Dear All,
This might be of interest to some of you.
AR
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From: Eva Isaksson <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Wednesday, September 06, 2000 8:37 AM
Subject: [fwd] Women's History Database available on the WWW
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> ViVa Women's History Database now available on the Web.
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> ViVa is a current bibliography of women's and gender history.
> Articles published in English, French, German and Dutch are selected
> from more than hundred European, American and Indian academic
> journals. The ViVa database now contains bibliographic records
> describing more then 5400 articles published between 1975 and 2000.
>
> The bibliography was started in 1990 by Els Kloek as a special
> project at the History Department of the University of Utrecht,
> Netherlands. By selecting and indexing women's history articles from
> fifty West European and American scholarly journals, Kloek and her
> assistants intended to create a reference tool for locating
> publications in this field, and to provide an overview of the
> development in writing women's history. It was published in three
> printed volumes, together covering the years 1975-1994.
>
> After 1995, the project was continued by the International Institute
> of Social History. The bibliography, now named ViVa, was first
> published on the World Wide Web in 1997. Since then, another sixty
> journals have been indexed retrospectively, and new titles have been
> added to the Web version on an ongoing basis. The complete
> bibliography is now accessible from the WWW. The address of the ViVa
> Database is http://www.iisg.nl/~womhist/vivahome.html
>
> ViVa is compiled by Jenneke Quast, International Institute of Social
> History (IISH), Amsterdam, the Netherlands, with the assistance of
> Ron Berkepeis, IISH, Margaret Tennant, of Massey University (New
> Zealand), and Diane Hawkins, of SUNY Upstate Medical University,
> Syracuse, NY (USA).
>
> Jenneke Quast
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> International Institute of Social History
> Cruquiusweg 31, NL-1019 AT Amsterdam, Netherlands
> http://www.iisg.nl/
> Tel +31 20 6685866
> Fax +31 20 6654181
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