LibGuides: Women's Research & BGLTQ+ Student Center: Online Resources

Databases

Databases Available through UCO Chambers Library

Ebook Central
Authoritative, full-text e-books in a wide range of subject areas along with powerful tools to find, use, and manage the information. May read the ebooks online, download them and save them to an eReader or eBook app.
GenderWatch
Scholarly journals, magazines, newspapers, newsletters, regional publications, books, booklets and reports dealing with women's studies and gender studies.
Women's Magazine Archive
Backfiles of leading womens interest consumer magazines from the late-19th century through to 2005. Titles are scanned from cover to cover in high-resolution color and feature detailed article-level indexing. Research fields served by this material are gender studies, social history, economics/marketing, media, fashion, politics, and popular culture.
Underground and Independent Comics
Collects thousands of comics—many extremely rare and hard to find. Volume I covers major works from north America and Europe, beginning with the first underground comix from the 1950s and continuing through to modern sequential artists. The second volume expands on the debut database by offering an additional 100,000 pages of important, rare, and hard-to-find works, scholarly writings, and more. It adds extensive coverage of the pre-Comics Code era of horror, crime, romance, and war comics that fueled the backlash leading to the advent of the Comics Code.

Databases Available through Metropolitan Library System

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LGBTQ History and Culture since 1940
This resource is available through the Metropolitan Library. An international collection of primary sources in more than 15 languages.

Open Access Collections

JD Doyle Archives
The mission of the JD Doyle Archives is to gather, digitize, and share LGBT music and Houston/Texas LGBT History. The website Houston LGBT History houses Houston and also statewide history, including the broad areas of Publications, Politics, Pride and many other cultural areas. And the Texas Obituary Project is a searchable database of those we have lost, with an emphasis on those lost to AIDS. Both are ever expanding, with a common goal of making our history accessible. The History site is also host to The Banner Project, a pop-up museum of our Houston LGBT History.
JSTOR Independent Voices: Feminist
Over 75 magazines, newsletters, and newspapers created by activists and collectives that helped propel the second wave of feminism from the late sixties and early seventies through the end of the 20th century. Groups represented by these publications include the Redstockings, New York Radical Women, Chicago Women’s Liberation Union, the Third World Women’s Alliance, and many others. Abortion, rape, unequal pay, women in the service, childcare, women’s self-help, pornography, gender roles, and many other major issues of the period were extensively covered in the pages of the feminist press.
JSTOR Independent Voices: LGBT
The LGBT collection contains 25 publications that chronicle the birth of the Gay and Lesbian movements in the United States. The gay liberation movement of the 1970s saw political action explode through the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force, the Human Rights Campaign, the election of openly gay and lesbian representatives, and the first march on Washington for gay rights in 1979. Frustrated with the male leadership of most gay liberation groups and influenced by the feminist movement of the 1970s, lesbians formed their own collectives, music festivals, newspapers, bookstores, and publishing houses and called for lesbian rights in mainstream feminist groups like the National Organization for Women (NOW).
QZAP - Queer Zine Archive Project
The Queer Zine Archive Project (QZAP) was first launched in November 2003 in an effort to preserve queer zines and make them available to other queers, researchers, historians, punks, and anyone else who has an interest DIY publishing and underground queer communities.