Contemporary Women's Issues

As part of our commitment to bring the UB community full-text Web-based products of excellence, the University Libraries is pleased to announce the addition of Contemporary Women's Issues to the BISON II "Online Resources" page (http://ublib.buffalo.edu/libraries/e-resources). CWI provides full-text coverage of more than 600 journals, newsletters, reports, pamphlets, conference proceedings, fact-sheets and regional newspapers. Coverage goes back to 1992 and is international in scope.

Virtually every gender-related topic is searchable via this user-friendly database, including human rights, pay equity, the men's movement, job sharing, sexual harassment, the visual arts, osteoporosis, eating disorders, etc. Search it if you are looking for research studies, alternative press commentary or statistical facts provided by U.S. government agencies and the United Nations. There is no need to spend time tracking elusive material related to women's issues; just print out the information from your computer screen. The only exception to this is the abstracts-only coverage of the Chronicle of Higher Education, The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal.

Naturally, the wider Web also has a wealth of information available to those interested in women's issues and interests. A super starting point is WWWomen (http://www.wwwomen.com), which has the look and feel of the ever popular Yahoo Internet search directory (http://www.yahoo.com) with an important difference-all the links lead to women-related Web sites. The main directory categories range from "Feminism" and "Diversity" to "Personal Time" and "Women Go Shopping." WWWomen also allows you to search for gender-related topics by keyword. As the welcome screen states, "WWWomen offers no political, religious or philosophical agenda and hopes to attract women of all attitudes and persuasions." A keyword search on the topic "abortion" provides ample evidence that the developers of WWWomen are true to their word as links are provided to sites for both sides of this issue.

Internet sites hand-selected by librarians belonging to Women's Studies Section of the American Library Association WSSLINKS: Women and Gender Studies Web Sites (http://www.library.yale. edu/wss/) are also a good bet for finding the "best of the best" women's resources for research and personal interest.

For further information on women's studies Web sites, contact Dorothy Woodson (woodson@acsu.buffalo.edu), Lockwood Library. Those needing assistance in connecting to BISON II and the World Wide Web should contact the CIT Help Desk at 645-3542.

-Gemma DeVinney and Don Hartman, University Libraries