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ABSEES Online: American Bibliography of Slavic & East European Studies Citations to journal articles, books, book chapters, book reviews, dissertations, and selected government publications, published in the United States and Canada, relating to East-Central Europe and the former Soviet Union. See also European Bibliography of Slavic and East European Studies (EBSEES) .
Academic OneFile A collection of peer-reviewed, full-text articles from more than 5000 journals, plus indexing of an additional 4000+ journals, newspapers and wire services. Coverage from 1980 to the present. Extensive coverage of the social sciences and other disciplines. Use this database for a broad search to retrieve both first tier as well as second tier sources. For a less broad search of first tier sources only, use Expanded Academic ASAP (EXAC) .
AccessUN Indexes, with some full-text access to current and retrospective United Nations documents, treaties and publications.
Access World News Access World News from NewsBank provides articles from over 600 U.S. and over 700 international sources on local, regional and world issues. Date coverage varies with the individual newspaper; some have several years of archives.
AGELINE Bibliographic citations to literature on the study of aging. Includes sociological studies comparing aspects of aging in women with those of men.
Africa (AllAfrica) News and current events reported from all countries of Africa. Search by country, region, or topics.
Africabib.org Two bibliographic databases covering Africana periodical literature -- Bibliography of Africana Periodical Literature Database and African Women's Database. Indexes over 40,000 articles from over 325 English language and multi-lingual journals and periodicals that specialize in African Studies or consistently cover the African continent.
Africa-wide NiPAD (Incorporting "South African Studies" and "African Studies") Full-texts and abstracts of over 2 million records, in multiple languages, on topics ranging from politics, economics, and development issues to natural history and health, from the 19th century to the present. For list of resources, see "About" and "Product Factsheet."
African American Newspapers and Periodicals A description of 4,000-6,000 titles and their locations. This web site lists microfilmed African American newspapers and periodicals available for Interlibrary borrowing.
African American Reference Sources Electronics lists of references resources, in subject order, for scholarship in African American studies.
African Women's Bibliographic Database Covers the literature of African women, a part of the Africabib.org website. Includes comprehensive bibliography on women travelers, missionaries, and explorers to Africa (1763-2000).
"All the World's a Stage": WWW Links for Theatre History and Early Music From the Centre for Research in Early English Drama, Records of Early English Drama (REED).
Alternative Press Index Citations and some full text articles in the alternative and radical media.
Ambrose, Lodilla (1865-1927) Papers, 1883-2001: Ambrose was the first head librarian at Northwestern University (1889-1908). (.5 linear feet)
America: History and Life Citations and abstracts from more than 2,100 journals published in approximately 40 languages covering the history of the United States and Canada.
American Drama A growing collection of full-text American dramatic literature, from the colonial period to the present.
American Ethnologist journal
American National Biography Articles and portraits of about 19,000 historically noteworthy Americans.
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.
Anais Nin Collection: The Anais Nin Collection contains manuscripts, proofs and galleys to much of Ms. Nin's writing from 1925 - 1964.
AP Images About 800 photos per day feed into this photo archive moments after moving onto the AP's spot picture system. Over 3 million U.S. and international photos, from 1826 to present. Almost 200 per day are saved for all time, while others are archived for about one year. Also includes over 60,000 graphics, charts, and timelines.
ArchiveGrid Searches thousands of libraries (NU included), museums, and archives for historical documents, personal papers, and family histories held around the world.
ArchivesUSA Bibliographic records describing primary source materials in archives and manuscript repositories from throughout the U.S. Is comprised of three major resources: Directory of Archives and Manuscript Repositories in the United States (DAMRUS); National Union Catalog of Manuscript Collections (NUCMC); and names and detailed subject indexing from the major microform set National Inventory of Documentary Sources in the United States (NIDS).
Art Abstracts "Citations to articles from American and foreign periodicals and museum bulletins dealing with the arts and related disciplines such as archaeology, architecture, art history, city planning, fine arts, industrial design, interior design, landscape architecture, photography, films and museums."
ARTbibliographies Modern The subject matter extends from Impressionism in the late 19th century to the most recent works. Publication dates of the citations and abstracts, in English and other languages, run from 1974 to the present. Includes "performance art and installation works, video art, computer and electronic art, body art, graffiti, artists' books, theater arts, crafts, jewelry, illustration, and more, as well as the traditional fine arts of painting, printmaking, sculpture, and drawing.
ARTFL Project, University of Chicago The Project for American and French Research on the Treasury of the French Language (ARTFL) includes technical writing in such subjects as history and economics. The 18th through 20th centuries are about equally represented, with a smaller selection of 17th century texts as well as some medieval and Renaissance texts. Genres include novels, verse, theater, journalism, essays, correspondence, and treatises in English and French.
