Library Guides: LGBTQ+ Studies Research Guide: Find Articles

Keywords

Not sure which words to use for your searches? Wonder no more - there's a whole book on this!

Keywords for Gender and Sexuality Studies by Kyla Wazana Tompkins, et al., eds.
Call Number: Available as an ebook
ISBN: 9781479808168
Publication Date: 2021
"This book deepens analyzes of the relationships among race, gender, sexuality, nation, ability, and political economy by foregrounding justice-oriented intersectional movements and scholarship including: Black, Indigenous, and women of color feminisms; transnational feminisms; queer of color critique; trans, disability, and fat studies; feminist science studies; and critiques of the state, law, and prisons that emerge from within queer and women of color justice movements"-- Provided by publisher.

Core LGBTQ+ Databases

Use these indexes to find articles and information from peer-reviewed journals, popular magazines, news sites, and more!

Alt-Press Watch This link opens in a new window
While not focused solely on LGBTQ+ content, this database is an excellent choice for accessing "... full-text newspapers and magazines from alternative, independent presses, providing an unmatched, multidisciplinary resource for researchers seeking an alternative to mainstream media perspectives." More than 200 publications are included!
Contemporary Women's Issues This link opens in a new window
CWI is a multidisciplinary, full-text database that brings together relevant content from mainstream periodicals, gray literature, and the alternative press -- with a focus on the critical issues and events that influence women's lives in more than 190 countries. It includes English-language titles from around the world.
Gender Studies Database This link opens in a new window
"Gender Studies Database covers the full spectrum of gender-engaged scholarship inside and outside academia. It offers over a million records from scholarly and popular publications, including journals, books, conference papers and theses. Subjects include gender inequality, masculinity, post-feminism and gender identity." More than 500 journals & magazines are covered - see the list!
LGBTQ+ Source This link opens in a new window
"Formerly known as LGBT Life with Full Text, LGBTQ+ Source is the definitive database for LGBT studies. It provides scholarly and popular LGBT publications in full text, plus historically important primary sources, including books, magazines and newspapers. It also includes a specialized LGBT thesaurus containing thousands of terms." Includes more than 600 journals, magazines, newspapers, & books.
LGBT Thought and Culture This link opens in a new window
This invaluable database is "...an online resource hosting books, periodicals, and archival materials documenting LGBT political, social and cultural movements throughout the twentieth century and into the present day. The collection illuminates the lives of lesbians, gays, transgender, and bisexual individuals and the community with content including selections from The National Archives in Kew, materials collected by activist and publisher Tracy Baim from the mid-1980s through the mid-2000s, the Magnus Hirschfeld and Harry Benjamin collections from the Kinsey Institute, periodicals such as En la Vida and BLACKlines, select rare works from notable LGBT publishers including Alyson Books and Cleis Press, as well as mainstream trade and university publishers."

Other Databases

Because LGBTQ+ studies are so interdisciplinary, you can probably choose ANY scholarly database and add lgbt* or similar words / phrases to your search terms. Below are are few major indexes in the social sciences and humanities - try it out! You can find more in our databases list.

America: History and Life This link opens in a new window
Covers the history and culture of the United States and Canada, from prehistory to the present. With indexing for 1,700 journals from publications going back to 1910.
ERIC (Education Resource Information Center) - EBSCOhost Access This link opens in a new window
ERIC contains records and links to education literature and curriculum materials. It includes journal articles, books, conference papers, curriculum guides, dissertations and policy papers in topics ranging from pre-k through adult education, teacher education, counseling, second-language learning, special education, and assessment.
Historical Abstracts This link opens in a new window
Historical Abstracts covers the history of the world (excluding the United States and Canada) from 1450 to the present, including world history, military history, women's history, history of education, and more.
JSTOR This link opens in a new window
Content in JSTOR spans many disciplines, primarily in the humanities and social sciences.
PsycInfo This link opens in a new window
This resources provides indexing and full-text access to international literature in psychology and related disciplines.
Sociological Abstracts This link opens in a new window
Providing full-text access to literature in sociology and related disciplines in the social and behavioral sciences.