1. Concerning Exploration of Sources

Libraries and Archives

• Women's Library and Information Center Foundation was established in 1990 and its location is in Istanbul. The library follows the example of similar institutions opened in several cities across the world but it is the first of its kind in Turkey. The aim is to document women's lives and deeds and to facilitate research in the area of women's studies, based on a multifaceted collection of material.

• Cultural studies e-archive is an archive that returns academic results for researches in cultural studies. One of its aims is to create the possibility of making all the cultural studies and related research literature - both past and present - freely available to researchers, teachers and students, on a world-wide basis, regardless of how much particular publishers want to charge for their books and journals, and of how much individual institutions and libraries can afford to pay for them.

• Archives and Libraries has information on women archives and libraries from all over the world. Unfortunately not all of them have material that can be used online, but from here you can contact the organization of your interest and ask them for the information you require.

Museums

• Turkey's Journalist Association Press Museum was opened in 1988 is Turkey's only press museum. There you can see the evolution of the press technology such as examples of stone print, rotating letter press, and old typewriters. The museum from time to time hosts conferences, panels, and seminars.

Civil Society Organizations

• KA-DER stands for Association for Education and Support of Women Candidates. It was established in 1997 and it aims to increase the role of women in the political life of Turkey. It helps women candidates who enter a political career to develop their public relations and political campaigns. Their location is in Ankara, but they have an Istanbul branch as well.

Books and E-books

You can find printed books on Cultural Studies at the IC catalog, but you also have the option of reading e-books through: Ebrary, NetLibrary, and Oxford Reference Online.

They require subscription and can be reached through the IC. Through Ebrary, NetLibrary, Oxford Reference Online you can reach contemporary books.

Some of the books you may find useful to start with are:

• Baldwin, Elaine. (2004). Introducing Cultural Studies (1st Ed.). Harlow, England: Prentice Hall.
• Johnson, Richard. (2004). The practice of cultural studies. London; Thousand Oaks, Calif.: SAGE.
• Hartley, John. (2003). A short history of cultural studies. London; Thousand Oaks, Calif.: SAGE. (electronic resource)
• Barker, Chris. (2002). Making sense of cultural studies: central problems and critical debates. London: SAGE.
• Media and cultural studies:keywork. (2001). Meenakshi Gigi Durham and Douglas M.Kellner (Eds). Malden, Mass.: Blackwell Publishers.

Theses

SU  E-Theses - from the thesis catalog you can find the thesis that have been produced at the Sabanci University.

Theses & Dissertations Catalog is an e-resources link to thesis written in universities all around the world.

Finding articles

BASE (Bielefeld Academic Search Engine) - it is a search engine, that searches other databases based in different countries in the world. It has intellectual criteria for the material and it returns only scientifically relevant web resources.

Berkeley Electronic Press - it includes journals, institutional repositories, subject matter repositories, working paper series, and editorial management software.

European Library- at this site you can find scholarly information on European Union countries.  Through this site you can search several libraries in the EU zone as well; it can be quite helpful if you are doing research on European culture.

Findarticles.com - contains articles from the back issues of over 900 magazines, journals, trade publications and newspapers.

Infomine Scholarly Internet Resource Collections- is a comprehensive virtual library and reference tool for academic and scholarly Internet resources, including Web sites and databases.

Oxford E-Prints - the digital library is still being developed, not very rich, but you can find country specific study material.

Voice of the Shuttle http://vos.ucsb.edu/index.asp is an academic research portal where you can find primary and secondary literature on several social science fields including also cultural studies. Its scope is broad and both beginners and specialists in the field can find useful sources in this website.

Journal Databases

Databases, whose names are given below, cover most of the publications made on the subject of cultural studies. The time coverage is excellent, you can find articles published 100 years ago (if you are interested in a historical research) and the abstract of an article that will be published next month. But the best thing is that you don't have to look them up individually because the IC provides you with Metasearch, an engine which checks all these databases at once.  This is the paradise of journal search. 