ArticleFirst "Bibliographic citations describing items listed on the tables of contents pages of more than 12,500 journals.... [some] abstracts and some provide links to the full text.... Broad subject areas covered include business, the humanities, social sciences, popular culture, science.... is searchable by keyword, author, title, and a variety of other fields.... browse the tables of contents.... limit searches to items with full-text links and to journals held by the NU libraries. Articles in periodicals not held by NU libraries may be requested online through the Interlibrary Loan Department."
Arts & Humanities Citation Index (Web of Science) Provides bibliographic information and some abstracts from articles from more than 1,100 in the arts and humanities. Search by topic, author, source title, or by cited reference: authors and titles from the bibliography of an article. Searches may also lead to related records: articles with citations in common. Results may be printed, saved to a text file, exported in a delimited format for import into personal bibliographic programs like EndNote or ProCite, or may be sent via email.
ARTstor Searchable database of more than 300,000 images, data, and texts. View and analyze images via zoom and panning features. Languages and cultures Chinese, English, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Russian, and Spanish.
Asian American Drama Heavily tagged versions of 70 plays by 17 Asian American playwrights, soon to be 250.
autobiographies: See Women’s autobiographies from Cambridge University Library and personal papers listed here in "primary resources," as well as the electronic subject guide Historical Resources on Gender and Women's Studies. For more, use the "Subject Heading" search on NUcat and run separate searches on each of these words: "autobiography" and "autobiographies" and "biography."
BHA: Bibliography of the History of Art Citations and abstracts on Western fine arts (architecture, sculpture, painting, drawing, and prints), decorative and applied arts, industrial design and architecture, popular and folk art, as well as photography, new media and the performing arts.
Bibliography of Asian Studies Citations to articles from over 100 periodicals pertaining to East, South and Southeast Asia.
Bibliothèque des lettres La Bibliothèque des lettres brings together the contents of eight Bibliopolis collections of French letters and literature. Users can now search all these works at once or restrict to one or more collections.
Biographical Dictionary Covers more than 28,000 notable men and women from ancient times to the present day. Can be searched by birth years, death years, positions held, professions, literary and artistic works, achievements, and other keywords.
Biography Resource Center Biographical information on nearly 275,000 people from throughout history; includes some full-text feature-length biographical articles and links to selected web sites.
Black Arts Quarterly Each user is responsible to use these electronic resources for individual, noncommercial use, without systematically DOWNLOADING, distributing, or RETAINING substantial portions of information.
Black Firsts
Black Drama, 1850 to present A growing collection of full-text plays by African, African American and Caribbean playwrights.
Black Studies Center Combines three resources for research and teaching in Black Studies: Schomburg Studies on the Black Experience, International Index of Black Periodicals (IIBP), and The Chicago Defender. Fully cross-searchable gateway to scholarly essays, recent periodicals, historical newspaper articles, and much more.
Black Studies on Disc Bibliographic information on materials held in New York Public Library's Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture covering African-American, African, and African Diasporan studies. Also includes indexing of articles appearing in the Index to Black Periodicals. See also, the Black Studies Center.
Bloomsbury Biographical Dictionary of Quotations
Books on Demand This service from ProQuest/UMI offers more than 150,000 out-of-print books in a wide range of disciplines that are available for black-and-white reproduction.

BOOKS- Women's Studies Core Books Select "Search the Collection" for pre-defined subject groups. Serves as a guide to instructional faculty in selecting available in-print course readings and to students searching for reliable resources. Maintained by the Women's Studies Section (WSS) of the Association of College & Research Libraries. Core book lists include, but are not limited to, these subject areas:

	African Women	Lesbian Studies
	East Asian Women	Middle Eastern Women
	Feminist Theory	Politics, International
	Girls and Girlhood	Sports
	Latin American Women	Women of color

Britannica Concise Encyclopedia
British Newspaper Index Contains indexes of The Times, The Sunday Times, Times Literary Supplement, Times Higher Education Supplement, Times Educational Supplement, the Financial Times, and the Independent.
British Universities Newsreel Database
BUND: British Universities Newsreel Database
Campaign Against Racism and Fascism (CARF)
Carter Center Publications Subjects include election assessments, human rights, conflict resolution, democratization, and global development.
Cashman, Agnes Jones (1901-1989) Papers, 1918-1960: Cashman taught dance and hygiene at Northwestern, becoming director of the Physical Education department in 1932 and director of Orchesis in 1933. (6 linear feet)
Center for Research Libraries – CRL All materials in the CRL catalog are readily available to NU scholars. Titles include Masculinity, 1560-1918: Men Defining Men and Gentlemen (66 reels) and Women's Periodicals: Eighteenth Century to the Great Depression (150 reels).
Center for Women and Politics A gateway to related sites and also includes full-text research reports and fact sheets.
