WST4115 & WST5116 / Gender Violence and the Law: Global Perspectives

Free online access to NYTimes.com and mobile app.

Free online access to the WSJ.com.

Full-text articles from familiar magazines, such as Fortune, Entertainment Weekly, Time, U.S. News & World Report, Sports Illustrated, etc.; Covers U.S. and international news, business, lifestyle, entertainment, sports, science and technology.

Covering the areas of social science, history and liberal arts, this collection explores cultural differences, contributions and influences in our global community ; This set includes 150 journals.

Includes current journals, magazines, and newspapers from ethnic and independent presses; Content covers 1990-present, with specialized coverage of the following ethnic categories: African American/Caribbean/African, Arab/Middle Eastern, Asian/Pacific Islander, European/Eastern European, Hispanic, Jewish, Native People; It is updated daily with new content and contains over 2 million full text articles.

News sources include print and online-only newspapers, blogs, newswires, broadcast transcripts, and videos.

Student media center at USC with news in text, video, and radio in English and Spanish.

American public televisions flagship public affairs series.

Holistic approach to topics and includes articles, multimedia, video, and audio content.

A research and learning database providing comparative documentation, analysis, and interpretation of major human rights violations and atrocity crimes worldwide from 1900 to 2010; The collection includes primary and secondary materials across multiple media formats and content types for each selected event, including Armenia, the Holocaust, Cambodia, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Rwanda, Darfur, and more than thirty additional subjects.

NOTE: for classroom and individual use only. Offering streaming through their Swank Digital Campus service, Swank Motion Pictures is the nontheatrical distributor for the majority of the major Hollywood studios as well as many independent, foreign, art house, and documentary offerings.

Curated collection of educational videos.

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Access to the CBS News archives; 60 MINUTES is the winner of more than 100 Emmy and 20 Peabody Awards, it holds the record for the longest continuously running primetime program in the history of television; This online collection provides 350 hours of video from 17 years of broadcasts.

Access to more than 550,000 video clips via YouTube covering news events dating back to 1895 providing high-profile, searchable repositories for documentary filmmakers, historians and others; The archival footage includes major world events such as the 1906 San Francisco earthquake, exclusive footage of the bombing of Pearl Harbor in 1941, the fall of the Berlin Wall and the 2001 terrorist attacks on the U.S. Celeb footage includes Marilyn Monroe captured on film in London in the 1950s and Twiggy modeling fashions of the 1960s, as well as segments on Muhammad Ali, Charlie Chaplin, Salvador Dali, Brigitte Bardot and Elvis Presley.

Free online access to the more than 160,000 hours of C-Span footage, covering 23 years of history and five presidential administrations, and growing.

Holds more than 850,000 individual network evening news broadcasts from the major U.S. national broadcast networks: ABC, CBS, NBC, and CNN, and coverage of news-related programming including ABC's Nightline and special report coverage, including coverage of major national and world events and major military conflicts; Users obtain access to streaming video of NBC nightly news broadcasts (August 1968 to present) and CNN broadcasts (1995 to present).

Original language documentaries from producers and independent filmmakers in Latin America; The films were produced in Latin America, by Latin Americans, about Latin American issues, such as cultural identity, political history, human rights, popular culture, agribusiness, education, religion, and much more.

Indexes 2,000+ scholarly journals in history from 1450 to the present; Excludes the United States and Canada.

Search across all or any combination of ABC-CLIO databases: American Government, American History
Daily Life Through History, Issues: Understanding Controversy & Society, Pop Culture Universe: Icons, Idols, Ideas, The African American Experience, The American Indian Experience, The Latino American Experience, World at War: Understanding Conflict & Society, World Geography: Understanding a Changing World, World History: Ancient & Medieval Eras, World History: The Modern Era, World Religions: Belief, Culture, & Contoversy, World Folklore & Folklife

Covers the history and life of the United States and Canada; Includes over a thousand journals dating back over 55 years.

Collection of video available online for the study of American history, with 2,000 hours and more than 5,000 titles on completion. The collection allows students and researchers to analyze historical events, and their presentation over time, through commercial and governmental newsreels, archival footage, public affairs footage, and important documentaries. This release now provides 4,248 titles, equaling approximately 1,031 hours.

