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Performance, Art, and Media Studies Databases

Art Full Text This link opens in a new window
The main database for research in art and art history. Includes both popular and academic titles. Also includes some performing arts and media content
RILM Abstracts of Music Literature This link opens in a new window
Provides access to international publications on music and other performance arts, such as dance. Includes a variety of publication types including journal articles, ethnographic recordings, and reviews. Relevant for research on performance studies, education, literature, and more.
Film & Television Literature Index with Full Text This link opens in a new window
Covers film & television theory, preservation & restoration, writing, production, cinematography, technical aspects, and reviews.
Communication and Mass Media Complete This link opens in a new window
Access to research in areas related to cultural studies, communication and mass media studies, rhetoric, speech, and digital, electronic and new media.

Politics and Religion

ATLA Religion Database with ATLASerials PLUS This link opens in a new window
Access to journal articles, book reviews, and collections of essays in all scholarly fields of religion.
Worldwide Political Science Abstracts This link opens in a new window
Provides access to journal articles in political science related fields including law, public administration/policy, and international relations.

Interdisciplinary Databases

Alternative Press Sources

Left Index This link opens in a new window
Access to the literature on the left; emphasis on political, economic, social and culturally engaged scholarship, both academic and not. Other topics include labor movements, environment, race, sociology, art, philosophy, history, education and globalization.
Alternative Press Index This link opens in a new window
Citations to international alternative, radical, and left periodicals, journals, newspapers, and magazine articles.
Alternative Press Index Archive This link opens in a new window
Citations to alternative, radical, and left periodicals, journals, newspapers, and magazine articles.
Independent Voices This link opens in a new window
Independent Voices is a digital collection of alternative press newspapers, magazines and journals, drawn from the special collections of participating libraries. These periodicals were produced by feminists, dissident GIs, campus radicals, Native Americans, anti-war activists, Black Power advocates, Hispanics, LGBT activists, the extreme right-wing press and alternative literary magazines during the latter half of the 20th century.

Mainstream Scholarly Sources

Arts and Humanities Citation Index This link opens in a new window
A subset of Web of Science, this database provides article references for journals across the arts and humanities disciplines, including art and art history, archeology, architecture, dance, music, film and theater, history, humanities, literature, and religion. Offers cited reference searching.
Social Sciences Citation Index This link opens in a new window
A subset of Web of Science, this covers journal information across 50 social sciences disciplines. Offers cited reference searching.

Online Journals to Browse

Studies in Gender and Sexuality
Studies in Gender and Sexuality is one of the leading journals in the transdisciplinary field of gender and sexuality studies. Situated at the interface of psychoanalysis and social/cultural theory, it aims to further our understanding of how we live, theorize and transform genders and sexualities.
Atlantis: Critical Studies in Gender, Culture & Social Justice
Atlantis is a scholarly research journal devoted to critical work in a variety of formats that reflects current scholarship and approaches to the discipline of Women's and Gender Studies. It incorporates a diversity of feminist, anti-racist and critical identity, intersectional, transnational, and cultural studies approaches to a wide range of contemporary issues, topics, and knowledges. Atlantis is dedicated to the ongoing growth of knowledge in the field of Women's and Gender Studies, as well as to critical reflections on the field itself.
Culture, Health, and Sexuality
Culture, Health & Sexuality is a peer-reviewed, scholarly journal that publishes multi-disciplinary articles analyzing culture and health, health beliefs and systems, social structures and divisions, and the implications of these for sexual health, and individual, collective, and community wellbeing.
MP: An Online Feminist Journal
MP is an online, peer-reviewed, international feminist journal. Our goal is to provide an intelligent forum for feminist discourse in cyberspace, to give voice to a variety of voices on issues of gender and power. We believe that words can change the world!

Open Access Resources

AfricaBib This link opens in a new window A collection of Africana social science titles consisting of 2 bibliographic databases covering Africana periodical literature and African Women's literature. Check out their section on African Women for information specific to WGSS, although other sections will have relevant information as well.
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BASE This link opens in a new window A search engine for academic web resources - includes journals, institutional repositories, digital collections etc. Many open access resources.
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Digital Library of the Caribbean This link opens in a new window dLOC is a cooperative of partners within the Caribbean region that provides access to Caribbean cultural, historical and research materials held in archives, libraries, and private collections. Types of materials include; newspapers, official documents, documentation and numeric data for ecosystems, scientific scholarship, historic and contemporary maps, oral histories, travel accounts, literature, poetry, musical expressions, and artifacts.
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Digital Public Library of America This link opens in a new window DPLA materials come from America’s libraries, archives, museums, and other cultural heritage institutions. All of these are freely available and include; photographs, books, maps, news footage, oral histories, personal letters, museum objects, artwork, government documents, etc.
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Directory of Open Access Journals This link opens in a new window Access to quality controlled scientific and scholarly journals covering a range of topics and languages.
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Dissertations and Thesis - Open Access (Proquest) This link opens in a new window Provides the full text of open access dissertations and theses free of charge.
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HathiTrust Digital Library This link opens in a new window A digital preservation repository that provides access to millions of digitized materials from libraries around the world. For enhanced access to materials, log into HathiTrust using your Macalester email credentials.
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Knowledge Unlatched This link opens in a new window Open access to scholarly ebooks primarily in the Humanities and Social Sciences. Check out their section on Gender & Sexuality Studies!
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LLMC Digital This link opens in a new window LLMC Digital is a searchable, full text collection of material from U.S. federal legislative, judicial and executive branches. LLMC (Law Library Microform Consortium) is a non-profit cooperative of libraries dedicated to preserving legal titles and government documents, while making copies inexpensively available digitally.
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MDPI This link opens in a new window Scholarly OA publisher since 1996. Supports many diverse, peer-reviewed, OA journals with over 35,500 academic editors. Serves scholars from around the world to ensure the latest research is freely available.
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Open Book Publishers This link opens in a new window Find peer-reviewed open access books in a variety of subjects.
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Open Library of Humanities This link opens in a new window The Open Library of Humanities is a non-profit open access publisher for the humanities and social sciences.
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