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LGBT Life with Full Text (EbscoHost) covers literature regarding lesbian, gay, bisexual, transsexual, and transgender issues.

Scholars Portal Journals (Scholars Portal) is a multi-disciplinary database with millions of articles drawn from journals covering every academic discipline. Previously known as E-Journals @ Nipissing University (Scholars Portal).

Academic Search Premier (EbscoHost) consists of a wide range of articles related to the social sciences, general sciences, humanities and education. It contains journals, magazines, newspapers, and more.

Sociological Abstracts (ProQuest) is a scholarly database that covers sociology and related disciplines.

JSTOR   is an archival database of full-text journals covering a wide variety of fields within the Arts, Science, and Business. Typically it does not include volumes published in the last 3 to 5 years.

Project MUSE is a full-text database providing access to peer-reviewed journals in cultural studies, history, politics, music, theatre, film, and literary criticism.

Arts & Humanities Citation Index (Thomson) is a multidisciplinary database for thousands of arts and humanities journals. The citation index tool can be used to track bibliographic references and to identify related sources. Part of the Web of Knowledge.

CPI.Q Canadian Periodicals (Knowledge Ontario) provides access to Canadian and international journals, magazines, selected sections of the Globe and Mail, and biographies, all with a Canadian focus.

Defining Gender, 1450-1910, Online (Adam Matthew Digital) provides full-text access to primary and secondary source materials mainly from British and European archives covering five major themes:
  1. Conduct and politeness;
  2. Domesticity and the family;
  3. Consumption and leisure;
  4. Education and sensibility;
  5. The body.

Women and Social Movements in the United States, 1600-2000 (Alexander Street Press) contains primary and secondary sources including books, images, documents, scholarly essays, commentaries, and bibliographies, documenting the multiplicity of women's activism in public life from colonial times to the present.

North American Women\\\'s Letters and Diaries (Alexander Street Press) is a primary source database of diaries and letters of over 1,300 women from Colonial times to the 1950s.