eCollections - including articles, newspapers, research papers and primary sources - Gender Studies - LibGuides at University of the Highlands and Islands

eCollections : General : Articles, Newspapers, Research Papers, Primary Sources

The University has access to collections that cover a broad range of topics. The collections below are a mix of Open Access collections and subscriptions designed to encourage users to research Gender Studies more broadly. The list is not designed to be exhaustive.

CORE Database
Developed by the Open University and JISC Collections - (and as of February 2021) : provides access to 24,936,921 free to read full text research papers with 25,984,072 full texts hosted directly by CORE
Defining Gender, 1450-1910
Full text original British source documents including ephemerae, pamphlets, commonplace books, diaries, periodicals, letters, ledgers, manuscript journals, poetry, receipt books and conduct and advice literature. Topics covered include conduct and politeness, consumption and leisure, domesticity and the family, education and sensibility, the body. Subject areas include: Education, history, literature and sociology from a gendered perspective. Date coverage: 1450 - 1910
Gale : Literature
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Cross searches Gale's : Contemporary Authors, Dictionary of Literary Biography Complete, Literature Criticism,
Literature Resource Centre, LitFinder, Scribner Writer Series, Something About the Author Online, Twayne's Authors Series
Gale : OneFile News
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Provides access to more than 2,300 major world newspapers, and includes thousands of images, radio and TV broadcasts and transcripts.
Historical Texts
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JISC Historical Texts: One platform, over 460,000 late 15th to 19th century texts Brings together : Early English Books Online (EEBO), Eighteenth Century Collections Online (ECCO) and 65,000 texts from the British Library 19th Century collection. (The UK Medical Heritage Library and British Library 19th Century collections are freely available. )
Oxford English Dictionary
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The accepted authority on the evolution of the English language and pronunciation of over half a million words, both present and past. New words added quarterly.
Proquest Dissertation and Theses Open
ProQuest's free open access collection of dissertation and theses. This open access collection consists of around 50,000 titles, primarily from universities in the US.
PubMed Central
Full-text archive of biomedical and life sciences journal literature made available by the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH). Contains over 5.9 million archived articles. Subject areas : Biomedical Sciences; Life Sciences. Date coverage : The majority of articles date from 2008. A digitizing intiative provides an extensive collection of back-copies from pre-2008 with some dating back to the 1950s.
Scopus
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The largest abstract and citation database of peer-reviewed literature. Delivering a comprehensive overview of the world's research output in the fields of science, technology, medicine, social sciences, and arts and humanities.
Web of Science
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Collection of authoritative Science, Engineering and Technology and Arts and Humanities citation indexes, covering over 250 disciplines. Includes a selection of interactive data analysis tools . Also includes Medline.
Useful for literature reviews.