The Library section features full text of selected articles on women's health issues and abstracts of articles recently published in medical journals. For the latest information on sexually transmitted diseases or contraceptive issues, visit the STD Information Center or the Contraception Information Center, each of which features the latest news, patient education materials, clinical guidelines for treatment, recommended Internet resources, and abstracts and full-text reports on the latest research. The site, created by Deborah Crocker, Faculty member of the University of Alabama Department of Physics and Astronomy, lists over 125 women inventors, scholars, and wroters as well as mathemmaticians and astronomers. The lists of individuals can be alpahbetically, or by time or field of study. Additionally, biographies for these individuals can be accessed.
Text fro the biographies is generally brief and informal, easily accessible to the lay person.
Due to the increasing numbers of women in the sciences during the latter half of the 20th century, the site creators acknowledge that the list does not include most of these living researchers, primarily predesessors. The creators have gone to great lengths to make the HTML versions as accurate as possible, including notations about special features or characters not included in the HTML version and scanned pages from the actual works which can be enlarged for greater detail. SGML versions of each piece are also available. Information about how to access the original works in the Kohler Collection is also included online as well as a list of links to related Web-based resources. Women and social movements in the United States Editors of thei excellent resource hope the site, funded in part by the National Endowment for the Humanities, will help connectr women's history and wider American history themes and organizations.