Women's Studies Databases

A great database to get started with for your research on any topic. Use it to search for articles from scholarly (peer-reviewed) journals, newspapers, and magazines.

Provides coverage of the achievements and contributions of African American women in sports, politics, academia, and business throughout history and highlights their contributions in America today.

An open access digital collection of alternative press newspapers and magazines produced by feminists, campus radicals, Native Americans, anti-war activists, Black Power advocates, Hispanics, LGBT activists, and the extreme right-wing press.

Provides access to academic journals and books covering a wide range of disciplines; it also includes some limited primary source collections.

Colonial to 1950 - includes the experiences of 632 women as revealed in diaries and letters.

Collection of biographies of significant, influential or notorious figures who shaped British history.

Draws together the diverse historical and contemporary experiences in the United States of Latinos and Latinas from Mexico, Puerto Rico, Cuba, the Dominican Republic, Central America, South America, Europe, Asia, and the Middle East. Articles address such broad topics as identity, art, politics, religion, education, health, and history.

This encyclopedia delves into the period from 1750 to the present, providing special attention to social, economic, cultural and political topics applicable to the time.

Comprehensively covers the role women have played throughout world history. Contains biographies of influential women and articles covering geography and history, culture and society, organizations, movements, and gender studies.

Scholarly journals and ebooks in the arts and humanities, social sciences and mathematics.

Database of full-text, peer-reviewed articles in psychology. These journals also are accessible through PsycINFO.

Provides peer-reviewed literature in behavioral science and mental health and is produced by the American Psychological Association.

Covers the international literature of sociology, social work, and related disciplines in the social and behavioral sciences.