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For course materials: Primarily intended for faculty looking for content to develop their course curricula. This guide will present you with reliable and trustworthy repositories where you can find open and affordable content that is relevant to your subject area. If you are struggling to find relevant teaching materials for your courses, these resources may be able to help.
The resources listed here represent only a fraction of what is available. For more information about open access and OER, as well as links to places where you can find more resources, check out the OA and OER Research Guide.
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Business Source Complete is the world's definitive scholarly business database, providing the leading collection of bibliographic and full text content. As part of the comprehensive coverage offered by this database, indexing and abstracts for the most important scholarly business journals back as far as 1886 are included. In addition, searchable cited references are provided for more than 1,300 journals.
This database provides comprehensive full text coverage for regional business publications. Regional Business News incorporates coverage of more than 80 regional business publications covering all metropolitan and rural areas within the United States. This database is a subset of Business Source Complete.
Provides full-text reports [10-K, 10-Q, and more] from U.S. public companies 1993-present as reported to the Securities and Exchange Commission. Note: Free access to this database is provided by the U. S. Securities and Exchange Commission.
Investing.com is a global financial portal and internet brand composed of 28 editions in 21 languages and mobile apps for Android and iOS that provide news, analysis, streaming quotes and charts, technical data and financial tools about the global financial markets. Each edition covers a broad variety of local and global financial vehicles including Stocks, Bonds, Commodities, Currencies, Interest Rates, Futures and Options.
Full-text articles from a wide range of news, business, legal, medical, and reference sources.
arXiv is an open access database founded in 1991 that provides free access to journal articles in a wide range of scientific and quantitative disciplines, including Physics, Mathematics, Computer Science, Quantitative Biology, Quantitative Finance, Statistics, Electrical Engineering and Systems Science, and Economics.
The International Monetary Fund's (IMF) eLibrary provides free access to periodicals, books, working papers and studies, and data and statistical tools. Here you will find information on macroeconomics, globalization, development, trade and aid, technical assistance, demographics, emerging markets, policy advice, poverty reduction, and more. See this "Getting Started with the IMF eLibrary" PDF to learn more.
Includes textbooks and ancillary materials for Introduction to Business, Business Ethics, Accounting (Financial Accounting and Managerial Accounting), Business Statistics, Principles of Management, Enterpreneurship, Organizational Behavior, and Business Law.
Hosted on the Lumen Learning platform, Boundless has online course materials in Accounting, Business, Economics, Finance, Marketing, and Management.
Includes links to over 30 business textbooks, including the OpenStax textbooks and many more.
Includes course materials (handouts, videos, modules, syllabi) from the MIT Sloan School of Management.
Case studies and simulations from the MIT Sloan School of Management.
Open books in business, management, and economics
Note: the library has developed some resources specifically for Education students to help you find journal articles for your research. There's a video to watch: Finding Journal Articles for Education Students Video and/or a PDF you can download: 
Finding Journal Articles for Education Students.pdf.
Educational Administration Abstracts*
Educational Administration Abstracts includes bibliographic records covering areas related to educational administration, including educational leadership, educational management, educational research, and other areas of key relevance to the discipline. The index contains more than 190,000 records, which are carefully selected from the most important sources within the discipline.
Database of education citations, abstracts and full-text documents for journal and non-journal education literature.
Professional Development Collection*
Professional Development Collection, designed for professional educators, provides a highly specialized collection of nearly 600 full text journals, including more than 350 peer-reviewed titles. This is the most comprehensive and most valuable collection of full text education journals in the world.
Classroom resources as well as professional development, has best practices and research-based example workshops and teaching methods for all subjects, at all levels.
Includes a mix of articles and videos – a current and frequently updated resource for teachers today.
Open Textbook Library Education textbooks
MIT OpenCourseWare Teaching and Education
National Academies Press books in education
Multiple open textbooks covering various topics in education and educational psychology
MLA International Bibliography*
A bibliography of journal articles, books and dissertations produced by the Modern Language Association. Dates back to the 1920s.
The John Stewart Memorial Library would like to thank the Katharine Montgomery Cook '21 Endowment for contributing to this subscription.
Combining information from major respected reference works, books, literary journals and original content from EBSCO, Literary Reference Center features an expansive collection of author biographies, plot summaries and full-text essays from leading publishers. It also includes literary reference books and monographs, cover-to-cover full text for literary magazines and book reviews from the most prestigious publications. It offers poems from hundreds of sources, short stories, classic texts, author interviews and much more.