Project Muse provides "100% full-text, affordable and user-friendly online access to over 300 high quality humanities, arts, and social sciences journals from 60 scholarly publishers". It contains only complete, full-text versions of titles from many of the world's leading university presses and scholarly societies. The only drawback, the full-text articles date after 1995, and this is valid only for some journals. It has a better coverage of articles from 2000s onwards.

Academic Search Complete is one of the databases contained inside Ebscohost.  It contains "indexing for more than 8,100 journals, with full text for nearly 4,500 of those titles. PDF backfiles to 1975 or further are available for well over one hundred journals, and searchable cited references are provided for 1,000 titles". It covers several fields both in social and natural science. Currently it contains 8,144 Abstracted and Indexed Journals; 4,493 Full Text Journals; 6,959 Peer-Reviewed, Abstracted and Indexed Journals; 3,638 Peer-Reviewed, Full Text Journals. But also author supplied abstracts, author supplied keywords, author affiliations, author e-mail addresses, and searchable cited references.

Cambridge University Press (CUP) Cambridge Journals Online currently has 160,529 articles from 256 leading peer-reviewed academic journals. They cover a wide range of topics and fields. It offers all the advantages of restricted search, full text, abstracts and cross-referencing.

JSTOR Arts & Sciences I Collection includes the complete back runs of 119 titles in fifteen disciplines. It was first established in 1997, and it is JSTOR's first collection and includes many of the core research and society published journals in economics, history, political science, and sociology, as well as in other key fields in the humanities and social sciences. Cultural studies as a filed is quite interdisciplinary and you may profit very much form looking at databases that feature articles form different disciplines.

JSTOR Arts & Sciences II Collection contains 125 titles. This collection increases the number of journals that featured in the disciplines introduced in Arts & Sciences I, such as economics, history, and Asian studies. It also adds core journals in the fields of archaeology, classics, and African, Latin American, Middle Eastern, and Slavic studies, which may be particularly relevant for Cultural Studies.

JSTOR Arts & Sciences III Collection contains 150 titles. It is particularly advisable for Cultural Studies because of its richness in materials on music, film studies, folklore, performing arts, religion, and the history and study of art.

Oxford University Press Journals is a database that provides access to its journals. Its social sciences and humanities collection is wide both in terms of its subjects and in terms of time periods covered. Here you can find publications more than 150 years old.

SAGE Journals Online gives online access to over 460, which are its own publications. To make your research easier and more effective it provides the opportunity of restricting your search and also has cross-referencing options.

SCIRUS (Elsevier) it is a search engine that gives quick access to the latest reports, peer-reviewed articles, patents, pre prints and journals. It has a good coverage, it searches more than 3 million science related pages. 

Web of Science is an integrated Web-based platform, which provides high-quality content and tools to access and analyze information. It is primarily a citation database which offers such facilities as links to full text, citation alerts, table of contents alerts, personal journal lists and personal bibliographic management which make the following of the journals you may be interested in easier.

Wiley InterScience Journals- in this database you can find journal articles, e-books, databases, reference work and current protocols. Wiley InterScience now also includes journal content formerly on Blackwell Synergy, providing access to more than 3 million articles across 1400 journals.

Important newspapers

• Hurriyet Gazetesi
• Milliyet Gazetesi
• Radikal Gazetesi
• Zaman Gazetesi
• Turkish Daily News
• Turkish Media Com
• New York Times
• The Guardian
• Resmi Gazete Basbakanlik

News networks

NTV/ CNBC- One of the most serious news sources in Turkish. Contains a link to news from Turkey in English as well. http://www.ntvmsnbc.com/news/default.asp?cp1=1

CNN Website but also CNN Turk- news in Turkish. No links to English but contains a link to international news.http://www.cnnturk.com/

TRT- The official national television in Turkey. The resource of the news is from the Anatolia Agency, the national news gathering-distributing agency. http://www.trt.net.tr/wwwtrt/haber.aspx

http://www.tumgazeteler.com/ - all news in Turkish newspapers, it an online meta-newspaper. The webpage is new; some links are still being developed

