WWW and internet guidesThese are mainly "gateway" guides that lead you to more specialised websites.
EServer Cultural Studies and Critical Theory Collection
Feminist Collections; a quarterly of womens studies reources reviews the latest print, electronic, and audiovisual resources for research and teaching in women's studies. Intute: Social sciences provides free access to high quality resources on the Internet. Each resource has been evaluated and categorised by subject specialists based at UK universities. Includes Sociology, Social Welfare, Womens studies etc. Women Online Worldwide WSSLINKS Women and Gender Studies Web Sites
developed and maintained by the Women's Studies Section of the Association of College and Research Libraries Part of the World-Wide Web Virtual Library. The World Wide Web Virtual Library Women's History (much more than history!) Subject listing of Women and Gender Resources
maintained by the University of Wisconsin System Women's Studies Librarian - Women Watch (UN)
Centre for Critical and Cultural Studies, University of Queensland Women and politics in South Australia Discussion Groups
- Gender-related Electronic Forums An extensive alphabetical listing of publicly-accessible electronic forums (or "lists") related to women or to gender issues.
H-Women: an H-net network discussing women's history
Electronic journalsThe library now has thousands of journal titles available electronically. Just search for a journal title in the catalogue and an electronic version may well appear. Make sure to check the dates of electronic availability.
Journals for Women's studies (from the The WWW Virtual Library) Titles in this list are either available free or, if from a publisher, check our library catalogue for university access with authentication. You will not get free get access via the publisher's website. Finding Journal Articles: Indexes and Databases
Women/FeminismStudies on women & gender abstracts Women studies abstracts. 1976-
Reference collection 305.405 W871 African women's bibliographic database
ViVa: A Bibliography of Women's History in Historical and Women's Studies Journals General/InterdisciplinaryIf your topic is Australian, use this database first: Australian public affairs - full text: APA-FT For international coverage use: Academic OneFile
Contains more than 12,000 academic journals, the majority peer-reviewed and in full text
Coverage 1980- Academic Search Premier
Contains indexing and abstracts for more than 8,300 journals, with full text for more than 4,500 of those titles. JSTOR is a full text searchable library of scholarly journals which contains full content of selected journals from their first issue up to 3-5 years ago. Project Muse is a unique collaboration between libraries and publishers providing full-text access to over 300 high quality humanities, arts, and social sciences journals from 60 scholarly publishers. Web of Science
Much more than science!
Includes the Arts humanities citation index and the Social sciences citation index, and can be searched by author, keyword or citation. Humanities and Social SciencesAustraliaAGIS Plus Full text 1999-
Attorney-Generals Information System.
Great for Australian legal issues, including delinquency, domestic violence etc. AUSTLIT : the resource for Australian literature FAMILY (Australian Family & Society Abstracts) 1980-
Citations to Australian books, journal articles, published and unpublished reports, government documents and conference papers on children, demography, divorce, family relations, marriage and parenthood, sociology, economics and the family, sexual behaviour, fertility, counselling and family law. MAIS: Multicultural Australia and Immigration Studies, 1990- InternationalBibliography of Asian studies 1971- Historical Abstracts MLA International Bibliography 1963- (for literature) Sociological Abstracts: international sociological literature 1974- PsycINFO (for psychology) Pubmed (for medicine)
Newspapers
Factiva is an index to Australian and international newspapers, and includes full text for many titles.
Finding books and book reviews
Libraries Australia Catalogue of the holdings of Australian libraries, with locations. Worldcat: Books and other materials containing over 32 million records. Articles not included. COPAC: Combined catalogues of major British university libraries. Other library catalogues can be reached via our web site.
For book reviews, go to the Guide to finding book reviews.
Australian women's book review, 1989-
Reference collection 05 A9383
Some recent issues are available online. Book Review Index
A comprehensive online guide to book reviews. Coverage is from 1965 onwards Finding thesesTheses (dissertations) are not usually included in regular indexing services hence the need for the following databases.
There is no current index to Australian theses, but some are beginning to appear on the
Australasian Digital Theses Program.
Libraries Australia should be searched as well, limiting the theses
ProQuest dissertations and theses
Index to doctoral dissertations from North American institutions with some international coverage. Index to theses..... doctoral theses from the UK, Ireland. Finding journalsSerials in Australian libraries will tell you the location of a journal title in Australia. Locations beginning with an S are South Austrlaian libraries.
Dictionaries and encyclopaediasAndermahr, S. A glossary of feminist theory. 1997
Reference collection 305.4201 A543g
(also in BSL main collection 305.4201 A543g) Australian feminism : a companion. ed. Barbara Caine. 1998
Reference collection 305.420994 C135a Encyclopedia of feminist literary theory. ed. Elizabeth Kowaleski-Wallace. 1997.
