Women's networks

Here you will find access to the most important libraries, places of documentation, and databases in the field of research on women and gender studies in Europe.

Libraries dealing specifically with women’s matters, places of documentation, and research institutes in Europe (see German version)

Please see German version!

Databases with emphasis on research on women and gender studies

African Women's Bibliographic Database

English language database (beginning 1974) indexes over 40,000 articles from over 325 English language and multi-lingual journals and periodicals that specialize in African Studies or consistently cover the African continent.

Archiv der Deutschen Frauenbewegung

Material on the history of the women’s movement in Germany in the period 1800 to 1967. This database contains the holdings of books and periodicals of the library of the archives of the German women’s movement. Contributions from compendia that are relevant to the topics in this database are sometimes presented as individual works or listed as works included in the compendium with title/author.

IIAV

An online catalogue of the large holdings of the "International Information Centre and Archives for the Women's Movement" in Amsterdam.

Bibliotheque Marguerite Durand

Catalogu accessible via "Catalogue des bibliothèques municipales spécialisées" in Paris.

Datenbank Frauen- und Geschlechterforscherinnen

This scholarly database on research on women and gender studies serves to inform about women experts in that field and their areas of work.

European Database: Women in Decision Making

Women in decisive political positions in the states of the European Union.

FemBio

The database “Women of International Importance” of the Institute for Feminist Biographic Research under Luise F. Pusch.

Feministisch theologischer Online Schlagwortkatalog

Literature on feminist theory, philosophy, sociology and medical ethics of the Protestant and Catholic Faculties at the Ruhr University in Bochum.

FrauenMediaTurm

This online database is a literary database on topics relevant to women and feminism. It includes at the moment more than 42,000 references. Monthly update (2,000 titles a year).

GenderInn

Secondary literature on feminist literary research and gender studies with a clear emphasis on British and American literature of all periods.

Gifts of Speech

Full text of speeches by prominent contemporary women (from Bella Abzug to Rigoberta Menchu to Janet Yellen), mostly from Anglo-American areas.

glbtq/online queer encyclopedia

An online-encyclopedia of gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender & queer culture.

IHLIA

This online catalogue offers periodicals, books, "grey literature", pictorial and sound documents on the homosexual and lesbian movements.

Inventar Frauenbewegung in Deutschland 1968-1995

The inventory "Neue Frauenbewegung" (New Women’s Movement) presents the first comprehensive database with archival material from the Federal Republic of (West) Germany and the GDR, including West and East Berlin. Published by FFBIZ Berlin.

KVINFO

Online catalogue of the library of the Danish Information Centre for Research on Women and Gender Studies. Included are contents of books (titles of essays, chapter headings, etc).

KVINNSAM

Interdisciplinary database with references - in English, Swedish and many other languages - from the Göteborg University Library collections, mainly in the humanities and social sciences. The references consist of books, journals, articles, chapters, pamphlets, research reports etc. The database now includes about 100,000 references from 1970 onwards. English is the predominant language. Since the year 2003 KVINNSAM is a part of LIBRIS, the Swedish National Database. 

Literaturdokumentation - Frauen im Arbeitsfeld Wissenschaft und Forschung

Documents on the work and life situations of women active in science and research (publications, university theses, and research reports, as well as articles from newspapers, periodicals, and compendia) from Austria and Germany. Gathered by the inter-university coordination unit for women’s and gender studies, Graz.

Mapping the World

Details on institutions informing on women’s matters all over the world – from Argentina to Zambia. Of course Ariadne is there too. .

Medieval Feminist Index

Articles from periodicals and books, reviews and essays on the topics woman, sexuality, and gender in the Middle Ages.

Minna Database

Database to search for the contact and background information of those experts who apply a gender perspective in their field of work or study in Finland. This includes experts working in the fields of women's or gender studies, gender equality, sexual and gender minorities etc. at universities, NGO's and public administration.

Stichwort

Online catalogue of the archives of the Women’s and Lesbians’ Movement (Vienna): monographs, compendia, grey literature, periodicals.

Viva

A bibliography on historical women’s and gender studies of the International Institute for Social History in Amsterdam.

Vrouwenindruk

An Amsterdam second-hand bookshop with good holdings of German-language literature as well.

Women in Politics

This database was developed with help from the "United Nations Development Programme" (UNDP). Books and articles can be searched by region and by topic.

Women's Human Rights Resources (WHRR)

Books, articles, links (partly in full text), can be searched by specific topics. Put together by the Bora Laskin Law Library of the University of Toronto.

Women's Studies Core Books

Book titles currently in print are selected by academic librarians who volunteer to maintain a subject area. The project assists Women's Studies librarians and collection development librarians in building Women's Studies collections and can also serve as a guide to instructional faculty in selecting available course readings.