Women's Studies

Library Specialist

Nancy W. Noe: noenanc@auburn.edu
2nd Floor RBD Library - South Annex
Phone: 334.844.1774

Fall 2005
Monday: Office Hours 8:00-10am; Reference Desk 1:00-3:00pm
Wednesday: Reference Desk 5:00-9:00pm
Additional Office Hours by Appointment

 

Reference Tools

     Dictionary of Feminist Theory  (HQ 1115 .H86 1995)

      Encyclopedia of Feminist Literary Theory  (REF PN 98 .W64 E53 1997)

      Historical Dictionary of Feminism  (HQ 1115 .B65 1996)

      Routledge Critical Dictionary of Feminism and Postfeminism  (HQ 1115 .R68 2000)

      Women's Issues  (HQ 1115 .W6425 1997 Volumes 1-3)

      Women's Studies Encyclopedia  (HQ 1115 .W645 1995 Volumes 1-3)

Handbooks and General Reference Books

Handbook of Gender & Work (HQ 1233 .H33 1999)

Women's Associations Worldwide (HQ 1883 .E53 1993)

Women's Desk Reference (HQ 1236.5 .U6 F73 1993)

      A to Z of Women in Science and Math (Q 141 .Y675 1999)

       Biographical Dictionary of Women (REF CT 3202 .C48 1996)

       Notable American women, 1607-1950; a biographical dictionary (REF CT 3260 .N57)

       Notable American women : the modern period : a biographical dictionary (CT 3260 .N573)

       Who's Who of American Women (REF CT 3260 .W5 v.22 2000-2001)

Library of Congress Subject Profile Call Numbers

HQ	The Family, Marriage, Woman
	>  HQ 1100  Women, Feminism
	>  HQ 1180  Women's Studies, Study and Teaching, Research
	>  HQ 1190   Feminist Theory

Indexes and Databases 

All databases are available on campus and remotely unless otherwise noted.  To access a resource from home, you will need to type your library ID and last name.  Your library ID is usually: two, zero, your Social Security Number, then zero.  For example:  A person with the Social Security Number 123-45-6789 has the library ID:  201234567890

Contemporary Women's Issues a global, multidisciplinary, full-text database that covers journals, magazines, 'gray' literature and alternative presses, focusing on critical issues and events that influence women's lives.

GenderWatch a full text database of publications that focus on the impact of gender across a broad spectrum of subject areas. GenderWatch supports programs in business, education, literature and the arts, health sciences, history, political science, public policy, sociology and contemporary culture, gender and women's studies and more. 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.  The database provides in-depth coverage of the subjects that are uniquely central to women's lives, including 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 such as: 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.

JSTOR provides access to the backfiles of scholarly publications covering the social sciences, humanities, and sciences. JSTOR includes the full runs of each journal,generally up to 1-7 years from the present. A sophisticated search engine supports full-text and cross-disciplinary searching of the journals and presentation of page images allows viewing of the articles exactly as they appear in print. 

Women Writers Online  The Brown University Women Writers Project is a long-term research project devoted to early modern women's writing and electronic text encoding. The chief  goal of the database is to bring texts by pre-Victorian women writers out of the archive and make them accessible to a wide audience of teachers, students, scholars, and the general reader.   

Academic Search Elite  Covers abstracts and indexing for over 3,000 scholarly journals and features full text articles for over 1,200 journals since 1990. 

Biography and Genealogy Master Index is a comprehensive index to nearly 12 million biographical sketches in more than 2700 volumes and editions of current and retrospective reference books, covering both contemporary and historical figures throughout the world.  

Digital Dissertations Formerly 'Dissertation Abstracts' includes bibliographic citations for materials ranging from the first U.S. dissertation, accepted in 1861, to those accepted as recently as last semester. Citations for dissertations published from 1980 forward also include 350-word abstracts written by the author. Citations for master's theses from 1988 forward include 150-word abstracts  

InfoTrac's Expanded Academic ASAP indexes 1500 journal titles in a variety of subject areas.  Articles in over 500 journals are full text. 1980 – Present. 

WorldCat consists of bibliographic records of any type of material cataloged by OCLC member libraries. Includes manuscripts written as early as the 12th century. Useful for identifying sources not held by Auburn University Libraries. 

Ingenta Uncover Plus - UnCover is a general database of over 8 million articles in many disciplines. Coverage of more than 18,000 journals begins with Fall 1988. Subsidized document delivery up to $40.00 per article. (AU Faculty, Staff and Graduate Students Only)

Arts and Humanities Citation Index  Web of Science provides access to current bibliographic information and cited references from over 1,144 of the world's leading arts and humanities journals, as well as covering individually selected, relevant items from over 6,800 major science and social science journals. 1984 – Present.

Research Guides

Book Reviews http://www.lib.auburn.edu/hum/resgd/bkrev.html

Literary Criticism http://www.lib.auburn.edu/hum/resgd/litcrit.html

Nineteenth-Century British Women Poets 
http://www.lib.auburn.edu/hum/resgd/19ctwm.html

Victorian Periodicals 
http://www.lib.auburn.edu/hum/resgd/victorian.html

Associations and Societies

Association for Women in Science 
http://www.awis.org/
The association promotes participation and equity for women in science, mathematics, engineering and technology.  The site includes scholarship information, articles from their magazine and current issues. 

