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JSTOR is a digital library of academic journals and books in all subject areas, still images, moving images, audio, and primary sources. It now includes the contents of ArtStor.
Project MUSE is a leading provider of digital humanities and social science content for the scholarly community.
This database includes nearly 800 essential sources in women's and gender studies including journals, newspapers, newsletters, bulletins, books, book chapters, proceedings, reports, theses, dissertations, NGO studies, websites and web documents and grey literature.
This multi-disciplinary database provides full text for more than 4,600 journals, including full text (PDFs) for nearly 3,900 peer-reviewed titles. Backfiles to 1975 or further are available for well over one hundred journals, and searchable cited references are provided for more than 1,000 titles.
Selective indexing includes over a thousand journals dating back to 1964. Focus is on the history and life of the United States and Canada.
Includes over 70,000 video titles spanning the widest range of subject areas including anthropology, business, counseling, film, health, history, music, and more; curated for the educational experience.
Biography in Context delivers outstanding research support with 600,000+ biographical entries — on more than 528,000 individuals — spanning history and geography.
A general knowledge encyclopedia on all topics. The rich combination of the venerable Encyclopaedia Britannica plus Merriam-Webster’s Collegiate Dictionary, magazines and periodicals, and many other research tools provides the variety of reliable sources that students need to consult when conducting thorough collegiate research.
Docuseek streams essential independent, social-issue, and environmental films to colleges and universities, providing exclusive access to content from renowned leaders in documentary film distribution. All 2000+ films are immediately available, and come with performance rights for campus viewings.
The EBL and eBrary ebook collections have merged to become Ebook Central
Works published in the UK during the 18th century. Includes books, pamphlets, essays, broadsides and more on all subjects.
WorldCat is a shared catalog of books and other materials in libraries worldwide
A collection of locally owned and created digital scholarship, cultural, and historical materials contributed by Hampshire, Mount Holyoke, and Smith colleges. Mount Holyoke’s initial featured collections include the Archives and Special Collections digital collections, the full run of the Mount Holyoke News (back to volume 1, 1891), and the Art Department Teaching Collection.
From arts and the humanities to social sciences, science and technology, this database meets research needs across all academic disciplines.
eReference titles cover a wide variety of full-text interdisciplinary content in many subject areas.
Books, pamphlets and periodicals reflecting the women's rights movement. Coverage ranges from 1543-1945. Publications are from Europe, the U.S., the United Kingdom, Canada, and New Zealand. The anti-feminist case is presented as well as the pro-feminist.
Google books allows for searching anywhere from basic bibliographic information to the partial text, to the full text of a book. Sometimes a Google Books search allows for a more detailed search of the contents of a book, even if you then locate an actual physical copy via the library catalog.
Google's database of scholarly works. Much of the content is articles and books, but you will also see theses, dissertations, patents and other items here.
If you are on campus you can often access full text articles available through the library directly from Google Scholar. If you are off campus, go into the settings and set the library link to Mount Holyoke College.
HathiTrust Digital Library is a searchable collection of over 10 million digitized books and publications from more than 60 academic and research libraries from across North America and other countries. Over 3 million of the items included are public domain and fully viewable. For full access, click Log In, choose Mount Holyoke College from the list of institutions, and click Continue.
19th century primary source collections. Collections included materials on Asia and the West; British Politics and Society; British Theatre, Music and Literature; Children's Literature and Childhood; Europe and Africa, Colonialism and Culture; European Literature; Mapping the World: Maps and Travel Literature; Photography; Religion, Reform, and Society; Science, Technology, and Medicine: 1780-1925; Women: Transnational Networks.
The collection includes some 150,000 pages of published letters and diaries from U.S. and Canadian individuals writing from Colonial times to 1950. Also includes journal articles, pamphlets, newsletters, monographs, and conference proceedings. Represented are all age groups and life stages, all ethnicities, many geographical regions, the famous and the not so famous. It also includes some 300 biographies on contributors.
Dictionaries, language reference, and subject encyclopedias published by Oxford University Press.
Modules include the Margaret Sanger Papers: Smith College Collections and Collected Documents (focus on reproductive rights); Struggle for Women's Rights: Organizational Records, 1880-1990 (records of the National Woman's Party, the League of Women Voters, and the women's Action Alliance); Women's Studies Manuscript Collections from the Schlesinger Library: Voting Rights, National Politics, and Reproductive Rights; and Women at Work during World War II: Rosie the Riveter and the Women's Army Corps (records of the Women’s Bureau of the U.S. Department of Labor, and Correspondence of the Director of the Women’s Army Corps).
Women and Social Movements provides access to primary resources around the history of women in social movements in the U.S. between 1600 and 2000.
Women and Social Movements, International 1840-Present is a landmark collection of primary materials drawn from more than 300 repositories. Assembled and cross-searchable for the first time, these resources illuminate vast areas of modern history. Through the writings of women activists, their personal letters and diaries, and the proceedings of conferences at which pivotal decisions were made, Women and Social Movements, International 1840-Present lets you see how women’s social movements shaped many of the events and attitudes that have defined modern life.
Women Writers Online is a full-text collection of early women’s writing in English, published by the Women Writers Project at Northeastern University. It includes full transcriptions of texts published between 1526 and 1850.
WorldCat is a shared catalog of books and other materials in libraries worldwide.