gender studies—resources on human rights
Return to Resources List | Library Links | NU Program in gender studies
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AccessUN: Indexes,
with some full-text access to current and retrospective United
Nations documents, treaties and publications. - Amnesty International Library Online Documentation Archive Publications including reports, news releases and urgent actions, 1996 to the present. Search by country, region, theme, etc. Documents are available in English, French, Spanish and Arabic.
- Carter Center Publications Subjects include election assessments, human rights, conflict resolution, democratization, and global development.
- Child
Abuse, Child Welfare & Adoption: Bibliographic citations
and abstracts to literature on the maltreatment of children.
- CIAO: Columbia International
Affairs Online: A comprehensive source for theory and research
in international affairs.
- Contemporary
Women's Issues Citations and full-text access to global
information about women in over 150 countries from journals,
newsletters and research reports. Subjects include development,
education, family life, gender equity, human rights, and others.
- Encyclopedia
of Genocide and Crimes Against Humanity
- Gender
Studies Database: The Gender Studies Database (GSD) combines
Women's Studies International, Men's Studies and Sexual Diversity
Studies databases with relevant contributions from the Child
Development & Adolescent Studies as well as Family & Society
Studies Worldwide databases. GSD covers the spectrum of gender
engaged scholarship inside and outside academia.
- International
Bibliography of the Social Sciences Citations from an international
selection of publications, including over 2600 journals, in
all areas of the social sciences with emphasis on economics,
political science, sociology and anthropology.
- International Crisis Group Full text reports assess and analyze local conditions in countries at risk.
- JSTOR Provides
electronic access to back issues of core scholarly journals including
almost 30 in Political Science. To browse the list of archives,
click here.
Articles have been digitized, providing full-image access.
- PAIS
International Bibliographic index to the literature of
public policy, social policy, and the social sciences in general.
Journal articles, books, government documents, statistical
compilations, committee reports, directories, serials, reports
of public, intergovernmental, and private organizations, and
most other forms of printed literature from all over the world
are indexed. This database covers 1972 to the present. Go to PAIS
International Archive for coverage from 1937-1976. (The
archive will eventually cover 1915 through 1976.)
- Sexual
Diversity Studies: Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual & Transgender
Abstracts [formerly Gay & Lesbian Abstracts]: Access
via: Gender Studies Database
Citations and abstracts of articles in the scholarly and popular press of interest to and about the gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgendered community. - Worldwide
Political Science Abstracts Citations with abstracts from
more than 1100 journals in political science and related disciplines.
Coverage is international in scope.
- WSSLinks: Women's International Web Sites
For further information, contact:
Kathleen
E. Bethel
African American Studies Librarian
Northwestern University Library
1970 Campus Drive
Evanston, IL 60208
:847.491.2173;
fax: 847.491.5678
kbethel@northwestern.edu
