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Access. Evanston, IL : John Gordon Burke Publisher, 1975
SML, Main Reference AI3 A23 (LC)
Alternative Press Index. [College Park, MD] : Alternative Press Centre, 1969/70-
SML, Main Reference AI3 +A48 (LC)
America: History and Life (Santa Barbara, CA: ABC Clio, v. 0- 1964- .)
SML Main Reading Room, Z1236 +A43 (LC)
America: History and Life is the primary index to the literature of American and Canadian History, covering over 2000 journals in 45 languages. The print volumes are issued in four parts:
Part A. Article abstracts and citations
Part B. Index to book reviews
Part C. American History bibliography, books, articles and dissertations
Part D. Annual Index
Volume 0 covers 1954-1963. The CD-ROM covers 1964 to the present.
ARIADNE Newsletter and Database. The women's information and documentation center at the Austrian National Library.
Ariadne provides information about the Austrian National Library's holdings related to women.
  • The Ariadne NewsLetter is an annotated New Books List, arranged by subject. Theses are not included.
  • The Ariadne database indexes periodical articles, book chapters, essays in anthologies, and gray literature in women's and gender studies, with particular emphasis on materials about or published in Austria. The majority of works indexed are in German and English, but French, Italian, and Spanish materials are also included.
  • Österreichische historische Frauenzeitschriften provides the contents and some images from Austrian women's magazines from 1848 to 1938.
  • The Ariadne project "Frauen in Bewegung - Diskurse und Dokumente zur oesterreichischen historischen Frauenbewegung 1848 - 1919" is a bio-bibliographical guide to the the Austrian women's movement during those years.

Arts & Humanities Citation Index. Philadelphia: Institute for Scientific Information, 1975- .
SML Main Reference Room Z5937 +A795 (LC)
The ISI Citation Databases [Web of Science] collectively index more than 8,000 high quality, peer-reviewed journals cover-to-cover, providing users with complete bibliographic data, full-length author abstracts, and cited references from the world's most influential research.
*The Science Citation Index Expanded covers over 5,300 journals (2000 more titles than the print) and is updated with 16,000 new records every week.
*The Social Sciences Citation Index covers over 1,700 journals and is updated by 2,800 new records every week.
*The Arts & Humanities Citation Index covers over 1,100 journals and is updated by 2,200 new records every week.

Black Studies Database
The electronic version of the celebrated Kaiser Index to Black Periodicals.

Campos, Luís Esteves de Melo. A mulher em textos e contextos : um recenseamento bibliográfico, tematicamente indexado, sobre publicações portuguesas (1974-1988). Lisboa : Comissão da Condição Feminina, Presidência do Conselho de Ministros, 1989.
SML, Stacks: HQ1697 A12 C3 1989 (LC)
A subject index of articles published in Portuguese periodicals relating to women's studies.

Contemporary Women's Issues. Beachwood, Ohio : Responsive Database Services, c1995- .
CWI is a full-text database which includes information concerning women's issues worldwide. Major sources of information include Human Rights Watch, the Alan Guttmacher Institute, United States Government Reports, FEMNET and the Center for Women's Global Leadership.

GenderWatch (Stamford, CT : SoftLine Information, June 1998- .)
A full-text collection of international journals, magazines, newsletters, regional publications, special reports and conference proceedings devoted to women's and gender issues. The database provides information on subjects such as family, childbirth, birth control, daycare, domestic abuse, work and the workplace, sexual harassment, aging, aging parents, body image, eating disorders and social and societal roles. It also includes content on the impact of gender and gender roles on areas including the arts, popular culture and media, business and work, crime and criminology, education, research and scholarship, family, health care and medicine, politics, policy and legislation, pornography, religion, sexuality and sexology, sports and leisure. GenderWatch contains archival material dating back to the mid 1970's; additional archival material continues to be added.

Hispanic American Periodicals Index. Los Angeles: UCLA Latin American Center Publications, University of California, 1970- .
SML Main Reference Room Z6953.8 +H36 (LC)
HAPI is the largest index of journal information from and about Central and South America, Mexico, the Caribbean basin, the United States-Mexico border region, and Hispanics in the United States. From analyses of current political, economic, and social issues to unique coverage of Latin American arts and letters, HAPI contains complete bibliographic citations to articles, book reviews, documents, original literary works, and other materials. The printed volumes and the online version of HAPI cover from 1970 to the present.
Historical Abstracts. Santa Monica: ABC-Clio, 1955- .
SML Reference D1 +H48 (LC) / D1 +H482 (LC)
Abstracts of articles from over 2,000 U.S. and foreign periodicals, and Festschriften, covering world history and culture (not U.S. and Canada). It also includes citations of dissertations and selected book, film, and video reviews. The print volumes go back to 1955. In 1971, Historical Abstracts split into two sections:

* Historical Abstracts. Part A: Modern History Abstracts, 1450-1914
* Historical Abstracts. Part B: Twentieth Century Abstracts, 1914-