Anadolu Agency- news agency; AA's news stories cover a large spectrum extending from politics to health, parliament news to economy, cultural and artistic activities to sports and science and technology to education. http://www.aa.com.tr/

Videos and DVD

• Warrior marks [VHS Videorecording] / Women Make Movies ; a Hauer  Rawlence production in association with Our Daughters Have Mothers Inc. for Channel 4. New York, NY : Distributed by Women Make Movies, 1993.  GN484 .W37 1993
• La Nouba des femmes du mont-Chenoua [VHS Videorecording]/ Assia Djebar. New York: Women Make Movies, 1977. HQ1791.5 .N68 1977
• The Wind will carry us [DVD Videorecording]/ MK2 productions ; directed by Abbas Kiarostami ; screenplay, Abbas Kiarostami ; produced by Marin Karmitz, Abbas Kiarostami. [New York, NY] : New Yorker Video, c2002. PN1997 .W558 2002       
• Frida Kahlo [DVD Videorecording] / Estudios Xystus. Mexico : Estudios Xystus, 2003. ND259.K33 F75 2003.
• The Hours [DVD videorecording] / Paramount Pictures and Miramax Films ; Hollywood, California: Paramount Pictures, c2002.  PN1997 .H685 2002 DVD.
• Raise the red lantern [DVD Videorecording] = Da hong deng long  gao gao gua. Studio City, CA : Razor Digital Entertainment, c2005. PN1997 .R353 2005 DVD.
• The second awakening of Christina Klages [VHS Videorecording] /  Cinéma Esperanca ; Filmverlag der Autoren ; directed by Margarethe Von Trotta, Luisa Francia. [New York] : Waterbearer Films, c1997. PN1997 .S4278 1997 video.
• The vagina monologues [DVD Videorecording] / Home Box Office ; written and performed by Eve Ensler. New York : HBO Home Video, c2002. PN1997 .V345 2002 DVD.
• Je, tu, il, elle [VHS Videorecording] = I, you, he, she / réalisation, Chantal Anne Akerman. Los Angeles, CA : Video World Artists, c1990. PN1997 .J4 1990 video.
• The life of David Gale [DVD Videorecording] / writer, Charles Randolph ; director, Alan Parker. Universal City, CA : Universal, 2003. PN1997 .L54 2003 DVD.
• Who's Counting? Marilyn warring on sex, lies and Global Economics [VHS Videorecording] / National Film Board of Canada (NFB) ; directed by Terre Nash. Oley, PA : Bullfrog Films, c1995. HQ1190 .W46 1995 video.
• Peace by peace [DVD Videorecording] : women on the frontlines /  produced by Lisa Hepner, Nisma Zaman ; directed by Lisa Hepner, Patricia Smith Melton. Vienna, Va. : Peace X Peace, 2003. JZ5578 .P43 2003 DVD.
• Only about woman [VHS Videorecording] Chicago: International Historic Films, 1997. HQ1665.15 .O55 1997 video.
• Adem ile Havva'dan gunumuze: kadin ile erkek [VHS Videorecording]/ yazan, yoneten Z. Tulin Sertoz.  Ankara: TRT Ankara Televizyonu, 1993. HQ830.A3 A24 1993 video.
• Two women [DVD Videorecording] / producer, Carlo Ponti ; director, Vittorio De Sica ; screenplay, Cesare Zavattini.  Los Angeles, CA : LaserLight DVD, c2000. PN1997 .T969 2000 DVD.

Special Interest Groups

Media education http://www.mediaed.org.uk/ is concerned with understanding how the media work and how they communicate information and entertainment. It also aims to help people learn to develop the skills to use the media effectively to communicate their own ideas.

Center for Media Literacy http://www.medialit.org/about_cml.html is a nonprofit educational organization that provides leadership, public education, professional development and educational resources. It works to help citizens, especially the young, develop critical thinking and media production skills needed to live fully in the 21st century media culture. The ultimate goal is to make wise choices possible.  