The John Stewart Memorial Library would like to thank the Katharine Montgomery Cook '21 Endowment for contributing to this subscription.
Explains how to cite sources in multiple formats; also includes information on how to write essays, how to find and evaluate research sources, how to avoid plagiarism, and more.
Includes materials from the Annotated Chaucer Bibliography published annually in Studies in the Age of Chaucer. Note: Free access to this database is provided by The University of Texas at San Antonio Library and The New Chaucer Society.
The Media History Digital Library is a non-profit initiative, led by Eric Hoyt at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, dedicated to digitizing historic books and magazines about film, broadcasting, and recorded sound for broad public access.
Boundless courses in both Writing, Communications, and Creative Writing.
Open Textbook Library for the Humanities
Includes many books covering different aspects of the humanities, including religion, English, ancient art, philosophy, international relations, mythology, literature, Western civilization, the environment, and social justice.
Open Textbook Library for Journalism, Media Studies, and Communication
A library of over 60,000 ebooks that are in the public domain. If your course includes literature published before 1924, that text is in the public domain in the U.S. – consider directing your students to a free version of the text instead of a commercial one. For audiobook versions of public domain texts, see LibriVox
MIT OpenCourseWare for the Humanities
Includes language, linguistics, literature, philosophy, and religion.
MIT OpenCourseWare for Media and Communication
Internet Archive film repository
Includes films that are either in the public domain or openly licensed, including a subset of feature films.
CornellOpen Literary Criticism & Theory
A collection of open access book titles from Cornell University Press.
Library of Congress Archive of Recorded Poetry and Literature and the Poetry Archive
Both of these resources produce, acquire, and preserve recordings of poets reading their own work out loud.
A wealth of information including specific poems, information about thousands of poets, National Poetry Month resources, and poetry prize and award information, from the Academy of American Poets.
Luminarium: Anthology of English Literature
Includes texts as well as discussion guides and other ancillary materials for thousands of English literary texts from the Medieval period through the Restoration. Also includes metaphysical and religious works.
The Getty Research Portal™ is a free online search platform providing worldwide access to an extensive collection of digitized art history texts from a range of institutions. This multilingual and multicultural union catalog affords art historians and other researchers the ability to search and download complete digital copies of publications devoted to art, architecture, material culture, and related fields.
International Encyclopedia of Dance
Nearly 2,000 articles cover the full spectrum of dance-theatrical, ritual, dance-drama, folk, traditional, ethnic, and social dance. Cultural and national overviews are accompanied by entries on dance forms, music and costumes, performances, and biographies of dancers and choreographers.
Boundless courses, hosted by Lumen Learning, course in Art History
Open Textbook Library Humanities
Includes many books covering different aspects of the humanities, including religion, English, ancient art, philosophy, international relations, mythology, literature, Western civilization, the environment, and social justice.
MIT OpenCourseWare for the Fine Arts
Includes art history, architecture, game design, media studies, performance arts, and visual arts.
Google Arts & Culture features content from over 2000 leading museums and archives.
Smithsonian Digital Library of Art and Design
Includes files on artists, art collectives, galleries, and museums, as well as artist interviews, reading lists, and online exhibitions
Includes resources for teachers, both downloadable online materials and a way to request physical DVDs and print resources to bring art to the classroom.
The Canadian National Arts Centre education portal for dance topics. Includes basic dance facts and lingo, resources for how to understand and make dance, information about specific artists, etc.
The American Variety Stage is a multimedia anthology selected from various Library of Congress holdings. This collection illustrates the vibrant and diverse forms of popular entertainment, especially vaudeville.
Jacob’s Pillow Dance Interactive
An ever-growing collection of dance videos filmed at Jacob’s Pillow from the 1930s to today, also includes illustrated essays. Jacob’s Pillow is home to America’s longest running dance festival.
Numeridanse is a multimedia dance platform. It offers free access to a unique video base: filmed performances, documentaries, interviews, fictions, dance videos. Every single genre, style and form is showcased here: butoh, classical ballet, neo-classical ballet, baroque, Indian, African, flamenco, contemporary, traditional dances, hip-hop, tango, jazz, circus arts, performance, etc. Website available in English or French.
HeinOnline is the premier database for historical and government documents. Here you can access resources about the law, civil rights and social justice, foreign relations, the U.S. Legal Code and Congressional documents, U.S. Presidential libraries, U.S. Supreme Court library, the history/culture/law of slavery around the world, the JFK assassination collection, the Pentagon Papers, research about gun regulation and legislation in America, and more.
