LibGuides: LGBTQ+: Databases

Databases

LGBTQ+ topics cover a broad range of disciplines from healthcare, to education, to law. You can search in a multi-disciplinary database or choose an appropriate subject specific database. Best bets are listed below as well as a link to all databases. Many databases at Harper College Library contain scholarly journal articles, but they may also contain newspaper articles, videos, case studies and more.

Best Bets! Multi-disciplinary Databases:

Academic Search Complete This link opens in a new window Academic Search Complete is the world's most valuable and comprehensive scholarly, multi-disciplinary full-text database, with more than 8,500 full-text periodicals, including more than 7,300 peer-reviewed journals. In addition to full text, this database offers indexing and abstracts for more than 12,500 journals and a total of more than 13,200 publications including monographs, reports, conference proceedings, etc. The database features PDF content going back as far as 1887, with the majority of full text titles in native (searchable) PDF format. Searchable cited references are provided for more than 1,400 journals.
CQ Researcher This link opens in a new window The CQ Researcher explores a single "hot" issue in the news in depth each week. Topics range from social and teen issues to environment, health, education and science and technology.
Gale Power Search This link opens in a new window Search all of Gale's databases at once in this handy interface.
JSTOR This link opens in a new window JSTOR includes core journals in economics, history, political science, and sociology, as well as in other key fields in the humanities and social sciences. This collection also contains titles in ecology, mathematics, and statistics.

Best Bets! Subject Specific Databases:

CINAHL This link opens in a new window CINAHL®, the Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature, is the most comprehensive resource for nursing and allied health literature.
Consumer Health Complete This link opens in a new window Consumer Health Complete™ (CHC) is the single most comprehensive resource for consumer-oriented health content. It is designed to support the information needs of patients, and to foster an overall understanding of health-related topics.
ERIC This link opens in a new window ERIC, the Education Resource Information Center, provides access to educational literature and resources. The database contains more than 1.3 million records and provides access to information from journals included in the Current Index of Journals in Education and Resources in Education Index.
Gale OneFile: Diversity Studies This link opens in a new window Collection of journals that explores cultural differences, contributions, and influences in the global community.
Gale OneFile: Gender Studies This link opens in a new window Offers access to scholarly journals and magazines covering topics including gender studies, family, and marital issues, LGBTQ community, and more.
Literary Reference Source This link opens in a new window Literary Reference Source is a full-text database that combines information from major respected reference works, books, literary journals as well as original content from EBSCO Publishing. Literary Reference Source contains full text for more than 35,000 plot summaries, synopses and work overviews, nearly 100,000 articles/essays of literary criticisms, more than 253,000 author biographies (including more than 22,000 in-depth bios), more than 460 literary journals, more than 693,000 book reviews, nearly 78,000 classic and contemporary poems, more than 19,600 classic and contemporary short stories, more than 6,500 author interviews, more than 8,200 classic texts and much more.
PsycARTICLES This link opens in a new window PsycARTICLES®, from the American Psychological Association (APA), is a definitive source of full text, peer-reviewed scholarly and scientific articles in psychology. It contains more than 153,000 articles from nearly 80 journals published by the American Psychological Association (APA), its imprint the Educational Publishing Foundation (EPF), and from allied organizations including the Canadian Psychological Association and the Hogrefe Publishing Group. It includes all journal articles, book reviews, letters to the editor, and errata from each journal. Coverage spans 1894 to the present and nearly all APA journals go back to Volume 1, Issue 1.

List of All Databases:

Databases by Title

List of Gender & Diversity Studies databases:

Gender & Diversity Studies databases

Search Terms to use in databases

Keywords are words that represent the concepts you'd like to search for. Examples of keywords are:

lgbt
lesbian
transgender
bisexual
gay

You can connect keywords in your search with the Boolean operators OR and AND.

Use OR to connect keywords that represent the same concept. Ex: (lgbt OR gay OR lesbian).
Use AND to connect keywords that represent different concepts. Ex: (lgbt OR gay OR lesbian) AND (teen OR adolescent) AND (identity)