Chambers Biographical Dictionary
Chambers Dictionary of World History
Chicago Tribune (Historical) Searchable full-image articles and complete content from 1849 through the 1980's.
Chicago Tribune (Today and Recent Years)
Child Abuse, Child Welfare & Adoption Bibliographic citations and abstracts to literature on the maltreatment of children.
Child Development & Adolescent Studies Covers materials relating to the growth and social development of girls and boys through the age of 21.
China Core Newspapers Chinese language periodicals. From the year 2000+, access to over 125,000 new full-text articles per year primarily on "Politics/Military/Law" with other topics as well. These are predominately in Chinese, some English, some both.
CIAO: Columbia International Affairs Online A comprehensive source for theory and research in international affairs.
Classical Drama Sites: A listing of links to web sites dealing with classical drama.
The Columbia Encyclopedia
Complete Plays of Frances Burney (Past Masters)
Complete Works of William Shakespeare Searchable full-text version of the complete works; also has links to other Shakespeare resources.
Concise Atlas of World History, Andromeda
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.
Conversations with History: Institute of International Studies (UC Berkeley) Lively and unedited video interviews and printable transcripts, with distinguished men and women from all over the world. Includes over 300 diplomats, statesmen, stateswomen, soldiers, economists, political scientists, activists and artists. Click on "Interviews by Guest Name" for the alphabetical list.
Corpus de la littérature narrative du Moyen Age au XXe siècle: Romans, Contes, Nouvelles This database offers to academic institutions (libraries, schools, universities, research centers, etc.) a digital library of about 1000 French narrative works (novels, tales, short stories). The database is a virtual library that covers all the French programs from grammar school to university level.
The Crystal Reference Encyclopedia
Cultural Anthroplogy journal
Database of African Theses & Dissertations: DATAD "For many reasons, African research results are rarely indexed in major international databases, a problem that is further exacerbated by the inaccessibility of theses and dissertations completed in the region, many of which contain local empirical data that is not available in international literature." Currently contains citations and abstracts from ten leading universities, with more planned, in all subject areas.
Debrett's Peerage and Baronetage
Debrett's People of Today
Defining Gender, 1450-1910, online When complete (in 2007) will have over 60,000 images of primary documents and rare printed literature for men and women in five areas: (I) Conduct and Politeness; (II) Domesticity and the Family; (III) Consumption and Leisure; (IV) Education and Sensibility; and (V) The Body. Fields of study include economics, education, history, the history of medicine, literatures in English, performance arts, philosophy, psychology, and religion. May trace changes over-time in, for example, advice literature, consumer consumption, the position of men within the family, and perceptions of the body, beauty, education, and the mind.
Dictionary of American History, 3rd edition, 10 volumes, 2003.
A Dictionary of Contemporary History - 1945 to the present
Dictionary of Political Biography
Dissertations -- Foreign (CRL) Thousands of foreign doctoral dissertations available through the Center for Research Libraries. If author is not found, read the introductory note to take further action.
Distinguished Women of Past and Present Compilation of links to brief biographical sketches of women.
Documentary & Other Films at NU Long lists of documentary films categorized by subjects such as art, gender, the Middle East, and sexual orientation are available for check-out through the Library's Mitchell Multimedia Center. Television news specials (e.g., political conventions, Presidential debates and speeches, etc.) are collected on a comprehensive basis. Click on the link to see specific topic lists. See, too, information on the other collections—performing arts films, feature films, and spoken word recordings.
Dramatists Play Service This informational web site is a catalog of plays, designed to provide support for playwrights by publishing acting editions of their plays and handling the non-professional and professional leasing rights to these works.
Dramaturgy Northwest: An ongoing project of the Northwest Region of LMDA (Literary Managers and Dramaturgs of the Americas) and the University of Puget Sound.
Early Encounters in North America: Peoples, Cultures, and the Environment "... contains 1,482 authors and over 100,000 pages of letters, diaries, memoirs and accounts of early encounters." Publications from the 17th century, covering events from 15th century forward.
Early English Books Online (ProQuest) Trace gender issues through time with full images of books published in English from 1475 to 1700. Searchable by keywords in the citation only. To search within the texts, use the EEBO-TCP version (below). Over 100,000 works from Pollard & Redgrave's Short-Title Catalog, Wing's Short-Title Catalog, and Thomason Tracts, a compendium of broadsides on the English Civil War. Documents may be viewed online using the Dj Vu Plugin or downloaded using Adobe Acrobat. Users may search by author keyword, title keyword, subject keyword, or bibliographic number. In addition, users may choose to search only within the illustrations, and may limit searches by originating collection, source library, language or date.
