LGBTQIA | Sexual Orientation & Gender Identity

Coverage: 1975 - present
ASP provides comprehensive content, including PDF backfiles to 1975 for nearly 140 journals and searchable cited references for more than 1,000 titles. As a leading scholarly database, it provides access to acclaimed full-text journals, magazines, and other valuable resources.
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Module I: Research Collections from The Kinsey Institute Library & Special Collections
Carefully selected in partnership with The Kinsey Institute for Research in Sex, Gender, and Reproduction, the first module of Sex & Sexuality provides unprecedented access to collections from prominent sex researchers and sexologists including the Institute’s first three directors: Dr Alfred C. Kinsey, Dr Paul H. Gebhard and Dr June Reinisch.

Module II: Self-Expression, Community & Identity
Documenting LGBTQI+ personal histories from the late-nineteenth century to the present day, the second module of Sex & Sexuality focuses on individual stories and experiences. This module presents accounts of grass-roots organizations and LGBTQI+ activism, self-expression in the form of diaries and correspondence, public service announcements, campaigns, and video interviews. Showing the shifting attitudes and varied experiences of sexuality throughout the twentieth century, the content covers pivotal historical events such as the aftermath of the Stonewall riots, the Wolfenden Committee, and the HIV/AIDs crisis.

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More than 72,000 titles spanning the widest range of subject areas including anthropology, business, counseling, film, health, history, music, and more
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Coverage: 1861 - present
Doctoral dissertations & masters theses. **Widener dissertations published after 1997 are FULL TEXT**
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Coverage: 1950 - present
The Essential Resource for LGBT Literature. This database provides full-text coverage for the most important literature regarding lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender issues. Offering a variety of scholarly, popular and regional resources, it includes journals, books, magazines and more.

Coverage: varies
PQC allows you to search multiple top databases within one platform

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Coverage: 1987 - present
PsycINFO is an electronic bibliographic database that provides abstracts and citations to the scholarly literature in the behavioral sciences and mental health.

Coverage: 1895 to present
SocINDEX with Full Text offers comprehensive coverage of sociology, encompassing all sub-disciplines and closely related areas of study. In addition to full-text journals, it contains informative abstracts for core coverage journals dating as far back as 1895. The database also provides data mined from priority coverage journals and selective coverage journals. Complete with extensive indexing for books, monographs, conference papers and other non-periodical content sources, the database also includes searchable cited references.
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Coverage: 1985 - present
Produced by the Buros Center for Testing at the University of Nebraska, this resource is essential for evaluating contemporary testing instruments. Designed for novices and professionals alike, it contains full-text reviews for test products in psychology, education, business and leadership.
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Coverage: 1910 -present
Full text (when available) of psychological tests and measures as well as a source of structured information about tests in related fields such as psychiatry, management, business, education, social science, neurosciences, law, medicine, and social work.
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