This research guide relays some basic information on library and information resources pertaining to the concerns of this program, as provided by University Libraries and/or sites on the World Wide Web.

1. To Shelf-Browse for Books (using main Library of Congress Subject Divisions)

Books on subjects associated with this field are shelved under the call number ranges listed below. Use TOPCAT to search for specific items in the collection, or more narrowly-defined subjects.

HQ71- HQ75.26: General works and Gay and Lesbian Studies ------- HQ74- HQ74.2: Bisexuality ------- HQ75.3- HQ75.6: Lesbians ------- HQ75.7- HQ76.2: Gay Men ------- HQ76.5: Gay Rights Movement ------- HQ77.7- HQ77.95: Transsexualism ------- KF539: Legal Aspects of Same Sex Marriage in the U.S. ------- PN56 .H57: Treatment of Homosexuality in Literature ------- PN56 .L45: Treatment of Lesbianism in Literature ------- PN1995.9 .H55: Homosexuality in Motion Pictures ------- RC558- RC560: Homosexuality as a Psychiatric Disorder

See also additional Library of Congress Subject Headings:  Sex Role HQ1075; Sexual Behavior BF697.6

2. To Find Journal and Magazine Articles (using indexing/abstracting/full-text services)

The following services are recommended for use by first-year students and nonmajors:

• Academic Search Premier and MasterFILE Premier: These two all-subject WWW-based services (they are part of the EBSCOhost system) feature indexing and abstracting of many journals and magazines WKU Libraries receives in hardcopy, plus a large selection of articles in full-text.
• NewsBank: full-text of newspapers, including local, national, and international titles.
• Alt-Press Index: FirstSearch database available to faculty and graduate students (and to undergraduate students by special permission). Indexes journals covering cultural, economic, political & social change.
• Alt-Press Watch has full text of over 170 alternative and independent newspapers, magazines and journals.
• LexisNexis Academic: full-text news, law, business, and medical items. Includes: 1) News, newspapers, wire services, and broadcast transcripts; 2) Legal Information, U.S. Federal and state case law, codes, regulations, legal news, and law reviews; 3) Medical Information, full-text medical journals, and medical newsletters.
• Google Scholar: A free Web-based Google service that restricts searches to the scholarly literature. Now features linking to full-text of articles held by WKU.
• MLA (Modern Language Association): A WWW-based database available through Literature Online which exhaustively indexes all literature of the field of Literature, Languages, Linguistics, and Folklore.
• Literature Online: Contains full text of over 350,000 works of English and American poetry, drama and prose, along with literature journals and other key criticism and reference resources. Also Indexes scholarly books and articles on modern languages, literatures, folklore, and linguistics. Includes a combined search with the MLA International Bibliography.

The following services are recommended for use by advanced students and researchers:

• AIDSearch: Updated monthly, AIDSearch is a combination of three database files providing information about HIV and related topics from 1980 to present.
• ArticleFirst: FirstSearch database available to faculty and graduate students (and to undergraduate students by special permission). Indexes almost 13,000 journals and magazines from 1990 onward, including some ninety percent of the ones University Libraries carries in hardcopy.
• Communication and Mass Media Complete: A full-text database in EBSCOhost which not only looks at communication itself (in the form of various media: newpaper, television, magazine, etc.), but the process of communication.
• Medline: Found in EBSCOhost, this is the foremost medical database maintained by the U.S. National Library of Medicine.
• Project Muse: Provides online, worldwide, institutional subscription access to the full text of over 100 scholarly journals in the arts and humanities, social sciences and mathematics.
• PubMed: A free government version of Medline.

Special resource:  TDNet Electronic Journal Finder [use to access Libraries' electronic journals, magazines, and newspapers, as well as some indexes and databases containing full-text articles; includes a comprehenisve A-Z listing of titles]
Special resource:  KenCat [A searchable catalog of the collections at the Kentucky Library & Museum. KenCat includes manuscripts, letters, sheet music, photographs, museum exhibits, images, journals, and books.]

3. Monographic Reference Works in Helm Library

The following are recommended for use:

• Contemporary gay American novelists: a bio-bibliographical critical sourcebook. Emmanuel S. Nelson, editor. REF PS374 .H63 C66 1993
• Encyclopedia of homosexuality. Wayne R. Dynes, editor. REF HQ76.25 .E53 1989
• Gay & lesbian biography. Michael J. Tyrkus, editor. REF HQ75.2 .G39x 1997
• Gay histories and cultures: an encyclopedia. George E. Haggerty, editor. REF HQ75.13 .G37 2000
• Gay rights. Rachel Kranz and Tim Cusick. REF HQ76.8 .U5 K73 2000
• A legal guide for lesbian and gay couples. Hayden Curry, Denis Clifford, and Frederick Hertz. LAW REF KF539 .L44 2004
• Lesbian histories and cultures: an encyclopedia. Bonnie Zimmerman, editor. REF HQ75.5 .L4395 2000
• Marriage and same-sex unions: a debate. Lynn D. Wardle, editor. REF HQ1034 .U5 M37 2003
• Our place on campus: lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender services and programs in higher education. Ronni Sanlo, Sue Rankin & Robert Schoenberg, editors. REF LC2574 .O85 2002
• Who's who in gay and lesbian history from antiquity to World War II. Robert Aldrich & Garry Wotherspoon, editors. REF HQ75.2 .W46x 2001

