Online Databases | E-Journals | Data/Primary Sources | Web Sites | Print Resources| Bibliography Resources

 
ONLINE INDEXES AND DATABASES

• Access these indexes and databases from the Databases (reference works & indexes) list
• Using an index to find journal articles is a two-step process; first, find citations in the index, and second, click on "e-link" to find the full text online or do a Journal Title search in CLIO to find out which library has the paper version  
• Try the new Find Articles service to search multiple databases simultaneously.

These indexes and databases are subject specific to women's studies or have women's studies resources within them:

• Alternative Press Index and API Archive -- feminist and other alternative press publications from 1969-present (e.g. Bust, Lilith, On Our Backs, Women and Criminal Justice)
• Barnard bulletin newspaper archive -- 1901-2002
• Contemporary women's issues
• Feminae : medieval women and gender index
• Gender studies database
• JSTOR -- Go to advanced search and limit to the collection's Feminist and Women's Studies journals
• LGBT life
• North American women's letters and diaries
• Project Muse -- click on Journals then Subject List to limit your search to individual Women's Studies journals
• ProQuest Direct -- In database drop box select Interdisciplinary - GenderWatch to limit to that collection
• Studies on women and gender abstracts online

These more general resources may also have useful materials:

• Academic search premier
• America, history and life -- U.S. and Canada
• Arts & humanities citation index 
• CIAO : Columbia international affairs online -- from 1991, includes working papers from university research institutes, occasional papers series from NGOs, foundation-funded research projects, proceedings, books, journals and policy briefs.
• Google scholar -- be sure to use the Columbia link rather than going straight to scholar.google.com if you want more direct access to subscription content
• Historical abstracts -- the world (excluding the U.S. and Canada)
• Humanities full text
• International bibliography of the social sciences
• LexisNexis academic -- newspapers, journals, wire services, newsletters, company reports and SEC filings, case law, government documents, transcripts of broadcasts, and selected reference works
• PAIS international -- Public Affairs Information Service
• Readers' guide full text -- articles from popular periodicals
• Social sciences citation index
• Social sciences full text

For a more complete list of electronic databases for economics check Columbia's Databases: Social Sciences list.

E-JOURNALS

Many scholarly journals are available via the Web in searchable collections of journals supplied as a package by the publisher or by another vendor. These collections are included on the list of Databases (Journal Articles & More) on the Barnard Library home page.

If you have a particular journal that you want to access electronically, enter the title in CLIO. In the Quick Limits box below the Search For field, select Electronic Journals/Magazines/Serials, then click search. If we have an online subscription or database access, one or more links will be provided in the record.

FINDING DATA AND PRIMARY SOURCES

• 19th century masterfile
• AccuNet/AP multimedia archive -- Associated Press photographs from 1844, radio broadcasts, wire stories, and graphics.
• American memory -- Library of Congress's digitized materials
• British and Irish women's letters and diaries, from 1500-1900
• Fedstats : the gateway to statistics from over 100 U.S. Federal agencies  
• Genderstats : a database of gender statistics -- from the World Bank
• Gerritsen collection : women's history online, 1543-1945
• HarpWeek -- Harper's Weekly, 1857-1912
• Humanities & social sciences index retrospective, 1907-1984
• iPoll databank @ the Roper Center for Public Opinion Research
• National Statistics -- UK
• North American immigrant letters, diaries, and oral histories -- using the advanced search, you can limit by gender
• North American women's letters and diaries
• PAISArchive -- Public Affairs Information Service 1915-1976
• Periodicals archive online -- access to more than 200 years of scholarship
• Polling the nations
• ProQuest Historical Newspapers -- Atlanta Constitution, Boston Globe, Chicago Tribune, Los Angeles Times, New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post
• Readers' guide retrospective -- popular magazines 1890-1982
• Statistical Abstract of the United States
• Television News Archive
• The Times digital archive, 1785-1985 -- Full-text and page images from the Times of London 1785-1985
• Women and social movements in the United States 1600-2000
• Women writers online -- texts by English and American women published 1500-1830

Columbia: Electronic Data Service (EDS)-- operated jointly by the Columbia University Libraries and Columbia University Information Technology (CUIT) to support instruction and research that involve numeric and geo-spatial data resources. They have consultants who can help you find data. Both EDS and the consultants have restricted hours, so before you go, check out the webpage and/or make an appointment.

See also the statistical reference works cited below in the PRINT RESOURCES section.
 

