Library Guides: Women's Studies: Reference Sources

Starting Points

Oxford Reference Online This link opens in a new window
Oxford Reference Online allows you to search a broad collection of encyclopedias, biographies, and dictionaries about topics related to women.
Provides access to over 120 language and subject dictionaries, reference works, and biographical directories in a variety of disciplines published by OUP that can be searched individually or in one cross-searchable database.
Credo Reference This link opens in a new window
Search a selection of reference books including encyclopedias, dictionaries, quotations, etc. on topics related to women.
Selection of reference books including encyclopedias, dictionaries, thesauri and books of quotations, as well as a range of subject-specific titles covering everything from art to accountancy and literature to law.

Online Biographical Sources
A listing of the Library's online biographical sources for finding information on individual women.

Cinema & Media Studies, Nancy Spiegel