The e-resources listed on this page are provided by the University of Reading Library. For additional online resources, archives and websites go to the Websites and online archives page in this guide.
Search Summon to find online journal articles and book chapters.
In addition to the resources listed here, gender is covered in a wide range of other databases; see our list of databases by subject for more details.
If you are on campus you will be able to access most e-journals and e-books, and some databases, without entering a username and password because your IP address identifies you as being at the University of Reading.
For any that require a login, see the Off-campus tab.
When you use our e-resources you are agreeing to our Terms of Use. Please take a moment to look at these by following the link below:
When you are off-campus you will need to login to identify yourself as a member of the University of Reading to gain access to our protected databases, e-books and e-journals.
Your login details
You login in the same way as for Blackboard - via Microsoft. Just enter your University username followed by @student.reading.ac.uk (e.g. ab123456@student.reading.ac.uk) and your password. If this is the first time you have logged in via this method when off-campus you will be asked to complete a Multi-Factor Authentication. For more information see:
Getting to the login page...
Watch this short video on how you login to use Library resources.
Newspapers can be a good source for the latest developments in a field and for current opinion on emerging and established topics or issues.
We have online access to a number of current and archive newspaper issues, see the list below for examples.
For further information and links go to our Finding newspapers guide:
This is a selection of video and sound resources containing relevant material:
In addition to the resources listed here, gender-related topics are covered in a wide range of other video, image and sound resources, see our full list:
For guidance on how to use our multimedia e-resources, see:
This playlist of two videos shows you how to prepare for and perform a literature search. The first video introduces literature searches and their role. The second video covers using the search operators AND and OR to create a search statement, and explains the role of wildcards and truncation in constructing a comprehensive search. This information is also available in written guides - see the links below.