REFERENCE RESOURCES

Reference Books
Use for:

• an overview of a topic
• background information
• bibliographies

TITLE	BARNARD REFERENCE #
Encyclopedia of women and religion in North America	BL458 .E52 2006
Native American women : a biographical dictionary	E98.W8 B38 2001
Latinas in the United States : a historical encyclopedia	E184.S75 L35 2006
African American women : a biographical dictionary
Black women in America	E185.86 .B542 2005
International encyclopedia of women and sports	GV709 .I58 2000
Working Americans, 1880-2005: women at work	HD8066 .D47 2000g v. 6
Sex in the ancient world from A to Z	HQ13 .Y65 2005
Encyclopedia of sex and gender : men and women in the world's cultures	HQ16 .E53 2003
The Greenwood encyclopedia of love, courtship, & sexuality through history	HQ21 .G67125 2008
Encyclopedia of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender history in America	HQ76.3.U5 E53 2003
The women’s movement today : an encyclopedia of third-wave feminism	HQ1115 .W644 2006
The Oxford encyclopedia of women in world history	HQ1121 .O93 2008
Encyclopedia of women in the ancient world	HQ1127 .S25 2001
Women and gender in medieval Europe : an encyclopedia	HQ1147.E85 W66 2006
Women in the Middle Ages : an encyclopedia	HQ1143 .W643 2004
The Greenwood encyclopedia of women’s issues worldwide	HQ1154 .G74x 2003
Encyclopedia of women & Islamic cultures	HQ1170 .E53 2003
A history of women in the United States : state-by-state reference	HQ1410 .H58 2004
Women in early America : struggle, survival, and freedom in a new world	HQ1416 .M395 2004
Feminist Chronicles : 1953-1993	HQ1420 .C37 1993
International encyclopedia of women’s suffrage	JF851 .H28 2000
Feminism in literature : a Gale critical companion	PN471 .F43 2005
The feminist encyclopedia of Spanish literature	PQ6055 .F46 2002
Latin American Women Writers
The Oxford guide to British women writers	PR111 .S48 1993
Writing African American women : an encyclopedia of literature by and about women of color	PS153.N5 W756 2006
Encyclopedia of women’s health issues	RA778 .G39 2001
Our bodies, ourselves for the new century : a book by and for women	RA778 .N49 1998
Jewish women :  a comprehensive historical encyclopedia

 

Searching CLIO
CLIO (Columbia Libraries Information Online) is the on-line catalog for materials added to the Columbia University Libraries since 1981.  

• For an author search, put last name first
• You can limit to books in the Barnard library using the Pre-set Limits or Post Limits options

Other Library Catalogs
Those with Columbia ID have access to the libraries of the Columbia Law School, the Jewish Theological Seminary, and Teachers’ College, but their holdings are in their own catalogs, not in CLIO. CUID also provides access to the libraries of New York University. Anyone who lives, works, or goes to school in New York is entitled to a New York Public Library card. Use the Catalogs list on CU LibraryWeb, or the following links:

Borrowing privileges with Columbia ID

• EDUCAT for Teachers’ College Library
• Pegasus for Columbia Law Library

Access with CUID

• ALEPH for the Jewish Theological Seminary
• BobCat for NYU libraries

Require separate ID

• CATNYP for New York Public Library research libraries.
• LEO for NYPL branch libraries.
• NYPL Databases require library card number for access.

Catalogs: for a larger list of library catalogs in New York City and elsewhere, including WorldCat, a catalog of catalogs that has holdings information from libraries all over the world and CRL, a catalog of rare and specialized materials, all available via Interlibrary Loan.
 

USEFUL WEB SITES

CUL Resources | NYC Resources | Arts | Feminist | General | History | International
Literature | Politics | Queer | Religion | Science/Technology

Barnard and Columbia Resources

• Abortion
• Barnard Center for Research on Women (BCRW): seriously, check them out. They have their own library/archive and great expertise on their staff.
• Barnard Library Zine Collection: Primary source materials on riot grrrl, third-wave feminism, and other topics.
• Barnard Women's Studies Department
• Columbia Women's and Gender Studies Department
• Columbia Institute for Research on Women & Gender
• Polling, surveys, public opinion
• Women in the Middle East

New York City

• BCRW  Guide
• NYPL Women's Studies: A Research Guide

Arts

• Artwomen.org
• Guerrilla Girls
• Varo Registry of Women Artists
• Women Artists Archives National Directory
  

Feminist

• Are Feminists Funny? -- Guerrilla Girls on YouTube
• Blog This! An Introduction to Blogs, Blogging, and the Feminist Blogosphere -- From Feminist Collections v.26, nos. 2-3 (Winter-Spring 2005), pp.11-17. 2007 update.
• Ecofeminist Philosophy
• Feminist Majority Foundation Online see research section
• Regender -- "What would the world look like if the two sexes switched places? What would it look like if English had genderless pronouns? What would it look like if English identified races the way it identifies gender?"

