Women's Studies resources - general
Academic Liaison Librarian: Sue Cumberpatch
I want to know ...
- Where to search for journal articles and primary sources
- How to search for journal articles using electronic databases (Library training for my subject)
- What electronic journals are available for my subject
- What useful websites and reference sources there are for my subject
- How my books are arranged in the Library and what shelf locations mean
Where to search for journal articles and primary sources
MetaLib resources for Women's Studies (York users only)
A gateway to bibliographic databases, statistical datasets, electronic journals and other Web resources available to members of the University. Includes guides and links to help. Also allows cross-searching of resources, and alerts. Log in with your University username and password to access all of these features.
Primary Sources for Women's History in the University Library
A guide to the Library's specialist primary resources for women's history in microform and online formats
How to search for journal articles using electronic databases (Library training for my subject)
Academic Liaison Librarians have written workbooks to help you develop your skills in searching for information resources for your coursework or research.
They can be used in three main ways:
- During practical teaching sessions delivered during your course by Academic Liaison Librarians
- Independently in your own time if there isn't a teaching session you can go to
- To remind yourself how to find information resources and use databases if it's been a while since your teaching session
What electronic journals are available for my subject
Electronic Journals at York
Provides links to an alphabetical list of full text electronic journals available at York, subject lists of full text and other electronic journals, publishers' collections of electronic journals, online newspapers and news services and directories of electronic journals.
Free electronic journals
This is a selective list of free electronic journals related to women's studies. These usually contain tables of content information, and may also include abstracts, partial full text and even information not included in the print version. Generally, however, they do not have the full text of all articles.
- Agenda: Empowering Women for Gender Equity [Agenda, South Africa]
- Australian Feminist Studies [Carfax]
- Feminist Africa [African Gender Institute]
- Feminist Collections: A Quarterly of Women's Studies Resources [University of Wisconsin]
- Feminist Economics [Routledge]
- Feminist Media Studies [Routledge]
- Feminist Studies [University of Maryland]
- Gender and Development [Oxfam]
- Gender Issues [Transaction Publishers]
- Gender, Place and Culture [Carfax] - A Journal of Feminist Geography
- The Gully Online magazine in English and Spanish billed as a "unique forum for the global lgbt community."
- Health Care for Women International [Taylor and Francis]
- Hypatia: Journal of Feminist Philosophy [Indiana University Press]
- Journal of International Women's Studies [Bridgewater State College]
- Journal of the Association for Research of Mothering [Association for Research of Mothering]
- Journal of Women's Health and Gender-Based Medicine [Mary Ann Liebert]
- Lolapress [Uruguay]
- Network/Le Reseau (Canadian Women's Health Network Magazine)
- NIKK Magasin {Nordic Institute for Women's Studies and Gender Research. In English]
- Nora: Nordic Journal of Women's Studies [Taylor and Francis]
- NWSA (National Women's Studies Association) Journal [Indiana University Press]
- Resources for Feminist Research [University of Toronto]
- Social Politics: International Studies in Gender, State & Society [ingenta/Oxford University Press]
- Sex Roles [Plenum
- Studies in Gender and Sexuality [The Analytic Press]
- thirdspace [thirdspace, Vancouver] - "a top-quality, refereed journal that demonstrates the broad range of applications for feminist theory and methodology, as well as gives emerging feminist scholars a venue for their work."
- Voices Unabridged: The e-magazine for Women and Human Rights Worldwide - "provides international news and analyses global trends and events pertaining to women and human rights."Registered as a not-for-profit organisation with the US Department of State.
- Women: a Cultural Review [Routledge]
- Women in Action [Isis International, Manila]
Other listings of free women's studies ejournals:
- Directory of Open Access Journals: Gender Studies - includes some free Women's Studies ejournals such as Advancing Women in Leadership, Journal of International Women's Studies, and Thirdspace: a Journal for Emerging Feminist Scholars.
- Feminist Periodicals: A Current Listing of Contents - a quarterly list from the University of Wisconsin System Women's Studies Librarian's Office.
- Feminist Research Center: Feminist journals - a bibliography of journal titles, with links to electronic versions where available, maintained by the U.S. Feminist Majority Foundation.
