ON LINE JOURNALS

This section contains links to academic journals that are free to access on-line. Note that many journals are also available on line when you search the York University Library site (www.library.yorku.ca). To access the on line versions, you need to search from a yorku.ca address.

If you are using another server (like Rogers or Sympatico), visit http://www.library.yorku.ca/Home/eResources/RemoteAccess.htm for remote access instructions.

JSTOR (www.jstor.org) allows access to hundreds of back issues of journals online for those working from yorku.ca account. You can search for articles in some journals as far back as 1927..

FindArticles.com (www.findarticles.com) is a vast archive of published articles that you can search for free. Constantly updated, it contains articles dating back to 1998 from more than 300 magazines and journals. You will find articles on a range of topics, including business, health, society, entertainment, sports and more. Each of the hundreds of thousands of articles in FindArticles can be read in its entirety and printed at no cost.

Feminist Collections: A Quarterly of Women's Studies Resources (http://womenst.library.wisc.edu/ contains news of the latest print and audiovisual resources for research and teaching in women's studies. Recent book reviews have treated such subjects as African American women writers, lesbians in popular culture, and globalization. There are guides to new bibliographies and reference works, film and video critiques, computer updates, and news of out-of-the-way materials -- pamphlets, reports, rare book dealers' catalogs, microforms, and more. Thoughtful articles by experts explore women's publishing, Internet resources, library organization, archives, and other tools for feminist scholarship. New periodicals and special issues of journals in other disciplines are announced in each issue. This site is a bit tricky to navigate, but persist to find some of the best bibliographical collections around.

The Women's Studies Librarian at the University of Wisconsin has compiled a really interesting and eclectic list of women-focused magazines and newsletters available online (http://womenst.library.wisc.edu/resources/media/mags.html) . There are lots of links, for example, to US based print magazines like Bitch and Feminist Response to Pop Culture as well as feminist academic journals being published in New Zealand and Australia.

INDIVIDUAL JOURNALS

Gender Policy Review (www.genderpolicy.org) is a monthly magazine geared toward policy professionals and individuals interested in gender and international, development and domestic politics. The magazine seeks to provide a forum for discussions and news on current laws and policies that affect gender power relations as well as the position of women in their societies and globally. Not all articles are available but you can browse a number of them on-line.

N. Paradoxa (web.ukonline.co.uk/members/n.paradoxa/index.htm) is an international feminist art journal exploring the paradoxes of feminism and the art world today. On this site you will be able to access most of the articles published in recent years. Additionally, they have historical information, statistics and organizations about women and art 'globally' but most of the links apply to the western art world.

Thirdspace (www.thirdspace.ca) is a peer-reviewed journal for emerging feminist scholars. Not as serious as it sounds. They have a wide range of articles from analyses of Buffy the Vampire Slayer to Turbo Chicks! They support new scholars in women’s studies.This is a really easy site to search.