The Centre for Media Research http://cmr.ulster.ac.uk/ aims to be new kind of venue for Media Studies research in which questions of media history, media policy, media technologies, cross-cultural flows and new media developments are being explored in diverse ways within Irish, British and international contexts.

United Nations Development Fund for Women - http://Www.Unifem.Org/ - at this webpage you can find useful reports on the state of women and gender issues from different regions of the world. The reports are the results of projects financed by UNIFEM.

Turk Media http://www.turkmedya.com/ covers major news networks and newspapers in Turkey. From this page you can have immediate access to any of them.

Coalition Against Trafficking in Women (CATW) http://www.catwinternational.org/ - is the website of a non-governmental organization dedicated to fighting sexual exploitation, especially prostitution and trafficking in women. It includes publications, statements, testimony, fact sheets, links to related sites, and more.

DIANA: International Human Rights Database  http://www.law-lib.utoronto.ca/Diana/    this is a collaborative database of electronic materials essential to human rights research. DIANA is located at the University of Toronto's Law Library and is devoted to Women's Human Rights. It includes a rich, well-organized set of links for legal research; documents from governmental and non-governmental organizations; and a bibliography of women's human rights documents.

Gender Forum  http://www.genderforum.uni-koeln.de/index.html  it is an electronic journal which focuses on gender and postcolonial/intercultural issues, gender and the media, and queer studies.  At this webpage, besides the articles you can also find article reviews, feedback and discussions from readers.

Global List of Women's Organisations - in this site you will find a list of women's organization all around the world. It includes non-profit organizations and the list is not full, but the details provided, when available, can be useful.

Information and Communication Technologies and Gender Seminar Series - this is a series associated with the World Bank and focuses on the relation between information and communication technologies and gender relations. At this site you can find materials for presentations usable in seminars, and even video recordings.

Karamah: Muslim Women Lawyers for Human Rights - http://www.karamah.org/home.htm this site focuses on human rights of Muslim women at the domestic level and in the public sphere. Here you can find legal information, civil rights projects and print publications; the location of the organization is in United States.

Middle East & Islamic Studies Collection: Women & Gender Issues - this site is hosted by the library of the Cornell University; it offers links to news articles, essays, and other online material about women and gender in the Middle East.

Siyanda - Mainstreaming Gender Equity - http://www.siyanda.org/  Siyanda website is an online database of gender and development materials, such as reports, articles, international experts, and consultants but at this site it is also possible to interact with practitioners and share ideas, experiences, and resources.

Stop Violence Against Women http://www.amnestyusa.org/stopviolence/index.do the site is sponsored by the human rights organization Amnesty International and it supplies news, action alerts, reports, and other resources for stopping violence against women around the world.

Women Immigrants 1945 to the Present: A Bibliography http://pages.towson.edu/hofstet/  Eleanore Hofstetter has provided this multidisciplinary bibliography to supplement and update her book Women in Global Migration, 1945-2000: A Comprehensive Multidisciplinary Bibliography. The update includes books, journals, essays, government reports and doctoral dissertations; they treat "all aspects of the lives and issues concerning women who are living permanently or for long periods outside their country of origin or who have migrated for fixed periods of time on work contracts." The update is organized into a title and author list and several broad subject areas, including Demography, Economics, Education, Health, Law, Personal Narratives, Religion, and more.

Blogs and Email lists

Academic-Resources http://www.neww.org/en.php/home/index/0.html sponsored by the Network of East-West Women, carries calls for papers, academic conference and publication announcements, and other gender scholarship resources, preferably but not exclusively about the CEE/NIS region.

ACT GLOBAL http://www.wcwonline.org/projects/title.php?id=77 is a list about domestic violence, sponsored by the Women's Rights Network. The discussion will be focused on brainstorming about difficult issues, effective strategies, and information sharing, and planning for joint global actions.