Provides access to digital collections of primary sources (photos, letters, diaries, artifacts, etc.) that document the history of women in the United States; These diverse collections range from Ancestral Pueblo pottery to interviews with women engineers from the 1970s.

Digital collection of primary source materials including ephemera, pamphlets, commonplace books, diaries, periodicals, letters, ledgers, manuscript journals, poetry, receipt books and conduct and advice literature; Many of the pieces are accompanied by essays or editorials.

Contains topically-focused digital collections of historical documents; Collections in Archives Unbound cover a broad range of topics from the Middle Ages forward-from Witchcraft to World War II to twentieth-century political history.

This collection documents many decades of Phyllis Lyon & Del Martins work for and leadership of, the LGBT movement and the womens rights movement in both in San Francisco and nationally; Included are minutes, correspondence, and notes related to their work with the ACLU, the San Francisco Coalition for Human Rights, the Commission on Crime Control and Violence Protection, the Institute for the Advanced Study of Human Sexuality, the San Francisco Commission on the Status of Women, and the San Francisco Human Rights Commission.

Full text of all Cambridge history volumes (250+) published to date. Subject matter ranges widely across the humanities with a concentration on political and cultural history.

Search-able U.S. history dictionaries, chronology, and encyclopedias; Includes 4,000+ primary source materials and full-text articles from 110+ history journals; Covers U.S. history from pre-Colonial times to present.

Indexes 2,300+ international scholarly journals, books, book chapters, reports and other publications in psychology and related disciplines; Many records, added to the database since 1998, also include the references cited in the bibliography of the source article.

Offers access to over 300 eBooks from the field of psychology.

Electronic full text of 50+ APA (American Psychological Association) and EPF (Educational Publishing Foundation) journals. FIU subscribes to all titles.

Videos filmed between 1985 to the present, providing faculty and students with a first-hand look at the realities of working with clients and the challenges associated with putting theoretical concepts into practice; This collection provides a through grounding in dozens of therapeutic methods and diagnoses, therapists demonstrating their methods and techniques, documentaries providing insight into the human condition and training in skills such as reflection and empathy.

Health services, social work, sociology and psychology - journal articles;This database spans the literature of health, social services, psychology, sociology, economics, politics, race relations and education.

Abstracts and indexes the international literature of sociology and related disciplines in the social and behavioral sciences; The database provides abstracts of journal articles and citations to book reviews drawn from thousands of serials publications and also provides abstracts of books, book chapters, dissertations, conference papers and working papers.

This database covers the international literature of sociology and social work, including culture and social structure, history and theory of sociology, social psychology, substance abuse and addiction and more; This collection provides full-text coverage of many core titles included in Sociological Abstracts and Social Services Abstracts.

This database offers indexing and full text for hundreds of academic journals, providing extensive coverage across a wide range of social science disciplines including anthropology, criminology, economics, education, political science, psychology, social work and sociology.

Includes bibliographic records covering essential areas related to race relations, including ethnic studies, discrimination, immigration studies, and other areas of key relevance to the discipline.

Composed of materials focusing on a wide range of political and rights issues and social movements including topics such as socialism and communism, class struggle, Marxist economics, religion, world pacifism, anti-racism, anti-Semitism, civil rights, women's rights, workers rights, world labor movements, world economics, capitalism, the demise of colonialism, Cuban politics, the "ban-the-bomb" movement, war efforts, the Vietnam War, and the United Nations.

Provides access to a vast archive of social science data, including education, geography, social indicators, legal systems and many others, for research and instruction. Supplies data files for use with statistical software, such as SAS, SPSS, and Stata.

Liberal democracies of North America, Europe, and Australasia throughout the twentieth century have experienced a variety of forms of extremism and radicalism that have shaped mainstream political thinking as well as cultural norms. The collections cover a period of just over a century (1900s to 2010s) when the world saw the formation of several civil rights movements, including for the rights of minorities, women's rights, and gay rights. To comprehend modern governmental and societal systems researchers must understand the environment that created them, their origins, and their adversaries. In the Political Extremism and Radicalism series Gale provides insight on unorthodox (by contemporary standards), fringe groups from both the right and left of the political spectrum through rare, hard to access primary sources. Content supports scholars and students answering questions on philosophical, social, political, and economic ideologies as well as on contemporary issues surrounding gender, sexuality, race, religion, civil rights, universal suffrage, and much more.

