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Alison Regan, 581-3883 (library subject specialist) | U of U  Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender Resource Center | Charles Milne (Department Representative)

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Gender Studies Indexes and Databases
Cross Disciplinary Indexes and Databases
Reference Sources

Indexes and DatabasesThis resource is available to University of Utah users only.:

GenderWatch: Collection of international journals, magazines, newsletters, regional publications, special reports and conference proceedings devoted to women's and gender issues. Full text coverage.

Cross Disciplinary Indexes and DatabasesThis resource is available to University of Utah users only.(disciplines across the human sciences):

Academic Universe: Access to a wide range of current events, news, magazines, business, legal, medical, and reference information. Full text coverage.

Ebsco Host : Access to social sciences, humanities, general science, education, multicultural journal literature; newspapers, and reference sources. Citations, abstracts; partial full text coverage.

First Search Databases: Web interfaces to a group of 20 online databases, including ArticleFirst, Book Review Digest; ContentsFirst, NetFirst, and WorldCat.

Global NewsBank: Contains comprehensive coverage of news summaries, broadcasts and transcripts from hundreds of international sources. Full text coverage.

Humanities Abstracts: Covers humanities and related subjects. Citations and abstracts only.

JSTOR: Provides image and text access to back issues of selected scholarly journals in history, economics, political science, demography, mathematics, and other fields of the humanities and social sciences. Full text coverage..

MLA Bibliography: Consists of bibliographic records pertaining to literature, language, linguistics, and folklore. Citations and abstracts only.

Periodicals Contents Index: Index to the contents of thousands of periodicals in the humanities and social sciences, from their first issues to 1991. Citations only.

Project MUSE: Access to scholarly journals in politics from the John Hopkins University press. Full text coverage.

ProQuest Newspapers : coverage of over 150 U.S. and international newspapers. Ninety days of full text articles to the New York Times and Wall Street Journal are included.

ProQuest Digital Dissertations: Access to the first 24 pages of dissertations that have been published since 1997. Full text access to University of Utah Dissertations published from 1997 and forward, and citations only to dissertations before that date.

Reader's Guide Abstracts: Includes popular magazines, news, business, politics, and more. Citations and abstracts only.

SIRS Government Reporter: Documents and graphics concerning a wide variety of topics: health, science, economics, environment, politics, foreign affairs, workplace issues, business and industry. Full text coverage.

SIRS Researcher: Contains articles relating to social, political, global, scientific, health, historical, economic, and business issues. Full text coverage.

Social Sciences Abstracts: Covers all of the political and social sciences. Citations and abstracts only.

Reference Sources:

Encyclopedia of Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer (GLBTQ) Culture

Encyclopedia Britannica: Contains the complete Encyclopedia Britannica, with related Internet sites, Britannica's Internet Guide and the Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary. Also includes interactive maps, biographies, history, "year in review" and notable articles from past editions.

Facts on File: This resource is available to University of Utah users only.Content from seven core reference databases to answer questions about events, issues, statistics and people of the last 20 years, and also delivers in-depth features on "Historic Events" drawn from the 60-year Facts On File archive. The seven databases are: Facts On File World News Digest, Issues and Controversies On File, Today's Science On File, Editorials On File, Funk & Wagnalls New Encyclopedia, Reuters On-Line News Service, The World Almanac and Book of Facts

Oxford English Dictionary: This resource is available to University of Utah users only.The Oxford English Dictionary is a historical dictionary of English, covering the language from the earliest times to the present day. It aims to show not only the current meanings of words, but also to trace their development through time. Entries contain detailed etymological analysis, and are illustrated by quotations from a wide range of English language sources from around the world, making the OED a unique historical record.


 

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Electronic Journals, Newspapers, and ePrint Archive This resource is available to University of Utah users only.(subject classification varies)

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Useful World Wide Web Links:


Gay and Lesbian Politics and Law
Transgender Law and Policy Institute
A Guide to Queer Resources in the Social Sciences
International Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission
Human Rights Campaign
Out of the Past--400 Years of Gay and Lesbian History--PBS [Real Player]
People with a History: an online guide to lesbian, gay, bisexual and trans* history
Queer Resources Directory
Rainbow Query Search the Queer Internet
Trangender's Forum Community Center
Transgender Guide
Bisexual Recource Center

 

LGBT Studies at Other Colleges and Universities

Most universities, like University of Utah, address Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Studies issues in the context of other disciplines. A few, however, offer Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Studies as a field of study for undergraduates. Some of those other universities are listed below:

 

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Marriott Library Help Sheets on the Web

Marriott Library Research Guide

Online: A Reference Guide to Using Internet Sources (Harnack and Kleppinger, Bedford: St. Martin's, 2000).

Revised by Alison Regan, Ph.D..

The URL for this page is http://www.lib.utah.edu/ResGuides/womens.html
Created on 5/07/03. Last updated on 4/07/03