WWW and internet guides
These 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 journals
The library now has thousands of journal titles avaialable
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 free get access via the publisher's
website.
Finding journal articles:Indexes and
Databases
Women/Feminism
Studies
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/Interdisciplinary
If your topic is Australian, use this database first:
Australian public affairs - full text: APA-FT
For international coverage use:
Academic OneFile
20 million peer-reviewed, articles, a large
proportion of which are full-text format from more than
8000 journals.
Coverage 1980-
Academic Search Premier
Full text for over 4000 of the 8000 journasl indexed, aross all
subject areas.
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 Sciences
Australia
AGIS 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-
International
Bibliography
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 theses
Theses (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 journals
Serials
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 encyclopaedias
Andermahr, 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
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,
achievements
Dictionaries 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 Reference collectionugees 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 place
Australia
An 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
Europe
Frey, L.Women in western European history : a select chronological,
geographical, and topical bibliography. 1982-84 and supplement
1986.
Reference collection 305.4016 F893w
France
French 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 Empire
Crawford, 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 women
Encyclopedia 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
Statistics
World'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
Australia
Australian 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 collectionerence Collection
and can be found using a keyword search in the catalogue.
Managing your information
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