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Academic Search Premier Campus Faculty, Staff and Students only ArticleLinker enabled Some full text available
Coverage: 1975-present (with selected older titles). A multi-disciplinary database with significant full-text. This scholarly collection offers information in nearly every area of academic study.

Alternative Press Index Campus Faculty, Staff and Students only ArticleLinker enabled
Coverage: 1991-present. Subject index to alternative and radical left periodicals covering cultural, economic, political & social change.

America: History and Life Campus Faculty, Staff and Students only ArticleLinker enabled Some full text available
Coverage: 1964-present. A resource for studying the history and culture of the United States and Canada, from prehistory to the present.

GenderWatch Campus Faculty, Staff and Students only ArticleLinker enabled Some full text available
Coverage: varies. A database of diverse publications that focus on how gender impacts a broad spectrum of subject areas, providing important historical perspective on the evolution of the women`s movement and the changes in gender roles.

Sociological Abstracts Online Campus Faculty, Staff and Students only ArticleLinker enabled
Coverage: 1963-present. Covers the international literature in sociology and related disciplines in the social and behavioral sciences.

Women`s Studies International Campus Faculty, Staff and Students only ArticleLinker enabled Some full text available
Coverage: 1972-present. Covers the core disciplines in Women`s Studies including the latest scholarship in feminist research. Women`s Studies International has the highest percent of coverage for core titles in the field.

International Bibliography of the Social Sciences Campus Faculty, Staff and Students only ArticleLinker enabled
Coverage: 1951-present. An online resource for social science and interdisciplinary research. For book reviews, search title of book and REVIEW in Publication Type.

Encyclopedias

Encyclopedia of Contemporary LGBTQ Literature Campus Faculty, Staff and Students only Some full text available
2009 ed.  Contains hundreds of alphabetically arranged entries survey contemporary lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgendered, and queer American literature and its social contexts.

Encyclopedia of Gender and Society Campus Faculty, Staff and Students only Some full text available
2009 ed.  Covers the major theories, research, people, and issues in contemporary gender studies. This comprehensive, two-volume encyclopedia is distinguished by a cross-national/cross-cultural perspective that provides comparative analyses of the life experiences of men and women around the world.

Gay and Lesbian Rights Campus Faculty, Staff and Students only Some full text available
2009 ed. Provides readers with the background and resources needed to understand these civil rights issues.

Britannica Online Campus Faculty, Staff and Students only Some full text available
Coverage: current. This web version of the Encyclopedia Britannica includes links to websites, a subject guide to the Internet, and special features.

LGBT, encyclopedia of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender history in America Campus Faculty, Staff and Students only Some full text available
2004 ed. Provides a comprehensive survey of lesbian and gay history and culture in the United States. Includes articles ranging from short biographical entries to longer essays surveying topics such as the Stonewall riots, federal law and policy, same sex institutions, and AIDS.

Newspapers

New York Times -Proquest Historical Newspapers Campus Faculty, Staff and Students only ArticleLinker enabled Some full text available
1851 - 3 years ago. This database offers full-text and full-image articles for New York Times dating back to the 19th century. The collection includes digital reproductions of every page from every issue--cover to cover--in downloadable PDF files.

Primary Sources

Campus Faculty, Staff and Students only ArticleLinker enabled Some full text available

Times Digital Archive Campus Faculty, Staff and Students only Some full text available
Coverage: 1785-1985. Search the full-text of the Times (London) Digital Archive. The entire newspaper is captured, with all articles, advertisements and illustrations/photos.

Dictionaries

Webster`s Third New International Dictionary Unabridged Campus Faculty, Staff and Students only Some full text available
Coverage: current. The largest and most comprehensive American dictionary.

Web Sites

Global Health Reporting Unrestricted Resource Some full text available
Information on global health conditions, this site was created for journalists and the general public. Frequently update, the page contains information on HIV/AIDS tuberculosis and malaria. There are features such as "New & Noteworthy" and "Reporting Tools" that features glossaries, reporting manuals, disease tutorials and multimedia.

Same-Sex Marriage: A Selective Bibliography of the Legal Literature Unrestricted Resource
Journal articles from 1997 forward and useful web links for the study of same-sex marriage.

Biographical Information

American National Biography Campus Faculty, Staff and Students only Some full text available
Coverage: 900-present. This is the authoritative biographical source for Americans who died prior to 1996.

Reviews

Book Review Index Online Campus Faculty, Staff and Students only ArticleLinker enabled
Coverage: 1965-present. Indexes reviews in journals, general interest magazines, and scholarly journals.

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