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Gender and Sexuality in U.S. History

Multidisciplinary Databases

Academic Search Premier
The basic multidisciplinary index; especially good for the Arts and Humanities and book reviews. Rutgers-restricted Access
ProQuest One Social Sciences
Index to over 10,000 social science titles, including journal articles, books, dissertations, proceedings, and government publications; full-text access to over 1800 journals. International and interdisciplinary in scope. Among other databases includes: ASSIA: Applied Social Sciences Index and Abstracts, Proquest Criminal Justice, International Bibliography of the Social Sciences, PAIS International, Proquest Political Science, and Worldwide Political Science Abstracts. Rutgers-restricted Access
JSTOR
JSTOR provides electronic access to back runs, many back to the 19th century or earlier, to thousand of important scholarly journals in a variety of disciplines. JSTOR does not include current issues of journals; generally the most recently published issue of any current journal will not appear in JSTOR until 3-5 years after the publishing date. Rutgers provides access to all JSTOR Arts and Sciences serial collections. Rutgers-restricted access
Google Scholar
Searches a wide range of scholarly (and non-scholarly) literature worldwide. Use this link to see "Get it@R" links when off-campus.

Disciplinary Databases

History

America: History and Life
1964- . The most comprehensive index to American (U.S. and Canada) history. Indexes over 2000 journals worldwide, as well as book reviews and dissertations. Rutgers-restricted Access.

Gender and Sexuality

ProQuest One Women's Studies
"Brings together digitized primary sources, historical women's and LGBTQ+ periodicals and magazines, personal papers of activists, scholarly journals on gender-related topics, videos, and interpretive essays (document projects) featuring documents from the collection. Though its primary focus is a wide variety of Women's Studies materials, it also includes many materials in the area of LGBTQ+ Studies and a smaller number of materials in Men's and Masculinity Studies.Rutgers-restricted Access
Women's Studies International
1972- Extensive index to women's studies resources. Incorporates citations from Women Studies Abstracts, Women's Studies Bibliography Database, and the Women's Studies Database, among others. Rutgers-restricted Access.
LGBTQ+ Source
Includes the full text of more than 140 journals and more than 150 books and reference materials, as well as indexing and abstracts for over 600 additional publications. Rutgers-restricted Access.
The Transgender Archives
The Transgender Archives' online discovery tool searches the world’s largest collection of Trans, nonbinary, Two-Spirit, and other gender-diverse publications. From the University of Victoria.

Literature and Performing Arts

MLA International Bibliography 1926-
The premier index to articles, books, and dissertations on literature, language, linguistics, folklore, and film. Rutgers-restricted Access
Literature Online (LION)
In addition to the full text of over 350,000 English-language literary works, you can select "Criticism and Reference" to search over 300 full-text literature journals as well as citations from the Annual Bibliography of English Language and Literature. Rutgers-restricted Access.
Music & Performing Arts Collection (Proquest)
Scholarly and trade journals in music, dance, theatre, film, and a wide range of performing arts disciplines. Rutgers-restricted Access
Music Index Online
1973- . Indexes over 850 music periodicals. Rutgers-restricted Access

Political Science and Public Policy

Worldwide Political Science Abstracts
1975-
Index to over 1,300 journals in political science, international relations, public policy and related fields. Rutgers-restricted Access
Public Affairs Information Service
1915- Index to books, reports, government documents, and journals dealing with political, social, and public policy issues. Rutgers-restricted Access

Sociology

Sociologial Abstracts
1963- Index to approximately 1800 scholarly and professional journals in sociology and related disciplines, as well as to books reviews, books, book chapters, dissertations and conference papers. Rutgers-restricted Access.

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