LibGuides: Gender Studies: Journals & Databases

These databases are highly recommended for finding Gender Studies related articles. Some are highly specialized while others contain diverse literature. If your research has a New Zealand focus, also check out the NZ Specific Databases tab.

Diversity (Alexander Street) This link opens in a new window Resources that illuminate the challenges, triumphs, and issues facing underrepresented, indigenous, and immigrant communities around the world. Content offers opportunities for cross-cultural comparisons and localized, in-depth analyses relevant to Asian studies, black studies, LGBT studies, North American Indian studies, and women's studies.
HeinOnline Women and the Law (Peggy) This link opens in a new window A collection of books, biographies and periodicals dedicated to womens roles in society and the law from the last 200 years.
IBSS: International Bibliography of the Social Sciences This link opens in a new window The IBSS database includes over two million bibliographic references to journal articles and books, reviews and selected chapters dating back to 1951. It focuses on anthropology, economics, politics and sociology with broad coverage of international material from 100 countries and in 60 languages.
Periodicals Index Online: PIO This link opens in a new window PIO is an international index to millions of articles published in over 6,000 periodicals in the humanities and social sciences as far back as 1665. Every article in each journal is indexed, from volume 1 issue 1 to recent times. Includes periodicals in English, German, Italian, French, Spanish, and other Western languages.
Social Science Database (ProQuest) This link opens in a new window A definitive resource for those who need access to a variety of scientific journals. Subject coverage includes: Anthropology, Communication science, Demography, Economics, Human services, Political science, Policy studies, Psychology, and Sociology.
Women and Social Movements International - 1840 to Present This link opens in a new window A collection of primary materials from more than 300 repositories. Through the writings of women activists, their personal letters and diaries, and the proceedings of conferences at which pivotal decisions were made, this collection lets you see how women’s social movements shaped much of the events and attitudes that have defined modern life.
Women: Transnational Networks (NCCO) This link opens in a new window From Nineteenth Century Collections Online, this focuses on issues at the intersection of gender and class from the late-eighteenth century to the era of suffrage in the early-twentieth century.
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Academic OneFile (Gale Cengage) This link opens in a new window Provides indexing/abstracting for over 12,500 journals and reference sources; over 5,000 in full-text and more than 7,300 peer-reviewed. Coverage includes the physical sciences, technology, medicine, social sciences, the arts, theology, literature and other subjects.
Academic Search Complete (via EBSCOhost) This link opens in a new window Provides indexing and abstracting for more than 10,000 journals, with full-text coverage for more than 6.000 titles. Covers a wide range of areas of academic study from the sciences to the arts.
Informit Humanities & Social Sciences Collection This link opens in a new window Covers agriculture, arts, Asian studies, business, cultural studies, education, history, indigenous studies, law, media, political science, reference, social sciences, science and technology. Content sources include peer reviewed journals, monographs and books, conference proceedings, research papers and reference materials sourced and indexed by RMIT Publishing.
JSTOR This link opens in a new window Provides full-text access to back issues (delay in coverage generally 3-5 years) of selected scholarly journals in history, economics, political science, demography, mathematics and other fields of the humanities, social sciences, and life sciences. The Library's access includes all Arts & Sciences Collections, the Life Sciences Collection, Business IV, and the Ireland Collection.
MLA International Bibliography (via EBSCOhost) This link opens in a new window A classified listing and subject index of scholarly books and articles on modern languages, literatures, folklore, and linguistics. Source documents include journal articles, books, and dissertations. Access to the MLA's Directory of Periodicals is also provided.
Periodicals Archive Online Foundation Collection This link opens in a new window The PAO Foundation Collection is an archive of 215 digitised academic journals published in the arts, humanities and social sciences. Coverage is from first issue to the end of 2000, or final issue (whichever is first).
Project MUSE This link opens in a new window Full-text access to over 400 high quality, peer-reviewed humanities and social sciences journals from over 100 scholarly publishers.
ProQuest Central This link opens in a new window A leading electronic database providing indexing/abstracting and full-text access to scholarly and general interest publications. It combines information from a number of leading online databases with subjects covering: business, law, education, computing, science, technology, engineering, arts, medicine, and religion.
Google Scholar This link opens in a new window

Google Scholar Metrics: Feminism & Women's Studies Google Scholar Metrics provide an easy way for authors to quickly gauge the visibility and influence of recent articles in scholarly publications.
Google Scholar Metrics: Gender Studies Google Scholar Metrics provide an easy way for authors to quickly gauge the visibility and influence of recent articles in scholarly publications.
Google Scholar Metrics: Sex & Sexuality Google Scholar Metrics provide an easy way for authors to quickly gauge the visibility and influence of recent articles in scholarly publications.
Google Scholar Metrics: Sociology Google Scholar Metrics provide an easy way for authors to quickly gauge the visibility and influence of recent articles in scholarly publications.
Scimago Journal & Country Rank: Gender Studies The SCImago Journal & Country Rank is a publicly available portal that includes the journals and country scientific indicators developed from the information contained in the Scopus® database (Elsevier B.V.).
Scimago Journal & Country Rank: Sociology & Political Science The SCImago Journal & Country Rank is a publicly available portal that includes the journals and country scientific indicators developed from the information contained in the Scopus® database (Elsevier B.V.).

