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Women's & Gender Studies Program
Wake Forest University
Tribble Hall, A106A
P.O. Box 7365
Winston-Salem, NC 27109
Phone: 336-758-3758
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Databases
Contemporary Women’s Issues
This database covers women’s issues from 1992 to current with the option for the article in full text. It covers a variety of disciplines and pulls from 190 different countries. When you search you can do a basic keyword or author search but can also search by topic (i.e. abortion, welfare, etc) or by geographic region (i.e. Afghanistan). It was really simple to use and offered a proliferation of good articles.Health Source: Consumer Editions
Full text version of articles from over 170 general health, nutrition and professional health care publications as well as health related pamphlets and research books.Health Source: Nursing/Academic
Full text articles from scholarly journals only and coverage of nursing and allied health is particularly strong.PsycINFO
This offers citations and abstracts from a comprehensive coverage from articles, books, book chapters, journals, dissertations, and other sources related to the field of psychology from 45 countries.Sociological Abstracts
This database provides citations and abstracts (not full text articles) to articles published in some 2300 journals in sociology, social welfare, and social policy, as well as other related topics in the social and behavioral sciences. It also includes citations to some books and many dissertations.SPORTDiscus
This database provides citations and abstracts only for periodicals, books, conference proceedings, dissertations and theses, research papers, etc. in the areas of: sport, physical fitness, sport science and recreation.
