Women's Studies Serials: A Quarter-Century of Development examines the history, growth, and present status of women's studies collections available in the United States and around the world. This text investigates the accessibility to women's studies periodicals, how they are used and by whom, and identifies areas where further research is needed to help collection managers and librarians make the best selection decisions for their serials collections. Women's Studies Serials will help you choose serials that meet the needs of your patrons and that comply with the limitations of your budget. Offering you charts, tables, and statistical data, Women's Studies Serials covers many topics that will help you build a thorough and accessible women's studies collection or renovate an existing collection, including:

the problems, influences, and expectations involved in women's studies faculty's daily work with magazines and journals
choosing the best CD-Rom products for women's studies research based on cost, coverage, content, and recommendations for acquisition
techniques and insights for teaching cataloging in an interdisciplinary, dynamic, and evolving information environment
examining academic women's studies serials on the World Wide Web and determining whether they are helpful to students and faculty
suggestions that may alleviate the inadequacies of subject description and access to current periodical literature concerning African-American women and Latinas in the United States
how women's studies serials published in Ireland are adding support and recognition to the discipline of women's studies
examining popular women's periodicals in the Popular Culture Collection at Bowling Green
State University and how they help reveal and document the history of women's roles in society
the management and collection methods of the International Centre and Archives of the Women's Studies Movement located in the NetherlandsProviding you with information on how other academic libraries choose their collection material, Women's Studies Serials will help you determine what journals in your library are most widely read and if they are meeting the informational and research needs of faculty and students. The information in Women's Studies Serials will help make your women's studies serials current, cost-efficient, and relevant to your patrons'needs.

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Contents
Introduction: Women's Studies Serials: A Quarter-Century of Development

USAGE OF WOMEN'S STUDIES SERIALS
Using Periodicals in Women's Studies: The Faculty Experience
Citations to Women's Studies Journals in Dissertations, 1989 and 1994
women's Studies Journals: Getting the Collection Right!
WOMEN'S STUDIES REFERENCE SOURCES
From Zero to Four: A Review of Four New Women's Studies CD-ROM Products
Preserving the Value of Tables of Contents Online: A Critique of Women's Studies/Feminist Periodicals
Women's Studies as Represented in Twentieth Century Reference Books
CONTENT AND ACCESS ISSUES FOR WOMEN'S STUDIES SERIALS
Academic Women's Studies Serials on the Web: A Pilot Study
Education for Cataloging Is/As Women's Studies
Indexing Patterns of Periodical Literature on African-American Women and U.S. Latinas
Still Unheard by the Mainstream: Locating Serial Articles on Women in Science
Women's Magazines in the Popular Culture Library at Bowling Green State University
INTERNATIONAL VIEWS OF WOMEN'S STUDIES SERIALS
Coming in from the Shadows: Reviewing Irish Women's Studies Serials
Managing a Women's Periodicals Collection in a Women's Library
The New Asian Woman: Women's Magazines and the Spread of Mass-Culture in Southeast Asia
Index
Reference Notes Included