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Arts and Humanities Citation Index
Indexes journals in the arts and humanities since 1980. Updated weekly.

CIS Congressional Universe (Full Text)
Provides the full text of material by and about the U.S. Congress. Includes hearings, committee reports, bills, public laws, biographical information, voting records, and the text of the Congressional Record, the Federal Register, the Code of Federal Regulations, and the National Journal.

Contemporary Women's Issues on Health and Human Rights
Citations to information on women in over 150 countries. Journals, newsletters, research reports, and fact sheets from disciplines such as sociology, psychology, health, education, and human rights. Covers 1995 to the present.

Feminae: Medieval Women and Gender Index
Journal articles, book reviews, and essays in books about women, sexuality, and gender during the Middle Ages. Covers 1994 to the present.

Gender Watch(Full Text)
With archival material dating back to 1970, GenderWatch provides authoritative historical and current perspectives on the evolution of gender roles as they affect both men and women. Combining more than 200 academic, gray, and popular literature titles, GenderWatch provides researchers with more than 100,000 articles on wide-ranging topics like sexuality, religion, societal roles, feminism, masculinity, eating disorders, day care, and the workplace.

American Periodicals Series Online 1740-1900 (APS Online) (Full Text)
This collection contains over 1,100 periodicals that first began publishing between 1740 and 1900, including special interest and general magazines, literary and professional journals, children's and women's magazines, and many other historically significant periodicals.

Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center (Full Text)
Database of contemporary social issues with content structured to promote critical-thinking skills and information literacy. The database contains more than 400 reference book titles and over than 8,700 pro and con viewpoint articles. The resource also contains periodicals, podcasts, reviewed Web links, images, statistical tables, charts and graphs.

Academic Search Premier (Full Text)
The world’s largest academic multi-disciplinary database providing full text for nearly 4,700 publications, including full text for more than 3,600 peer-reviewed journals. Coverage spans virtually every area of academic study and offers information dating as far back as 1975. This database is updated daily.

Human Relations Area Files (Full Text)
For the study of human culture, society and behavior. A collection of ethnographic and other texts indexed by culture and subject.

Infotrac Academic OneFile (Full Text)

A source for peer-reviewed, full-text articles from the world's leading journals and reference sources. With extensive coverage of the physical sciences, technology, medicine, social sciences, the arts, theology, literature and other subjects, OneFile is both authoritative and comprehensive. With millions of articles available in both PDF and HTML full-text with no restrictions, researchers are able to find accurate information quickly. Includes full-text coverage of the New York Times back to 1995. Updated daily.

JSTOR (Full Text)
Collection of full-text scholarly journals in the fields of history, literature, sociology, philosophy, political science, and population studies. Coverage starts with the first issue of each journal through the 1990's.

Dissertations & Theses: Full Text
The ProQuest Dissertations & Theses database includes over 2 million master's theses and dissertations, with over 60,000 titles added every year. It's a great resource for researchers in a wide variety of fields.

Literary Index 
Index to Contemporary Literary Criticism, Short Story Criticism, Poetry Criticism, Dictionary of Literary Biography, Contemporary Authors, etc. 

MLA Bibliography
Modern Language Association Bibliography is the definitive guide to literary criticism. Articles, books, and chapters in books. From 1963 to the present. Updated 10 times per year. 

Periodicals Archives Online (formerly Periodicals Contents Index - Full Text) (Full Text)
Index to articles from 1802 to 1995 in the humanities and social sciences. Includes full-text to approximately 140 journals.

Project Muse (Full Text)
One of the first ventures of its kind, Project Muse provides electronic access to the full text of scholarly journals in the humanities, social sciences, and mathematics.  From about 1996.

SIRS Researcher (Full Text)
Full-text articles on social, scientific, health, historic, economic, business, political and global issues. Selected from newspapers, magazines, journals and government publications.

Sociological Abstracts
Indexes and provides abstracts for 350 international journals covering various areas of sociology.

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Biographical Dictionary of Social Welfare in America
REF HV 27 B57 1986

A Dictionary of Sociology
REF HM 17 .C66 1998

Encyclopedia of Aging
REF HQ 1061 E53 1995

Encyclopedia of American Social History
REF HN 57 E58 1993

Encyclopedia of Marriage and the Family
REFHQ 9 E52 1995

Encyclopedia of Religion and Society
REF BL 60 .E53 1998

Encyclopedia of Sociology
REF HM 17 E5 1992

Social Work Almanac
REF HV 90 G53 1995

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American Women
A Gateway to Library of Congress Resources for the Study of Women's History and Culture in the United States

American Women's History: A Research Guide
Lots of information including links to primary sources.

IWPR: The Institute for Women's Policy Research
Organization for debate on public policy issues of importance to women and families.

Women's Studies / Women's Issues Resource Sites
Selective, annotated listing of web sites with an emphasis on sites of particular use to an academic women's studies program.

WomenWatch
Gateway to UN information, resources, data, and organizations.

WWW Virtual Library: WSS Links
ACRL's Women's Studies Section of women and gender studies links.

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College of Charleston Women's Studies Program

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