Below we have listed selected links leading to other searchable databases or metapages providing information pertaining to women’s and gender studies.
We are grateful for any further suggestions.
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Last Update: November 16th, 2001

Searchable Databases

ARIADNE-Database contains records (mainly articles) from international and women’s studies literature (aprox. 10 000) from the holdings of the Austrian National Library in Vienna. Database-language is German.
(http://www.onb.ac.at/ben/ariadfr.htm)

Fawcett Library London
Britain’s national research library and archival resource on women’s studies, especially women’s history (60.000 books and pamphlets from 1600 to the present).
(http://www.lgu.ac.uk/fawcett/main.htm)

IIAV (Internationaal Informatiecentrum en Archief voor de Vrouwenbeweging Amsterdam)
International Information Centre and Archives for the Women’s Movement.
(http://www.iiav.nl/dava/beginner/index_gb.html)

The Database of the Zentrum für interdisziplinäre Frauen- und Geschlechterforschung (Centre for Interdisciplinary Women’s and Gender Studies) at the TU Berlin contains records from the holdings of several department libraries (in German).
(http://www.kgw.tu-berlin.de/zifg/zentrum/literatur.html)

The Database of Women’s Studies at the University of Maryland offers information on a great variety of topics (Conferences, Call for Papers, Bibliographies, Articles, Syllabi).
(http://www.inform.umd.edu:8080/EdRes/Topic/WomensStudies)

The Medieval Feminist Indexis a searchable database covering journal articles, book reviews, and essays in books about women, sexuality, and gender during the Middle Ages.
(http://www.haverford.edu/library/reference/mschaus/mfi/mfi.html)

Women’s Gift of Speech: Women’s Speeches from around the World Women’s Speeches from around the World is "dedicated to preserving and creating access to speeches made by influential contemporary women". The site also contains speeches made by contemporary women writers.
(http://gos.sbc.edu/index.html)

TheWomen in Philosophy - Database gives access to over 16.000 records of works by women "in aesthetics, epistemology, ethics, logic, metaphysics, history of philosophy and philosophy of mind, of science, of art, and many other subjects." The database can be searched for authors, titles and subjects.
(http://billyboy.ius.indiana.edu/womeninphilosophy/womeninphilo.html)

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Metapages

WWWomen! Very helpful search directory, providing a search function as well as topical listings of special interest to women.
(http://www.wwwomen.com/)

A Celebration of Women Writers "provides a comprehensive listing of links to biographical and bibliographical information about women writers, and complete published books written by women". In other words: Don’t miss it!
(http://www.cs.cmu.edu/People/mmbt/women/writers.html)

A list of Women’s Studies Sites in Europe can be found at the Nordic Institute for Women’s and Gender Research.
(http://www.nikk.uio.no/index_e.html)

Another comprehensive list of links to European women’s studies sites: Women’s Studies EuroMap.
(http://hgins.uia.ac.be/women/)

The Fraueninfonetz at the University of Bielefeld is still under construction and intended as a site facilitating and supporting Women’s Studies Online in Germany.
(http://www.uni-bielefeld.de/IFF/fraueninfonetz/index.html)

Joan Korenman’s List of Women’s Studies WWW Sites offers alphabetical and topical listings of WWW-sites.
(http://www-unix.umbc.edu/~korenman/wmst/links.html)

Gender-related electronic forums (UMBC, J. Korenman)
Rightly famous, this is probably the most comprehensive list of electronic discussion lists in the area of women’s and gender studies.
(http://www-unix.umbc.edu/~korenman/wmst/forums.html)

Women`s Studies Librarian's Office (Universität von Wisconsin)
links to other women’s studies sites as well as the UoW’s own bibliographies and reading lists.
(http://www.library.wisc.edu/libraries/WomensStudies/)

Voice of the Shuttle
is an enormously helpful resource for humanities research and offers its own helpful page linking to Women’s and Gender Studies sites.
(http://vos.ucsb.edu/)

The Center for Gender in Organizations (CGO) "is dedicated to advancing learning and understanding of the connection between gender ... and organizational effectiveness." The pages offer an extensive list of links, as well as a reading list concerning these topics.
(http://www.simmons.edu/gsm/cgo)

The Cultural Studies Virtual Library is developed by PACC (Advanced Program of Contemporary Culture) of the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. It is an Internet compiler of useful information for Cultural Studies researchers but also includes useful links on Gender and Women's Studies. In it you will find detailed information on scientific and cultural meetings; articles; printed, eletronic and online periodicals; conventional and virtual libraries; scientifical associations and research institutions; non-governmental organizations; research support agencies; libraries and publishing houses; bibliographies; chats; discussion lists; etc.
The site is completely in Spanish.
(http://www.prossiga.br/estudosculturais/pacc/)

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