E-Resources for Women's & Gender Studies

Indexes a variety of materials from journal articles to fact sheets that focus on contemporary and international women's issues in areas such as education, health, legal status, reproductive rights, and feminism. Some full text is available.

This bibliographic database is an index of journal articles and book reviews covering the humanities, social sciences, and interdisciplinary fields. Subjects include anthropology, art, communication, law, music, sociology, gender studies, environmental studies, performing arts, political science, urban studies, international relations, criminal justice, and more. 

Provides access to streaming video supporting classes in the arts, business, health, media/communication, science, humanities and education. 

NOTE: Kanopy video access is mediated. This means that any video not currently licensed for use will require the user to request access. Access is being enabled for class use with instructor approval.

This collection provides full text access to the personal writings of more than 1,300 North American women from all classes and walks of life. All age groups, all life stages, many ethnicities, and many geographical regions are represented, from colonial times to 1950. Resources include diaries and letters, as well as biographies.

PsycBooks provides access to over 4,600 scholarly and professional titles published by the American Psychological Association. Titles include historical and classic works from the behavioral and social sciences. Updated monthly, this collection also includes all volumes of the APA Handbooks in Psychology Series, APA Classic books, the exclusive electronic release of the APA/Oxford University Press Encyclopedia of Psychology, and hard-to-find and out-of-print books dating back to the 1600s.

This collection includes over 300 training videos in the fields of psychology, psychotherapy, social work, counseling, and addiction treatment. Videos include interviews with expert practitioners, therapy sessions, clinical demonstrations, nonverbal observation, and in-depth commentaries. A variety of approaches are covered, including art therapy, couples therapy, emotionally focused therapy, narrative therapy, mindfulness, positive psychology, REBT, school counseling, motivational interviewing, treatment planning, family systems, and more. 

This database, created by the American Psychological Association, contains over 900 streaming videos and covers over 245 topics and 100 therapy approaches, including integrated behavioral healthcare, cognitive behavioral therapy, and acceptance and commitment therapy. These videos are geared toward graduates and post-graduates and allow for observing candid, unscripted psychotherapy sessions featuring over 145 renowned therapists.

This database provides access to historical analysis and documents related to women and social movements in the United States. It also includes a dictionary of social movements and organizations and a chronology of U.S. Women's history. Resources include book, film, and website reviews, archival documents, and teaching tools.

Women's Magazine Archive is a collection of 12 primary source leading women's interest magazines covering multiple aspects of 150 years of 19th and 20th-century American history and culture. Topics covered include social history, careers, the arts, family life, fashion, marketing, education, psychology and health, politics, media history, gender studies, and more. The titles included in this collection are: Better Homes & Gardens (1922 to 2005), Chatelaine (1928 to 2005), Good Housekeeping (1885 to 2005), Ladies’ Home Journal (1883 to 2005), Parents (1926 to 2005), Redbook (1903 to 2005), Cosmopolitan (1886 to 2005), Essence (1970 to 2005), Seventeen (1944 to 2005), Town and Country (1846 to 2005), Woman’s Day (1937 to 2005), and Women’s International Network News (1975 to 2003).

Note: Due to publisher restrictions, full text downloads is restricted to a single page or two page spread in some of these publications. If an article is longer than a two page spread, you will have to download separate page range PDFs and then combine them.