Learn more by visiting Journal Metrics on the Research Publishing & Impact Guide.

These multidisciplary databases index citations between publications, allowing the user to easily establish connections between articles and ideas.

Google Scholar This link opens in a new window Google Scholar provides a simple way to broadly search for scholarly literature. From one place, you can search across many disciplines and sources: peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, abstracts and articles, from academic publishers, professional societies, preprint repositories, universities and other scholarly organizations. Article link will provide links to library databases and full-text of many articles.
Scopus This link opens in a new window A multidisciplinary abstract and citation database of research literature and web sources. Over 16,500 peer-reviewed titles from more than 4,000 publishers. Includes some full text links. Access Scopus Tutorials online.
Web of Science Core Collection This link opens in a new window Provides access to the world's leading citation databases: Science Citation Index Expanded; Social Sciences Citation Index; Arts & Humanities Citation Index; Emerging Sources Citation Index; Index Chemicus; Book Citation Index; and, Conference Proceedings Citation Index. Authoritative, multidisciplinary content covers the highest impact journals, including Open Access journals and conference proceedings.

IndexNZ
Abstracts and descriptions for articles from a huge range of New Zealand periodicals and newspapers since the 1950s.

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Australia/New Zealand Reference Centre Plus This link opens in a new window Combines Australia and New Zealand specific magazines, newspapers & newswires, reference books, and company information to create a collection of regional full text content available to schools, public libraries, and academic institutions.
DigitalNZ This link opens in a new window Aims to make New Zealand digital content easy to find, share and use. This includes content from government departments, publicly funded organisations, the private sector, and community groups.
findNZarticles This link opens in a new window Provides access to New Zealand content, including material by or about New Zealanders, from a range of New Zealand newspapers and journals.
Informit New Zealand Collection This link opens in a new window Access to full text New Zealand content relating to arts, business, education, environment and conservation, family studies, sociology, Indigenous and Maori peoples, law and music.
Knowledge Basket This link opens in a new window New Zealand Index (including Newzindex, NZ Science, Newspaper Index, Index New Zealand), Newztext and LegislationNZ (including Hansard).
National Library of New Zealand Discovery Search This link opens in a new window Simultaneously searches the National Library Catalogue, TAPUHI, Timeframes, Publications NZ, Index NZ, Te Puna Web Directory, Matapihi and findNZarticles.
NZResearch This link opens in a new window Research documents produced at universities, polytechnics, and other research institutions throughout New Zealand; now hosted by DigitalNZ
Te Puna Search: New Zealand National Union Catalogue This link opens in a new window Search the National Union Catalogue for items held in libraries throughout New Zealand.

The Hub The Hub is a one-stop-shop for New Zealand social science government research related to education, health and wellbeing, crime and justice, families, children and young people.

Search Library Search | Ketu to find even more journal titles.

Journal of New Zealand Studies Journal of New Zealand Studies publishes research on New Zealand society, culture and history.
Journal of Sociology Journal of Sociology is the official journal of The Australian Sociological Association. It carries peer refereed articles of sociological research and theory on issues of interest to Australian sociology and aims to promote dialogue and exchange between Australian sociologists and the international community of sociology.
Kōtuitui New Zealand journal of social sciences online. Kōtuitui aims to showcase the increasing number of collaborative research endeavours across the social sciences. Although of particular relevance to New Zealand, the journal’s subject matter is of worldwide relevance and interest to researchers in universities, research institutes, and other centres. The Maori name ‘Kōtuitui’ means ‘interweaving’, and reflects the interdisciplinary nature of the journal.
Mai Journal MAI Journal is an open access journal that publishes multidisciplinary peer-reviewed articles that critically analyse and address indigenous and Pacific issues in the context of Aotearoa New Zealand.
New Zealand Sociology Disseminates & promotes research & thought that has the clarification & development of theoretically informed research in sociology & related disciplines with a predominant, though not exclusive, concern with New Zealand.
Sites: a journal of social anthropology and cultural studies Sites seeks multidisciplinary perspectives on the study of societies and cultures of the wider Pacific region. We welcome work from authors in the fields of anthropology, culture studies, indigenous studies, Maori studies, sociology, history, gender, linguistics, and ethnomusicology.
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Women's studies journal The Women's Studies Journal is a biannual, open access, peer reviewed academic journal established by the Women's Studies Association.

Also see: eSocSci featured Journals A list of New Zealand Social Science Journals as curated by eSocSci.

