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Most cited journals in Women, Gender, Sexuality Studies and related fields, as identified by the Women's and Gender Studies Section Committee, Association of College & Research Libraries:
Signs
Journal of the Motherhood Initiative
Gender & Society
Feminist Studies
Frontiers: A Journal of Women’s Studies
Feminist Formations
Journal of Women’s History
Hypatia
GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian & Gay Studies
Women’s Studies Quarterly
Feminist Media Studies
Suggested Databases
The following list of databases comes from the Sociology and Multicultural and Gender Studies Databases by Subject page.
- Alternative Press Index & Archive This link opens in a new window
Index to articles in international alternative, radical, and left periodicals. Topics include indigenous peoples, LGBTQIA, feminism, ecology, democracy, and anarchism. 1969 to present.
- Ethnic NewsWatch This link opens in a new window
News, culture, and history from 300 publications of ethnic, minority, and native presses. 1990-present.
- LGBTQ+ Rights This link opens in a new window
Publications charting gay rights movement in America, showing civil rights codified into law in 20th and 21st centuries, as well as the inequalities that still exist today. 1813-current.
- Family & Society Studies Worldwide This link opens in a new windowResearch, policy, and practice literature in the fields of family and society studies. 1970 to present.
- GenderWatch This link opens in a new window
Historical and current perspectives on the evolution of gender roles as they affect both men and women. 1970s to present.
- JSTOR This link opens in a new window
Scholarly journals and books. Access begins with the first volume for many journal titles, but usually does not have the newest volumes of each journal.
- ICPSR This link opens in a new window
Vast archive of social science data for use with statistical software such as SAS, SPSS, Stata and R. 1962 to present.
- SimplyAnalytics This link opens in a new window
Extensive demographic, business and marketing data from sources such as census data from 2000 and 2010,Current Estimates, Five Year Projections, the Experian SimmonsLOCAL and Nielsen Claritas PRIZM Data Packages. Coverage: 2000-present. 10 simultaneous users.
- Data Citation Index (Web of Science) This link opens in a new window
Indexes a significant number of the world's leading data repositories of critical interest to the scientific community, including over two million data studies and datasets. 1900-present.
- Pew Research Center Data Sets This link opens in a new window
Nonpartisan organization informing the public about issues, attitudes, and trends shaping the world. Data is released approximately 2 years after reports are published. Access to data sets requires users create an account and have experience with SPSS, SAS, Stata or R.
- NCES Data Tools This link opens in a new windowNCES is the primary federal entity for collecting and analyzing data related to education in the U.S. and other nations.
Primary Source Databases
- American Civil Liberties Union Papers, parts I and II This link opens in a new window
Focuses on the struggle for civil rights and U.S. Supreme Court issues related to civil liberties, race and gender. 1912-1990.
- Archives of Sexuality and Gender This link opens in a new window
A growing collection of primary sources on social, political, health, and legal issues of sexuality and gender throughout history and current impacts on LGBTQ communities around the world. Current access includes four collections: LGBTQ History and Culture Since 1940, Parts 1-2,; Sex and Sexuality, Sixteenth to Twentieth Century; Community and Identity in North America.
- Defining Gender, 1450-1910 This link opens in a new window
Primary source material from British Archives for study and analysis of gender, leisure and consumer culture. Topics include conduct & politeness, education & sensibility, and the body.
- Popular Culture in Britain and America, 1950-1975 This link opens in a new window
Primary source material on the cultural change between 1950-1975. Rock and roll, counterculture, peace and protest, fashion, civil rights, Vietnam, student activism, and underground publications.
- Sixties: Primary Documents and Personal Narratives 1960-1974 This link opens in a new window
Covers themes such as civil rights, counter culture, left movements, right movements, sexual revolution, student activism, and the Vietnam War. 1960 to 1974.
Searching Multiple Databases & Resources at Once
- Start Your Research This link opens in a new window
Search multiple databases and different types of content together. Databases searched include the library's catalog, Texas State Digital Collections repository, and many but not all Texas State licensed databases.
- Google Scholar This link opens in a new window
Searches scholarly literature, including peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, preprints, abstracts, and technical reports.
Databases are listed from the Criminal Justice subjects on the main databases page and are core research databases for Criminal Justice research.
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Criminal Justice Abstracts with Full Text This link opens in a new windowCriminology & related disciplines, crime trends, crime prevention and deterrence, juvenile delinquency, juvenile justice, police, courts, punishment and sentencing. International coverage, 1910-present.
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Criminal Justice Database This link opens in a new windowTheoretical and practical material for both scholars and those in criminal justice related fields. 1981 to present.
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National Criminal Justice Reference Service Abstracts This link opens in a new window
Abstracts of research about corrections, courts, crime statistics, domestic preparedness, drugs, juvenile justice, law enforcement, and victims. 1970 to present.
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Sociology Source Ultimate This link opens in a new window
Comprehensive scholarship on sociology and related fields (anthropology, criminology, etchnic studies, gender studies, social psychology, substance abuse, urban studies). 1895-present.
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Sociological Abstracts This link opens in a new window
Indexes articles, books, book chapters, dissertations, and conference papers in sociology and related fields. International in scope. 1952 to present. Simultaneous user limit is 8.
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Social Sciences Full Text (H.W. Wilson) This link opens in a new window
Journal articles and book reviews in the social sciences (anthropology, economics, education, philosophy, political science, law, and sociology). 1983-present
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PsycINFO (APA) This link opens in a new window
The most comprehensive international index of peer-reviewed literature in behavioral science and mental health. 1887 to present.
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Sage Journals Online This link opens in a new windowCovers all subject areas but particularly strong in social studies. Most journals provide access from volume 1 to present.
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Wiley Online Library This link opens in a new windowFull-text access to Wiley and Blackwell journals and over 22,000 ebooks. 1997 to present, with select journal titles going back further to volume 1.