Early English Books Online - Text Creation Partnership (EEBO-TCP) Growing collection of searchable texts published in English between 1475 and 1700. To search all EEBO titles (over 100,000) by keyword in citations (as opposed to searching within text) and view full-page images, use the ProQuest version.
ebrary This is a database of full text e-books. a simple search of "gender identity and ethnicity" in text retrieves 4,000+ documents; a narrow search of "gender identiy" in text and "ethnicity" as subject retrieves 30+ books. to access from your office or residence hall: click on "get ebrary reader." you need do this only once (i.e., you do not have to do it again next time you use ebrary).
eHRAF Collection of Ethnography Web-accessible version of the Human Relations Area Files ethnography collection.
Eighteenth Century Collection Online (ECCO) Full-text searchable facsimile page displays of approximately 150,000 books published in Britain and its colonies during the 18th century.
Encyclopedia of Genocide and Crimes Against Humanity
Encyclopedia of U.S. History- Journalists
English Department Home Pages Worldwide
English Drama, 1280-1915 4,000 plays, in both verse and prose, by 1,200 authors from the late thirteenth century to the early twentieth century.
English Prose Drama (PhiloLogic) Plays published in English prose from the early 16th century to the end of the 19th century, covering over 1600 works.
Equal Voices journal
Escodias Plantas: Nuns and Beatas in Mexico City, 1531-1601 An e-book on the relationship between these women (nuns and beatas) and the transition of Mexico City in "an era in which the establishment of monastic and quasi-monastic houses for women was a particularly urgent theme of the colonial experience..." User agrees to comply with Section 108 of the Copyright Act of the U.S. and with guidelines developed by the National Commission on New Technological Uses of Copyrighted Works (CONTU Guidelines).
Essay and General Literature Index Citations and abstracts of essays and articles published in collections and miscellaneous works. Each user is responsible to use these electronic resources for individual, noncommercial use, without systematically DOWNLOADING, distributing, or RETAINING substantial portions of information.
ESTC: English Short Title Catalog This is an e-catalogue of books and ephemera (from 1475 to 1700) and serials (1620-1800), many of which are available in microform (check NUCat). It provides materials, in any language, printed in Great Britain and its colonies as well as materials, in English, printed anywhere in the world. . . ."serves as a comprehensive bibliography of the hand-press era and as a census of surviving copies."
Ethnic and Racial Studies journal
Ethnic NewsWatch Full-text articles from 200+ newspapers and magazines of the ethnic and minority press. Once connected, click on either 'English' or 'Español' to begin.
Ethnos journal
European Library: "...portal which offers access to the combined resources... both digital and non-digital... of the 43 national libraries of Europe. It offers free searching and delivers digital objects – some free, some priced." Allows cross-collection searching. A few of the national libraries include: Azerbaijan, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Czech Republic, France, Germany, Greece, Netherlands, Poland, Russia-St. Peterburg, Spain, Sweden, Turkey, and United Kingdom.
EXBIBLIO – Bibliography of the History of Western Sexualtiy, 1700-1945 A rich database that contains "about 23.000 titles of the non-belletristic primary and secondary literature of the history of sexuality in Europe, the U.S. and Canada from 1700 to 2004. Beyond this the database offers important titles of the sexual history of Antiquity and the Middle Ages, including non-Western societies." (Institute for Economic and Social History, University of Vienna)
Expanded Academic ASAP (EXAC) This is an important database for social sciences (political economy, gender studies, development, etc) with more than 20 years of coverage of about 3,500 first tier, indexed, and full-text titles, of which 2,100 are peer-reviewed. For a broader search which will retrieve both first tier as well as second tier sources, see Academic OneFile .
Factiva-domestic & international news Provides access to over 6,000 US and foreign full-text news and business publications, e.g., Bangkok Post, Concord Times (Sierra Leone), Dunya (Turkey), O Estado de Sao Paulo, Jakarta Post, The Straits Times (Singapore), Die Welt (Germany), etc. Includes reports, stock quotes, and documents such as treaties of the EU. For search help, go to the Factiva Help Page.
Family & Society Studies Worldwide Citations and abstracts in family science, human ecology and human development. Each user is responsible to use these electronic resources for individual, noncommercial use, without systematically DOWNLOADING, distributing, or RETAINING substantial portions of information.
Feminist memoir project: voices from women’s liberation Also in print format in the Main Library (305.42097 F3293) and Special Collections (Spec Femina F32944).
Finding Fulltext Digital Literary Works: Links to sites offering electronic texts of literary works.
Folger Shakespeare Library Catalog
Foreign Press Sources, their Home Pages, & Auto-Translations A list from WatchingAmerica.com which includes auto-translations or English versions of foreign presses (e.g., Le Monde, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, Al Messa, Diaro Decuyo).
FRANCIS: international humanities and social sciences Citations and abstracts to worldwide literature of the humanities and social sciences. Each user is responsible to use these electronic resources for individual, noncommercial use, without systematically DOWNLOADING, distributing, or RETAINING substantial portions of information.
