Carter, S., & Ritchie, M. (1990). Women's studies: A guide to information sources. Jefferson, NC: McFarland. (XHQ1206 .C37)

This research guide offers books, reference sources, periodicals, and indexes for general research in women's studies, as well as research in specialized areas such as women's history, law and politics, women and labor, lesbian studies, women in science and technology, women in the arts and media, and women in literature.

Adamson, L. G. (1998). Notable women in world history: A guide to recommended biographies and autobiographies. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press. (XHQ 1122 .A28)

Adler, L. L. (Ed.). (1993). International handbook on gender roles. Westport, CT: Greenwood. (XHQ1075 .I58 1993)

Examines gender roles in 21 countries throughout the world.

Costello, C. B., Miles, S., & Stone, A. J. (Eds.). (1999). The American woman 1999-2000. New York: W.W. Norton. (XHQ1402 .A65 1999)

The first half of this source offers essays on the status and future of women in the U.S. at the turn of the millennium. The second half contains statistics and facts concerning topics such as women's health, education, employment, wages, and other economic indicators.

Cullen-DuPont, K. (1996). The encyclopedia of women's history in America. New York: Facts on File. (XHQ 1410 .C85 1996)

Includes biographical essay on women making significant contributions to society or affecting U.S. history as well as articles on issues and organizations related to women's rights.

Harlan, J. (1998). Feminism: A reference handbook. Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO. (XHQ1410 .H365 1998)

Includes articles on a variety of women's issues and provides biographical sketches of important female leaders and a chronology of significant events in women's history and the feminist movement. The final sections of the book offer a directory of organizations and bibliographies of both print and nonprint (audiovisual and Internet) resources.

Howard, A. M., & Kavenik, F. M. (Eds.). (2000). Handbook of American women's history (2nd ed.). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage. (XHQ 1410 .H36 2000)

Institute for Women's Policy Research (2000).The status of women in the states: Politics, economics, health, demographics. Washington, DC: Institute for Women's Policy Research. (XHQ1438 .A15 I57)

Kinnear, K. L. (1997). Women in the Third World: A reference handbook. Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO. (XHQ1870.9 .K58 1997).

This resource provides general information on the status of women in developing nations and also offers biographical sketches of leading women in the regions covered. It also provides a listing of international organizations dedicated to women's issues and a bibliography of print, audiovisual and online resources.

Neft, N., & Levine, A. D. (1997). Where women stand: An international report on the status of women in 140 countries 1997-1998. New York: Random House. (XHQ1154 .N39 1997)

Provides global and country-specific information and statistics on issues such as women's employment, women's health, education, marriage and divorce, violence against women and family planning.

Olsen, K. (1994). Chronology of women's history. Westport, CT: Greenwood. (XHQ 1121 .O47 1994)

Chronicles women's involvement in areas such as daily life, government and the law, activism, literature and the arts, business, science and medicine, athletics, education and religion from the prehistoric area to today.

Scanlon, J. (Ed.). (1999). Significant contemporary American feminists: A biographical sourcebook. Westport, CT: Greenwood. (XHQ1412 .S56 1999)

Seager, J. (1997). The state of women in the world atlas (new ed.). New York: Penguin. (XG1046.E1 S42 1997)

Tierney, H. (Ed.). (1991). Women's studies encyclopedia (Vols. 1-3). New York: Greenwood. (XHQ1115 .W645)

Walter, L. (Ed.). (2001).Women's rights: A global view. Westport, CT: Greenwood. (XHQ1236 .W6527 2001)

Examines issues of women's rights and equity in fourteen countries and the European Union.

Ware, S. (Ed.). (2004). Notable American women: A biographical dictionary completing the twentieth century Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press. (XCT3260 .N5725)

You may find articles on specific aspects of women (women's health, women in business, etc) in a variety of periodical databases. Choose the database depending on the field of interest (e.g., health & medicine, business, arts, etc). The following journals offer articles specifically on women's studies.

