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Women's Studies International

Covers the core disciplines in Women’s Studies to the latest scholarship in feminist research.  Coverage includes more than 871,000 records and spans from 1972 and earlier to present, from over 2,000 periodicals.

Academic Search Complete

This interdisciplinary database features fulltext for over 8,500 journals, as well as abstracts and indexing for over 12,500 journals. Strong social science coverage.

PsycINFO

Indexes books and periodical articles in over 1,700 international journals in psychology and related fields. Journal coverage begins in 1872, and book chapters, books, technical reports, and dissertations in 1987.

SocINDEX

A sociology research database which provides over 2.1 million records with subject headings from a 20,000+ term sociological thesaurus. Women's Studies is one of the major areas of coverage.