Gallup Brain A searchable database containing the results from over 125,000 Gallup opinion questions dating back to 1935.
Gay & Lesbian Abstracts See Sexual Diversity Studies.
Gay and Lesbian Resources in the University of Chicago collections An extensive, annotated, comprehensive and excellent bibliography of resources (up to 1998). See, too, Lesbian Resources in the University of Chicago collections Note that NU faculty and students have access and borrowing privileges at the UofC libraries. See Library privileges.
Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender periodicals A collection of periodicals located in the Special Collections section of the Library.
Gender and Media Directory Each user is responsible to use these electronic resources for individual, noncommercial use, without systematically DOWNLOADING, distributing, or RETAINING substantial portions of information.
Gender Issues & Sexuality "... primary source documents... on the issues of gender and sexuality in the last three centuries. International in scope, this volume contains approximately 200 documents, such as speeches, magazine and newspaper articles, memoirs, letters, interviews, novels, essays... "
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.
GenderWatch Full-text articles from scholarly journals, regional publications, magazines, newspapers, and newsletters, etc., including ethnic and minority presses. Coverage of regional, national, and international issues from 1980 to the present.
Gerritsen Collection—Women's History Online, 1543-1945 A well-known and very important core resource which includes "books and periodicals reflecting the evolution of a feminist consciousness and women's rights." Spans four centuries and fifteen languages.
Global NewsBank Citations and selected full-text articles from U.S. and international news sources.
Global Women's Activism: Selected Sites An extensive list of activist entitles such as "UN affiliated NGOs, government agencies, academic institutions, research centers, as well as focus-specific organizations working on issues such as advocacy, empowerment, human rights, social justice, HIV/AIDS... violence against women, etc." Arranged by continents and countries.
Google Books Full-text of out-of-copyright books and partial text of in-copyright books. Out-of-copyright works are from the library of the Complutense University of Madrid, the libraries of universities of Michigan and California, Harvard, Stanford, and Oxford, and from the New York Public Library. Limited access to some in-copyright works is also available, with links to options for purchase. (Check NUCat to see if NU owns the title.)
The Great American History Fact-Finder
Historical and Current Resources in the University of Chicago collections on Women's Studies: Comprehensive list of current journals, reference titles, and others, including links to historical materials in print, microform, and other formats. (These lists are not exact duplicates of the set "Women, Gender Studies, and Sexuality."). Note that NU faculty and students have access and borrowing privileges at the UofC libraries. See Library privileges.
Historical and Other Resources in the University of Chicago collections on Women, Gender Studies, and Sexuality. Comprehensive list of current journals, reference titles, and others. (These lists are not exact duplicates of the set "collections on Women's Studies.") Note that NU faculty and students have access and borrowing privileges at the UofC libraries. See Library privileges.
Historical Newspapers Online Indexing for early periods of The Times of London and the New York Times.
Historical Resources on Gender and Women's Studies in the NU Library An electronic guide to important historical resources—e.g., Women, travel, and empire, 1660-1914; the gay rights movement, 1970-1983; the National Association of Colored Women's Clubs, 1895-1992; women's journals, c1700-1832; and the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force records, 1973-2000. See, too, the links to the area studies collections including Latin America, East and South Asia, Europe, and America for international resources on gender issues.
History E-Book Project A continuously growing database designed by 8 learned societies and 10 university presses. Recent and older books on topics such as race relations, the Paris Peace Conference, political participation in Greece, modern Islamic political thought, equality before the law. "Browse" to search subject fields.
Human and Civil Rights "...primary source documents... on the issues of human and civil rights in the last three centuries. International in scope, this volume contains approximately 200 documents, such as speeches, magazine and newspaper articles, memoirs, letters, interviews, novels, essays..."
Humanities International Index Online An index to scholarly and creative English language journals.
The Hutchinson Chronology of World History
The Hutchinson Dictionary of Scientific Biography
The Hutchinson Encyclopedia, Helicon
Illinois Newspaper Project Database Database of newspaper titles and holdings information at Illinois Libraries.
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.
International Gender Studies Resources, UC Berkeley: "...featuring research and teaching materials ... offers general and specific bibliographies and filmographies on issues pertaining to women and gender in Africa, Asia, Latin America, the Middle East and Arab World, and among minority cultures in North America and Europe ... as well as links to other interesting resources available on the Web."
International Index to Black Periodicals Full Text Citations from over 150 scholarly and popular journals of Black Studies, including 40 with full text articles.
International Index to the Performing Arts Citations and abstracts of articles from the international literature of the performing arts.
