Lindsey Schell
English Literature, Women’s and Gender Studies Bibliographer
schell@mail.utexas.edu
495-4119
PCL Reference Desk: 495-4250
Women’s and Gender Studies Research Guide Online: http://www.lib.utexas.edu/subject/gender/index.html

**Thanks to Lindsey Schell for all the information on this page.

For a list of all Women’s and Gender Studies databases:
http://www.lib.utexas.edu/indexes/s-womensstudies.html

Alt-Press Watch: Provides full-text coverage of newspapers, magazines and journals of the alternative and independent press in America. Includes a broad range of critical issues confronting contemporary society, such as ecology and the environment, grassroots organizing, labor, indigenous peoples, and public policy.

Contemporary Women's Issues: 1992 - present. Provides bibliographic information and the full-text for approximately 10,000 items drawn from journals, book and media reviews, the alternative press, fact sheets and guides, newsletters, government reports and data, personal narratives, instructional pamphlets, legislative actions, and proceedings.

Dissertation Abstracts International / Digital Dissertations: 1861 - present. Contains more than 1.5 million entries representing the work of authors from over 1,000 North American and European universities. All subject areas are covered. Dissertations produced after 1997 are also available digitally through Dissertations Abstracts for download by UT Austin affiliated users.

Gender Studies Database: 1972 - present. Covers the spectrum of gender engaged scholarship inside and outside academia. Combines NISC's popular Women's Studies International, Men's Studies and Sexual Diversity Studies databases with relevant contributions from the Child Development & Adolescent Studies as well as Family & Society Studies Worldwide databases. Also links to freely available and indexed full-text articles and documents on the web where available.

Gerritsen Collection: Women's History Online: 1543-1945. A collection of books, pamphlets and periodicals reflecting the evolution of a feminist consciousness and the movement for women's rights. The collection consists of 265 periodicals and 4471 monographs from continental Europe, the U.S., the United Kingdom, Canada, and New Zealand.

MLA International Bibliography: 1963-present. Indexes critical materials on literature, criticism, drama, languages, linguistics, and folklore. Provides access to citations from over 3,500 journals, series, books, essay collections, working papers, proceedings, dissertations, and bibliographies. Coverage is international. Citations only.

North American Women’s Letters and Diaries: Includes diaries, journals, and letters written by women visiting or living in North America between the years 1700 and 1950. When complete, the database will be the largest collection of women's diaries and correspondence ever assembled and include the personal experiences of 1,500 women from all classes and walks of life.

WorldCat: 1000 BC – present. Union catalog of materials held by OCLC libraries. 50,000,000+ bibliographic records for audio-visual materials, books, maps, musical scores, newspapers, periodicals and more.

Ulrich’s Periodical Database: Provides information on virtually every active and ceased periodical, annual, irregular publication, and monographic series published in the United States and throughout the world. Also includes publisher contact information.

Call number area for Women’s and Gender Studies: HQ

Literary Research Guide, 4th ed. Harner, James L. New York: MLA, 2002. Call Number: Z 2011 H34 PCL

On Compiling an Annotated Bibliography, 2nd ed. Harner, James L. New York: Modern Language Association, 2000. Call Number: Z 1001 H33 2000 PCL and UGL

MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers, 6th ed. Gibaldi, Joseph. New York: Modern Language Association, 2003. Call Number: LB 2369 G53 PCL and UGL

Finding Book Reviews:
http://www.lib.utexas.edu/subject/english/bookreviews.html

Source Evaluation:
Evaluating Information Found on the Internet, Johns Hopkins University.
http://www.library.jhu.edu/elp/useit/evaluate/index.html

Citation Styles:
http://www.lib.utexas.edu/pcl/citations/index.html