General "Quicksearch"
Select the "General Resources" grouping on the Quicksearch page. Searches general databases all at once, and gives you an initial 30 hits from each of them. Note: There are no databases specific to women/gender in the General QuickSearch grouping.
General Databases
Academic Search Elite is a general academic index that indexes almost 3,000 magazines and journals from every academic discipline and provides the full-text of many of them.ProQuest Research Library indexes more than 2,000 periodicals and provides the full text of many of them. It has a mix of general interest and academic journals including multicultural and women's issues and international affairs.
Gender/Women's Studies-Specific Databases
Women’s Studies International indexes women’s studies books, journals, and more.GenderWatch is a women's and gender issues database with thousands of full-text articles from about 100 magazines, academic journals, regional publications, and newsletters; and some special reports, including conference proceedings and government reports.
Contemporary Women's Issues provides full-text access to journals, newsletters, reports, pamphlets, bibliographies, fact sheets, and other material on a broad array of women and gender-related issues around the world.
Studies on Women and Gender Abstracts provides paragraph-long summaries of articles in a variety of English-language journals from around the world.
All Gender-Related Databases and E-Resources at UW-Madison.
News Sources
LEXIS/NEXIS Academic Universe is an online service composed of approximately 5,000 legal, news, reference, and business sources, most full text. It includes international and U.S. newspapers, ethnic and regional news sources, magazines, wire services, newsletters, trade journals, company and industry analyst reports, and broadcast transcripts.Core Books
The Core Books database includes titles currently in print selected by academic librarians who volunteer to maintain a subject area. The project assists librarians in building Women's Studies collections and can also serve as a guide to instructional faculty in selecting available course readings.Mega-Websites
Women's Studies/Women's Issues is a selective, annotated, highly acclaimed listing of web sites containing resources and information about women's studies / women's issues, with an emphasis on sites of particular use to an academic women's studies program.Feminist Majority Online covers current issues concerning women.
Gender-Related Electronic Forums is an annotated, frequently-updated, award-winning listing of publicly-accessible e-mail discussion forums (also known as "lists" or ";listservs") related to women or to women-focused gender issues.
WSSLINKS is a well-organized collection of pointers to women's studies material on the Internet, compiled by the Women's Studies Section of the American Library Association.
WWWomen Directory is a searchable directory of women-focused material on the WWW.
The Feminist Theory Website covers fields within feminist theory and individual theorists.
The Men's Bibliography is a comprehensive bibliography of writing on men, masculinities, gender, and sexualities.