GWS 2000 Intro Gender & Women's Studies
About This Guide
This guide will walk you through the research process with recommended course-specific resources. A list of some recommended resources included in this guide is below.
Don't forget to check out our other Research Guides for any interdisciplinary research and the Gender and Women's Studies Guide.
Screen reader user? Follow these links to get instructions on using the Library Search interface to find books and journal articles.
Other Places to Search
- ProQuest Central This link opens in a new window
ProQuest Central combines the complete content of over thirty of the most heavily used ProQuest databases across all major subject areas, with deep coverage in business, health and medical, news, social sciences, arts and humanities, and science and technology. It provides access to scholarly journals, high value market research, country, economic, and industry reports, pre-print working papers, full-text dissertations, and a vast number of newspapers, professional journals, and general interest periodicals.
- ERIC (EBSCOhost) This link opens in a new window
This is the core index in the field of Education. Includes citations with abstracts for over 2,000 journals and more than 450,000 reports in education and related fields.Covers 1966-present. This database is also available from the US government.
Recommended Databases for Suffragist Research
- Women and Social Movements in the United States, 1600-2000: Scholar's Edition (Alexander Street) This link opens in a new window
- New York Times Suffrage at 100: A Digital HistoryTo access the New York Times, WMU students can register for an Academic Pass. Details are below.
- New York Times Digital edition This link opens in a new window
1851 to date. Does not include Crosswords and Times Insider.
HOW TO ACCESS:
FIRST: Register for an Academic Pass.
First time registrants MUST use their @wmich.edu email addresses to register for an Academic Pass. Your Academic Pass is good for 364 days from the date you activate it; after it expires you can re-register using the registration link above for a new pass for 364 days.
NEXT: Log in here with your WMU account.
Mobile APPS: Your Academic Pass includes access to the New York Times via the NYTimes smartphone and tablet apps.; these are included as part of the Academic Pass and are available here.
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