Journal of women's history. (1998 to present). Bloomington: Indiana University. (HQ1101 .J68 [yr]). Available since 1992 in Academic Search Premier

Signs: Journal of women in culture and society. (1978 to present). Chicago: University of Chicago. (HQ1101 .S5 [yr]). Available since 1990 in Academic Search Premier

Books on various women's issues may be found in a number of areas in the library. For broad coverage of women's studies, you may want to search fortitles under the following subject headings:

Women's studies
Women's rights

To find books on women in particular fields or professions you might try using women preceding the profession:

Women authors
Women political candidates
Women psychologists

Catalog USMAI [help]
Books, journals, government documents and other materials in the University System of Maryland, including UB. You may search up to six individual locations or the entire system.

Digital Dissertations (Dissertation Abstracts from Proquest) [on-campus]
Coverage 1861 – present. Indexes U.S., Canadian, British, and other European dissertations and theses; dissertations abstracted since 1980, theses abstracted since 1988. A 24 page preview of dissertations published since 1997 is available. The full text of dissertations may be obtained by clicking the free download button.

NetLibrary [on-campus] [help]
Coverage: Varies. A collection of E-texts covering specifically chosen by Maryland Academic Libraries. Funded by the Maryland Digital Library (MDL).

WorldCat [on-campus] [help]
Coverage: Varies. International database of collections (including books, journals , dissertations, documents, and other materials) held by libraries worldwide. Maryland libraries that own copies of the items display at the top of the list of libraries so you can easily determine if local libraries own the material needed. Records of any type of material cataloged by OCLC member libraries. Includes manuscripts written as early as the 12th century.

Statistical abstract of the United States (1941 to present). Washington: Government Printing Office. (DOCS C3.134: [yr.]) (LATEST ED., READY REFERENCE

Institute for Women's Policy Research (2006). Status of women in the states. Retrieved March 17, 2006 from: http://www.iwpr.org/States2004/SWS2004/index.htm

United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs. (2005). Statistics and indicators on women and men. March 17, 2006 from: http://unstats.un.org/unsd/demographic/products/indwm/indwm2.htm

Barnes, S. L. (2001). Information resources for women's studies. Retrieved March 17, 2006 from the University of California, Santa Barbara Library website: http://www.library.ucsb.edu/subjects/women/women.html

Chacko, S. (n.d.) SAWNET (South Asian Women's Network). Retrieved March 17, 2006 from: http://www.sawnet.org/

Daley, G. (2006). Women's archives on the WWW. Retrieved March 17, 2006 from the Sallie Bingham Center for Women's History and Culture, Duke University Rare Book, Manuscript, and Special Collections Library website: http://scriptorium.lib.duke.edu/women/wwwsites.html

Dublin, T., & Sklar, K. K. (2005). Women and social movements in the United States, 1600-2000. Retrieved March 17, 2006 from the SUNY Binghamton website: http://womhist.binghamton.edu/

Global Reproductive Health Forum (n.d.). Women of color web. Retrieved March 17, 2006 from the Harvard School of Public Health website: http://www.hsph.harvard.edu/grhf/WoC/

Korenman, J. (2005). Women's studies online resources. Retrieved March 17, 2006 from: http://www.research.umbc.edu/~korenman/wmst/

Liu, A. (2005). Women's studies and feminist theory. Retrieved March 17, 2006 from Voice of the Shuttle, University of California, Santa Barbara English Department website: http://vos.ucsb.edu/browse.asp?id=2711#id2828

Sibley, E. (2005). Women's Studies. Retrieved March 17, 2006 from the University of California, Berkeley Library website: http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/Collections/Womstu/

Inter-Parliamentary Union. (2006). Women in politics: Bibliographic database. Retrieved March 17, 2006 from: http://www.ipu.org/bdf-e/Bdfsearch.asp

Women's Studies Section, Association of College & Resource Libraries. (2005). WSSLINKS: Women and Gender Studies Web Sites. Retrieved March 17, 2006 from: http://libr.org/wss/WSSLinks/index.html

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