Balkan Women and Friends http://groups.yahoo.com/group/BalkanWomen/ - is a list for exchanges of information between social scientists and others who conduct research women in the Balkans. It also welcomes the participation of others concerned with the situation of women in Balkan societies. It circulates information about on-going and completed research, publications, journals, conferences, calls for papers, jobs, etc. For more information or to subscribe, see the BalkanWomen web page.

EQ-UNI http://www.helsinki.fi/tasa-arvo/suomi/equni.html  is a moderated list for all those interested discussing and sharing information on gender equality in higher education in Europe from practical and theoretical points of view. The list's emphasis is on identifying strategies and good practices for the enhancement of gender equality in higher education. To subscribe, send the message

FEMALE-L (FEMinistische ALternativE) http://www.frauen.jku.at/ is a German-language Women's Studies list based in Austria. Messages in German or English are invited about feminist research and teaching, information about conferences, new books, and other announcements, other online sources of Women's Studies materials, etc. It is hoped that people from many countries and continents will participate.

GENEROURBAN http://www.generourban.org/  is a forum for discussion and networking about gender and city planning, women in the cities, research-action, practice and policies. Based in Madrid, Spain, the list welcomes messages in Spanish and will also accept them in French or English. For more information or to subscribe, see the Spanish-language GENEROURBAN web page.

VALUWOMEN http://lighthouse.valdosta.edu/mailman/listinfo/valuwomen   encourages discussion of women's issues on a broad range of topics, from politics to literature to film and film theory. Maintained by the Women's Studies Program at Valdosta State University, it welcomes academics, community activists, and senior-level undergraduates and graduate students.

WISE-L http://www.helsinki.fi/akka-info/wise-l/guide.html#13 is a forum for European women's studies, including the exchange of information, syllabi, and bibliographies and discussion of program development, European or national policy issues, and political and theoretical debates concerning women's studies. The list is open to all practitioners doing women's studies in Europe or working on European topics, and to others interested in discussing these topics.

Encyclopedias, handbooks and dictionaries

• Encyclopedia of Postmodernism. (2001).Victor E. Taylor and Charles E. Winquist (Eds.). London ; New York : Routledge.  
• Minahan, James. (2002). Encyclopedia of the Stateless Nations: Ethnic and National Groups around the World. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press.
• Routledge encyclopedia of narrative theory. (2005).David Herman, Manfred Jahn and Marie-Laure Ryan (Eds.). London ; New York : Routledge.
• Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy - http://plato.stanford.edu/
• Columbia Encyclopedia  - http://www.bartleby.com/65/
• Snodgrass, Mary Ellen. (2006). Encyclopedia of Feminist Literature. New York: Facts On File.      
• Historical and Multicultural Encyclopedia of Women's Reproductive Rights in the United States. (2002).  Judith A. Baer (Ed.). Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press [electronic resource]
• Encyclopedia of Feminist Theories. (2002).  Lorraine Code (Ed.). London ; New York : Routledge [electronic resource]
• Rappaport, Helen. (2001). Encyclopedia of Women Social Reformers. Santa Barbara, Calif.: ABC-CLIO.
• Men and Masculinities: a Social, Cultural, and Historical Encyclopedia. (2004). Michael Kimmel and Amy Aronson (Eds.). Santa Barbara, Calif.: ABC-CLIO.
• Women in World History: A Biographical Encyclopedia. (1999/2001). Anne Commire and Deborah Klezmer (Eds.). Waterford, CT: Yorkin Publications
• Conner, Randy P.,  Sparks, David Hatfield, and Sparks, Mariya. (1998). Cassell's Encyclopedia of Queer Myth, Symbol, and Spirit: Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, and Transgender Lore. London ; New York: Cassell
• Contemporary Youth Culture: An International Encyclopedia. (2006). Shirley Steinberg, Priya Parmar, and Birgit Richard (Eds). Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 2006.
• Green, Thomas A. (1997). Folklore: An Encyclopedia of Beliefs, Customs, Tales, Music, and Art. Santa Barbara, Calif.: ABC-CLIO
• Encyclopedia of World Cultures. (1991-1996). David Levinson (Ed.). Boston, Mass.:G.K. Hall.
• Encyclopedia of Twentieth-Century Photography. (2006). Lynne Warren (Ed.). New York: Routledge.
• Davenport, Robert. (2003). The Encyclopedia of War Movies: The Authoritative Guide to Movies about Wars of the Twentieth Century. New York : Facts On File.
• The Garland Encyclopedia of World Music: The Middle East. (2006). Virginia Danielson, Scott Marcus, and Dwight Reynolds (Eds.). Vol. 6, New York : Garland Pub.
• Phillips, Gene D. and Hill, Rodney. (2002). The Encyclopedia of Stanley Kubrick. New York, NY : Facts on File.
• Companion Encyclopedia of Middle Eastern and North African Film. (2001). Oliver Leamamn (Ed.). London ; New York : Routledge.
• Henderson, C. J. (2001). The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction Movies. New York: Checkmark Books.
• The Greenwood Encyclopedia of World Folklore and Folk Life. (2006). William M. Clements (Ed.). Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press.
• Encyclopedia of Asian Culture. (1999). P.N. Chopra and Prabha Chopra (Eds). New Delhi: Vision Books.
• Encyclopedia of Indo-European Culture. (1997). J.P. Mallory and D.Q. Adams. London; Chicago : Fitzroy Dearborn.

