LGBTQ Databases
Databases specific to LGBTQ research:
- LGBT Life with FulltextLGBT Life is the premier resource to the world's literature regarding Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender and Transsexual issues. Comprehensive coverage includes traditional academic, lifestyle, and regional publications, as well as non-periodical content such as non-fiction books, bibliographies and dissertations. Disciplines include athletics, health, law, sociology, family, religion, civil liberties, employment and entertainment.
- LGBT Thought and Culture This link opens in a new windowLGBT Thought and Culture is an online resource hosting the key works and archival documentation of LGBT political and social movements throughout the 20th century and into the present day. The collection contains 150,000 pages of rare archival content, including seminal texts, letters, periodicals, speeches, interviews, and ephemera.
- Gender WatchGenderWatch is a full text database of publications that focus on the impact of gender across a broad spectrum of subject areas.
- Women's Studies InternationalThis is an index to the core disciplines in women’s studies and feminist research. Coverage includes more than 586,600 records and spans from 1972 to present. Over 2,000 periodical sources are represented.
- Homophile Movement: Papers of Donald Stewart Lucas, 1941-1976 This link opens in a new windowThis collection documents the activist and professional activities of Donald S. Lucas. The vast majority of the collection dates from 1953 to 1969. The Lucas collection contains an abundance of material relating to the early homosexual civil rights movement (the homophile movement) and the San Francisco manifestation of President Lyndon Johnson's War on Poverty. The strength of the collection lies in the administrative and work files of the Mattachine Society, the Mattachine Review, Pan-Graphic Press, and the Central City Target Area of the San Francisco EOC. The collection includes: correspondence, meeting minutes, constitutions and by-laws, newsletters, manuscripts, financial documents, reports, statistics, legal decisions, surveys, counseling records, funding proposals, and subject files. Provided by Gale.
LGBT Studies Related Databases
Here are a few databases to begin your research:
- Left IndexFocused on the political, social, economic and cultural issues of the Left, the Left Index has been under production since 1982.
- Alternative Press IndexThe API is a bibliographic database (with links to full-text) of more than 368,000 journal, newspaper, and magazine articles from over 300 international alternative, radical, and left periodicals.
- Alternative Press ArchiveThe Alternative Press Archive is an interdisciplinary bibliographic database (with links to full-text) of more than 474,000 journal, newspaper, and magazine articles in over 700 international alternative, radical, and left periodicals.
- Women and Social Movements in the United States, 1600-2000Women and Social Movements in the United States brings together books, images, documents, scholarly essays, commentaries, and bibliographies, documenting the multiplicity of women's activism in public life.
Keywords and terms
Words and terms can make a big difference when you are looking for resources. The words you use may be different that what is written in the literature.
Gay marriage or Same-sex marriage
gay will get differnet results than queer
lesbian
bisexual or bi
transgender
homosexual
queer
Secondary Article Databases
- ProQuest This link opens in a new windowDatabases of resources for arts, business, humanities, social sciences, science and newspaper resources.
- International Index to the Performing Arts Full TextIIPA covers a broad spectrum of the arts and entertainment industry - including dance, drama, theater, stagecraft, musical theater, circus performance, opera, pantomime, puppetry, magic, performance art, film, television and more.
- FIAF International Index to Film Periodicals This link opens in a new windowThe International Federation of Film Archives (FIAF) brings together institutions dedicated to rescuing and preserving films. FIAF's editorial staff, along with its Affiliates, produces the International Index to Film Periodicals which offers in-depth coverage of the world's foremost academic and popular film journals. This database contains FIAF's “Treasures from Film Archives”; a detailed index of the silent-era film holdings of archives from around the world, a selection of Reference volumes and the linked full-text of over 60 journals. Provided by ProQuest.
- Film & Television Literature Index with Full Text This link opens in a new windowA comprehensive bibliographic and full-text database covering the entire spectrum of television and film. Subject coverage includes film & television theory, preservation & restoration, writing, production, cinematography, technical aspects, and reviews. The database provides cover-to-cover indexing and abstracts for 350 publications (and selected coverage of nearly 300), as well as full text for more than 100 journals and nearly 100 books. Provided by EBSCO.
- SAGE PremierSAGE Premier. Access to more than 500 journals in Business, Humanities, Social Sciences, and Science, Technology and Medicine...
- PsycINFOPsychology-related journals and other sources from 1887-present.
- Sociological AbstractsAbstracts over 2,000 journals in sociology and related fields from 1963-present.
- PAIS InternationalPublic affairs database.