Reference collection 801.95 K88e Encyclopedia of Gay, Lesbian, Bi-sexual, Transgender and Queer Culture (GLBTQ)
Contains articles on issues in the arts, literature and social sciences. Encyclopaedia of women in South Asia, ed. S. Mittra 8 vols 2004
Reference collection 305.40954 M6853e Feminism and psychoanalysis: a critical dictionary. ed. Elizabeth Wright. 1992
Reference collection 305.403 W848f Gay histories and cultures : an encyclopedia. ed. George E. Haggerty, 2000
Reference collection 306.76603 H145g Historical dictionary of feminism, J. K. Boles
Reference collection 305.4203 B688h International encyclopedia of the social and behavioral sciences.26 vols 2001
Reference collection 300.3 S638i also available online. Jaggar, A. Companion to feminist philosophy. 1998
Reference collection 305.4201 J24c Kramarae, C. A Feminist dictionary. 1985
Reference collection 305.4203 K89f Kramarae, C. Routledge international encyclopedia of women: global women's issues and knowledge 4 vols. 2000. Volume 1 is available online
Reference collection 305.403 K89r Lesbian histories and cultures : an encyclopedia,ed. Bonnie Zimmerman, 2000
Reference collection 306.766303 Z72l Men and masculinities : a social, cultural, and historical encyclopedia, ed. Michael Kimmel, 2004 Routledge critical dictionary of feminism and postfeminism. ed. S. Gamble. 1999
Reference collection 305.4203 G131r Tierney, H. Women's studies encyclopedia. 3 vols. 1989.
Reference collection 305.403 T564w Tuttle, L. Encyclopedia of feminism. 1987
Reference collection 305.4203 T967e Warren, M.A. The nature of woman: an encyclopedia and guide to the literature. 1981
Reference collection 305.403 W291n Women in the Third World : an encyclopedia of contemporary issues. ed. N.P. Stromquist. 1998
Reference collection 305.42091724 S921w Worell, J. Encyclopedia of women and gender : sex similarities and differences and the impact of society on gender 2 vols 2001
Reference collection 305.403 W926e Biographies, quotations, achievementsDictionaries of women's biography are in the Reference collectionerence collection at 920.72.
Others are:
Rappaport, H. Encyclopedia of women social Reference collectionormers. 2 vols. 2001
Reference collection 305.420922 R221e Feminist quotations: voices of rebels, Reference collectionormers, and visionaries ed C. McPhee and A. Fitzgerald. 1979
Reference collection 305.4 F3292 Olsen, K. Chronology of women's history. 1994
Reference collection 305.409 O52c Salmonson, J. The encyclopedia of Amazons: women warriors from antiquity to the modern era. 1991.
Reference collection 305.48 S172e Oldfield, S Women humanitarians : doers of the word : a biographical dictionary of British women active between 1900-1950. 2001
Barr Smith Main collection 305.420941 O44w Australia (biography etc)Ambrus, C. The Ladies picture show: sources on a century of Australian women artists. 1984.
Reference collection 709.94016 A4961 Amery, K.L. Hidden women: locating information on significant Australian women. 1986.
Reference collection 305.42016 A512h Contemporary Australian women.1996/97
Reference collection 305.42099405 C761 Northern Territory women's register, 1948-1988. 2nd. ed. 1991.
Reference collection 920.720994 N874 Lofthouse, A. Who's who of Australian women. 1982.
Reference collection 920.72 L829w Principal women of the Empire: Australia and New Zealand. 1991 repr of 1940.
Reference collection 920.720994 P957 Radi, H. 200 Australian women. 1988.
Reference collection 305.420994 R129t A sense of purpose: great Australian women of the 20th century. 1996.
Reference collection920.720994 S478s Women in Australia [an historical biography].
Reference collection 920.094 B877w Status of women (see also Statistics)Seager, J. The state of women in the world atlas. rev ed.1997.
Reference collection 305.42 S438w.2 The United Nations and the advancement of women 1945-1996: revised and updated to include the results of the Fourth World Conference on the Women held in Beijing in 1995. 1996.
Reference collection 305.42 U575Pa Bibliographies (all topics)Contemporary social issues : a bibliographic series. Comp. Joan Norquist. 1986 -
Reference collection 305 C7612
We hold several titles in this series. Several deal directly with gender issues:
No.26 Violence against women. 1992.
No. 29 Women and AIDS. 1993.
No. 35 Women and aging. 1994.
No. 41 Affirmative action. 1996.
No. 44 Feminism worldwide.1996.
No. 49 Violence against women : international aspects. 1998.
No. 51 Labor abuses in the global economy : women and children. 1998.
No. 52 Women and cyberspace : gender issues. 1998. Advancing women's status : women and men together?
M. de Bruyn . 1995
(Gender, society & development: Critical reviews and annotated bibliographies series)
Reference collection 305.4016 B914a Reader's guide to women's studies. ed. E B. Amico. 1998
Reference collection 305.4016 A516r Lent, J. A Women and mass communications in the 1990's: an international, annotated bibliography.1999
Reference collection 302.23082 L574w Humm, M. An annotated critical bibliography of feminist criticism. 1987.
Reference collection 305.42016..H925a Miller, C. Feminist research methods: an annotated bibliography. 1991.
