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Women in Media

• The IUP Libraries' book collection includes works that offer comprehensive treatments of both Media and Women's topics. Use
  PILOT (http://pilot.passhe.edu:8001/) our online catalog to find books in our collection as well as links to the full-text of electronic
  reserve items and other valuable information on the Internet.
  • Suggested subject headings:
    • Mass Media and Women
    • Women in Mass Media
    • Women in Mass Media Industry
    • Women in the Motion Picture Industry
    • Television and Women
    • Women in Television Broadcasting
    • Women Journalists
    • African American Women Journalists
    • Women Television Journalists
    • Women in Radio Broadcasting
• To search the catalogs of other Pennsylvania Academic Libraries, and to borrow from them directly, search PALCI 
  and  log in using your 16-digit I-card number.)
• WorldCat --search the OCLC Database of paper and electronic titles. Books located through this database can
  generally be acquired through Interlibrary Loan.

• Netlibrary-- Electronic versions of copyrighted books available to IUP patrons.
• Nineteenth Century in Print
• University of Pennsylvania On-Line Books Page
• Making of America

Biographical and Literary Sources

• Biography Resource Center--  database of biographical information on nearly 220,000
  people from throughout history, around the world, and across all disciplines and subject areas.
  Note: search by occupation.
• Literature Resource Center -- A complete literature reference database rich
  in biographical, bibliographical, and critical content offers information on literary figures from all
  time periods writing in such genres as fiction, nonfiction,  poetry, drama, history, journalism,
  and more.
• American National Biography
  --The landmark American National Biography offers portraits of more than 17,400 men and women -- from all eras and walks of life -- whose lives have shaped the nation. Published in 24 volumes in 1999, the American National Biography won instant acclaim as the new authority in American biographies. The publication of the online edition makes the ANB even more useful as a dynamic source of information -- updated quarterly, with hundreds of new entries each year and revisions of previously published entries to enhance their accuracy and currency. The American National Biography is published by Oxford University Press under the auspices of the American Council of Learned Societies.
• Dictionary of National Biography
  --the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography allows you to explore the lives of 50,000 people who have shaped the British past over the last 2,400 years - from the Greek explorer Pytheas to Princess Diana, and from the founding fathers of America to the Nawabs of Bengal. 50,000 biographies, 60 million words, 10,000 portrait illustrations - available online

Scholarly and popular magazines and newspapers offer concise and timely treatment of  Women in Media topics. Try using
some of the same terms used in the subject headings listed under the monographic sources.  Remember that
IUP patrons can access large collections of such information through the journal aggregators.
(To gain access from home,  use your 16 digit I-card number or set up VPN on your Off Campus computer.)

• EBSCOhost--provides access to the full-text of over one thousand periodicals and bibliographic
  access  to thousands more. Try using Academic Search Premier, Communication and Mass media, PsychInfo, and
  SocIndex for articles about women in the industry as well as how the industry portrays women.
• Infotrac General Onefile or Academic Onefile provides access to the full-text of over one thousand periodicals and bibliographic
   access to thousands more.
• WilsonWeb--provides access to full text or citations to OmniMegafile and Readers Guide and Humanities
   and Social Sciences Retrospectives.

• Project MUSE -- provides more than 200 full-text online scholarly journals from academic presses
   covering the fields of literature and criticism, history, the visual and performing arts, cultural studies,
  education, political science, gender studies, and many others.
• JSTOR-- Online archives of over 500 journals in African-American Studies, Anthropology, Asian Studies,
  Ecology, Economics, Education, Finance, History, Literature, Mathematics, Philosophy, Political Science,
  Population Studies, Sociology, and Statistics. JSTOR is designed specifically for archiving journals,
  so it does not include the most recent 2-5 years of each title.

Searching for Specific Journal Titles

• Use PILOT (http://pilot.passhe.edu:8001/)  to check if a journal title is available in paper, microform or electronic format.
   Paper and microform records in Pilot will have a location of "Serials Dept." and also will have a "Library has:" statement
   listing the dates and formats of the items owned.
  Electronic Journals will have a location of "Electronic Journal."  The databases where you can find these titles will be listed
  under "Linked Resources" with corresponding dates of coverage.  These links are best used on-campus or through the
  Campus VPN.

Historical Newspapers and Periodicals

• Historical New York Times -- full-text and full-image articles for
  from 1851-2000 for The New York Times.
• Historical Wall Street Journal--offers full-text and full-image articles for newspapers dating back to the 19th century.
  Overall dates of coverage are 1889-1987
• Pennsylvania Gazette -- 1728-1800 -- considered The New York Times of the 18th century. On Campus Only
• Times Digital Archive -- 1785-1985 -- the complete digital edition of The Times (London).
• American Periodicals Index Online -- 1740-1900 digitized images of the pages of American magazines and journals
  published from colonial days to the dawn of the 20th century. On Campus Only
• Newspapers for Historical Research at Stapleton Libraries

• America: History & Life -- coverage of historical literature of the United States and Canada
  from prehistory to the present. 
• Historical Abstracts--historical coverage of the world from 1450 to the present (excluding the
  United States and Canada)
• Nineteenth Century Masterfile --including core periodical indices spanning nearly all the periodicals of the late
   eighteenth century through the early twentieth century
• Other online databases--many other databases are available from the Library's webpage
  under Databases. 

MIcrofilm Collections

• Gerritsen Collection of Women’s History, 1543-1945.  Fiche  Possibly the greatest single source for the study of
  international women’s history and the feminist movement.  Topical categories include:  marriage, home, family,
   prostitution, war, education and professional training, employment, feminism, physiology, psychology, biography,
   the arts, political and social reform, and religion.  Index is divided into three volumes:  Language, Subjects and Serials.
  Index located in Reference: R016.3054 G321e.
• Herstory.   Books, periodicals, and newspapers of the women’s movement. Film
   

Virtual Reference Desks/Guides

• Internet Public Library--Women's Studies
• Digital Librarian--Womens Resources
• Women's Studies Guide

NEW    Women's Studies Databases    NEW