Interracial Voice journal
Journal Citation Reports JCR is comprised of two editions including the JCR Social Science Edition which "contains data from about 1,500 social sciences journals. Data collected or calculated includes: citation and article counts; impact factor; immediacy index; cited half-life; citing half-life; source data listing; citing journal listing; cited journal listing; subject categories; publisher information; and journal title changes. Online help includes extensive and detailed instructions for locating such information as the most-cited journals in a particular subject area, or how often articles in a journal refer to articles previously published in that journal." Note that not all areas of study are represented. Click on "Information for New Users" to get started.
Journal of Contemporary Ethnography journal
Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology journal
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.
Latin American Newsletters (Latinnews; The Latin Intelligence Service) LAN is a premier, comprehensive intelligence service on 33 countries in Central America, Latin America and the Caribbean covering political, security, economic and strategic issues as well as general news.
Lesbian Resources in the University of Chicago collections: "This guide identifies and classifies over 900 monographs and serials in the University of Chicago Library that deal primarily with lesbian themes. It is largely a subset of the Guide to Gay and Lesbian Resources in the University of Chicago Library, compiled in 1998; but it has been updated by the addition of approximately 180 lesbian-themed titles acquired in late 1997, in 1998, and in early 1999." See, too, Gay and Lesbian Resources in the University of Chicago collections Note that NU faculty and students have access and borrowing privileges at the UofC libraries. See Library privileges.
LexisNexis Academic "...contains several thousand full-text publications. These include regional, national and international newspapers, news wires, magazines, trade journals.... newsletters, profiles of the U.S. states and countries of the world, selected reference sources for facts and statistics.... Sources are grouped by broad topic areas, each with a search form that has been customized for its specific content. Many topic areas include the 'More Options' search screen, which allows users to build searches using pull-down menus, with the option of searching for keywords or phrases across the full text of an article or within the headline and lead paragraphs. Dates of coverage vary by publication. Coverage of news sources generally begins in the late 1980s...."
LGBT, Encyclopedia of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender History in America 3 volumes, 2004 "Provides a comprehensive survey of lesbian and gay history and culture in the United States. Includes approximately 545 articles ranging from short biographical entries to longer essays surveying topics such as the Stonewall riots, federal law and policy, same sex institutions, and AIDS."
Library Worker's Guide to Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Resources
Librarians' Index to the Internet: Women These sites have been critiqued and approved by librarians. Provides wide variety of topic areas. Use the "Search LII" box to find other relevant lists such as the list of sites on LGBT.
Literature Guides to NU Collections
(1) English Literature
(2) French and Francophone Literatures on the African Continent and within the African Diasporas
(3) French and Francophone Literatures outside of Africa
(4) German
(5) Italian
(6) Spanish and Portuguese
(7) Slavic Languages
The Macmillan Dictionary of Women's Biography
The Macmillan Encyclopedia
Men's Studies Database Accessed via: Gender Studies Database. Contains over 45,850 citations & abstracts. MSD covers 250 core and hundreds more important periodicals providing access to the full diversity of literature including journal articles, book reviews, books, book chapters, theses, dissertations, bulletins, newsletters, internet documents and numerous other sources on men's studies from 1990 to the present.
Microform Collections of the NU Library – Gender Studies and Women's Studies Historical Materials: This electronic guide provides information on historical resources on gender studies. See, too, links to the area studies collections including Latin America, East and South Asia, Europe, and America for more gender studies materials.
MLA International Bibliography This is the core, primary resource for literature and language research. Citations and abstracts covering literature, language, linguistics and folklore.
Le Monde
Nations and Nationalism Journal of the Association for the Study of Ethnicity and Nationalism: Current volume only available. Each user is responsible to use these electronic resources for individual, noncommercial use, without systematically DOWNLOADING, distributing, or RETAINING substantial portions of information.
Nations of the World A-Z list of all countries in the world and their official languages. Click on the country name to link to "One World - Nations Online" which provides news links, maps, statistics, current topics, and more on languages of every country of the world.
Natural History of Rape Read Only Text available through MIT CogNet.
Netlibrary A narrow "advanced search" for "gender identity" retrieves 20+ full text e-books.
News and Newspapers Online Excellent source maintained by the University of North Carolina. Lists sites that cover regions, followed by titles listed by country, then alphabetically within regions.
Newspaper Abstracts Citations and abstracts of major articles from the Chicago Tribune, Atlanta Constitution, Boston Globe, Christian Science Monitor, Los Angeles Times, New York Times, USA Today, Wall Street Journal, and Washington Post. Incorporates the Index to Black Newspapers.
Newspaper Source Citations, abstracts, and full-text articles from more than 150 newspapers, including complete full-text coverage of 15 international newspapers.
Nonverbal Dictionary of Gestures, Signs & Body Language Cues An excellent language resource for all disciplines in which human communication is studied.
North American reference encyclopedia of women’s liberation. Main Library (L301.412 N867) and Special Collections (L Femina W589n)
North American Women's Letters and Diaries: Colonial to 1950 Includes the immediate experiences of 1,325 women and 150,000 pages of diaries and letters.
