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Open Source Resources

Freely available academic resources, including institutional repositories.

Digital Commons Network: Gender and Sexuality
Open access articles and research on the topics of gender and sexuality.
Digital Commons Network: Women's Rights
Open access articles and research regarding women and women's rights.
Library of Congress Digital Collections
Access online collections: view maps & photographs; read letters, diaries & newspapers; hear personal accounts of events; listen to sound recordings & watch historic films.
Voices of Feminism Oral History Project
The Voices of Feminism Oral History Project documents the persistence and diversity of organizing for women in the United States in the latter half of the 20th century. Narrators include labor, peace, and anti-racism activists; artists and writers; lesbian rights advocates; grassroots anti-violence and anti-poverty organizers; and women of color reproductive justice leaders.

American Civil Liberties Union
Has sections on women's rights as well as LGBT and rights of other marginalized people.
GLAAD's Transgender Media Program
Resources for how to learn and write about transgender issues, including a FAQ, etiquette, and updates in the news.
Human Rights Watch
News and other information, broken down by region or by topic, including LGBT, women's and children's rights.
Women and Social Movements in the US 1600-2000
About a sixth of the projects on Women and Social Movements remain freely available; the other projects, in addition to 170,000 pages of primary documents and enhanced searching tools, are available through Alexander Street Press.
Women’s Liberation Movement Print Culture
This collection contains manifestos, speeches, essays, and other materials documenting various aspects of the Women's Movement in the United States in the 1960s and 1970s. The Women's Liberation Movement refers to a series of campaigns for reforms on issues such as reproductive rights, domestic violence, and equal pay.

American History in Video (1492-present) This link opens in a new window
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Provides more than 7,000 streaming video and searchable transcripts of documentaries from Biography, The History Channel, A&E, PBS, Bullfrog Films and more, as well as United News and Universal newsreels.
Bridgeman Education This link opens in a new window
Bridgeman Education is a complete visual resource offering over 1,000,000 digital images of art, history and culture from global museums, galleries, private collections and contemporary artists all copyright cleared for educational use. ***Pro-tip: Create a private slideshow and Bridgeman will email the link to you for safe-keeping. Private slideshows can only be shared or deleted by the associated email holder. Public slideshows can be deleted by any Bridgeman user.***
Films on Demand (Coverage varies) This link opens in a new window
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Provides streaming videos from the Films for the Humanities & Sciences, Cambridge Educational and many others and includes a comprehensive coverage of major fields of knowledge.
Kanopy Streaming Media Collection This link opens in a new window
Kanopy provides a collection with over 26,000 films from 800 producers, including Criterion Collection, New Day Films, California Newsreel, Kino Lorber, PBS, First Run Features, Media Education Foundation, The Great Courses, and many more.