Web Sites

Associations/Professional Resources & Communication

• H-Women: International electronic discussion group on women's history. Includes online book reviews, syllabi, bibliographies, and archived discussions.

• National Women's Studies Association: Job listings and scholarship information in Women's Studies. Information about NWSA & its annual conference. Resources for Women's Studies programs.

• WMST-L: International e-mail forum for discussion of Women's Studies teaching, research, and program administration.

Higher Education/Teaching Resources

• CSUF Women's Studies Department.

• Core Books List in Women's Studies created by the Associate of College & Research Libraries - Women's Studies Section. Grouped by subject (geography, health, etc.) each list contains titles of core women's studies books in print. Used by librarians, can also be used by teaching faculty to select current available course materials.

• Syllabi on the Web for Women- and Gender-Related Courses on the University of Maryland, Baltimore County website.

• Women's Studies Programs, Departments and Research Centers: Links to more than 600 Women's Studies and Gender Studies academic programs worldwide. This site also includes links to similar compilations. Entries are listed alphabetically by University/College.

Subject Guides and Other Helpful Sites

• African American Women Writers of the 19th Century, New York Public Library: "a digital collection of some 52 published works by 19^th-century black women writers."

• American Women (American Memory): A Library of Congress gateway for the Study of Women's History and Culture in the United States.

• American Women's History: A Research Guide: Maintained by a librarian at Middle Tennessee State University.

• Black American Feminism: A Multidisciplinary Bibliography: Compiled by Sherri L. Barnes, Associate Librarian, UC Santa Barbara

• Center for American Women and Politics: Includes reports and fact sheets; located on the Rutgers University Eagleton Institute of Politics site.

• Documents from the Women's Liberation Movement: On-line archival collection, Special Collections Library, Duke University.

• The Feminist Theory Website: Award-winning compilation of scholarly bibliographies organized by field within feminism (e.g. culture, economics, history, philosophy); international feminism organized by geographical region, and individual feminists, with biography and bibliography for each.

• Gender and Sexuality Studies Resource Guide: From the University of California, Santa Barbara Voice of the Shuttle site.

• Global Fund for Women: Grantmaking foundation that supports women's human rights organizations on an international level.

• Information Resources for Women's Studies: From the University of California, Santa Barbara Library, this guide includes web links for a multitude of categories.

• Internet Women's History Sourcebook:  Includes ancient, medieval, and modern history; located on the Fordham University website.

• Jewish Women's Archive: Includes the online exhibit Jewish Women and the Feminist Revolution

• League of Women Voters: Includes historical documents from as early as 1918.

• The Lesbian Herstory Archives: "the largest and oldest Lesbian archive in the world"

• Monastic Matrix: "A scholary resource for the study of women's religious communities from 400 to 1600 CE."

• National Council for Research on Women.

• National Women's Health Information Center:  U.S. Department of Health and Human Services site.

• Out in the Redwoods: Regional History Project: "Four Decades of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgendered History at UC Santa Cruz"

• People with a History: An Online Guide to Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Trans* History: "Presents the history of lesbians, gay men, bisexuals and transgendered people [LGBT]. It includes hundreds of original texts, discussions, and [soon] images, and addresses LGBT history in all periods, and in all regions of the world."

• Suffragists Oral History Project, Regional Oral History Office (UC Berkeley): Provides full-length oral histories of "seven major figures in twentieth-century suffragist history."

• Women: A Guide to Resources in CSUF's Pollak Library.

• Women Watch: "...central gateway to information and resources on the promotion of gender equality and the empowerment of women throughout the United Nations system..."

• Women Working, 1800-1930, Harvard University Library Open Collections Program:  "Provides access to digitized historical, manuscript, and image resources selected from Harvard's library and museum collections. This collection explores women's roles in the US economy between the Civil War and the Great Depression."

• Women Writers Electronic Text Center, University of Virginia Library:  Includes a large collection of texts by famous and lesser-known women.

• Women's Studies Librarian's Office, University of Wisconsin System: Provides links to women's organizations and other helpful resources.

• Women's Studies Section (WSS) Links: Women and Gender Studies Web Sites: Women's Studies Section, Association of College & Research Libraries of the American Library Association.

• Women's Studies/Women's Issues Resource Sites: More than 600 annotated links to websites with Women's Studies content: including Cyberculture and Internet; Religion/Spirituality; Science and Technology; Women of Color.

Citing Your Sources

Citing sources properly is an important part of your research.  The following list of tips may help you with your citations:

• Confirm with your professor the style manual you are to use.

• Make sure you have all the information you will need from each source to create a proper citation, including data such as publication information from the front of books, journal volume/issue numbers, and page numbers for articles and book chapters. You can use RefWorks, an online citation manager to store your citations and create reference or work cited pages.

• Plagiarism is a serious issue, which includes presenting the work or ideas of another individual as your own.  Keeping careful notes while researching your topic will help you to properly give credit for an idea or passage you came across.

• Read the "Student Guide to Avoiding Plagiarism: How to Write an Effective Research Paper," prepared by Sandra Rhoten, Associate Dean, Judicial Affairs,CSUF.

• Attend a Citation Workshop at the library to receive basic instruction on proper citing.

• Use the Pollak Library's How do I Cite Sources? page, which provides information for APA, MLA, and Chicago styles.

• The complete style guides (MLA, Turabian, APA, Chicago Manual of Style) are available behind the Reference Desk, 1st Floor, Library North.