Indexes 1,680+ international journals within the political science discipline and its complementary fields, including international relations, law, and public administration/policy; Many records, added to the database since 2001, also include the references cited in the bibliography of the source article.

Contains descriptive information on cultures and ethnic groups of the world; Information on all aspects of cultural and social life. Documents (books, articles, and dissertations) have been indexed and organized according to HRAF's culture and subject classification systems: the Outline of World Cultures (OWC), and the Outline of Cultural Materials (OCM).

1898-1958; This collection, compiled from Cuban sources, spans the period from Cuban independence to the end of the Batista regime; The collection sheds light on Cuban feminism, women in politics, literature by Cuban women and the legal status of Cuban women.

Historical womens periodicals provide an important resource to scholars interested in the lives of women, the role of women in society and, in particular, the development of the public lives of women as the push for womens rights; This collection provides access to the full text of some of the most significant and least-widely held womens periodicals produced from the late Eighteenth century through the early 1930s.

The records include extensive official correspondence as well as hundreds of letters to and from correspondents throughout the world documenting the work of the organization, conferences and workshop material, oral history transcripts, and country files containing published materials pertaining to the status and problems of the worlds women.

Indexes 1,680+ international journals within the political science discipline and its complementary fields, including international relations, law, and public administration/policy; Many records, added to the database since 2001, also include the references cited in the bibliography of the source article.

AgeLine, CINAHL Ultimate, Health and Psychosocial Instruments, Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition, SPORTDiscus with Full Text
- combined search of all these databases

The largest collection of leading nursing and allied health literature. CINAHL Ultimate is the definitive database for nursing and allied health research offering full-text access to the most frequently cited journals.

Gale Health and Wellness is a comprehensive consumer health database offering access to authoritative information on the full range of health-related issues, from current disease and disorder information to in-depth coverage of alternative medical practices. Features include topic portals with curated content on diseases and conditions; drugs; diagnostics and tests; and therapies, treatments, and surgeries; as well as a broad collection of premier full-text reference works, including Gale exclusives such as The Gale Encyclopedia of Medicine, The Gale Encyclopedia of Surgery and Medical Tests, and The Gale Encyclopedia of Diets.

Indexes 650+ scholarly journals, book reviews, and collections of essays in religious studies; Also includes full text access to 60+ religion and theology journals selected by leading religion scholars and theologians.

Subjects include: Celebrations and Rituals, Food and Drink, Holidays and Festivals, Music and Dance, Religion and Belief, Tales, Myths, Urban Legends, Traditional Arts and Crafts; Content includes: reference works, classic folk tales, multimedia resources, images, maps, and vetted Weblinks.

Reference resource covering faith, matters of belief, practice, celebrations, holidays, significant and sacred places; Content includes reference items, scholarly essays; religion overviews, primary sources, images, videos, and documents.

Users of this collection can research different religions, philosophies and how they impact our daily lives.

Review essays that evaluate the current thinking on a field or topic, and make an original argument about the future direction of the debate; Contains in-depth, high-level articles by scholars at the top of their field.

Indexes 1,144+ multidisciplinary scholarly journals and other publications in the arts and humanities, with cited references. Very useful for finding articles which cite earlier articles.

NOTE: FIU only has access to select titles; Publications focus on the Humanities and Social Sciences, International Law and selected areas in the Sciences.

Features over 1,700 biographies, 300 thematic essays, and 1,400 photographs and illustrations on a wide range of Jewish women through the centuries -- from Gertrude Berg to Gertrude Stein; Hannah Greenebaum Solomon to Hannah Arendt; the Biblical Ruth to Ruth Bader Ginsburg.

Search, access, and download content from the Gale Virtual Reference Library; Popular titles include: The Brill Dictionary of Religion, Encyclopaedia Judaica, Encyclopaedia of the Qur'an, and the New Catholic Encyclopedia.