A collection of reference books and encyclopedias in electronic format. The titles cover a wide range of subjects, from the arts to medicine, and from multicultural studies to social science. You can search one title at a time, up to 10 titles that you select, or by broad grouping such as biography, education, or history.
Access: Off Campus Access is available for: UNC-Chapel Hill students, faculty, and staff; UNC Hospitals employees; UNC-Chapel Hill affiliated AHEC users. North Carolina residents with a borrower's card may access from off campus by visiting NCLive directly. Contact the Davis Library Service Desk for the NCLive password (instructions). Coverage: 1999 -
Includes social sciences e-books, reference books, and videos produced by SAGE and CQ Press.
Access: Off Campus Access is available for: UNC-Chapel Hill students, faculty, and staff; UNC Hospitals employees; UNC-Chapel Hill affiliated AHEC users.
This locally developed guide provides information about identifying primary resources and links to primary resources not thematically limited to women's studies.
The databases below feature primary resources throughout history.
Primary source documents relating to gender from British archives; includes archival documents, essays, biographies and an interactive chronology.
Access: Off Campus Access is available for: UNC-Chapel Hill students, faculty, and staff; UNC Hospitals employees; UNC-Chapel Hill affiliated AHEC users. Coverage: 1450-1910
Complete images of over 230 manuscripts written or compiled by women living in the British Isles from 1500-1700. Contents include account books, advice, meditations, receipts, travel writing, and verse. Perdita manuscripts can be searched by name, genre, and first lines of both poetry and prose.
Access: Off Campus Access is available for: UNC-Chapel Hill students, faculty, and staff; UNC Hospitals employees; UNC-Chapel Hill affiliated AHEC users. Coverage: 1500-1700
Index of over 1,000 volumes of published and unpublished Canadian and American women's diaries and correspondence from Colonial times through 1950.
Access: Off Campus Access is available for: UNC-Chapel Hill students, faculty, and staff; UNC Hospitals employees; UNC-Chapel Hill affiliated AHEC users. North Carolina residents with a borrower's card may access from off campus by visiting NCLive directly. Contact the Davis Library Service Desk for the NCLive password (instructions). Coverage: Colonial to 1950
Digitized papers of Phyllis Lyon, Del Martin and their organization, the Daughters of Bilitis (the first lesbian rights organization in U.S. history - founded in 1955). Provides extensive information on the founding and growth of the homophile movement, especially the Daughters of Bilitis and The Ladder, including meeting minutes, correspondence, chapter records, membership data, and manuscripts.
Access: Off Campus Access is available for: UNC-Chapel Hill students, faculty, and staff; UNC Hospitals employees; UNC-Chapel Hill affiliated AHEC users. Coverage: 1955-1984
Documents the female experience in the U.S. Armed Forces through letters, papers, photographs, published materials, uniforms, artifacts, and oral histories. It contains more than 500 individual collections which includes 350 oral histories.
Acquires, preserves and makes available to a large population of researchers published and unpublished materials that reflect the public and private lives of women, past and present.