Covering both U.S. and world history topics, History Reference Center is a full-text database featuring historical reference books, magazines, journals and thousands of primary source documents.
The John Stewart Memorial Library would like to thank the Helen Barsy '44 and Louise Colgan '80 Library Endowment for contributing to this subscription.
Points of View Reference Center*
Points of View Reference Center contains 400 topics, each with an overview (objective background / description), point (argument) and counterpoint (opposing argument). Each topic features a Guide to Critical Analysis which helps the reader evaluate the controversy and enhances students’ ability to read critically, develop their own perspective on the issues, and write or debate an effective argument on the topic.
Points of View Reference Center provides a balance of materials from all viewpoints with main essays, leading political magazines from all sides of the political spectrum, newspapers, radio and television news transcripts, primary source documents and reference books. The database also offers related images and supplementary research guides for writing position papers, developing arguments and debating.
American Antiquarian Society (AAS) Historical Periodicals Collections*
Partnering with the American Antiquarian Society (AAS), the premier library documenting the life of America's people from the Colonial Era through the Civil War and Reconstruction, EBSCO provides digital access to the most comprehensive collection of American periodicals published between 1684 and 1912.
The fifty thematic subsets from AAS Historical Periodicals include digitized images of the pages of American magazines and journals not available from any other source and provide rich content detailing American history and culture from the mid-18th century through the late-19th century. These specialized collections cover advertising, health, women's issues, science, the history of slavery, industry and professions, religious issues, culture and the arts, and more.
Newspaper Source Plus includes more than 860 full-text newspapers, providing more than 35 million full-text articles. In addition, the database features more than 857,000 television and radio news transcripts.
American National Biography Online
Includes biographical portraits of over 17,400 men and women whose lives shaped the United States.
Nearly seven hundred entries document the range of the African American experience from the arrival of the first slave ship to the death of Frederick Douglass and show how all aspects of American culture, history, and national identity have been profoundly influenced by the experience of African Americans.
Library of Congress Digital Collections
Includes a large number of resources across American history, government, law, politics, the military, and local history and folklore.
Provides free electronic access to important information products produced by all three branches of the Federal Government. Note: Free access to this database is provided by the U. S. Government Printing Office. Includes free full-text access to the Public Papers of the Presidents.
Boundless courses, hosted by Lumen Learning, courses in both history and political science
Open Textbook Library books in History and Political Science
OpenStax U.S. History textbook
OpenStax Economics and American Government texts
Includes ancient history, American history, world history, comparative history, and historical methods
MIT OpenCourseWare Political Science
Includes American politics and international relations
“A massively collaborative open U.S. History textbook”, published by Stanford University Press
A collection of open access book titles from Cornell University Press
Over 4500 films available for free or for a small donation, focused primarily on social issues
See the Research Steps Guide for help with APA citations and formatting.
CINAHL Complete is the definitive research tool for nursing and allied health professionals, providing full text for more than 1200 journals indexed in CINAHL. Full-text coverage dates back to 1937.
Watch this video to learn how to filter your search in CINAHL. Or download the FilteringYourSearchInCINAHL.pdf.
Provides citations to articles in areas of biomedicine including areas of allied health, biological sciences and physical sciences.
PubMed comprises more than 26 million citations for biomedical literature from MEDLINE, life science journals, and online books. Citations may include links to full-text content from PubMed Central and publisher web sites.
PubMed Central® (PMC) is a free full-text archive of biomedical and life sciences journal literature at the U.S. National Institutes of Health's National Library of Medicine (NIH/NLM).
The Merck Manual is a medical reference published by the American pharmaceutical company Merck & Co. that covers a wide range of medical topics, including disorders, tests, diagnoses, and drugs. It is the oldest continuously published English language medical textbook and is now completely available online. Also includes a link to the Consumer Version, which is directed towards members of the general public and contains useful information, handouts, and videos to help explain medical concepts to patients and their caregivers.
HSRIC: Health Services and Research Information Portal
Provides data tools and statistics on a number of health information topics
The NIH and the National Library of Medicine provide this online health information resource for patients and their families and friends
OpenStax Anatomy & Physiology textbook
Developed as a two-semester course for life science and allied health majors
This open access textbook is designed for entry-level undergraduate nursing students. Explains basic concepts of pharmacology and describes common medication classes. Developed by Chippewa Valley Technical College and aligned with the Wisconsin Technical College System statewide nursing curriculum.
