Note: Women's Studies is an interdisciplinary subject area. By examining research materials in the Social Sciences and Humanities-related fields, one can devise a fairly comprehensive and diverse range of resources.
To Find Books
Use the MERLIN Library Catalog and the MOBIUS Union Catalog to find resources relevant to your research. Relevant works can be found using subject headings (Library of Congress) such as:
- Abused Women
- Aged Women
- Feminism
- Feminist Theory
- Gender Identity
- Homeless Women
- Homosexuality
- Lesbianism
- Lesbians
- Lesbians' Writings
- Mass Media and Women
- Women - Cross-Cultural Studies
- Women - Education
- Women - Employment
- Women - History
- Women - Legal Status, Laws, etc.
To find the location of a book in Miller Nichols Library, see the Location Guide.
To Find Articles
Remote (off-campus) access to databases is available only to UMKC students, faculty, and staff. All other users must access online resources within the Libraries. Begin searching by selecting a database. After selection you will be prompted to provide a UMKC Single Sign-On user name and password OR a 9-digit UMKC ID number followed by the letter k (example: 0123456789k) and last name, as needed.
- Current Contents (Ovid) July 1993 - present.
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Links to full text 1998 - present. Scans the tables of contents and provides abstracts of articles from over 7,600 of the world's leading scientific and scholarly journals. Includes agriculture, biology, environmental sciences, arts and humanities, social and behavioral sciences, clinical medicine, life sciences, physical sciences, chemistry, earth sciences, engineering, computing, and technology. Link to Ovid Web user's guide. - ISI Web of Science
Note: This database is no longer be available.. Permits multidisciplinary searching for articles from international academic journals in the sciences, social sciences, and the arts and humanities. This combined database for the Science Citation Index, the Social Sciences Citation Index, and the Arts & Humanities Citation Index offers cited reference searching. Link to ISI Web of Science user's guide. - OmniFile V Full Text (Wilson) 1982 - present. Save to del.icio.us
Selected full text 1994 - present.Provides indexing, abstracts, and some full-text from five of Wilson's full-text indexes: General Science Full Text, Humanities Full Text, Readers' Guide Full Text, Social Sciences Full Text, and Wilson Business Full Text. - Project MUSE (Premium Collection) Save to del.icio.us
Full text 1993 - present.
New Additional journals are now available with the upgrade to Project MUSE Premium Collection. Supplies full-text articles from scholarly journals in literature and criticism, history, the visual and performing arts, cultural studies, education, political science, and gender studies. - PsycINFO (Ovid) 1872 - present. Save to del.icio.us
PsycINFO (Ovid) 1967 - present. Save to del.icio.us
PsycINFO (Ovid) 1985 - present. Save
to del.icio.usContains citations and abstracts of journal articles and other research materials
in the various areas of psychology. Link to Ovid
Web user's guide. - PsycLIT database - Available in CDROM in the Information Commons.
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Sociological Abstracts (CSA) 1963 - present. Save to del.icio.us
"CSA Sociological Abstracts abstracts and indexes the international literature in sociology and related disciplines in the social and behavioral sciences. The database provides abstracts of journal articles and citations to book reviews drawn from over 1,809 serials publications, and also provides abstracts of books, book chapters, dissertations, and conference papers. Records added since 1973 contain in-depth and nonevaluative abstracts of journal articles. Major areas of coverage include: culture and social structure; demography and human biology; economic development; environmental interactions; evaluation research; family and social welfare; health and medicine and law; history and theory of sociology; management and complex organizations; mass phenomena and political interactions; methodology and research technology; policy, planning, forecast and speculation; radical sociology; religion and science; rural and urban sociology; social development; social differentiation; social psychology and group interaction; sociology of the arts, business, education; studies in violence and power; substance abuse and addiction; welfare services; and women's studies." [Source: Sociological Abstracts Factsheet, accessed February 17, 2005] - Sociological Abstracts (1953- )
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Selected Journals
This list includes journals available in the University Libraries (check the MERLIN Library Catalog for holdings and location information). To identify additional related journals, search MERLIN by subject or keyword.