Houghton, Walter Edwards. Wellesley Index to Victorian Periodicals, 1824 1900. Toronto : University of Toronto Press, 1966 1989.
SML Main Reference Z2005 H68 (LC)
SML Stacks Z2005 H68 (LC)  

Humanities Index/Humanities Full Text. New York : H. W. Wilson, 1974
SML Main Reference AI1 H84 (LC)
Internationale Bibliographie der Zeitschriftenliteratur aus Allen Gebieten des Wissens (IBZ). Osnabruck : Felix Dietrich Verlag, [1911
SML Main Reference AI9 I58 (LC)
"International bibliography of periodical literature covering all fields of knowledge"
Index to Black Periodicals. 1984- Boston, MA : G. K. Hall & Co., 1988
International Index to Black Periodicals
SML Main Reference AI3 I563 (LC)
Index to Periodical Articles By and About Blacks. 1973-83. Boston : G. K. Hall,
SML Main Reference AI3 I563 (LC)
Index to Periodical Articles By and About Negroes. 1950/59-72. Boston : G. K. Hall,
SML Main Reference AI3 I563 (LC)
The Left Index. Santa Cruz, CA : Left Index, 1982- .
SML Main Reference HN49 R3 L44 (LC)
MLA Bibliography. New York: Modern Language Association of American, 1921- .
SML Main Reference Z7006 M63 (LC)
The MLA Bibliography indexes critical materials on literature, languages, linguistics, and folklore. The database (online and CD-ROM) provides access to citations from over 4,000 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 Annual Bibliography. For earlier volumes, check the SML Card Catalog under "Modern Language Association."
The New Periodicals Index. Boulder, CO : Mediaworks Ltd., 1977
SML, Main Reference Z1219 N48 (LC)
Nineteenth Century Readers' Guide to Periodical Literature, 1890 1899 : with supplementary indexing, 1900 1922. New York : H.W. Wilson, 1944.
SML Main Reference AI3 R43 (LC)
Poole's Index to Periodical Literature, 1802 1906/Poole's Plus. New York : P. Smith, 1882 1908.
SML Main Reference AI3 P656 (LC)
Reader's Guide to Periodical Literature/Reader's Guide. New York : H.W. Wilson, 1905
SML Main Reference AI1 R43 (LC)
Indexes popular magazines and journals throughout the 20th Century. For earlier citations, see the Nineteenth Century Readers Guide to Periodical Literature and Poole's Index to Periodical Literature.
Social Sciences Index/Social Science Full Text. New York : H.W. Wilson, June 1974
SML Main Reference AI1 S633 (LC)

Sociological Abstracts. Newton Lower Falls, Mass. : SilverPlatter Information Services, Inc., 1963-
SML Stacks HM1 +S66 (LC)  

Studies on Women Abstracts. [Abingdon, Oxfordshire] : Carfax Pub. Co., 1983
SML Main Reference HQ1180 S78 (LC)
Covers about 500 international journals, although emphasis tends to be British. Includes education, employment, family, community, medicine, health, sex-role socialization, social policy, social psychology, female culture, media treatment, biography, literary criticism, historical studies.
ViVa: a bibliography of women's history in historical and women's studies journals. [Amsterdam, Netherlands : International Institute of Social History, 1997]-
ViVa: Vrouwengeschiedenis in het Vaktijdschrift is Dutch for "Women's History in Professional Journals". ViVa is a current bibliography of articles about women's and gender history. Articles published in English, French, German, Dutch, Danish, Norwegian, and Swedish are selected from 167 European, American, Canadian, Asian, Australian and New Zealand journals. The ViVa database contains bibliographic records describing articles in historical and women's studies journals.
Women's Resources International. Baltimore, MD: National Information Services Corp. (NISC), c1989,1996- .

Women's Resources International is a collection of nine electronic files with 127,000 records pertaining to women's studies. WRI includes the following sources:
    *Women Studies Abstracts (1972-present)
    *Women's Studies Database (1972-present)
    *European Women from the Renaissance to Yesterday: a Bibliography (1610-present)
    *New Books on Women and Feminism (1987-present)
    *WAVE: Women's Audiovisuals in English: A Guide to Nonprint Resources in Women's Studies (1985-1990)
    *Women, Race and Ethnicity: A Bibliography (1970-1990)
    *The History of Women and Science, Health and Technology: A Bibliographic Guide to the Professions and Disciplines (1970-1995)
    *Women of Color and Southern Women: A Bibliography of Social Science Research (1975-present)
    *Women's Health and Development: An Annotated Bibliography (1995)
Women Studies Abstracts. Rush, NY : Rush Publishing Co., 1972
SML Main Reference Z7962 W65 (LC)
Also available through Women's Resources International
Women's Studies Index. Boston, Mass. : G.K. Hall & Co., 1991-
SML, Main Reference Z7962 W66
Selective author/subject index to relevant articles in a wide range of scholarly and popular periodicals, mostly American in origin.
 
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