MIT OpenCourseWare Health & Medicine
The George Washington University School of Nursing has put together a collection of open educational resources for use by nurse educators worldwide, covering topics such as medical terminology, administration, clinical simulation, emergency and disaster preparedness, clinical compliance, communication, and pediatrics.
Some health care texts available, including an entire book of Health Case Studies
Multiple open books covering topics in medicine, pharmacology, toxicology, and pharmaceutical science
Open books in the topic of health and medicine
A division of the NIH, the NLM provides a wealth of resources for researchers and educators.
Psychology & Behavioral Sciences*
Psychology & Behavioral Sciences Collection is a comprehensive database covering information concerning topics in emotional and behavioral characteristics, psychiatry & psychology, mental processes, anthropology, and observational & experimental methods. This is the world's largest full text psychology database offering full text coverage for nearly 400 journals.
The John Stewart Memorial Library would like to thank the James W. and Charlotte J. Liddell '47 Library Endowment for contributing to this subscription.
The PsycINFO database, American Psychological Association’s (APA) renowned resource for abstracts of scholarly journal articles, book chapters, books, and dissertations, is the largest resource devoted to peer-reviewed literature in behavioral science and mental health. It contains over 3 million records and summaries dating as far back as the 1600s with one of the highest DOI matching rates in the publishing industry. Journal coverage, which spans from the 1800s to the present, includes international material selected from around 2,500 periodicals in dozens of languages.
The John Stewart Memorial Library would like to thank the Clark Sciences Collection Endowment for contributing to this subscription.
A repository for psychologists to upload working papers, preprints, and published papers in the psychological sciences.
SocINDEX with Full Text offers comprehensive coverage of sociology, encompassing all sub-disciplines and closely related areas of study. These include abortion, criminology & criminal justice, demography, ethnic & racial studies, gender studies, marriage & family, political sociology, religion, rural & urban sociology, social development, social psychology, social structure, social work, socio-cultural anthropology, sociological history, sociological research, sociological theory, substance abuse & other addictions, violence and many others.
The John Stewart Memorial Library would like to thank the Clark Social Sciences Collection Endowment for contributing to this subscription.
SocArXiv, open archive of the social sciences, provides a free, non-profit, open access platform for social scientists to upload working papers, preprints, and published papers, with the option to link data and code. SocArXiv is dedicated to opening up social science, to reach more people more effectively, to improve research, and build the future of scholarly communication.
SocArXiv includes work in the following fields: Arts/Humanities, Education, Law, and Social and Behavioral Sciences.
Boundless Courses, hosted by Lumen Learning
There is one for Psychology and one for Sociology
Open Textbook Library Social Sciences collection
OpenStax Social Sciences textbooks include Psychology and Sociology
MIT OpenCourseWare in the Social Sciences
National Academies Press books in Behavioral and Social Sciences
Psychology textbooks and course materials developed by faculty across multiple higher ed institutions; must create a (free) account in order to view and use content.
Multiple open books in psychology and other social sciences.
A resource for using video and pop culture to teach and learn sociology.
Religion & Philosophy Collection*
Religion & Philosophy Collection™ provides extensive coverage of such topics as world religions, major denominations, biblical studies, religious history, epistemology, political philosophy, philosophy of language, moral philosophy and the history of philosophy. With more more than 300 full text journals, the Religion & Philosophy Collection is an essential tool for researchers and students of theology and philosophical studies.
The John Stewart Memorial Library would like to thank the Mary Gaston Gardner '38 Library Endowment for contributing to this subscription.
Standford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
Provides entries by hundreds of experts from the international philosophy community. Note: Free access to this database is provided by Stanford University.
JSTOR provides access to more than 12 million academic journal articles, books, and primary sources in 75 disciplines. Contains full-text articles from core scholarly journals in the humanities, social sciences, and sciences, many of which date from the 1800s.
The John Stewart Memorial Library would like to thank the Margaret E. Ward '65 Endowment for contributing to this subscription.
Association of Religion Data Archives
The Association of Religion Data Archives (ARDA) strives to democratize access to the best data on religion. Founded as the American Religion Data Archive in 1997 and going online in 1998, the initial archive was targeted at researchers interested in American religion. The targeted audience and the data collection have both greatly expanded since 1998, now including American and international collections and developing features for educators, journalists, religious congregations, and researchers. Data included in the ARDA are submitted by the foremost religion scholars and research centers in the world.
