Gender and Women's Studies (GWS) Portal : Finding Articles

GenderWatch
Full-text articles in grassroots feminist periodicals and more.

Women's Studies International
The best comprehensive index for women's studies books, book chapters, book reviews, articles, and more.

Women in Politics Database
Can be searched by country, topic, etc.

African Women Bibliographic Database
After your search, look up each citation using the "Journals" pick from the Libraries homepage.

The Vogue Archive provides access to every issue of Vogue from 1892 to the present, in full color. It's a great source for social history, mores, fashion, and more.

There are several full-text databases in women's history. For titles and descriptions, view the Women's History Databases and E-Books section of the website.

The starters may not always yield the number or type of resources you need. In any of the situations below, it is better to go to one or more of the individual databases.

• want to use more detailed or complex search strategies than the starters offer (synonyms, truncating words to their word-stems, combining concepts, etc.) 
• are researching the view from gender/women's studies and want to use more detailed or precise searches than the starters offer -- use the individual gender and women's studies and/or LGBTQ+ databases
• want to search from the angle of the broad divisions of study (social sciences, humanities, or science)
• are interested in how a particular discipline or disciplines (ex: history, health/medicine, education, psychology) approach(es) a topic
• are working on a topic with international/area studies implications
• need to do a *comprehensive* search on a subject, in which case you'll need to search numerous databases in several divisions and disciplines. You'll know you can stop looked when all you get are duplicates of material you've already gathered!

SocIndex With Full-text
Sociology and the social sciences in general are indexed (4700 titles) and in many cases available in full-text.

International Bibliography of the Social Sciences
Indexes over 2,600 social sciences journals and 6,000 books each year from over 100 countries in the fields of economics, political science, sociology and anthropology.

Sociological Abstracts
Indexes and abstracts 2,000 worldwide journals in sociology, since 1952.
ERIC: Educational Research Information Center
Use when your topics relates to education, schools, students, teachers, school counselors, administrators, etc. (K-12 and/or higher ed.)

Worldwide Political Science Abstracts
Indexes more than 1200 international serials in political science.

PsycINFO (Psychological Abstracts)
Use when you are interested in psychological or mental health aspects. Includes articles that have a psychological aspect from a wide variety of fields beyond psychology proper.

Social Work Abstracts Plus
Use when interested in social work or counseling aspects.

Anthropological Literature contains "find-it" links to the full-text of anthropological resources.  

The Database Library category Communication / Journalism / Rhetoric lists many databases, including Communication & Mass Media Complete.

See also the Women and Popular Culture Research Guide.

For LGBTQ topics use the LGBTQ Studies Resources at UW-Madison Research Guide.

For Health topics use the Social and Political Aspects of Women's Health Research Guide

Selected International and Regional Databases

• Bibliography of Asian Studies
  Indexes articles dealing with any part of Asia.
   
• HAPI Online
  HAPI (Hispanic American Periodicals Index) indexes articles on Central and South America, Mexico, the Caribbean basin, the United States-Mexico border region, and Hispanics in the United States.

For more international or regional databases, find the regions of interest in the list of UW-Madison databases, by subject.