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Beginning Research:

Making Sense of Evidence - a guide to evaluating primary sources.
The Good, the Bad, the Ugly - a guide to evaluating web sources.
ICYouSee: Guide to Critical Thinking - guide to critical thinking in evaluations of websites.
Duke University Library Guide - a library guide to citing sources.
Library of Congress: the Learning Page - a Library of Congress guide to citing electronic sources.
Annotated Bibliography - a guide on preparing an annotated bibliography.
UAlbany Women's Studies Library Guide - a library guide on framing research according to themes (especially in women's studies).


Research Databases:


Archives USA - includes primary source collections, searched under repository, name or by subject headings.
EBSCO - includes a broad range of full texts and bibliographic databases and abstracts, both scholarly journals and non-academic periodicals.
Historical Abstracts - includes bibliographic databases and article abstracts, reflecting subjects in either US History or history outside the US.
MLA Bibliography - includes bibliographic databases and article abstracts, reflecting subjects in areas of the humanities.
Project Muse - provides a comprehensive listing of scholarly journals and article abstracts.
Sociological Abstracts - includes bibliographic databases and article abstracts, reflecting subjects in areas of the humanities.
Women's Studies International - includes a broad range of bibliographic databases and abstracts, both academic and non-academic, in the area of women's studies.
WorldCat - A comprehensive catalog of primary source material and bibliographic information, including manuscripts written as early as the 12th century.


Film Resources

Catalogues and Networks
Sisters in Cinema: Resource Guide for and about African American Women Filmmakers
South Asian Women's Cinema
Women in the Director's Chair
Women Make Movies

Contemporary Filmmakers
Chadha, Gurinder
Dash, Julie
Denis, Claire
Mehta, Deepa
Nair, Mira
Parmar, Pratibha
Rolando, Gloria
Taymor, Julie
Trinh T. Minh-ha
Welbon, Yvonne


Media Watch and Resistance in Communications:


About-Face - a media education site for girls and women.
Breakthrough - a popular education network creating human rights culture through music, music videos, and advocacy.
Color Lines - a magazine on race, culture, and organizing.
The Commercial Closet - media watch guide on commercials portraying gay and lesbians.
Culture Jammers - "Adbusters" site, devoted to media activism and creative resistance in our information age.
FAIR - media watch network documenting media bias and censorship.
Girls, Women and Media Project - resource site for women and girls on media representations of women.
International Women's Media Foundation - a program devoted to enhancing women's roles in the news media.
Media Education Foundation- educational resource guide on videos and online sources promoting media awareness, diversity and pluralism.
Race Traitor - a journal for white antiracist activism.
Said It - feminist news source.
Z-Communications - magazine and resource site for social justice issues.

Feminist 'Zines:
Bitch Magazine
Feminista!
Merge
Off Our Backs
Sexing the Political


Virtual Exhibits and Art Resources:

Museum
National Women's History Museum
Shows and Projects
Feminist Art Worksite
Guerrilla Girls
"Women Speak"
Contemporary Individual and Group Artists
Autograph
Baca, Judy
Fusco, Coco
Moffatt, Tracy
Neshat, Shirin
Ringgold, Faith
Saar, Betye
Searle, Berni
Siopis, Penny
Walker, Kara
Williams, Carla