You can also consult encyclopedias on contemporary cultures in Russia, Japan, France, United States, Italy, Germany, Spain, and Great Britain. All of them are available in the IC collection.

• Critical terms for literary study. (1995). Frank Lentricchia and Thomas McLaughlin (Eds.). Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
• Humm, Maggie. (1995). The dictionary of feminist theory. Columbus: Ohio State University Press.
• A dictionary of cultural and critical theory. (1996). Michael Payne (Ed.). Oxford, OX, UK; Cambridge, Mass., USA: Blackwell Reference.
• Macey, David. (2000). The Penguin dictionary of critical theory. London: Penguin
• The Routledge companion to critical theory. (2006). Simon Malpas and Paul Wake (Eds.). London; New York: Routledge.
• Tyson, Lois. (1999). Critical theory today: a user-friendly guide. New York: Garland Pub.
• Handbook of critical theory. (1996). David M. Rasmussen (Ed.). Oxford, UK; Cambridge, Mass.: Blackwell Publishers.
• Phillips, John. (2000).  Contested knowledge: a guide to critical theory . New .York: Distributed in the USA exclusively by St. Martin's Press.

Subject Gateways

Women's Studies / Women's Issues Resource Sites

http://research.umbc.edu/~korenman/wmst/links.html is a selective, annotated, listing of web sites containing resources and information about women's studies / women's issues, with an emphasis on sites of particular use to an academic women's studies program.

BRIDGE   is site that supports gender advocacy and mainstreaming efforts by bridging the gaps between theory, policy, and practice with accessible and diverse gender information. It focuses especially on gender and development, it offers a searchable array of publications in such areas as "Conflicts and Emergencies," "Country Profiles," "Economics," "Governance," "Poverty," and Sectors." Some of its resources are also available in French, Spanish, Russian, Arabic and/or Chinese.

Digital Opportunity Channel -  this is a gateway whose mission is "to educate a global audience on the use of information and communication technology (ICT) as a tool for promoting digital opportunity for all..." The site is a portal that highlights news and current trends in ICT for development, as well as issues such as the digital divide and the efforts to tackle it. The site also showcases best practices and provides shared spaces for interested practitioners to network with one another, collaborate on common projects, and campaign for common goals.

Eldis -Eldis Gender Resource Guide is hosted by the Institute for Development Studies at the University of Sussex in England, describes itself as a "gateway to information on development issues." Its valuable Gender Resource Guide offers abundant reports, news, and other material that focus on gender issues internationally.

Intute http://www.intute.ac.uk/ is a free online service providing access to the very best web resources for education and research. All material is evaluated and selected by a network of subject specialists to create the Intute database. At this gateway you can find relevant academic results for cultural studies in general and its subfields in particular.