Gendered Controversies

• Alternative Press Index and API Archive -- feminist and other alternative press publications from 1969-present (e.g. Bust, Lilith, On Our Backs, Women and Criminal Justice).
• Black studies center - Schomburg Studies on the Black Experience, International Index of Black Periodicals (IIBP), and The Chicago Defender.
• Black women writers- fiction, nonfiction and poetry by women from North America, Africa and the Caribbean, also essays by scholars and feminists about these regions.
• Contemporary women's issues
• Gender studies database
• GenderWatch  -- Publications include scholarly journals, magazines, newspapers, newsletters, regional publications, books, booklets and pamphlets, conference proceedings, and government, n-g-o and special reports.
• JSTOR -- Go to advanced search and limit to the collection's Feminist and Women's Studies journals
• LGBT life
• Project Muse -- under Research Areas, select WGSS to focus your search

Find Articles (searches multiple databases at once)

• Academic search complete
• America, history and life -- U.S. and Canada. Limit by historical period. Historical abstracts for the rest of the world.
• Directory of Open Access Journals - community-curated online directory that indexes and provides access to high quality, open access, peer-reviewed journals
• Google scholar -- use our link rather than going straight to scholar.google.com if you want more direct access to subscription content.
• International bibliography of the social sciences
• LexisNexis academic -- newspapers, journals, wire services, newsletters, company reports and SEC filings, case law, government documents, transcripts of broadcasts, and selected reference works
• ProQuest -- Includes Alt-PressWatch and Ethnic NewsWatch among more than twenty other databases
• Readers' guide full text -- articles from popular periodicals
• Social sciences full text

• AP Images -- Associated Press photographs from 1844, radio broadcasts, wire stories, and graphics.
• ArchiveGrid -- Nearly a million collection descriptions from thousands of libraries, museums, and archives.
• ArtSTOR -- images from many time periods and cultures in the fields of architecture, painting, sculpture, photography, decorative arts, design, anthropology, ethnographic and women's studies
• Barnard bulletin newspaper archive -- 1901-2002
• Education index retrospective, 1929-1983
• Humanities & social sciences index retrospective, 1907-1984
• ProQuest Historical Newspapers -- Atlanta Constitution, Boston Globe, Chicago Tribune, Los Angeles Times, New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post and many more
• Readers' guide retrospective -- popular magazines 1890-1982
• Television News Archive
• Women and social movements in the United States 1600-2000

• ATLAS.ti: software package for qualitative data analysis and management.  
• Columbia Numeric Data Catalog
• Columbia Spacial Data Catalog
• Empirical Reasoning Center tutorials -- Excel, Qualtrics, Social Explorer, SPSS, STATA
• Fedstats : the gateway to statistics from over 100 U.S. Federal agencies
• Gender Equality Data and Statistics -- from the World Bank
• iPoll databank @ the Roper Center for Public Opinion Research
• National Statistics -- UK
• Polling the nations
• Statistical Abstract of the United States

• Barnard Center for Research on Women (BCRW) and BCRW Publications, including the renowned Scholar & Feminist Online
• Barnard Zine Library: Primary source materials on riot grrrl, third-wave feminism, and other topics.
• Empirical Reasoning Center (ERL)
• Institute for Research on Women, Gender & Sexuality
• Polling, surveys, public opinion

• Bluestockings Bookstore - note they have many events on topics related to WGSS and allied fields
• NYPL Women's Studies: A Research Guide

Borrowing with CUID

Access with CUID

Require separate ID

EDUCAT for Teachers’ College Library
Pegasus for Columbia Law Library

ALEPH for the Jewish Theological Seminary
BobCat for NYU libraries

New York Public Library catalog.
NYPL Databases require library card number for access.