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Gender Studies Database, produced by NISC, combines NISC’s popular Women’s Studies International and Men's Studies databases
with the coverage of sexual diversity issues. GSD covers the full spectrum of gender-engaged scholarship inside and outside academia. This database includes more than 696,750 records with coverage spanning from 1972 and earlier to present.
A resource for literature regarding gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender issues. Contains indexing and abstracts for more than 80 GLBT-specific core periodicals,
data mined from over 70 priority periodicals, data mined from over 5,000 select titles, full text articles from 50 of the most important and historically significant GLBT journals, magazines and regional newspapers, and dozens of full text monographs.
Includes 127,000 records from nine databases, including Women Studies Abstracts, provide interdisciplinary coverage of the field of women studies.
Also includes Women's Studies Database, with 60,000 citations from academic, grass- roots, and popular publications; four files comprising Women's Studies Librarian; Women of Color & Southern Women; and Women's Health & Development from the World Health Organization.
