Women's Studies Section

Association of College & Research Libraries / American Library Association

Women’s Studies Database Instruction Guides

These Guides were created and are maintained by members of the Women’s Studies Section Instruction Committee. They were developed in order to assist librarians in teaching students and faculty how to more effectively and efficiently use women’s studies databases. The Committee identified nine core databases that contain content primarily related to women, gender, sexuality, and/or feminist studies. The guides are in .PDF format so that librarians can easily print them as class handouts and will be updated as needed. The following is a list of the available Database Instruction Guides:

• Alternative Press Index
• British Women's Diaries
• Contemporary Women’s Issues (RDS/Gale)
• Contemporary Women’s Issues (Lexis-Nexis)
• Contemporary Women’s Issues (OCLC FirstSearch)
• Defining Gender
• GenderWatch (ProQuest)
• The Gerritsen Collection of Women’s History Online
• North American Women’s Letters and Diaries
• Sexual Diversity Studies: Lesbian, Bisexual & Transgender Abstracts
• Women & Social Movements
• Women’s Studies International (NISC Biblioline)