Includes many books covering different aspects of the humanities, including religion, English, ancient art, philosophy, international relations, mythology, literature, Western civilization, the environment, and social justice.
MIT OpenCourseWare for the Humanities
Includes language, linguistics, literature, philosophy, and religion.
A library of over 60,000 ebooks that are in the public domain. If your course includes literature published before 1924, that text is in the public domain in the U.S. – consider directing your students to a free version of the text instead of a commercial one. For audiobook versions of public domain texts, see LibriVox
The University of Edinburgh’s Introduction to Philosophy online course.
Resources for teachers from the University of Edinburgh School of Divinity
Digital Collections from the Princeton Theological Seminary
Digital collections and manuscripts from the Vatican
Designed to meet every student researcher's needs, Science Reference Center contains full text for hundreds of science magazines, journals, encyclopedias, reference books and a vast collection of images.
The John Stewart Memorial Library would like to thank the Clark Sciences Collection Endowment for contributing to this subscription.
Environment Complete contains more than 2.4 million records from more than 2,200 domestic and international titles going back to 1888 (including over 1,350 active core titles) as well as more than 190 monographs. The database also contains full text for more than 920 journals
The John Stewart Memorial Library would like to thank the Clark Sciences Collection Endowment for contributing to this subscription.
Offers information covering all aspects of human impact to the environment. Includes scholarly, government, and general-interest titles. This multidisciplinary database draw on connections between the environment and disciplines such as agriculture, education, law, health, and technology. Topics include global climate change, green building, pollution, sustainable agriculture, renewable energy, recycling, and more. Contains abstracts as well as full-text for select articles.
Science.gov searches over 42 databases and over 2000 selected websites from 14 federal agencies, offering 200 million pages of authoritative U.S. government science information including research and development results.
PLOS is an open access publisher supporting research across multiple scientific and medical disciplines in top-rated, peer-reviewed journals
arXiv is an open access database founded in 1991 that provides free access to journal articles in a wide range of scientific and quantitative disciplines, including Physics, Mathematics, Computer Science, Quantitative Biology, Quantitative Finance, Statistics, Electrical Engineering and Systems Science, and Economics.
bioRxiv (pronounced "bio-archive") is a free online archive and distribution service for unpublished preprints in the life sciences.
Articles are not peer-reviewed, edited, or typeset before being posted online. However, all articles undergo a basic screening process for offensive and/or non-scientific content and for material that might pose a health or biosecurity risk and are checked for plagiarism.
ChemRxiv (pronounced 'chem-archive') is a free submission, distribution and archive service for unpublished preprints in chemistry and related areas.
It gives researchers across a broad range of chemistry fields the opportunity to share early results with colleagues and respond to comments and recommendations for improvement, ahead of formal peer review and publication.
Our preprints come from the author's original files, and are not prepared for publication. ChemRxiv conducts a basic screen for plagiarism, offensive language, and non-scientific content, and will exclude materials that may pose a health or security risk if identified. Beyond this, the files are unedited, and are not peer-reviewed.
InTechOpen Physical Sciences and Mathematics and Life Sciences
Multiple open books covering topics in the physical sciences, life sciences, and mathematics
A collection of open access book titles from Cornell University Press.
Boundless Courses, hosted by Lumen Learning
Covers multiple topics in mathematics, physics, chemistry, and biology
Open Textbook Library Mathematics and Natural Sciences textbooks
OpenStax Mathematics and Sciences textbooks
MIT OpenCourseWare for Mathematics and Science
National Academies Press open texts in mathematics, chemistry, and physics and biology and life sciences
Interactive simulations from the University of Colorado Boulder and other teaching resources applicable to all levels, including higher education, in all areas of science and mathematics.
An entire undergraduate physics curriculum with interactive components and a concept map, all in a mobile-friendly environment. Developed by the University of Alberta in Canada.
American Institute of Mathematics
Curates a list of approved textbooks for courses ranging from pre-calculus to upper division analysis and algebra.
Collection of open educational resources for the bioscience community
Classroom resources, planning tools, and professional development from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Wolfram Demonstrations Project
Thousands of interactive demonstrations and simulations for mathematics and science.
Organized by a group of faculty and staff at Carnegie Mellon University, this site includes a number of resources in various aspects of chemistry, including virtual labs and scenarios.
Chemical Education Digital Library
Includes textbooks, modeling software, simulations, video resources, and links to many other educational resources for chemistry.