Print Journals Available at Miller Nichols Library:
(links to electronic versions, if available, are found on the MERLIN record site)
- Chrysalis (1977-1980)
- Differences (1995-1998)
- "A Journal of Feminist Cultural Studies."
- The Feminist Art Journal (1972-1977)
- Feminist
Collections: A Quarterly of Women's Studies Resources
- Also online at www.library.wisc.edu/libraries/WomensStudies/fcmain.htm.
- Feminist Studies: FS (1972- )
- Feminist Teacher (1991- )
- Gender & Society: Official Publication of Sociologists for Women in Society (1989- )
- GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies (1993- )
- Hypatia (1996- )
- Journal of the History of Sexuality (1990- )
- Journal of Sex Research (1967- )
- NWSA Journal (1988- )
- National Women's Studies Association
- Psychology of Women Quarterly (1990- )
- Signs (1975- )
- Women's History Review (1992- )
- Women's Studies (1972- )
- Women's Studies in Communication (1989- )
Electronic Journals on the Web:
- Feminista! The Journal of Feminist Construction
(www.feminista.com/issues/front.php) - N. Paradoxa
"The only international feminist art journal exploring feminist theory and contemporary women's art practices."
(web.ukonline.co.uk/n.paradoxa/) - Women in Judaism: A Multidisciplinary
Journal
(www.utoronto.ca/wjudaism/)
Reference Sources: Encyclopedias, Handbooks, Directories, Statistics, Bibliographies
Reference sources are useful for locating background information, definitions, general descriptions, and basic facts. Use these books to help you select or focus your research topic.
All call numbers in this guide refer to the UMKC Miller Nichols Library, unless otherwise noted. Titles are linked to the corresponding MERLIN Library Catalog record.
Encyclopedias and Dictionaries
| Encyclopedia of Marriage and the Family (2 vols.) | Ref HQ9 .E52 |
| Gay and Lesbian Biography | Ref HQ75.2 .G39 |
| Completely Queer: The Gay and Lesbian Encyclopedia | Ref HQ75 .H63 |
| Women in the Third World: An Encyclopedia of Contemporary Issues | Ref HQ1870 .9 W6548 |
Histories/Chronologies
| Women's Almanac (3 vols.) | Ref HQ1111 .W73 |
| History of Women in the United States (20 vols.) | Ref HQ1410 .H57 |
| Antifeminism in America (3 vols.) | Ref HQ1426 .A58 |
Statistics
| Statistical Handbook on Women in America | Ref HQ1420 .T34 |
Bibliographies
| Feminist Research Methods: An Annotated Bibliography | Ref HQ1180 .F44 M54 |
| The New Men's Studies: A Selected and Annotated Interdisciplinary Bibliography | Ref HQ1090 .A84 |
Web Resources
- Feminist Theory Website
(www.cddc.vt.edu/feminism) - Center for Research on Women
Wellesley Centers for Women, Wellesley College
(www.wellesley.edu/WCW/crwsub.html) - Schlesinger Library on the History
of Women in America
Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Harvard University
(www.radcliffe.edu/schles/) - Women's
Studies Librarian Office
University of Wisconsin System
(www.library.wisc.edu:80/libraries/WomensStudies) - The Women's Resource
Project
Site is now archival and no longer being updated.
(www.ibiblio.org/cheryb/women/) - The Kinsey Institute for Research in
Sex, Gender and Reproduction
(www.indiana.edu/~kinsey/) - Above and Beyond Gender Resources
(www.abgender.com) - Queer Resources Directory
(www.qrd.org) - Gay/Lesbian Politics and Law
(www.indiana.edu/~glbtpol) - Information Resources
for Gay, Lesbian and Bisexual Studies
(www.library.ucsb.edu/subj/gay.html) - Women's History
(womenshistory.about.com) - Women's Bureau
(http://www.dol.gov/wb/) - National Women's History Museum
(http://www.nmwh.org/) - ViVa: A Bibliography of Women's History in Historical
and Women's Studies Journals
(www.iisg.nl/~womhist/vivahome.php)
Use search engines linked on the Internet Search Tools page to identify additional Web resources.
For further assistance, please contact the
Miller Nichols Library Reference Desk at (816) 235-1534.
