Search databases and indexes to find citations and/or full text articles online.
Academic Search Complete
     
The world's largest academic multi-disciplinary database, which includes newspapers, magazines, books and peer-reviewed scholarly journals.
Relevant journals cover such topics as: feminist-- studies, philosophies, legal studies, and theology.
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American Memory
  
The Library of Congress developed this free and open access digital archive of all things Americana. Included is a collection on Women's History, which is particularly strong on the woman's suffrage movement, and contains books, manuscripts, pamphlets, photographs, scrapbooks, and multi-format materials ranging from 1848-1938.
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Business Source Complete
Provides FULL TEXT for 2,260 scholarly business journals in management, economics, finance, accounting, and much more.
Relevant journals include: "Feminist economics", "Women's studies international forum" [Feminist forum], and "Women in Business."
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CINAHL Plus with Full Text
NEW Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature: includes abstracts, references, and much full text. On campus links to other full text databases as well. Relevant journals include the "Journal of Women's Health and "Harvard Women's Health Watch."
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Conference Proceedings Citation Index - Social Science & Humanities
 
Part of the Web of Science, Conference Proceedings Citation Index - Social Science & Humanities provides citations to papers and proceedings of social science and humanities conferences from 1990 to present.
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CQ Researcher
The award-winning CQ Researcher explores a single "hot" issue in the news in depth each week. Topics range from social and teen issues to environment, health, education and science and technology. There are 44 reports produced each year including four expanded reports. Includes information related to feminism, women and human rights, women in the workplace, minorities and women and other issues from a female perspective.
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Directory of Open Access Journals
This service contains some free, full text, quality controlled scientific and scholarly journals that aims to cover all subjects and languages. Relevant journals include: the "Journal of international women's studies", "Jenda : a journal of culture and African women studies", and "Women in Judaism."
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Gale Virtual Reference Library
Now over 400 eBook reference works including multi-volume encyclopedias, biographical collections, business plan handbooks, company history compilations, consumer health references, and specialized reference sources. Relevant journals cover such topics as: women in-- history, literature, science, information technology, law, and food and culture.
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Health & Wellness Resource Center
Provides access to health reference material such as Gale Encyclopedia of Medicine and Mosby's Medical, Nursing and Allied Health Dictionary as well as full-text magazines, journals, and pamphlets from a wide variety of
authoritative medical sources.
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JSTOR
Has FULL TEXT articles from the first issue of several hundred journals in the Arts & Sciences I & II, General Science, Language & Literature collections. Relevant journals include: "Agenda a journal about women and gender" (South Africa), "Feminist review", and "Women's review of books"
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Lexis-Nexis Academic
A FULL TEXT database that provides a wide range of news, business, legal and reference information from over 5000 sources, compiled specifically for the research needs of academic institutions. Relevant journals cover such topics as: gender and the law, women and business, women's health issues including substance abuse, and the journal, "Women's Studies Quarterly."
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MasterFile Premier
1,880 FULL TEXT periodicals, biographies and primary sources. Relevant journals include "Women in business," "WIN news", "Feminist issues", "Feminist studies", and "Women's review of books."
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Project MUSE
Project MUSE offers nearly 250 quality journal titles from 40 scholarly publishers. As one of the academic community's primary electronic journals resources, Project MUSE covers the fields of literature and criticism, history, the visual and performing arts, cultural studies, education, political science, gender studies, economics, and many others. Relevant journals include: "Feminist teacher" and "Women's studies quarterly."
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ScienceDirect
ScienceDirect contains over 25% of the world's science, technology and medicine full text and bibliographic information. Relevant journals include: "Women's health issues" and "Women's studies international forum."
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Social Science Citation Index
Part of the Web of Science, Social Science Citation Index provides citations to journal articles in the social sciences, including anthropology, education, history, library science, law, philosophy, political science, psychology, sociology, and women's studies.
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Women and Social Movements
This Scholar's Edition includes the full text of the complete five volumes of Notable American Women: A Biographical Dictionary, available for the first time in electronic form. It also includes 74 document projects with 2,200 documents, 29,000 pages of additional full-text documents, and 1,600 primary authors. It includes as well book, film and website reviews, notes from the archives, and teaching tools.
