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To find PRIMARY SOURCES, use these
terms in your search: ARCHIVES, BIOGRAPHY (this includes autobiographies),
CORRESPONDENCE, DIARIES, INTERVIEWS, SOURCES. Enter them as "any of these" in
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| Title | Barnard Reference Call Number |
| Women in Psychology: a Bio-Bibliographic Sourcebook | BF109.A1 W65 1990 |
| The IVP Women's Bible Commentary | BS521.4 .I97 2002 |
| Who's Who in the Middle Ages | CT114 .S56 2001 |
| Gender Roles: a Handbook of Text and Measures | HM253 .B43 1990 |
| Protest, Power, and Change: an Encyclopedia of Nonviolent Action from ACT-UP to Women's Suffrage | HM278 .P76 1997 |
| The International Encyclopedia of Sexuality | HQ21 .I68 1997 |
| Adolescent Pregnancy and Parenthood: an Annotated Guide | HQ759.64 Z64 1990g |
| Historical and Multicultural Encyclopedia of Women's Reproductive Rights in the United States | HQ766.5.U5 H57 2002 |
| Many other abortion titles can be found in the HQ767s | HQ767 |
| Girlhood in America: An Encyclopedia | HQ777 .G5745 2001 |
| Encyclopedia of Feminist Theories | HQ1190 .E63 2000 |
| Routledge International Encyclopedia of Women | HQ1115 .R69 2000 |
| Women's issues | HQ1115 .W6425 1997 |
| Women’s Studies Encyclopedia | HQ1115 .W645 1999 |
| American Women | HQ1421 .A486 2002 |
| The Greenwood Encyclopedia of Women's Issues Worldwide. North America and the Caribbean | HQ1154 .G743 2003 |
| Women in the Biblical World: a Study Guide | Call number change requested. Check CLIO. |
The Databases (Reference Works & Indexes) list, which you can access from the Barnard Library home page or Columbia LibraryWeb, gives links to indexes for finding citations to journal articles. The following will probably be the most relevant to your research:
America: History & Life
Citations for publications related to U.S. and Canadian history.
ATLA Religion Database + ATLAS
Citations, abstracts, and some full-text articles from religion journals and
essay collections.
Dissertation Abstracts (Digital Dissertations)
Citations and abstracts for dissertations and theses covering all academic
subjects.
ERIC
Citations, abstracts, and full-text for articles in education periodicals and
other publications.
Feminae: Medieval Women and Gender Index
Citations to journals and essays about women and gender during the Middle Ages.
Guides to Microforms (Primary Sources in U.S. History)
Guides to microform sets in American history, foreign relations, women's
studies.
Hispanic American Periodical Index Online
Citations to articles and book reviews about Latin America, the Caribbean, and
Hispanic Americans.
Historical Abstracts
Citations and abstracts for publications related to world history, excluding the
U.S. and Canada, from 1450 to the present.
International
Bibliography of the Social Sciences
Citations for articles from over 100 countries in more than 90 languages, in the
disciplines of anthropology, economics, political science and sociology, from
1951 to the present.
Kvinnsam
An international index to journal articles and essays in books dealing with all
aspects of women, feminism, and gender studies, from 1981 to the present.
Oral History Online
Index to oral history collections in English from around the world.
PsycINFO
Citations and abstracts for publications about psychology and related
disciplines.
Social Sciences Abstracts
Abstracts for journal articles on anthropology, business, community health,
economics, foreign affairs, geography, international relations, law and
criminology, medical care, political science, politics, psychiatry, psychology,
public welfare, social work, and sociology, 1983 to the present.
Social Sciences Citation Index Expanded
Cited references, bibliographic information, and abstracts, with some links to
full-text articles, in various areas including anthropology, communication,
criminology & penology, demography, economics, education, ethnic studies,
health policy & services, industrial relations & labor, international
relations, planning & development, political science, psychology, public
administration, public health, social sciences, transportation, urban studies,
and womens studies, 1973 to the present. Useful for tracing which authors
cited a given article or book
Women's Studies International
Citations for articles on women's studies, gender studies, employment, family
planning, feminism, feminist studies, feminist theory & history, gender,
gender studies, international feminism, political/social activism, racial/ethnic
studies, reproductive rights, sex discrimination, women’s studies, 1972 to the
present.
WorldCat
Interface to the OCLC bibliographic database (36 million records).
Worldwide Political Science Abstracts
Abstracts of books and articles from professional journals and major news
magazines, devoted to North American and international politics, 1975 to the
present.
These are also on the list of Databases (Reference Works & Indexes).
Barnard Bulletin Newspaper Archive
Digital archive of the Barnard Bulletin
Contemporary Women's Issues
A selected full-text resource (some material is abstract only) for information
about women in over 190 countries. Particularly useful for material relating to
current topics in the social sciences disciplines, such as political science,
psychology, reproductive rights, as well as contemporary cultural studies.
Education Full Text
Citations, abstracts and full-text of articles in education periodicals and
other publications.
GenderWatch
Full-text and abstracts of a wide variety of feminist and gender studies
periodicals.
Humanities Full Text
Citations, abstracts, and full text for articles in humanities periodicals.
JSTOR
Full-text articles from more than 320 scholarly journals, from the first issue
of each journal (including some started in the late nineteenth century) up to 3
to 5 years ago. Only the science and social science articles have
abstracts, so searching in the title is the most direct search for articles in
humanities journals; searching for a term in the full text of an article will
often find too many irrelevant articles
Latin America Data Base
Full-text news on Latin America and the Caribbean.
Lexis-Nexis
Full-text coverage of general news, medical, legal, business, governmental and
reference topics. Coverage varies by source; generally begins in
mid-1980s.
The Nation Digital Archive
Searchable full text and page images of a major U.S. journal of left/liberal
opinion, 1865-1999.
Project Muse
Full-text articles from more than 100 scholarly journals in history and the
humanities, the social sciences, and the sciences
ProQuest
Direct
Full-text articles and abstracts from newspapers and periodicals in many
disciplines, including international affairs, law, psychology, public affairs,
sociology, women's studies, from 1988 to the present. For scholarly
journals, click on "Databases selected" at top, clear all databases
and select PA Research II Periodicals, click on "Continue" at top, and
select Advanced Search.
Readers' Guide Full Text
Citations, abstracts, and fulltext for articles in popular and general-interest
periodicals, 1983 to the present.
Barnard and Columbia Sites: Both the Barnard and Columbia Library home pages have lists of recommended Web pages on various topics. These make a good place to start with finding information on the World Wide Web.
The Librarians' Index to the Internet provides annotated and subject classified links to quality websites.
Women's Studies: Periodical Indexes lists both online and print indexes that can help in tracking down articles in periodicals.
Updated
10/12/2004
Jenna Freedman
Reference Librarian
Barnard College Library