LibGuides: Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies Topics LibGuide: Journals, Publishing, Authoring, Open Access

Open Source Resources

Scholar's Archive - UAlbany Repository
"Scholars Archive, the University at Albany’s institutional repository, collects, preserves, and provides online access to scholarly research and resources created by University at Albany faculty, staff and students. The goals of this open access repository are to increase discoverability and ensure long-term, reliable access to the University’s scholarly output." OPEN ACCESS
Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ)
Feminist Periodicals (Open Access)
"An open access repository of digitized contents pages of over 125 academic journals and culture magazines in the fields of Feminism, Gender and Women's Studies, Sexuality Studies, and LGBTQIA+ studies."
HathiTrust
"HathiTrust was founded in 2008 as a not-for-profit collaborative of academic and research libraries now preserving 18+ million digitized items in the HathiTrust Digital Library. We offer reading access to the fullest extent allowable by U.S. and international copyright law, text and data mining tools for the entire corpus, and other emerging services based on the combined collection."
Open Access Feminist Journals
(Author Judy Markowitz, University of Maryland Libraries)
Alternatives to Elsevier Articles - Libguide
UAlbany Libguide
Google Books (open to users - not always full book)
Feminist Bookstore Movement - Duke University
Feminist Bookstores (one sample list)

Feminist Studies Journals

Feminist Periodicals and Collections (OPEN ACCESS REPOSITORY)
Feminist Periodicals is an open access repository of digitized contents information for over 125 academic journals and popular magazines in the fields of gender and women's studies, sexuality studies, and LGBTQIA+ studies. Since many international and grassroots titles are not indexed in standard sources, Feminist Periodicals is the best key to their contents.University of Wisconsin - Office of the Women's Studies Librarian
Women's Studies Journals - U Albany
Selective list of WSS journals in print at the University at Albany.
Women’s, Feminist, and LGBTQ+ Publishers
Part of the UW-Office of Women's, Gender and LGBTQIA Studies Librarian
Signs
The leading international journal in women's studies -- This site offers the table of contents for past issues of Signs, published by the U. of Chicago Press and owned by our library. The focus of essays ranges from cross-disciplinary theory and methodology often focusing on concerns of women's studies.
Office of the Women's Studies Librarian - UW Madison
Place where Feminist Periodicals and many collections are hosted for feminist and WGSS studies.
Viva Women's History
Detailed list of journals indexed in Viva
Women in Judaism
Includes refereed online journals centered on gender issues in Judaism.

Below are only a few examples of on-line full-text journals or lists of journals associated with Women's Studies Research. To search a more extensive list of all U Albany electronic journals and databases Click here for, DATABASES BY SUBJECT, then select Women's Studies.


Feminist Periodicals - University of Wisconsin-Madison, Women's Studies Office
Feminist Collections: A Quarterly of Women's Studies Resources: A list of the table of contents of past issues, along with some full text articles.
International Family Planning Perspectives and Digest: Available through JSTOR.
Feminist Africa provides a forum for progressive, cutting-edge gender research and feminist dialogue focused on the continent. By prioritising intellectual rigor, the journal seeks to challenge the technocratic fragmentation resulting from donor-driven and narrowly developmentalist work on gender in Africa." Cape Town, South Africa: African Gender Institute, 2002. For Feminist Africa: Diaspora Voices see (Issue 7 2007).
Jouvert - Journal of Postcolonial Studies: Includes some full-text articles and reviews on gender and postcolonial identities.

Authoring, Publishing

Call for Conference Proposals - National Women's Studies Association
Authoring for conferences is an important method for authoring manuscripts. On this site, find the "call for proposals" to prospective authors to deliver papers at conferences. Often these papers become published works.
Women's Studies International Forum - Example of Author Guidelines
This site provides an example of authoring guidelines. Each journal invites manuscripts for publication and also lists guidelines which clarify submission expectations. To find out more about publishing one needs to consult the journal's guidelines to see if there is a match before submitting. Reading these guidelines can also assist earlier in the process to identify where to send a manuscript.
Gender Studies Publishers Directory

Online Journal Collections

Here are examples of online full-text journal collections.These collections include a wide variety of journals which could be needed for women's studies research. Both of these are retrospective and do not have the most current issue of the journals.

Project MUSE
Scholarly journals in literature humanities, social sciences, mathematics, cultural and gender studies from Johns Hopkins University Press. The journal list is available for browsing.
JSTOR
Digital library of full-text scholarly journals, books, and primary sources. Discover content across a wide range of subjects, including African American studies, anthropology, art, criminal justice, economics, history, literature, political science, psychology, sociology, and women's, gender, and sexuality studies. JSTOR is good for finding and accessing specific articles and books.
JSTOR offers full-text keyword searching across its entire digital library collection, including images and content from articles, books, and pamphlets. Search results default to content licensed or purchased by the UAlbany Libraries, but you can change this setting for your session. JSTOR provides both Basic and some Advanced Search options, to help you find the content they need.
Guide: How To Use JSTOR

Press and Newsletters

GenderWatch
Find full-text articles from academic and scholarly journals, magazines, newspapers, newsletters, regional publications, pamphlets, conference proceedings, and government, non-governmental (n-g-o) special reports that focus on the impact of gender across a broad spectrum of subject areas.

Voices From the Radical Feminist Press (1960-1985), an Oral History
This project "attempts to restore to the record those feminist presses founded between the year 1960 to 1985 and highlights the literary, social, political dimensions of the presses founded in the 1970's. The audio interviews with transcripts will be archived at the Schlesinger Library."
Dissident Voice
A radical newsletter in the struggle for peace and justice.