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Search online catalogs to find books, journals, videos, and other materials in library collections.
CUNY+
Search CUNY+, the University's system-wide online catalog to find books and other resources located in the CSI library and other CUNY libraries.
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Worldcat.org
Search WorldCat, the world-wide online catalog of books and other materials from thousands of participating libraries. Includes over 90,000,000 records.
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Encyclopedias, dictionaries, handbooks, and other reference works available in print or online.
A New Handbook of Literary Terms
A New Handbook of Literary Terms offers a lively, informative guide to words and concepts that every student of literature needs to know.
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Dictionary of Women Artists
Biographical dictionary of women artists born before 1945.
Location: 1st Fl Reference N8354.D53 1997
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Dictionary of Women Worldwide: 25,000 Women Through the Ages
Contains more than 20,000 brief biographical entries on women, including thousands of entries on non-U.S. figures.
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Handbook of feminist research : theory and praxis
This book is covers research and methodology regarding Women's Studies and Feminist theory.
Location: 1st Fl Reference HQ1180 .H35 2007
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Handbook of gender and women's studies
This book is a manual for the subject of women's studies. It covers such topics as gender identity, gender roles, and feminism. Includes bibliographical references and an index.
Location: 1st Fl Reference HQ1180 .H355 2006
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Native American Women: A Biographical Dictionary
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Location: 1st Fl Reference E 98 .W8 B38 2001
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Palgrave Macmillan Dictionary of Women's Biography
Location: 1st Fl Reference CT 3202 .P26 2005
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Routledge international encyclopedia of women : global women's issues and knowledge
This 4 volume encyclopedia on women covers: v. 1. Ability to Education: Globalization
v. 2. Education: Health to Hypertension
v. 3. Identity Politics to Publishing
v. 4. Quakers to Zionism, Index.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Location: 1st Fl Reference HQ1115 .R69 2000
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Women and equality in the workplace : a reference handbook
Includes information on sex discrimination against women in employment, biographical sketches, selected print resources, statistics, legal data, a directory of organizations, and a chronological history.
Location: 1st Fl Reference HD6095 .G48 2003
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Women and work : a handbook
Location: 1st Fl Reference HD 6095 .W678 1996
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Women During the Civil War: An Encyclopedia
This work covers the role of women in the U.S. Civil War (1861-1865). Includes bibliographical references (p. 477-501) and index.
Location: 1st Fl Reference E 628 .H37 2004
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Women in World History: A Biographical Encyclopedia
Covers women of historical interest worldwide, from around 3100 BCE to the modern age, from every walk of life -- artists, pirates, scientists, athletes, philanthropists, adventurers, politicians, pacifists, saints, and courtesans.
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Women's chronology : a year-by-year record from prehistory to the present
This book is part of a Women's Studies Collection that discusses women's history in chronological order. Includes an index.
Location: 1st Fl Reference HQ1122 .T73 1994
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Women's studies : a recommended bibliography
This book covers bibliographies on the subjects of women's studies and feminism. Includes indexes.
Location: 1st Fl Reference section HQ1180 .K75 2004
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Resources freely available on the Internet.
Feminism and Women's Studies site
The Feminism and Women's Studies site was first designed in 1993 by members of the Carnegie Mellon University Women's Center as one of the earliest women's studies web sites on the Internet. It is currently one of the most popular women's studies web sites in the world, currently publishing documents to approximately 25,000 readers per month.
The site is not solely an academic web site, nor is it "nonacademic." Instead, it contains documents and links to quality infor
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Litwomen.org
An umbrella site for not-for-profit organizations serving the literature and literacy needs of women.
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National Women's Studies Association [NWSA]
Established in 1977, NWSA is a professional organization dedicated to leading the field of women's studies and gender studies, as well as its teaching, learning, research, and service wherever they be found. The National Women's Studies Association leads the field of women?s studies in educational and social transformation.
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Women Make Movies
Includes "Links to Other Cool Sites on Women and Film and Video."
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Women Writers: A Zine
Women Writers: A Zine is a semi-annual (twice-yearly), peer-reviewed journal with an Editorial Board consisting of professional scholars and academics from across the world.