General

• Femina -- search engine of "sites for, by and about women"
• Gender-Related Electronic Forums -- from Joan Korenman
• Gifts of Speech -- Women's Speeches from around the World
• Graduate Programs in Women's Studies -- developed by Smith College
• ViVa Search -- "current bibliography of women's and gender history in scholarly journals"
• Women's Audio and Visuals in English -- "documentary, experimental, and feature film and video productions by and about women."
• Women's Studies / Women's Issues Resource Sites -- maintained by Joan Korenman
• Women's Studies in Digital Archives -- primary source materials within digital archives
• WSSLINKS -- Women and Gender Studies Web Sites maintained by the Women's Studies Section of ACRL

History

• American Women Through Time and Discovering American Women's History Online -- Maintained by Ken Middleton at Middle Tennessee State University
• Digitized Collections from the Duke University Rare Book, Manuscript, and Special Collections Library --
This collection provides digitized selections of archival material, including scanned texts and pages from Civil War women, African-American women, and Documents from the Women's Liberation Movement
• Diotima: Materials for the study of women and gender in the Classical world
• Eleanor Roosevelt Speech Collection
• The Emancipation of Women: 1860-1920 -- UK
• Epistolae -- collection of letters to and from women during the 4th to 13th centuries, in Latin and translated to English and linked to biographical sketch of the author or recipient
• Feminae: Medieval Women and Gender Index -- "journal articles, book reviews, and essays in books about women, sexuality, and gender during the Middle Ages"
• A Geographic Guide to Uncovering Women's History in Archival Collections -- maintained at the University of Texas at San Antonio
• Middletown Women's History Collection -- archival materials documenting the experiences of women and women's organizations in Muncie, Indiana from the 1880s through the 1930s
• National American Woman Suffrage Association -- digitized materials from the Library of Congress
• National Women's History Project Resource Center -- "information, resources, and educational materials about multicultural women’s history"
• Women Working, 1800 - 1930 -- "digitized historical, manuscript, and image resources selected from Harvard University"

International

• Ariadne -- Austrian National Library collection and documentation of women's, feminist and gender studies
• Bibliography of Women in the Ancient Near East
• KVINFO -- gender in Denmark
• Woman Stats Project

Literature

• African American Women Writers of the Nineteenth Century -- full-text (and is keyword searchable) to 52 published works from the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, The New York Public Library
• American Women's Letters and Diaries: A Bibliography -- Maintained by Ken Middleton at MTSU
• British Women Romantic Poets, 1789-1832 -- Shields Library, U.C. Davis
• Emory Women Writers Resource Project -- collection of edited and unedited texts by women writing in English from the seventeenth century through the nineteenth century
• Feminist Science Fiction, Fantasy, & Utopia
• Italian Women Writers
• Society for the Study of American Women Writers -- "The Society is committed to diversity in the study of American women writers -- racial, ethnic, gender, class, sexual orientation, region, and era -- as well as of scholars participating in the Society."
• Victorian Women Writers Project

Politics

• Center for Women's Global Leadership
• Center for Reproductive Law and Policy
• Center for the American Woman and Politics (CAWP)
• Emily's List -- "EMILY's List members are dedicated to building a progressive America by electing pro-choice Democratic women to office."
• European Database: Women in Decision-Making
• International IDEA: Gender and Political Participation
• Institute for Women's Policy Research
• National Women's Political Caucus
• White House Project
• Women & Politics Institute
• Women in Congress
• Women in Politics Bibliographical Database
• Women World Leaders
• Worldwide Guide to Women in Leadership
• wufpac: women under forty political action committee

Queer

• GLBT Student Support Services: Comprehensive List of Resources
• Queer Resources Directory
• Queer Zine Archive Project

Religion

• Bibliography on Women and Religion
• Women-Related Religion & Spirituality Lists

Science/Technology

• Ada Project - a clearinghouse of resources on women and computing
• Gender, Race and Ethnicity in Media Cyberspace
• Women and Computer Science -- by Ellen Spertus (Mills College)
• Women and Minorities in Science and Engineering -- by Ellen Spertus (Mills College)
• Women Internet Researchers
• Women-Related Web Sites in Science and Technology -- by Joan Korenman

 

Much credit for the above resources to the Columbia Women's Studies subject guide, developed by Cynthia Johnson (Barnard's former Women's Studies selector) and Sarah Witte (Columbia's Women's Studies selector) and to Phyllis Holman Weisbard, the women's studies librarian at the University of Wisconsin whose website we plundered to make this page. We also pillaged links from the ACRL Women's Studies Section.

 
BIBLIOGRAPHY RESOURCES

RefWorks and EndNote

are bibliographic software packages that are available, free of charge, to all current Barnard and Columbia students, faculty and staff. 

Consult the page EndNote at Barnard and Columbia for more details.

The Bedford Handbook is a free online guide to APA, Chicago, CSE, and MLA styling.

Last Modified 11/10/2009
Jenna Freedman
Coordinator of Reference Services and Zine Librarian
Barnard College Library
 

 
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