Northwestern University Women's Organizations: The following are a selection of online finding aids to primary sources related to women's organizations and Northwestern University. For more and for numerous and fascinating archives of individual NU women, visit or check the home pages of the University Archives. (The descriptive texts below are the work of the University Archives.)
- EmPOWER, Records of, 1991-1993 A feminist group linked with Northwestern University’s Panhellenic Association, emPOWER was designed to raise awareness of women’s issues within NU's sororities. (0.16 cubic foot)
- Evanston College for Ladies, Records of the, 1869-1933 In 1869 the Women’s Educational Aid Association founded the Evanston College for Ladies in order to provide female students with a respectable boarding house and supplemental or preparatory studies as they began or contemplated coursework at Northwestern University. (0.3 cubic foot)
- Northwestern Female College, Records of the, 1855-1976 In 1855 William P. Jones, Jr., and his brother, J. Wesley Jones, both Methodist ministers, founded the Northwestern Female College (Evanston, IL) with the stated goal of offering to “Young Ladies of the Northwest” a “thorough Collegiate Education near home, and amid such rural seclusion as will secure every possible guaranty [sic] for health, morals, and refinement.” (0.3 cubic foot)
- Northwestern University Dames Club, 1946-1977 The Dames Club was a social organization for women affiliated with Northwestern--including wives and mothers of NU students, as well as married women students.
- Organization of Women Faculty, Records of the, 1964-1994 The OWF was officially established in 1981, but had its roots in committee work begun in the mid-1960s. Records include correspondence, meeting minutes, reports, clippings, and notes.
- Program On Women, Records of the, 1970-1986 This interdisciplinary program was instituted in 1974 to sponsor research in women's studies and coordinate the Women's Studies Curriculum. (13 boxes)
- University Circle, Records of the, 1915-1999 Social, educational, and philanthropic organization founded in 1915, and continuing to this day, for women associated with Northwestern University. Fifteen boxes (5 cubic feet).
- University Guild, Records of the, 1892-1994 Organization of University and Evanston women founded to sponsor cultural programs and scholarships, and to collect art. (11 cubic feet)
- Woman's Club of Evanston Records Founded in 1889 by Elizabeth Boynton Harbert, the Woman's Club of Evanston is both a social club and a community service organization. (40 boxes, 53 scrapbooks, and 128 bound volumes)
- Woman's College of Northwestern University, Records of the, 1872-1893 In June 1873 the Evanston College for Ladies became the Woman’s College (also known as the College of Literature and Art) of Northwestern University. (0.3 cubic foot)
- Women's Board of Northwestern University, Records of, 1978-1988 The Women's Board was established in 1978, by the wives of five members of the Board of Trustees. (4 boxes)
- Women's Center, Records of the, 1986-1991 The Women's Center, an expansion of Northwestern's Program on Women, was opened in 1986. (1 linear foot)
- Women’s Educational Aid Association (WEAA) records The Women’s Educational Aid Association (WEAA) was organized in 1871 as the Educational Association, founded by Evanston women to help promote the higher education of deserving students at the Evanston College for Ladies. (12 boxes)
- Women's Self-Government Association Scrapbook, 1926-1931 The WSGA set, enforced, and interpreted the rules that governed all aspects of women's lives on campus. All women students were automatically members of the Association and all of them were governed by its rules. (0.15 cubic foot)
NPR Archives
NWSA: National Women's Studies Association
NWSA Student Resources
Online Newspapers from Around the World Excellent listings by the University of Michigan's Internet Public Library. Papers listed by region, by country within region, by states or provinces within country.
On-Line Books Page: An index to and listing of over 25,000 freely-available e-books on the Internet. Searchable directory.
Opinion-Pages Search engine providing access to opinion and editorials in newspapers from all over the world.
Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
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.)
Palmer's Index to The Times 1790-1905 Citations to articles in the The Times (London), 1790-1905.
Parsons, Lucy: Chicago Revolutionary
Past Masters Includes the complete works, variant editions, selections, and/or correspondence of the following and more:
Patterns of Prejudice journal
The Penguin Biographical Dictionary of Women
Periodical Abstracts "Contains more than 800,000 citations and abstracts from over 1,500 general and academic journals covering topics such as business, history, religion, culture, literature, sociology, economics, psychology and women's studies. Periodical Abstracts also includes transcripts of significant segments from more than 80 television and radio news programs." 1986 to present.
Philip's Encyclopedia
Play Index
Popline More than 300,000 citations with abstracts to articles, books and reports fields of population, family planning, and related health issues.
