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Women's Studies: Library and Internet Guide

 

Library and Internet Resources

JCU Library Resources | Catalogue | InfoHelp | Library Guide | Databases | Electronic Journals
Australian Government Departments & Agencies | Organisations & Associations | Subject Directories

JCU Library Resources

Catalogue

InfoHelp

  • InfoHelp - Both computing and information assistance given online, or by phone or email.

    Library Guide

  • Databases - General Information

Indexing/Abstracting Databases

  • Informit Online - Contains over 50 Australian databases. The most relevant databases for Women's Studies include:

    FAMILY (Australian Family & Society Abstracts Database) - Produced by the Australian Institute of Family Studies, FAMILY is a bibliographic database that indexes material on research, policy and practice issues about, or of relevance to, Australian families. This includes areas such as: children, youth, the aged, marriage, divorce, adoption, foster care, counselling and therapy, unemployment, family law, health, housing, social change, social issues, social and community services. The Family Thesaurus is a useful guide to the terms used for indexing and retrieving information in the FAMILY database.

    H & S (Health & Society Database) - Produced by the Australian Institute of Family Studies, covers all aspects of family health, and is a subset of the FAMILY database.

    APAIS (Australian Public Affairs Information Service) - Indexes a wide range of periodicals, newspapers, scholarly journals, conference papers and books from the areas of current affairs, economics, humanities, law, literature, politics and social sciences.

    APAIS-Health     - Is a subset of APAIS. It focuses on items of relevance to the health industry, including community attitudes to health issues in Australia.
  • Sociological Abstracts - Covers articles relevant to sociology, anthropology, economics, education, health & medicine, and social psychology.
  • Current Contents - Indexes a large number of international journals, including the disciplines of Social & Behavioural Sciences and Arts & Humanities.
  • FirstSearch - Over 40 different databases that cover most disciplines, including Social Sciences Abstracts, PAIS, CWI: Contemporary Women's Issues and CINAHL: Cumulative Index to Nursing & Allied Health. (Password required from InfoHelp).
  • PsycArticles - Provides full-text articles from 42 journals in the area of psychology and psychiatry.
  • PsycINFO - Indexes material in the areas of psychology, sociology, psychiatry and athropology.
  • ERIC - International bibliographic database of educational literature.

    Full Text Databases and Electronic Journals

  • InfoTrac - Indexes over 2,000 journals with full-text articles from over half available online
  • ProQuest 5000 - Social Sciences Plus indexes and abstracts more than 400 titles, with about half of those available in full text.
  • JCU Electronic Journals  - Alphabetical listing of full-text journals available to members of James Cook University. You can also link directly to journals via the web version of the JCU Library Catalogue (Tropicat).

Academic Sites

Women's Studies Programs, Departments & Research Centers - Worldwide directory of study programs compiled by Joan Korenman.
Women's Studies - Compiled by Monash University, this guide provides an introduction to resources in Women's Studies, and includes research tips and strategies.
Feminist Theory Website - Hosted by the Centre for Digital Discourse and Culture at Virginia Tech University.

Australian Government Departments & Agencies

Office of the Status of Women - Is part of the Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet.  Contents include speeches, press releases, Hansard extracts, and links to state government womens' sites.
Window on Women - A gateway to integrated Australian statistical information across a variety of issues relevant to women.

Office for Women (Qld) - Researches and develops policies, and advises the Queensland government on women's issues. 

Organisations & Associations

Index of Australian Women's Organisations - An A-Z listing of Australian women's organisations, both nationally and regionally.
National Foundation for Australian Women and National Women's Justice Coalition - Promotes women's equality before the law in Australia.  Contains information on current issues, current cases, conferences, policies, and publications.
Women's Electoral Lobby Australia - A feminist political organisation, which is affiliated with the International Alliance of Women.
Women with Disabilities Australia (WWDA) - The peak organisation for women with disabilities in Australia.
Working Women's Centres - Australia - Working Women's Centres/Services support women employees or women who wish to work, whatever their age, ethnicity or work status, by providing a free and confidential service on work related issues.
Feminist Majority Foundation Online - A comprehensive gateway to feminism issues and subjects.  The site is fully searchable.
National Organization for Women - American site covering many topical women's issues.

Subject Directories

Subject Listing of Women and Gender Resources  - This page is maintained by the University of Wisconsin System Women's Studies Librarian.
Social Science Information Gateway - Women's Studies - A collection of links to feminist and women's studies resources in Great Britain and other countries.
WWWomen: The Premier Search Directory for Women Online - An excellent subject directory of women's resources.  The site's search engine searches titles, URLs and summary statements of web sites.
World Wide Web Virtual Library - Women's Studies - An up to date list of resources that are divided into subject categories.
Women's Studies/Women's Issues Resource Sites - An up-to-date annotated listing of women's studies and women's issues sites by Joan Korenman, University of Maryland.

History

Diotima: Materials for the study of Women and Gender in the Ancient World  - Diotima serves as an interdisciplinary resource for anyone interested in patterns of gender around the ancient Mediterranean and as a forum for collaboration among instructors who teach courses about women and gender in the ancient world. It includes course materials, the beginnings of a systematic and searchable bibliography (with an emphasis on recent work), and links to many on-line articles, book reviews, databases, and images.
ViVa: A Bibliography of Women's History in Historical & Women's Studies Journals - Maintained by the International Institute of Social History (Amsterdam), ViVa indexes women's and gender history articles in over 100 international journals from 1975 to the present.

Politics

Women In Politics - Created by the Inter-Parliamentary Union (an organisation of over 100 national parliaments) in cooperation with the UN Development Programme. This database contains bibliographic references on books and articles produced worldwide on women in politics. The database allows you to search by document type, country, organisation, subject, language, year and periodical title.
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