The most commonly used databases for searching Women's Studies related articles are located in the box below However, there is a complete listing of databases focusing on Women's Studies that can be browsed and searched.
Because Women’s Studies is an interdisciplinary course of study, other subject areas within the interpretive social sciences, arts, and humanities such as anthropology, history, literature, and sociology may also have useful literature to offer. Guides for other subject areas and a list of librarians associated with these can be found on our Research Guides page. For more help try our guide to Finding Journal and Magazine Articles or Ask a Librarian.
You will find more databases of primary source materials in the next section, Primary Sources.
A collection of alternative press newspapers, magazines and journals, drawn from the special collections of participating libraries. These periodicals were produced by feminists, dissident GIs, campus radicals, Native Americans, anti-war activists, Black Power advocates, Hispanics, LGBT activists, the extreme right-wing press and alternative literary magazines during the latter half of the 20th century. This is an open access dataabase.
Search a collection of important scholarly journals representing a range of disciplines.
Search for journal articles in the humanities and social sciences published by university presses, including the Duke University Press
