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| Contemporary Women's Issues
from Responsive Data Services, Inc. Search
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Multidisciplinary database providing full-text access to global information on
women’s issues and gender studies. Extensive international coverage from 190 countries (all
material is in English) is provided from mainstream periodicals and the alternative press, including
journals, newsletters, research reports, governmental agencies, non-profit groups, and pamphlets.
1992 to present. |
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| GenderWatch
from ProQuest Search
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Full text database composed primarily of the many ongoing periodicals that focus
on women and women's issues, including academic and scholarly journals, regional publications,
magazines, newspapers, newsletters, booklets and reports. GenderWatch contains
a significant body of archival material, in some cases as far back as 1974. |
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Additional resources: |
| Academic Search Complete
from EBSCO |
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Provides full text for over 7,000 journals covering the social sciences, humanities,
general science, multi-cultural studies, education and much more. Coverage varies by
publication. Some full-text PDFs from 1985 to present. |
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| Defining Gender, 1450-1910
from Adam Matthew Pubs. |
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Database of primary sources dating between 1450 and 1910 copied largely from
research libraries in Great Britain. Primarily "advice literature," the sources address such themes
as household management, education, leisure, shopping, sexuality, consumption, and sports.
The material is arranged thematically, along with essays by leading scholars. The database is
in five segments. Defining Gender includes indexing that directs researchers to
larger holdings of similar literature available on microform. VPN required
for off-campus access. |
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| DIRLINE (Directory of Health
Organizations) from National Institutes of Health |
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Provides approximately 10,000 records with location and descriptive information
for government agencies, information and referral centers, professional societies, self-help groups, and
academic and research institutions in health and biomedicine. Topics include maternal and child
health, diseases and conditions, and health services research and technology assessment. Current
information only. |
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| Dissertations and Theses
from ProQuest |
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This database contains records for more than 2 million doctoral dissertations
and master's theses. Also included is the full text content for nearly 900,000 dissertations.
Includes extensive coverage of North American graduate schools, with coverage of some European
universities beginning in 1989. Includes bibliographic record of dissertations written in the
United Kingdom and Ireland from as far back as 1716, with full abstracts, for titles available from 1986
in 'ProQuest Dissertations and Theses. A separate database contains the subset of Marquette University doctoral dissertations in full
text. |
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| Ethnic NewsWatch
from ProQuest |
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Indexes and provides full text articles from newspapers and magazines published
for ethnic communities in the U.S. Some material is in Spanish. Includes publications for African
Americans, European Americans, Hispanic and Latino Americans, Native Americans, Asian Americans,
Jewish Americans, and Arab Americans. 1991 to present. |
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| Gerritsen Collection from Chadwyck-Healy |
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Books, pamphlets and periodicals reflecting the study of women's history throughout
the world. |
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| Inter-University Consortium for
Political and Social Research (ICPSR) from
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Abstracts, longitudinal studies, project overviews, data collection instruments, and
descriptions of variables found in the dataset. Most datasets and documentation can be
downloaded, from on campus computers, for research and personal use. ICPSR holds a wealth
of data from a number of sources. Among them:
National Archive of Computerized Data on
Aging
National Archive of Criminal Justice Data
Health and Medical Care Archive
Substance Abuse and Mental Health Data
Archive
International Archive of Education Data
2000 Census Data
Collaborative Psychiatric Epidemiology Surveys
Crimestat
Data Preservation Allicance for the Social
Sciences
Data Sharing for Demographic Research
General Social Survey Data and Retrieval
Information Systems
Homicide Research Working Group
Human Subject Protection and Disclosure Risk
Analysis
Mexican American Trajectories: Family, Geography,
and Intermarriage Across a Century
Minority Data Resource Center
Population and Environment in the U.S.
Great Plains
Project on Human Development in Chicago
Neighborhoods
Terrorism & Preparedness Data Resource
Center
Before retrieving data users will be asked to create a "MyData"
account and to provide information verifying their Marquette status. Tutorials on downloading and reading data into SAS, SPSS, and STATA are avaialble in the Data User Help Center. |
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| Journal Citation Reports - Science
& Social Sciences from ISI |
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This unique multidisciplinary resource presents quantifiable statistical data that
provides a systematic way to determine the relative importance of journals within their subject
categories, including highest impact journals, most frequently used journals, hottest
journals, and largest journals. The "Science" portion covers about 5,000 leading
international science journals from ISI database and the "Social Science" portion covers
1700 leading journals from Social Science Citation Index. Basic information about
each journal is also included, e.g. publisher, frequency, title changes, subject categories assigned,
etc. Covers 2004 to 2006. VPN recommended for off-campus
access. |
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| LGBT Life with Full Text
from EBSCO |
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Contains all of the content available in LGBT Life as well as full text for
more than 120 LGBT journals, magazines and regional newspapers, as well as more than 140 full-text
monographs/books. |
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| Medieval Sources online
from Manchester Univ. Press |
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Includes full text (pdf) of books in their series, Manchester Medieval Sources.
Topics include the Normans, the Black Death, Catholic England and other theological subjects, women,
Merovingian France, the reign of Richard II, and the annals of St-Bertin and Fulda. Covers
medieval studies from medieval studies from c. 600s to 1600. |
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| NLM Gateway
from National Institutes of Health |
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Provides a single interface for searching multiple resources from the National Library
of Medicine including Medline, Old Medline, LOCATORplus (NLM's online catalog), and Medlineplus.
Includes bibliographic citations and abstracts of journal articles; NLM catalog records for books, journals
and audiovisual materials; meeting abstracts on AIDS/HIV; and consumer information on health
conditions and medications. Journal citations are available from 1958 to the present. |
| ProQuest Central from ProQuest |
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Multidisciplinary database with 11,000+ titles, with over 8,000 titles in full-text.
It serves as the central resource for researchers at all levels in all markets. Over 160 subjects
areas are covered extensively including business and economics, health and medical, news and world
affairs, technology, social sciences and more. |
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| ProQuest Research Library
from ProQuest |
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Indexing, abstracts and selected full text or full images of articles in a wide range
of magazines and journals. It includes general interest and news publications as well as selected
scholarly journals. Includes bibliographic citations and abstracts of periodical articles; some full
text and full image articles. Coverage varies by title with good coverage for late 1980's to
present, some earlier coverage. |
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| Sociological Abstracts
from CSA |
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Covers research in sociology and related disciplines. Sociofile indexes over
2000 journals from about 55 countries, providing bibliographic citations and abstracts for the journal
articles. 1974 to present. |
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| Substance Abuse and Mental
Health Data Archive (SAMHDA) from I.C.P.S.R. |
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Data collected by public and private health care agencies related to substance
abuse and mental health. Includes abstracts, project overviews, data collection instruments, and
descriptions of variables found in the dataset. Most datasets and documentation can be
downloaded, from on campus computers, for research and personal use. When
retrieving data users will be asked to create a "MyData Account" and provide information
to verify their Marquette status. Tutorials on downloading and reading data into SAS, SPSS, and STATA are avaialble in the Data User Help Center. |
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| Women's Studies in
ProQuest from ProQuest |
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Covers popular magazine and scholarly journal articles on a wide range of topics
related to women and womens issues. Includes bibliographic citations, abstracts and
selected full text articles. 1986 to present. |
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| Women Writers Online
from Brown Univ. Search
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A textbase of out-of-print and manuscript works by women covering 1400
to 1850. A subset of this database contains over 100 Renaissance texts with substantial
introductory and contextual essays. List of texts included |
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