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Women's Studies/Women's Issues Resource Sites
Women's Studies/Women's Issues Resource Sites is a selective, annotated, highly acclaimed listing of web sites containing resources and information about women's studies and women's issues, with an emphasis on sites of particular use to an academic women's studies program.
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Journals available online or in print at the CSI Library.
Feminist legal studies
This peer-reviewed, academic journal contains articles, essay reviews, book reviews & case-notes on aspects of law, legal theory & legal practice relevant to feminist work. It is available electronically from 1997-present.
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Feminist Review
Feminist journal available electronically from 1979-2004.
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Feminist studies
Feminist periodical that began in summer 1972. The library has paper issues 2002 to 2006.
Issues are also available on Microfilm, volumes 4-27 (1978-2001). Although the subscription was canceled, the entire run of the journal (1972-present) is available electronically.
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Journal of International Women's Studies
The Journal of International Women's Studies is an on-line, open-access, peer reviewed journal that provides a forum for scholars, activists, and students to explore the relationship between feminist theory and various forms of organizing.
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Journal of Women's Health
A peer-reviewed, academic journal that publishes papers on diseases or conditions that hold greater risk for or are more prevalent among women.
It's available electronically from 1998 until 3 months ago. Note: from 1999-2002 it was titled, "Journal of Women's Health & Gender-Based Medicine."
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Women in Business
Published by the National publication of the American Business Women's Association (ABWA), this periodical covers business, gender studies and management. It is available electronically from 1990 until the present.
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Women's review of books
This monthly serial is published by the Wellesley College Center for Research on Women. It includes book reviews for and about women presented in a wide range of feminist perspectives such as Gay & Lesbian Studies; Gay & Lesbian Issues; Gender Studies; and Literature & Literary Criticism. The library has print copies on the 3rd floor from 2007- present and is available electronically from 1983-present.
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Women's Studies
A peer-reviewed, academic journal that includes articles, review articles, poetry, short fiction, film and book reviews of scholarship and criticism about women in the fields of literature, history, art, sociology, law, political science, economics, anthropology and the sciences. Issues are available electronically from 1972 until 1 year ago.
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Women's Studies International Forum
Women's Studies International Forum (formerly Women's Studies International Quarterly, established in 1978) is a bimonthly journal to aid the distribution and exchange of feminist research in the multidisciplinary, international area of women's studies and in feminist research in other disciplines. The policy of the journal is to establish a feminist forum for discussion and debate. It's accessible electronically from 1995-present.
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Women's Studies Quarterly
A publication of the Feminist Press and the National Women's Studies Association published since 1981. Print copies are available in the library's 3rd floor from 1985-2007, and are electronically accessable from Spring 2008.
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Print resources available in the CSI LIbrary.
Encyclopedia of Women and Religion in North America
BL 458 .E52 2006
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Feminist studies
Feminist periodical that began in summer 1972
The library has paper issues 2002 to 2006.
Issues are also available on Microfilm, volumes 4-27 (1978-2001). Although the subscription was canceled, the entire run of the journal (1972-present) is available electronically.
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Web sites hosted by federal, state, or city governments.
Office of International Women's Issues
U.S. State Department's Office devoted to foreign policy issues related to the political, economic, and social advancement of women in democracy worldwide.
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Women in the labor force : a databook
This Annual Report is an electronic resource published by the U.S. Dept. of Labor, Bureau of Labor Statistics, Washington, DC. This source is helpful for the study of women in the U.S. workforce.
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WomensHealth.gov- U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
Sponsored by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, this web site is the Federal government source for Women's Health care information
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Anthologies of monologues and scenes for drama students and actors.
Guide to Monologues, Women
An index of over 800 female character monologues from classical and modern plays.
Location: 1st Fl Reference PN2080.G85 1988
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Monologues for Actors of Color: Women
Monologues excerpted from contemporary plays specifically geared for female actors of color.
Location: 3rd Fl Stacks PN2080.M536 2000
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Monologues, Women, 3: Speeches from the Contemporary Theatre
Monologues from contemporary theatre for female actors.
Location: 3rd Fl Stacks PN2080.M56 1989
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