PsycINFO (Ovid) This link opens in a new window An international index of psychology literature. It contains citations and summaries of journal articles, book chapters, books, dissertations, and technical reports in psychology and the psychological aspects of related disciplines.
Psychology Database (ProQuest) This link opens in a new window Encompasses a wide range of topics from leading psychology and psychosomatic publications. In addition to clinical and social psychology, it also provides coverage of related disciplines including genetics, psychology of business and economics, communication, criminology, addiction, neurology, social welfare, and more.
Psychology & Behavioral Sciences Collection (via EBSCOhost) This link opens in a new window A comprehensive database covering information concerning topics in emotional and behavioral characteristics, psychiatry & psychology, mental processes, anthropology, and observational & experimental methods. Offers full text coverage for nearly 600 journals.
Psychology Video Online This link opens in a new window Provides access to key films in the discipline of Psychology. The collection includes documentaries, interviews, case studies, and psychological experiments.

ERIC (ProQuest) This link opens in a new window A database sponsored by the U.S. Department of Education to provide extensive access to educational-related literature. ERIC provides coverage of journal articles, conferences, meetings, government documents, theses, dissertations, reports, audiovisual media, bibliographies, directories, books and monographs.
Education Research Complete (via EBSCOhost) This link opens in a new window An online resource for education research. Topics covered include all levels of education from early childhood to higher education, and all educational specialties, such as multilingual education, health education, and testing.
Education Database (ProQuest) This link opens in a new window Provides access to educational publications, including more than 600 of the titles in full-text. The coverage spans the literature on primary, secondary and higher education as well as special education, home schooling and adult education.
Education in Video (Alexander Street) This link opens in a new window An online video collection with teaching demonstrations, lectures, documentaries, and primary-source footage of students and teachers in classrooms, pre-school through secondary. Education in Video covers hundreds of special topics and themes representing many different teaching and learning conditions. Many of the videos include supplementary materials which may be downloaded.

Vogue Archive (ProQuest) This link opens in a new window The entire run of Vogue magazine (US edition), from the first issue in 1892 to the current month, reproduced in high-resolution colour page images.
Every page, advertisement, cover and fold-out is included, with rich indexing enabling you to find images by garment type, designer and brand names. The Archive is a rich source of the history of fashion and also for other areas of modern culture, providing a record of changing social tastes, mores and aspirations in the modern world.
British Theatre, Music, and Literature: High and Popular Culture (NCCO) This link opens in a new window From Nineteenth Century Collections Online, this archive covers a range of primary sources related to the arts in the Victorian era, from playbills and scripts to operas and complete scores. It includes such topics as Victorian popular culture, street literature, social history, music, bloods and penny dreadfuls, the history of the English stage, the Royal Literary Fund, and British dramatic works. Totalling approximately 1 million pages, it was sourced from the British Library and other institutions.
Informit Literature & Culture Collection This link opens in a new window A collection of fiction, poetry, cultural politics and the ideas that have helped define the Australian identity from Australia’s best known literary and cultural magazines, 1939+.
Popular Culture in Britain and America, 1950-1975 This link opens in a new window Popular Culture explores social, political and cultural change between 1950-1975, through colour images of manuscript and rare printed material, as photographs, ephemera, memorabilia and video footage.

Cambridge Journals Online This link opens in a new window
Oxford Academic (Journals) This link opens in a new window
SAGE Premier 2010 This link opens in a new window
SAGE Research Methods This link opens in a new window
Taylor & Francis Online This link opens in a new window
Wiley Online Library This link opens in a new window

Australia/New Zealand Reference Centre Plus This link opens in a new window Combines Australia and New Zealand specific magazines, newspapers & newswires, reference books, and company information to create a collection of regional full text content available to schools, public libraries, and academic institutions.
Factiva This link opens in a new window Access to a wide range of global and NZ news and business information content from more than 28,000 sources, from 157 countries in 23 languages.
Newspaper Source Plus (via EBSCOhost) This link opens in a new window Includes 1,520 full-text newspapers, providing more than 28 million full-text articles. In addition, the database features more than 601,300 television and radio news transcripts, videos & podcasts.
PressReader This link opens in a new window Access to over 1,000 newspapers from over 80 countries in 40 different languages. The newspapers are presented exactly as they are in print format and are available to read at the same time (often earlier) than the print versions. NOTE: Only goes back 90 days.
News & Newspapers Collection (ProQuest) This link opens in a new window Search and access these collections: ProQuest Newsstand, Canadian Newsstand Complete, Australia & New Zealand Newsstand, and historical content for the Guardian, the Observer, the Irish Times, the Weekly Irish Times, the Los Angeles Times, the New York Times, the Scotsman, and the Wall Street Journal.

Newspapers - Library Guide Visit the Newspapers guide for more NZ and International newspaper sources, both current and historical.

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