Finding articles
To find articles in journals, magazines, or newspapers, you will need to use one of the Library's print indexes or article databases. An index or article database will allow you to look for articles by title, by author, or by a few keywords that describe your topic. The databases most useful for research in womens studies are:
Sage Family Studies Abstracts
HQ728 .S24 Reference | 2nd floor
Citations and abstracts for journal articles in all aspects of family life
America History and Life
America: History and Life is the primary source of citations for articles, book reviews, book chapters, and dissertations on American and Canadian history. The database is not full text, but links are provided to full-text articles in other Library databases. Only sources published since 1964 are covered.
Historical Abstracts
Historical Abstracts is the primary source of citations for articles, book reviews, book chapters, and dissertations on world historical events from 1450-present (excluding the United States and Canada). The database is not full text, but links are provided to full-text articles in other Library databases. All abstracts are in English, though source journals from all languages are included. Only sources published since 1954 are indexed.
PAIS International
Citations on topics of public policy and public debate. Coverage of variety of information sources (periodicals, books, hearings, reports, web sites and government documents) from US and international sources.
PsycInfo
Published by the American Psychological Association, PsycINFO provides citations and indexing to the published psychology literature from 1879-present. Searches may be limited by type of publication, age and sex of research population, type of experimental design, etc.
Sociological Abstracts
Citations to the international literature in sociology and related disciplines. Topics include: culture and social structure; demography; evaluation research; family and social welfare; history and theory of sociology; management and complex organizations; mass phenomena and political interactions; methodology and research; rural and urban sociology; social psychology and group interaction. Coverage of journal articles (drawn from more than 1800 journals), books, book chapters, conference papers, book reviews and dissertations from 1963 - present.
Finding books
Search PSU Library's catalog Vikat for books, journals (not individual articles), videos, government information, music and other material owned by the Library. You may search by keywords, author, title or subject headings.
Browsing the library shelves by call number ranges is another strategy for locating information on a topic; call numbers can help you get to the "right neighborhood" in the library stacks.
HQ1101-HQ2030 Womens studies, Feminism
Subject headings allow you to search library catalogs for materials on a particular topic. Often subject heading searching can be more productive than searching by simple keywords. Listed here are some major subject headings of interest for research in womens studies. Copies of the complete set of the Library of Congress Subject Headings are available at the 2nd floor Reference Desk.
Feminism
Feminist theory
Feminists
Lesbianism
Lesbians
Mothers
Sex Role
Women
Women-[country name]
Women artists (authors, etc.)
Women's rights
Women's studies
Topic summary
Encyclopedias, subject-specific dictionaries and other reference book provide excellent background/overview information on a topic; they can be an excellent place to begin research.
From suffrage to the Senate: An encyclopedia of American women in politics
HQ1236.5 .U6 S32 1999 | 2nd Floor
Women in the Third World: An encyclopedia of contemporary issues
HQ1870.9 .W6548 1998 | 2nd Floor
Women's studies encyclopedia
HQ1115 .W645 1999 | 2nd Floor
Encyclopedia of feminist theories
HQ1190 .E63 2000 | 2nd Floor
A to Z of Native American women
E98 .W8 S65 1998 | 2nd Floor
Facts on File encyclopedia of Black women in America
E185.96 .F2 1997 | 2nd Floor
Encyclopedia of women and world religion
BL458 .E53 1999 | 2nd Floor
American women in technology: an encyclopedia
T36 .Z54 2000 | 2nd Floor
Women in World History : a biographical encyclopedia
HQ1115 .W6 1999 | 2nd Floor
Nobel prize women in science
Q141. M358 1998b | 2nd Floor
Chronology of women worldwide : people, places & events that shaped women's history
HQ1121 .C617 1996 | 2nd Floor
Historical dictionary of feminism
HQ1115 .B65 1996 | 2nd Floor
Dictionary of feminist theory
HQ1115 .H86 1995 | 2nd Floor
Finding people and organizations
National Women's Studies Association
http://nwsa.org/
National Abortion and Reproductive Rights League
http://www.naral.org/index.html
National Organization for Women (NOW)
http://www.now.org
Related information/read more about it (Related web sites)
National Women's History Project
http://www.nwhp.org
Women's Studies Programs, Departments & Research Centers
http://research.umbc.edu/~korenman/wmst/programs.html
WSSLINKS: Women & Gender Studies Web Sites
http://libraries.mit.edu/humanities/WomensStudies/wscd.html
Women's Studies/Women's Resource Sites
http://umbc7.umbc.edu/~korenman/wmst/links.html
Ecofeminism
http://www-rcf.usc.edu/~orenstei/ecofem/
SAWNET: South Asian Women's NETwork
http://www.umiacs.umd.edu/users/sawweb/sawnet/
Margaret Sanger Papers Project
http://www.nyu.edu/projects/sanger/
Selected Online Journals
Differences 1998-present
Hypatia 1999-present Also in print (HQ1101 .H9 v.1-8 1986-1993)
Journal of Women's History 1999/2000-present Also in print (HQ1101 .J68 v.1- 1989-)
NWSA Journal 1999-present Also in print (HQ1101 .N9 v.1- 1988-)
GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian & Gay Studies 2000-present
Research help
Feminist research methods : an annotated bibliography Z7963 .F44 M54 1991