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Resources

Editing Wikipedia articles, uploading to Wikimedia, and contributing to Wikidata all require outside resources and materials. We have compiled some resources that will help you start on your Wikipedia efforts!

Harvard Library Research Guides

• Federal Government Resources Research Guide
• African American Library Resources at Harvard Research Guide
• Research Guide for History
• Women's History Databases & E-Resources Research Guide
• General Harvard History Research Guide
• Harvard University Archives Online Resources Research Guide
• Activist Resources Research Guide
• Archives of Women in Medicine Research Guide
• American Presidency Research Guide
• News & Media Studies Research Guide
• Finding Biographical Information Research Guide
• State and Local Government Resources Research Guide

E-books

• Google Books
• Project Gutenberg
• Internet Archive
• Digital Public Library of America
• HathiTrust

Databases

• Harvard Library Database Search
• Women's History Databases
• Gender & Sexuality Databases
• Culinary & Food History Databases
• Databases with Schlesinger Library Content
• Government, Political Science, and International Relations Databases

Women's History Databases

• Women and Social Movements International
• Women and Social Movements in the United States
• Newspaper databases
• Women Working, 1800-1930
• Gender Watch
• Women Writers Online
• Biography & Genealogy Master Index
• Reader's Guide Retrospective

Public Domain Images

• Finding Public Domain Images
• Creative Commons Image Search
• Wikimedia Commons
• Use of non-free images on Wikipedia
• Uploading Images - Fair Use
• Upload image from Flickr Commons

Wikipedia & the Gender Gap

• Closing Wikipedia’s Gender Gap — Reluctantly
• If you care about women, you should edit Wikipedia differently
• Define Gender Gap? Look Up Wikipedia’s Contributor List
• The Never-ending Night of Wikipedia’s Notable Woman Problem
• Wikimedia Foundation: Gender Gap
• Unlocking the Clubhouse: Five Ways to Encourage Women to Edit Wikipedia
• Wikimedia Foundation: Gender Gap Manifesto
• Wikipedia's gender gap and the complicated reality of systemic gender bias
• How To Be A Woman On The Internet
• Feminist Cybersecurity
• The heart work of wikipedia: Gendered, emotional labor in the world's largest online encyclopedia
• Some of all human knowledge: Gender and participation in peer production
• Conflict, criticism, or confidence: An empirical examination of the gender gap in wikipedia contributions
• Passing on: Reader-sourcing gender diversity in Wikipedia
• First women, second sex: Gender bias in Wikipedia