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CQ Researcher - Feminism Find in-depth reports on current & controversial issues in the news. Topics range from social and teen issues to environment, health, education, science and technology issues. Explores a single "hot" issue in the news in depth each week.
CQ Researcher - Sexuality Find in-depth reports on current & controversial issues in the news. Topics range from social and teen issues to environment, health, education, science and technology issues. Explores a single "hot" issue in the news in depth each week.
Encyclopedia of Sex and Gender: Men and Women in the World's Cultures Online Encyclopedia - The central aim of this encyclopedia is to give the reader a comparative perspective on issues involving conceptions of gender, gender differences, gender roles, relationships between the genders, and sexuality.
Films on Demand - Gender & Sexuality

New York Times (create an academic pass) This link opens in a new window Using a valid CLC email account, create an account for full access to the NYT from 1851-present.
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Academic Search Ultimate This link opens in a new window Multi-disciplinary database with 10,000+ full-text journal. Includes a combination of academic journals (scholarly/peer reviewed), magazines, periodicals, reports, books and videos. Disciplines range from astronomy, anthropology, biomedicine, engineering, health, law and literacy to mathematics, women's studies, zoology and more. #ebsco
Gale Academic OneFile This link opens in a new window Includes full-text and abstracts of scholarly, trade, and general-interest periodicals covering topics in the areas of current events, general sciences and technology, social sciences, arts, and humanities.
JSTOR This link opens in a new window Includes full-text journal coverage in humanities, social sciences and the sciences.
SocINDEX with Full Text This link opens in a new window SocINDEX with Full Text is a comprehensive high quality sociology research database containing full text for 708 journals dating back to 1908.This database also includes full text for more than 780 books and monographs, and 9,333 conference papers. #ebsco
Women & Social Movements in the United States This link opens in a new window This resource brings together primary documents, books, images, scholarly essays, book reviews, Web site reviews, and teaching tools, all documenting the multiplicity of women’s activism in public life.

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Ebook Central (formerly Ebrary/EBL) This link opens in a new window 30,000+ ebooks collection that spans all academic subject areas. Users can search for e-books by title, author, subject, ISBN, LC call number, etc. or browse by publisher or subject. By creating an eBrary bookshelf account (free), readers can manage a virtual bookshelf where they can store, highlight, search, take notes, create folders and even share ebooks.
Gale Ebooks This link opens in a new window Encyclopedias and specialized e-book reference sources for business, communications, criminal justice, education, environmental sciences, finance, history, homeland security, literature, political science, psychology, sciences, and sociology. Includes full-text articles in multiple literature encyclopedia series including Drama for Students, Novels for Students, Poetry for Students, and Short Stories for Students

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Films on Demand This link opens in a new window Streaming videos that covers a a wide range of topics including social sciences, arts and humanities, science, technology, archival film and newsreels and more.
Filmakers Library Online This link opens in a new window Streaming video collection containing documentaries with relevance across the curriculum—race and gender studies, human rights, globalization and global studies, multiculturalism, international relations, criminal justice, the environment, bioethics, health, political science and current events, psychology, arts, literature, and more.

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