Some useful journals for Women's Studies
Feminist Review
Gender and Society
Nora: Nordic Journal of Women's Studies
Signs
Women's studies international forum
Find specific electronic & print journals by searching the Journal Portal (Search 'Journals' from the Library homepage).
A 'periodical' or 'serial' = any publication published regularly (includes magazines, newspapers, newsletters).
A ‘scholarly’/academic’ journal: periodical containing research articles, that is peer-reviewed, and aimed at researchers.
Peer review: every paper/article submitted to the journal is reviewed by independent experts. Papers are accepted/rejected based on quality.
Women's Studies is multidisciplinary so the databases that you use will come from a number of different subject areas
Our library's EBSCO and Proquest databases are a good place to start for most topics.
This is an A-Z list of all subscribed and complimentary databases available via EBSCO. To search within a single database, click the All Databases link and select as appropriate. To select more than one database to search, check the boxes next to the databases and click Continue.
This is an A-Z list of most of our ProQuest databases. These resources provide access to millions of full text articles from thousands of scholarly journals, as well as access to more than 50,000 full text dissertations.
Other databases which would be useful include
JSTOR provides a comprehensive digital archive of important scholarly journals. It offers multidisciplinary and discipline-specific collections that include complete runs of journals as well as select monographs, transactions, and conference proceedings.
Scopus is the largest abstract and citation database of peer-reviewed literature, scientific journals, books and conference proceedings. Across all research fields - science, mathematics, engineering, technology, health and medicine, social sciences, and arts and humanities — Scopus delivers the broadest overview of global, interdisciplinary scientific information.
For information about Newspapers in UCC Library, and newspapers available through Library databases, see the Newspapers Guide. Click on the links below to access listed titles.
The Irish Newspaper Archives contains full text Irish newspapers from which it is possible to search, retrieve and view Ireland's past in the exact format it was published.
Nexis brings together thousands of authoritative financial news, business news, legal, regulatory, company and industry research sources. Search, share, analyse and monitor information that’s continually being updated and goes back 40 years, from Irish and international newspapers, websites, blogs, trade journals and market researchers.
