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Research Library (ProQuest) This link opens in a new window
General reference database from business and political science to literature and psychology scholarly journals, trade publications, magazines, and daily news content, accessible to readers and researchers at every level.
Academic Search Complete This link opens in a new window
Scholarly full-text journals and peer-reviewed journals covering a wide range of subjects. 1975 to present.
JSTOR This link opens in a new window
JSTOR is a digital library of academic journals, books, and primary sources. Coverage includes history, economics, political science, demography, mathematics, humanities and social sciences. Some current issues are available now.
Project Muse This link opens in a new window
Is a leading provider of digital humanities and social science content for the scholarly community. Includes books and journals.

Databases for Women's, Gender and Sexualities Studies

LGBT Life with Full Text This link opens in a new window
Historically significant LGBT journals, magazines and regional newspapers, as well as dozens of full text monographs.
North American Women's Letters & Diaries This link opens in a new window
Published letters and diaries depicting the personal experiences of hundreds of women. Colonial times to 1950.

Archives Unbound - Gender, Sexuality and Women's Studies
Full-text primary resources including papers of founders of the important LGBT organizations including the Homophile Movement and Daughters of Bilitis.
Godey's Lady's Book
Godey's Lady's Book (1830-1898) was intended to entertain, inform and educate the women of America. In addition to extensive fashion descriptions and plates, the early issues included biographical sketches, articles about mineralogy, handcrafts, female costume, the dance, equestrienne procedures, health and hygiene, recipes and remedies and the like.
History of Woman Suffrage
Edited by Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony and Matilda Joslyn Gage, this history of the women’s suffrage movement is a major source for primary documentation about the women’s suffrage movement from its beginnings through the ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, which enfranchised women in the U.S. in 1920.