Guides: Gender, Sexuality, and Feminist Studies: Encyclopedias & More

What are Reference Sources?

Oxford English Dictionary
Definitions of 600,000 words, plus the history of how those words have been used in the past.

Gale Virtual Reference Library
A collection of subject-specific encyclopedias.
Cambridge Histories Online
Cambridge Histories collection including The Cambridge History of American Women's Literature and more.

Gale In Context: Biography
600,000+ biographies covering more than 525,000 individuals. Includes 170+ Gale reference titles, periodical information and multimedia content.
Literature Resource Center
Basic information about an author or a playwright as well as literary criticism from journals. When you do a search on the author's name, the first tab of results will be a link to a biographical profile of his/her life and works, while the second tab will give links to literary criticism and other articles. Other tabs will lead to additional resources.

Social Explorer
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Easy access to demographic information about the United States, from 1790 to present. Premium edition features over 15,000 interactive data maps and reports from the U.S. census and other sources.
ProQuest Statistical Insight
Formerly Lexis Nexis Statistical Universe, it searches statistical publications and tables by keywords, subjects, and categories. Find a Table searches full text. Find a Publication searches summaries of statistical publications, some with links to full-text. If full text isn't available, check LibrarySearch or google the publication name. See the Quick Start Guide for getting started. Also see Statistical Abstract (under related subscriptions dropdown menu).

Statistics by Topic A-Z Guide
For statistics on a wide range of topics in all fields arranged A-Z (crime, demographics, children, labor, etc.) this Middlebury Libraries Statistics Guide has links to both national and international resources.