National Women's Studies Association 
http://www.nwsa.org/
NWSA supports and promotes feminist/womanist teaching, learning, research, and professional and community service at the pre-K through post-secondary levels and serves as a locus of information about the inter-disciplinary field of Women's Studies for those outside the profession. NWSA publishes a newsletter NWSA Action and NWSA Journal, an official publication of the National Women's Studies Association, publishes the most up-to-date interdisciplinary, multi-cultural feminist scholarship linking feminist theory with teaching and activism.

Society for Women Engineers 
http://www.swe.org/
SWE is a non-profit educational service organization dedicated to making known the need for women engineers and encouraging young women to consider an engineering education.  Site information includes announcements, scholarship opportunities and career services. 

Society for Women in Philosophy 
http://www.uh.edu/~cfreelan/SWIP/
The site provides society information, online articles, reading lists, bibliographies job announcements and related resources.

Discussions and Newsgroups

H-Women Discussion Network
http://www2.h-net.msu.edu/~women/
A forum for the discussion of women's history. 

Electronic Mailing Lists at Auburn University 
http://www.auburn.edu/helpdesk/internet/listserv.html
Contains links to help sites for all varieties of mailing lists. 

LISZT
(http://www.liszt.com/) 
Searchable index of Electronic Mailing Lists. 

The Reference to Internet Discussion & Information Lists
(http://tile.net/lists) 
Searchable index of Electronic Mailing Lists.

Journals

Feminist Studies
http://www.feministstudies.org/

AVIVA
http://www.aviva.org/

Web Pages

Women's Studies at Auburn University 
http://www.auburn.edu/academic/other/womens_studies/

Women's Studies Programs Worldwide
http://www.research.umbc.edu/~korenman/wmst/programs.html

Feminist Theory Website
http://www.cddc.vt.edu/feminism

Artemis Guide to Women's Studies in the U.S.
http://www.artemisguide.com/

Association for College and Research Libraries
     Women's Studies Section
      http://libr.org/wss/ 
     Women and Gender Studies Web Sites
      http://libr.org/wss/WSSLinks/index.html

Feminist Studies
http://www.feministstudies.org/

Women Gather @ Eleanor's Tree
http://www.e-etree.org/ETREE/

Institute for Women's Policy Research
http://www.iwpr.org/  (Follow internal links for Status of Women in Alabama Report)

Feminist Anthropology
http://www.indiana.edu/~wanthro/fem.htm

National Women's Health Information Center
http://www.4woman.gov/

Canadian Women's Health Network
http://www.cwhn.ca/indexeng.html

National Museum of Women in the Arts
http://www.nmwa.org

American Women's History:  A Research Guide
http://www.mtsu.edu/~kmiddlet/history/women.html

Early Modern Women Database
http://www.lib.umd.edu/ETC/LOCAL/emw/emw.php3

Women in American History
http://search.eb.com/women/

National Women's History Project
http://www.nwhp.org/

Feminae: Medieval Women and Gender Index
http://www.haverford.edu/library/reference/mschaus/mfi/mfi.html

Frauenews [German Only]
http://www.frauennews.de/themen/herstory/weltkrieg/

Lesbian History Project:  Links to Lesbian History
http://www-lib.usc.edu/~retter/main.html

Remember the Women Institute
http://www.rememberwomen.org/

ViVa:  A bibliography of Women's History in Historical and Women's Studies Journals
http://www.iisg.nl/~womhist/vivahome.html

Women and the Holocaust
http://www3.sympatico.ca/mighty1/
http://www.eticomm.net/~panther/women_and_the_holocaust_webquest.htm

Historical Publications of the United States Commission on Civil Rights
http://www.law.umaryland.edu/edocs/usccr/html%20files/usccrhp.asp

Institute for Women's Policy Research
http://www.iwpr.org/  (Follow internal links for Status of Women in Alabama Report)

Women Writers
http://www.womenwriters.net/

African American Women Writers of the 19th Century
http://digital.nypl.org/schomburg/writers_aa19/

LitWomen.Org  An umbrella site for not-for-profit organizations serving the literature and literacy needs of women.  

Other Women's Voices
http://home.infionline.net/~ddisse/

Victoriam Women Writer's Project
http://www.indiana.edu/~letrs/vwwp/

Black American Feminism:  A Multidisciplinary Bibliography
http://www.library.ucsb.edu/blackfeminism/

Gifts of Speech: Women's Speeches from Around the World
http://gos.sbc.edu

Gender, Race and Ethnicity in Media
http://www.uiowa.edu/~commstud/resources/GenderMedia/mediadir.html

Gender and Communication
http://www.uark.edu/~aca/studies/gender.html

Women's AudioVisuals
http://webcat.library.wisc.edu:3200/WAVE/

Studies in Women and the Environment
http://csf.colorado.edu/forums/ecofem/

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noenanc@auburn.edu