4. WKU Department Links

• WKU Department of English http://www.wku.edu/Dept/Academic/AHSS/English/faculty.html
• WKU Women's Studies Program http://www.wku.edu/womensstudies/
• WKU Women's Studies Faculty http://www.wku.edu/womensstudies/facacom.html

5. Related Societies/Organizations

• Academic & Professional Gay and Lesbian Organizations http://faculty.washington.edu/alvin/gayorg.htm#ACADEM
• COLAGE: Children of Lesbians and Gays Everywhere http://www.colage.org/
• PFLAG: Parents, Families, and Friends of Lesbians and Gays http://www.pflag.org/
• Society of Lesbian & Gay Anthropologists http://homepage.mac.com/ctgrant/solga/

6. Web Sites Recommended by Faculty

Miscellaneous: Gateways, Research, Directories, Teaching, Advocacy, etc.

• Gay/Lesbian Politics and Law: WWW and Internet Resources http://www.indiana.edu/~glbtpol/
• Gays for God: GLBT Directory of Faith Communities http://www.rslevinson.com/gaylesissues/gfg/blgfg.htm
• Gender and Sexuality [texts discussing cultural practices] http://eserver.org/gender/default.html
• GLBTQ: An Encyclopedia of Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender & Queer Culture (ed. Claude J. Summers) http://www.glbtq.com
• IHLIA International Homo/Lesbian Information Center and Archives http://www.ihlia.nl/dopage.pl?pagina=algemeen&vestiging=english&show=home
• International Gender Studies Resources [gateway] http://globetrotter.berkeley.edu/GlobalGender/
• Lambda Legal Defense Fund [advocacy] http://www.lambdalegal.org/cgi-bin/iowa/index.html
• Lesbian.org [gateway] http://www.lesbian.org/
• National and International Gay and Lesbian Organizations and Publications [gateway] http://faculty.washington.edu/alvin/gayorg.htm
• Partners Task Force for Gay & Lesbian Couples [gateway] http://www.buddybuddy.com/toc.html
• Queer Resources Directory http://www.qrd.org/
• Syllabi (Committee on Lesbian & Gay History) [course syllabi] http://www.usc.edu/isd/archives/clgh/Syllabi/syllabi.html
• Voice of the Shuttle: Gender & Sexuality Studies [gateway including Queer Studies referrals] http://vos.ucsb.edu/browse.asp?id=2711
• Woman's Issues Web Sites: Sexuality [links] http://www-unix.umbc.edu/~korenman/wmst/links_sex.html

Literature

• Award Winning Gay & Lesbian Writers http://carbon.cudenver.edu/public/library/libq/awards.html
• Lambda Literary Foundation http://www.lambdalit.org/
• Core Lists in Women’s Studies http://www.library.wisc.edu/libraries/WomensStudies/core/coremain.htm
• Gay History & Literature, Essays by Rictor Norton http://www.infopt.demon.co.uk/gayhist.htm
• GALA at Santa Clara University: A Few Authors of Gay and Lesbian Literature: From Antiquity to the Present
  http://www-acc.scu.edu/Clubs/GALA/Literature/LITERATURE.htm
• GLBTQ Literature Subject Index http://www.glbtq.com/subject/literature_a-b.html
• Homosexuality in Eighteenth-Century England: A Sourcebook http://www.infopt.demon.co.uk/eighteen.htm
• Lesbian Studies [core literature list] http://www.library.wisc.edu/libraries/WomensStudies/core/crlesbian.htm
• Recipients of the American Library Association's Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, & Transgendered Book Award http://isd.usc.edu/%7Etrimmer/ala_book.html
• Women's Books Online http://home.cybergrrl.com/review/

Online Magazines & News

• Advocate http://www.advocate.com
• Blacklight http://www.blacklightonline.com/
• Gay.com News http://www.gay.com/news/
• Gay & Lesbian Review Worldwide http://glreview.com/
• GLINN: Gay/Lesbian International News Network http://www.glinn.com/news/gnews1.htm
• International Gay & Lesbian Review http://www.usc.edu/isd/archives/oneigla/onepress/index.html
• Out.com http://216.65.214.99/index.asp

History

• Committee on Lesbian and Gay History http://www.usc.edu/isd/archives/clgh/index.html
• Gay History http://www.gayhistory.com/
• GBLT Historical Society http://www.glbthistory.org/
• The John Addington Symonds Pages http://www.infopt.demon.co.uk/symfram1.htm
• Outhistory.org: Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer American History http://www.outhistory.org/

University Libraries Liaison: Elisabeth Knight (x56117 / elisabeth.knight@wku.edu) last updated 9/18/2008
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