Womens Study Databases
Article Databases
Below is a list of recommended Databases for WSGR
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SocINDEX This link opens in a new windowContains full text for 397 "core" journals dating back to 1908 and 150 "priority" journals. Also includes full text for books, monographs and conference papers.
Subject: Sociology and related fields such as Criminology and Criminal Justice, Gender Studies, Social Psychology, Religion etc. -
Academic Search Complete This link opens in a new windowAcademic Search Complete is a multi-disciplinary full text database, with more than 8,600 full text periodicals, including more than 7,500 peer-reviewed journals.
Subject: All subject areas. -
PsycINFO This link opens in a new windowPsycINFO contains citations and summaries of journal articles, book chapters, books, technical reports, and dissertations.
Subject: Psychology. -
CBCA Complete This link opens in a new windowCanadian Business & Current Affairs (CBCA) Complete combines full text and indexed content from all four CBCA database subsets
Subject: Covers current events, business, science, the arts, and academic information as produced in Canada. -
JSTOR This link opens in a new windowThe Library subscribes to the Arts & Sciences Collection I, II, III, IV and Complement.
Subject: General/multidisciplinary; science; business; humanities and social sciences; botany; ecology and mathematics. -
LGBTQ+ Life with Full Text This link opens in a new windowProvides abstracts and citations to Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender literature published worldwide. Citations represent periodical articles, books, newspapers, newsletters, case studies, speeches, and other formats. Also includes full text for GLBT journals, magazines and regional newspapers, as well as numerous full text books.
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CINAHL Complete This link opens in a new windowCINAHL Complete covers nursing and allied health literature. It offers broad coverage of over 50 nursing specialties, nutrition, general health & medicine and more.
Subject: Nursing, general health & medicine, nutrition. -
Canadian Newsstream This link opens in a new windowFull text access to British Columbia and Canadian newspapers. Coverage: 1985 - present.
Subject: News and current events. -
Vancouver Sun (1912-2010) This link opens in a new windowFull-text coverage of the Vancouver Sun newspaper from its inception in 1912 to 2010. Contains full-page images of each issue.
eJournals
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Journal of Women's History
Journal of Women’s History publishes cutting-edge scholarship from around the globe in all historical periods. The Journal also promotes comparative and transnational methods and approaches to historical constructions of gender as they shape and are in turn shaped by women’s experiences. -
Women's Studies
Articles, review articles, poetry, short fiction, film and book reviews of scholarship and criticism about women in the fields of literature, history, art, sociology, law, political science, economics, anthropology and the sciences. -
Off Our Backs
A news journal by, for and about women. -
Women's Studies Journal
Publishes writing by women that explores the concerns of women's studies and feminism. Aimed at academics with an interest in gender issues, focusing on research and debate concerning women's studies in New Zealand and the Pacific. -
Feminist Studies
This journal provides access to articles that focus on women's experience and on gender as a category of analysis of a critical, scholarly, speculative and political nature, poetry and art, reports from the women's movement and strategies for change.