, research reports, conference papers, microfiche, and pertinent web sites.
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PDXScholar This link opens in a new windowPortland State University's Digital Repository, PDXScholar, preserves the University's research, unique resources, and other scholarly output with the goal of providing persistent, access to that work.
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Web of Science This link opens in a new windowMaintains citation searching for high impact research journals in the arts and humanities, social sciences, and sciences and includes emerging sources citation indexing from 2005.