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Core Databases

  • Academic Search Premier [about]

    Academic Search Premier
    Coverage Dates: Varies (mid-1990s) - Present
    Format: Online
    Contains full-text for 3,180 journals, and indexing for over 4,100. Some full-text titles have publisher's embargos which prevent the most current content from being online.

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  • Alternative Press Index: 1969 - 1990 [about]

    Alternative Press Index: 1969 - 1990
    Coverage Dates: 1969 - 1990
    Format: Online


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  • Alternative Press Index: 1991 - Prese... [about]

    Alternative Press Index: 1991 - Present
    Coverage Dates: 1991 - Present
    Format: Online


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  • Contemporary Women's Issues [about]

    Contemporary Women's Issues
    Coverage Dates: 1992 - Present
    Format: Online
    Journals, newsletters and research reports containing information on women in over 190 countries.

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  • Gender Studies Database [about]

    Gender Studies Database
    Coverage Dates: 1972 - Present
    Format: Online
    Combines "Women’s Studies International" and "Men’s Studies" databases with the coverage of sexual diversity issues. GSD covers the full spectrum of gender scholarship and includes several thousand links to freely available and indexed full-text articles. Source documents include professional journals, conference papers, books, book chapters, government reports, discussion and working papers, theses & dissertations, websites and other sources.

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  • MLA International Bibliography [about]

    MLA International Bibliography
    Coverage Dates: 1920's - Present
    Format: Online
    Coverage includes journal articles series, monographs, dissertations, bibliographies, proceedings and other materials.

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  • Sociological Abstracts [about]

    Sociological Abstracts
    Coverage Dates: 1952 - Present
    Format: Online
    Abstracts and indexes the international literature in sociology and related disciplines in the social and behavioral sciences. Drawn from over 1,700 serials publications, and also provides abstracts of books, book chapters, dissertations, and conference papers.

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