A free and open MyMathLab alternative
From the Department of Energy Office of Scientific and Technical Information, includes video and audio files produced across multiple science research facilities.
An interactive tutorial to help students learn how to run labs and write lab reports.
CAB Abstracts (replacing VetMed)*
CAB Abstracts includes everything from VetMed Resource plus a LOT more: subjects include agriculture, environment, veterinary sciences, plant sciences, mycology and parasitology, food science, human health, and nutrition. Over 449,000 full-text journal articles, reports, and conference proceedings.
American Veterinary Medical Association
This is the website for the archives of the Journal of the American Veterinary Medical Association (JAVMA). Here you can access full-text articles from from 2000 through the present. Published twice monthly, this peer-reviewed, general scientific journal provides reports of clinical research, feature articles, and regular columns of interest to veterinarians in private and public practice.
Provides veterinarians and other animal health professionals with concise and authoritative information on diseases and management of food-producing, companion, laboratory, and exotic animals.
Veterinary Medicine and Animal Sciences
Includes articles on epidemiology, prevention, diagnosis and treatment of medical conditions covering all domestic, wild, avian, and aquatic species. The journal covers all disciplines of life sciences engaged in the field of Animal and Veterinary sciences.
Veterinary Medicine and Science
Veterinary Medicine and Science is an international open access journal which publishes original, high quality, peer-reviewed articles on all aspects of veterinary medicine and science relating to companion, production and zoo animals.
Veterinary Sciences (ISSN 2306-7381) is an international, scientific, open access journal on veterinary sciences published quarterly online by MDPI.
BMC Veterinary Research is an open access, peer-reviewed journal that considers articles on all aspects of veterinary science and medicine, including the epidemiology, diagnosis, prevention and treatment of medical conditions of domestic, companion, farm and wild animals, as well as the biomedical processes that underlie their health.
Multiple open books in the topic of veterinary medicine and science
Includes books in the veterinary sciences, such as Anatomy and Physiology of Animals
One of the largest collections of online veterinary education resources
The Normal Canine (Video Series)
A series of four videos intended for first-year veterinary medicine students; developed at Virginia Tech
Online Veterinary Anatomy Museum
A diagnostic support system for veterinary medicine, developed by the Cornell University College of Veterinary Medicine
Developed by the University of Nottingham, this website provides reviews of the current evidence available for common and specific clinical veterinary questions
A series of interactive learning modules for veterinary technicians
A playlist of videos for veterinarians and veterinary technicians about proper cat handling techniques, from International Cat Care
A high quality series of animal handling videos from the University of Edinburgh; focused primarily on canines
A non-profit organization dedicated to curating and developing veterinary curricular content; includes videos, learning modules, and tips for using content
Nearly 600 entries on the history and achievements of American black women.
Feminae: Medieval Women and Gender Index
Provides citations to women's studies articles, books, and essays (focus is on the Middle Ages - subject matter covers material from 400-1500). Note: Free access to this database is provided by Haverford College.
Gender Studies Database (formerly Women's Studies International)*
Gender Studies Database provides indexing and abstracts covering the full spectrum of gender-related scholarship. It offers over a million records from scholarly and popular publications, including journals, books, conference papers and theses. Subjects include gender inequality, masculinity, post-feminism and gender identity. Includes all of the content from the former Women's Studies International database plus more.
Oxford Encyclopedia of Women in World History
Includes over 650 biographies of influential women and over 600 articles covering women's studies topics in geography and history, culture and society, organizations, movements, and gender studies.
This collection includes documents related to women's roles in the U.S. economy between the Civil War and the Great Depression. Working conditions, conditions in the home, costs of living, recreation, health and hygiene, conduct of life, policies and regulations governing the workplace, and social issues are all well documented by original source material. The collection contains books, photographic images, and material from several manuscript collections.
Multiple open books covering topics including gender studies and social issues
A collection of open access book titles from Cornell University Press
Open Textbook Library books in Gender and Sexuality Studies
MIT OpenCourseWare for Women’s Studies and Gender Studies
A source for the history of sex and gender in the United States
Includes complete online courses and resources for Intro to Women’s Studies, Intercultural Women’s Studies, Queer Studies, and Social Change and Activism
A stock photo library featuring images of trans and non-binary models
Includes videos, reading lists, projects, and syllabi for learning more about feminism, cyberfeminism, and feminist theories of technology
Dedicated to collecting and preserving history pertaining to the lesbian community