Reference collection 305.42016 M647f Taking the byte : the impact of new media technologies on women in film, TV, video and related media industries : resource kit. 1998
Multimedia collection 302.23082 W811t Wheeler, H.R. Women and aging : a guide to the literature . 1997
Reference collection 305.26016 W563w Women refugees in international perspectives, 1980-1990 : an annotated bibliography, ed G. Neuwirth, 1997.
Reference collection 362.87082016 N498w Argos, V. P Sexual harassment : analysis and bibliography. 2000
Reference collection 305.42 A693s The new men's studies : a selected and annotated interdisciplinary bibliography. E.R. August. 2nd ed. 1994.
Reference collection 305.31016 A923n The men's bibliography : a comprehensive bibliography of writing on men, masculinities and sexualities. Comp. Michael Flood. 5th ed. 1992.
Reference collection 305.3106 F631m
* For later editions, see The men's bibliography online. SEXBIBLIO bibliography of the history of western sexuality, Department of Economic and Social History, University of Vienna The history of rape: a bibliography, S Blaschke Bibliographies by placeAustraliaAn introductory bibliography : written histories of women's organisations in South Australia and Australia / International Women's Day Committee of South Australia. 1993
Reference collection Reference collectionerence collection 305.42099423 I61i Immigrant women's health : an annotated bibliography. 1992
Reference collection 362.108804 I33 Settlement and employment of migrant women in Australia an annotated bibliography. 1995
Reference collection 331.40994 A938Is Immigrant women in Australia : an annotated bibliography. 1993
Reference collection 305.40994 A938Ii Settlement and employment of migrant women in Australia an annotated bibliography. 1995.
Reference collection 331.40994 A938Is Kaplan, G. Spectrum: a bibliography of women in Australia 1945 to the present. 1995.
Reference collection 305.420994 K175s EuropeFrey, L.Women in western European history : a select chronological, geographical, and topical bibliography. 1982-84 and supplement 1986.
Reference collection 305.4016 F893w FranceFrench feminist theory: Luce Irigaray and Helene Cixous. A bibliography comp. by J Nordquist. 1990.
Reference collection 306.420944 I68Z.N Gelfand, E. French feminist criticism. 1985.
Reference collection 305.420944 G316f Great Britain and EmpireCrawford, Elizabeth.The women's suffrage movement : a Reference collectionerence guide, 1866-1928. 2001
Reference collection 324.6230941 C899w Beddoe, D Discovering women's history : a practical guide to researching the lives of women since 1800 3rd ed. 1998
Reference collection 305.40942 B399d Bailey, S.F. Women and the British Empire: an annotated guide to sources. 1982.
Reference collection 305.409171241 B156w Kanner, B. Women in English social history, 1800-1914: a guide to research. 1987-90.
Reference collection 305.40942 K16w Hannam, J. British women's history: a bibliographical guide. 1995.
Reference collection 305.40941 H243b Hammerton, J. Bibliography of women in British history, 1800-1945.
Reference collection 305.40941 H224b Islamic womenEncyclopedia of women and Islamic cultures, ed. Suad Joseph. 6 vols. 2003-
on order for Reference collection Kimball, M. Muslim women throughout the world : a bibliography. 1996.
Reference collection 305.486971 K49m Inglehart, R. Islam, Gender, Culture, and Democracy : Findings From the World Values Survey and the European Values Survey, 2004
Main collection 297.272 I51i StatisticsWorld's Women 2005: Progress in Statistics World survey on the role of women in development : women and international migration Schmittroth, L . Statistical record of women worldwide. 2nd, ed. 1995
Reference collection 305.4021 S355s World economic and social survey (UN). 1999
Reference collection 330.9006 U5.2 .......(earlier eds in main collection) U.N. The world's women 1970-1990, trends and statistics. 1991.
Reference collection 305.4021 W927
and
U.N. The world's women, 1995, trends and statistics.2nd, ed. 1995.
Reference collection 305.4021 W927
and
U.N Statistics and indicators on women and men Hopes and realities : closing the gap between women's aspirations and their reproductive experiences, Alan Guttmacher Institute, 1995.
[Focuses on the less-developed world. Includes statistics on family planning issues]
Reference collection 305.4 A319h AustraliaAustralian Bureau of Statistics website. Statistics section Statistical profile : women in South Australia 2004
Main collection 305.4099423 P925s
Australian women's year book 1994- 1997
Reference collection 305.409905 A966 latest (other copies in Main collection) Women in Australia, 1993
Reference collection 305.40994 C353w Lennon, R. About migrant women : statistical profile, 3rd ed., 1994.
Reference collection 305.480994 L567a Women's health.
319.406 A984 1994 Jones, F.L. Is it true what they said about women: the census 1801-1911, and women in the economy. 1984.
330.9005 W926 23 Much statistical material is in the Main Collection, not in the Reference Collection and can be found using a keyword search in the catalogue. Managing your informationAs you assemble your references and other bibliographic information you will need to use
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