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Alt-Press Watch
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Alternative press index. College Park, MD: Alternative Press Centre. Quarterly. v. 1- July/Dec. 1969-

SML, Starr Main Reference, Index Case Room AI3 +A48 (LC)
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Published since 1969, this quarterly subject index includes several important gay and lesbian journals including the Advocate, Gay Community New, Harvard Gay and Lesbian Review, and the Lambda Book Report.
Contemporary Women's Issues
The Contemporary Women's Issues database provides full-text access to global information on women. Journals, newsletters, research reports from non-profit groups, government and international agencies are easily accessed through CWI. Information on women in over 190 countries.
ERIC (Educational Resources Information Center) (Boston, MA: Silverplatter Information Services, 1966- )

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The Educational Resources Information Center (ERIC) is a federally-funded national information system that provides information about documents and periodical articles on a broad range of education-related issues. AskERIC via the World Wide Web covers from 1991- present. ERIC documents, those with accession numbers beginning with the letters ED, are available on microfiche from 1981 to the present in the SML Microform Reading Room. Periodical articles, those with accession numbers beginning with the letters EJ, may be located by searching by the journal title in Orbis. ERIC is a useful source of information about educational issues surrounding gay and lesbian students and educators.
Feminist periodicals. Madison, WI: Women's Studies Librarian-at-Large, University of Wisconsin System. v. 1, no. 1- (1981)-
SML, Starr Main Reference Room Z7962 +F44 (LC)
Feminist periodicals reproduces the table of contents pages from "all English-language feminist periodicals with a substantial national or regional readership . . . " Several important lesbian periodicals are included such as Common lives/lesbian lives,Hikane, Lesbian Contradiction, and Lesbian Ethics.
GenderWatch (Stamford, CT : SoftLine Information, June 1998- .)
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GenderWatch is a full text database of publications that focus on the impact of gender across a broad spectrum of subject areas including business, education, literature and the arts, health sciences, history, political science, public policy, sociology and contemporary culture, and gender and women's studies. Publications include academic and scholarly journals, magazines, newspapers, newsletters, regional publications, books, booklets and pamphlets, conference proceedings, and government, n-g-o and special reports.
GLBT Life
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GLBT Life is a resource to the world's literature regarding Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender issues with indexing and abstracts for more than 80 GLBT-specific core periodicals and data from over 40 periodicals and from over 1,200 select titles. GLBT Life provides comprehensive coverage of traditional academic, cultural, lifestyle, and regional publications, including The Advocate, Lesbian News, Washington Blade, Bay Area Reporter, etc. GLBT Life also indexes & abstracts the full run of many historically significant titles such as ONE, The Ladder, Mattachine Review, Christopher Street and Body Politic. In addition, grey literature including non-fiction titles, bibliographies, case studies, and dissertations is also represented. Disciplines covered by GLBT Life include civil liberties, culture, employment, family, history, politics, psychology, religion, sociology and more.

Hera (Philadelphia, Pa. Hera, Inc.)
An online Philadelphia feminist publication.
MLA Bibliography (New York: Modern Language Association of American, 1921- )
SML, Main Reference Room Z7006 M63 (LC)
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The MLA Bibliography indexes critical materials on literature, languages, linguistics, and folklore. The database provides access to citations from journals and series published worldwide, as well as books, essay collections, working papers, proceedings, dissertations, and bibliographies. The print volumes go back to 1921 and the database covers from 1963 to the present. The MLA Bibliography continues the Modern Language Association of America’s Annual Bibliography. For earlier volumes, check the SML Card Catalog under "Modern Language Association."
Sexual Diversity Studies: Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual & Transgender Abstracts
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Sociological Abstracts

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An important source of information on social and behavioral issues concerning gay men, lesbians, and bisexuals, with article abstracts dating back to 1974.

ViVa: A Bibliography of Women's History

Women's Resources International
Women's Resources International is a collection of ten electronic files with over 200,000 records pertaining to women's studies.

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