- National Journals and Newsletters for Gender Research in the Nordic Countries - includes some ejournals.
- National Women's Studies Association list of Scholarly Journals in Women's Studies - an appendix to Defining Women's Studies Scholarship: A Statement of the National Women's Studies Association Task Force on Faculty Roles and Rewards (1999)
- Women's Studies section of the Association of College and Research Libraries, American Library Association, has a core list of Women's Studies journals with descriptions and links to their websites.
- International Archive of the Women's Movement periodicals catalogue -from the organisation based in Amsterdam. Click on periodicals and then on list of current periodicals.
What useful websites and reference sources there are for my subject
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Collections & Directories
Libraries, publishers and databases
- ARIADNE - a German-language bibliographic database of 10000 records (mainly articles) from the holdings of the Austrian National Library in Vienna, focusing on "international and women's studies literature".
- Core Lists in Women's Studies - from the (U.S.) Association of College and Research Libraries' Women's Studies section. "These Core Lists of books in women's studies are intended to assist women's studies librarians and collection development librarians in building women's studies collections. Because the lists include only books currently in print, they also serve as a guide to teaching faculty in selecting available course readings. The focus of most of the lists is on women in the United States. Each list consists of 20 to 75 titles, and the most important five to ten titles are starred. The lists are updated each January. Titles no longer in print are dropped, and newly published titles added. "
- gender Inn: Women's and Gender Studies Database - bibliographic database (with thesaurus) hosted by the University of Cologne, "providing access to over 5000 records pertaining to feminist theory, feminist literary criticism and gender studies, focusing on English and American literature." In English and German.
- Glasgow Women's Library - established in 1991, it grew out of the women's arts-orientated project, Women in Profile (1987), to ensure the visibility of women in the programming of the Glasgow, European City of Culture year (1990). The Library now offers a number of opportunities including helping women with their reading and writing, creative courses, a young lesbian and bisexual women's peer support project, a community garden and a lending library and helpdesk accessed by over 1,800 members.
- International Women's Issues tutorials - "a group of interactive tutorials that teach concepts and techniques for effective searching and retrieval of online information on International Women's Issues." From the University of Wisconsin system libraries.
- LitWomen.org - originally published as the University Press Column for Feminist Bookstore News. Includes Feminist Academic Press Column - originally published as the University Press Column for Feminist Bookstore News, this review site covers titles of both general/trade and academic interest from university and academic presses. Only books that are recently published and available are reviewed. Also includes Women in Print - A comprehensive listing of women's, feminist, lesbian presses and bookstores in the US.
- University of Wisconsin Women's Studies Librarian's Office - includes guides to core texts (updated annually) and recommended bibliographies, plus regular extras such as Feminist Collections: a quarterly of Women's Studies resources - "news and reviews of the latest print and audiovisual resources for research and teaching in women's studies". Site also incorporates a very substantial directory of Selected Women and Gender Resources on the World Wide Web, covering electronic journals, women's organisations, course materials and other Internet resources.
- Women's Studies Database - searchable collection of documents and links maintained by the University of Maryland, including government reports, conference information, directories, mailing lists etc. See in particular the collection of bibliographies on a range of subjects relating to women's studies.
Internet portals and gateways
- Association of College and Research Libraries : Women's Studies - an annual core list of Web resources.
- BUBL Link: Women - searchable collection of links to Internet resources, with classified descriptions, nationally-funded for the UK H.E. community.
- Femina web search for women - searchable classified directory of popular and academic sites.
- Internet for Women's Studies - written by Christine Wise of The Women's Library, London Guildhall University. It is one of a set of tutorials within the RDN Virtual Training Suite.
- Intute: Women's Studies - an extensive nationally-funded gateway to internet resources, which can be browsed by subject or searched by keyword. Browsing can be restricted to UK or European resources. Sites are described in detail. Resource descriptions edited and maintained by staff of the Women's Library
- UMBC (University of Maryland Baltimore County) Women's Studies Program - site maintained by Joan Korenman, incorporates extensive collections of Internet resources, including:
- WMST-L - information on this major academic e-mail list for discussion of women's studies.