ProQuest Dissertations and Theses: Full Text Through this resource, you may access all available dissertations (full-text PDF files) from institutions in the US and some other countries. Includes citations for dissertations ranging from 1861 to those accepted last semester. Full-text online dissertations from some universities date as far back as the early 20th century; others are more recent. It is not possible to predict which dissertations are available and which are not. Some universities have digitized their dissertations and made these available for free to all. Some are subscription based. And finally, some departments, schools, and individuals do not allow free access to their dissertations and these are only available through payment or Interlibrary Loan. (In these cases, it is still usually possible to see in this database an abstract and, sometimes, a limited page preview.)
Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States Currently "covers the published speeches and documents of Presidents Hoover, Roosevelt, Truman, Eisenhower, Kennedy, Johnson, Nixon, Ford, Carter, Reagan, Bush, and Clinton." Search "across all volumes at the initial screen or search within a volume. Basic searches are amplified by boolean and proximity searches. Results can be sorted by author, title, date, and frequency."
Queer, Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgendered resources
QWEER Literature Web "is designed to provide access to queer resources in Romance language countries in Western Europe" for the fields of language and literature.
QWEER Literature Web: Other Subjects Emphasis is on cultural and film resources in Western Europe.
Queer Science Read Only Text available through MIT CogNet.
Race & Class journal
Radical Press in the 60s Exhibit
The Reader's Companion to American History
The Reader's Companion to Military History
The Reader's Companion to the American Presidency
The Reader's Companion to U.S. Women's History
Readers' Guide Abstracts Abstracts, citations, and some links to full text "for over 300 popular periodicals published in the U.S. and Canada. Topics include current events and news, fine arts, fashion, education, business, sports, health and nutrition, consumer affairs, and other areas of general interest. Corresponds to the printed Readers' Guide to Periodical Literature." 1983 to present.
Readers' Guide Retrospective "Historical index (1890 to 1982) to over 250 general interest periodicals.... The index is a work in progress; eventually it will include the entire contents of the printed Readers' Guide to Periodical Literature which dates back to 1890. This database is continued by Readers' Guide Abstracts (1983 to present)."
Sage Race Relations Abstracts journal
Sex & Sexuality, 1640-1940 Literary, Medical and Sociological Perspectives Microform collection in four parts: (1) body and medical related topics; (2) romantic friendships and lesbian relationships in literature and history; (3 & 4) Erotica, 1657-1908. For other large microfilm sets of related primary materials, see Historical Resources on Gender and Women's Studies in the NU Library.
SEXBIBLIO – Bibliography of the History of Western Sexualtiy, 1700-1945 A rich database that contains "about 23.000 titles of the non-belletristic primary and secondary literature of the history of sexuality in Europe, the U.S. and Canada from 1700 to 2004. Beyond this the database offers important titles of the sexual history of Antiquity and the Middle Ages, including non-Western societies." (Institute for Economic and Social History, University of Vienna)
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.
Social Sciences Abstracts Comprehensive sets of citations and abstracts to scholarly, peer-reviewed articles. Includes many links to full text. Also includes databases for subjects in humanities and law.
Social Sciences Citation Index (Web of Science) Provides bibliographic information and some abstracts from articles from more than 1,700 in the social sciences. Search by topic, author, source title, or by cited reference: authors and titles from the bibliography of an article. Searches may also lead to related records: articles with citations in common. Results may be printed, saved to a text file, exported in a delimited format for import into personal bibliographic programs like EndNote or ProCite, or may be sent via email.
Social Services Abstracts Citations and abstracts of current research in social work, human services, and related areas.
Sociological Abstracts Citations and abstracts of articles in sociology journals and related fields which cover gender issues.
St. James Encyclopedia of Popular Culture
Studies in Scarlet: Marriage & Sexuality in the U.S. & U.K., 1815-1914 Harvard University Library online archive of 420 trial narratives. The collection includes American, British, and Irish cases involving the relationships between men and women, from 1814 to 1914, including domestic violence, seduction, breach of promise to marry, bigamy, and murder. "These trials are especially rich sources for the study of the history of women in early modern society."
Studies on Women & Gender Abstracts Online 1995 to present .
Television News Archive (Vanderbilt University) Includes more than 30,000 individual network evening news broadcasts from the major U.S. national broadcast networks: ABC, CBS, NBC, and CNN, and more than 9,000 hours of special news-related programming including ABC's Nightline since 1989. See "Important Note" on front page of website (NU affiliates have free access).
Theaterlexikon: Begriffe und Epochen, Bühnen und Ensembles: Based on the one-volume Rowohlt Theaterlexikon (1986, 1992), revised for this online edition in 1999.
Theatre Central Current reviews, theatre news, Playbill online and links to theatre-related web sites.
Times of London Digital Archive Searchable full-image articles and complete content of the Times of London from 1785 to 1985.
Twentieth-Century African-American Poetry (PhiloLogic) Searchable collection of poems from African-American poets of the 20th century
UN Oral History Project Yale University’s United Nations Studies Prog