Library Guides: Gender Research and Integrated Training (GRIT): Gender Theory Resources

Open Access Journals

♦Open Access Journals

Accessing content from academic journals can be difficult and costly without login information provided by a major research university, such as Penn State. Below is a list of open access journals on topics related women's, gender, and sexuality studies. The articles can be accessed online for free without university login credentials.

♦Atlantis

♦Journal of Feminist Scholarship

♦MP: An Online Feminist Journal

♦Scholar & Feminist Online

♦Third Space: A Journal of Feminist Theory & Culture

Databases

Project MUSE This link opens in a new window
Project Muse is an interdisciplinary database. However, the "Advanced Search" option provides an easy way to focus your search on only "Women's Studies, Gender, and Sexuality" resources. You will find access to both journal articles and e-books.

Project MUSE is a unique collaboration between libraries and publishers providing 100% full-text, affordable and user-friendly online access to high quality humanities, arts, and social sciences journals from scholarly publishers. MUSE began in 1993 as a pioneering joint project of the Johns Hopkins University Press and the Milton S. Eisenhower Library at JHU. Grants from the Mellon Foundation and the National Endowment for the Humanities allowed MUSE to go live with JHU Press journals in 1995. Journals from other publishers were first incorporated in 2000, with additional university press and scholarly society publishers joining in each subsequent year.
Women's Studies International This link opens in a new window
Women's Studies International is an EBSCOhost database that is helpful for finding current academic journal articles in fields related to women's, gender, and sexuality studies.

This resource provides access to over 232,000 records drawn from ten important Women's Studies databases. Among the databases included in Women's Resources International are Women's Studies Abstracts, one of the premiere Women's Studies indexes; four files from Women's Studies Librarian at the University of Wisconsin; Popline Subset on Women; and Women's Health and Development: An Annotated Bibliography of Mostly English Language Journal Articles from the World Health Organization. Coverage: 1972 to date; citations and abstracts only. Updated semiannually.

Web Resources for Women in Agriculture

♦Women Food & Ag Network

WFAN's mission is "to engage women in building an ecological and just food and agricultural system through individual and community power." The resources found on their website include a video library and online access to brochures and publications printed by WFAN.

♦USDA's Women in Agriculture in Rural Life: An International Bibliography

This link provides access to a bibliography of sources on women and agriculture, which was prepared for the Second International Conference on Women in Agriculture in 1998. Its entries include resources for women and agriculture outside of the United States. The bibliography lists the National Agricultural Library's call number, but you can use the information that is listed to find the resource at Penn State!

♦The Women's Agricultural Network, The University of Vermont

WAgN's website includes a "Resources" page, where you can access articles and fact sheets, assessment tools, agricultural data analysis, and short descriptions of longer books and manuals that can either be downloaded digitally, or a hardcopy ordered online.

♦Pennsylvania Women's Agricultural Network, Penn State

The PA-WAgN website, which is hosted by Penn State, also maintains a "Resources" page, where research articles written by PA-WAgN researchers can be accessed via PDF.