- Women on Google - Google's directory section relating to women, including hundreds of links to all aspect of women's issues, eg. health, rights, religion, mothers.
- Women's Studies on Yahoo - similar to the Google directory, from Yahoo.
- Women's Studies/Women's Issues Resource Sites - "a selective, alphabetical listing of websites 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". Very extensive list; not searchable. Maintained by Joan Korenman at University of Maryland Baltimore County, USA.
- WSSLinks: Women and Gender Studies Websites - developed and maintained by the Women's Studies Section Collection Development Committee of the Association of College and Research Libraries (USA).
- Women Writers Online is a major database subscribed to at York relevant to Women's Studies.
Electronic forums and news sites
- Baghdad Burning: Girl Blog from Iraq - this blog has been maintained by a young iraqi woman 'Riverbend' since the fall of Saddam Hussein in 2003. It has received widespread press coverage for its personal commentary on the aftermath of the Gulf War, living conditions in iraq and the daily lives of iraqi women during the period. The commentary is at time sarcastic, critical of the coalition government and passionate, offering access to a perspective which is often overlooked by the official histories. users may access all entries from 2003 onwards.
- Feministing - Young women are rarely given the opportunity to speak on their own behalf on issues that affect their lives and futures. Feministing provides a platform for us to comment, analyze and influence.
- Gender-Related Electronic Forums - "a frequently-updated listing and description of more than 500 e-mail lists that focus on women- or gender-related issues". List maintained by Joan Korenman at University of Maryland Baltimore County, USA.
- News We Can Use - attempts to redress the news balance - "focuses on news, issues, books and websites of interest to women, most of which aren't heavily publicised in the mainstream media. " Rose Aguilar does a marvelous job of finding fascinating articles, for which she provides brief, interesting summaries and links to the full text. Does not archive past news messages. Has an email alerting facility.
- New York College Times - Womens Studies News - "The College Times is a news resource from the New York Times and is a good tool for student and faculty academic research." It presents a news archive categorized by academic subject. Has an email alerting facility.
- The Women's Enews news service - "Women's Enews is a project of the Women, Policy and Media Program of NOW Legal Defence and Education Fund. Women's Enews distributes to major media outlets, journalists, policy makers and ordinary citizens about issues of special concern to women." Also provides a service specifically for journalists and other researchers: a data base of experts on topics of interest to women called WE-Sources. The news service usually features 5-6 articles at a time.
- Women-focused magazines and newspapers on the Web - from the University of Wisconsin Women's Studies Librarian.
Groups, societies and institutions
For societies concerned with specific areas of interest to women, see the appropriate sub-section of this page.
- British Association for International and Comparative Education
- Centre for international and comparative studies, University of Bristol, Graduate school of Education
- Centre for International Education and Research, the School of Education, University of Birmingham
- Comparative and International Education Society (CIES)
- Global List of Women's Organisations - comprehensive list arranged alphabetically by country. Based in the Netherlands (but all text in English); maintained by Denise Osted of Women'space magazine.
- International Center for Research on Women - a private nonprofit organization founded in 1976 and based in Washington, D.C., with an office in India. ICRW's mission is to improve the lives of women in poverty, advance women's equality and human rights, and contribute to the broader economic and social well-being. ICRW accomplishes this, in partnership with others, through research, capacity building, and advocacy on issues affecting women's economic, health, and social status in low- and middle-income countries.
- Centre for the study of Education in an International Context (CEIC), Department of Education, University of Bath
- Partnership on Sustainable Strategies for Girls Education - An international, inter-agency group dedicated to improving educational opportunities for girls in the developing world. The Partner Agencies are the Department for International Development (DFID) U.K., The World Bank, and the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF).
- United Nations - large searchable site in English, French and Spanish, incorporating a number of useful sections relating to women.
- World Council of Comparative Education Societies
Academic/scholarly organisations
- Resources of Scholarly Societies: Women's Issues - links to women's academic/professional organisations (some bias towards N. America) maintained by the University of Waterloo Library, Canada.
How my books are arranged in the Library and what shelf locations mean
The following is a summary of the main subject divisions relevant to Women's studies as arranged in the Library. It is not a comprehensive list of all subjects covered.
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