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NOTE: The dates listed are either the date of the latest publication included in the bibliography or the latest revision date for the site.

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Databases
Key Women's Studies Databases (Available to Vanderbilt Users Only) Additional Vanderbilt Women's Studies Databases
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Databases Available to All Users
  • AfricaBib.org: African Women's Bibliographic Database
      "This English language database contains over 22,000 citations from 1986 to current. The database indexes six types of materials: books and government documents; articles appearing in edited books; periodical and journal articles; Masters theses and Ph.D. dissertations as well as a few B.A. theses and honors papers; conference papers; and videocassettes. "
  • Ariadne Database
      A German-language bibliographic database (mainly articles) from the holdings of the Austrian National Library in Vienna, focusing on "international and women's studies literature". Some results are English language articles.
  • The Commercial Closet: The World's Largest Collection of Gay Advertising
      Includes over 1100 ads from all over the world since 1917 searchable by theme. "The Commercial Closet Association is a unique, non-profit educational and journalism organization that proactively reaches out to ad agencies, marketers, the media and world-at-large to encourage more inclusive and flattering representations of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people in advertising."
  • DIOTIMA: Materials for the Study of Women and Gender in the Ancient World
      "An interdisciplinary resource for anyone interested in patterns of gender around the ancient Mediterranean." A searchable bibliography is one of many resources available at this site.
  • Early Modern Women Database
      "provides links to World Wide Web resources useful for the study of women in early modern Europe and the Americas. It focuses on the period ca. 1500 to ca. 1800. Resources have been selected for their scholarly value by librarians on the Arts and Humanities Team of the University of Maryland Libraries. Materials range from bibliographic databases to full-text resources, images, and sound recordings. Most of the resources linked here are free. Some require a license for access."
  • European Database: Women in Decision-making | Europaeische Datenbank: Frauen in Fuehrungspositionen
      "Provides information about women in political decision-making positions in the European Union, in Member States of the European Economic Area and in the Candidate Countries. Data are collected on national, regional and on the European level." Available in English, German and French.
  • Feminae: Medieval Women and Gender Index
      "Covers journal articles, book reviews, and essays in books about women, sexuality, and gender during the Middle Ages."
  • Films and Video on Women, Gender, and Feminism
      Extensive database of women's studies related films held in the University of Arizona's library system. To see if held at Vanderbilt, search the title in ACORN, the library catalog.
  • Gender Inn: Women's and Gender Studies Database
      "Searchable database providing access to over 7000 records pertaining to feminist theory, feminist literary criticism and gender studies focusing on English and American literature."
  • GenderStats: A Database of Gender Statistics
      "An electronic database of gender statistics and indicators. ... Data sources for GenderStats include national statistics, United Nations databases, and World Bank-conducted or funded surveys."
  • KVINNSAM
      "Produced by the Women's History Collections Dept at Gothenburg University Library, KVINNSAM is an interdisciplinary database with references - in English, Swedish and many other languages - from the Göteborg University Library collections, mainly in humanities and social sciences. The references consist of books, journals, articles, chapters, pamphlets, researchreports etc. The database now includes about 90,000 references from 1958-[2002]. English is the predominant language: 63 % of the references in the KVINNSAM database are in English."
  • Mapping the World of Women's Information Services
      "a database with over 350 women's information centers and libraries from more than 125 countries. Search this database for services from Albania to China, from the Dominican Republic to Mongolia and from Tonga to Zimbabwe. The database can be searched by name, country, subject, sort of organization and other key words. It is updated weekly."
  • ViVa: A Bibliography of Women's History in Historical and Women's Studies Journals
      "ViVa is a current bibliography of articles about women's and gender history. Articles published in English, French, German, Dutch, Danish, Norwegian, and Swedish are selected from 149 European, American, Canadian, Asian, Australian and New Zealand journals. Today, the ViVa database contains bibliographic records describing more than seven thousand articles published from 1975 to 2002 in historical and women's studies journals."
  • Women In Politics: Bibliographic Database
      "has been developed with the contribution of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP). The database is regularly up-dated to take account of new books and articles produced throughout the world on the subject of women in politics. It covers titles representing international, regional, country-by-country as well as thematic perspectives."
  • Women's Human Rights Resources
      Provides "diverse, quality information on women's international human rights law."

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