Each issue provides150-200 numbered nonevaluative abstracts, first for journals, then books. Scans about 500 journals. Includes education, employment, fam ily, community, medicine, health, sex-role socialization, social policy, social psycology, female culture, media treatment, biography, literary criticism, historical studies. Women Studies Abstracts University Library owns 1972 to the present. Includes wide range of su bjects, e.g. education, sexuality, family, society, religion, sports, history, art, theatre, abortion, language.
Index cumulates annually.
Women's Studies Index University Library owns 1989 to the present. Includes concise instructions on use of the index, cross-references, and addresses of the approximately 80 periodicals scanned. Two-year publication lag. The Reference collections in Hatcher and Shapiro cover core resources in almost all fields with emphasis on the Social Sciences and Humanities. A list of major resources in Women's Studies available for consultation in the Hatcher Reading Room is updated quarterly by Library staff.