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Table of Contents:
 Top Picks
Discipline-Specific Databases (articles etc.)
Related Databases (articles etc.)
Journals
Newspapers
Reference Resources
Subject Directories
Additional Internet Resources
Save time! Search once for your topic in dozens of research databases.
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Indexes journals covering cultural, economic, political & social change.
Coverage is international and interdisciplinary. Indexes nearly 300 alternative, radical and left periodicals, newspapers and magazines.
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Ethnic NewsWatch is an interdisciplinary, bilingual (English and Spanish) and comprehensive full text database of the newspapers, magazines and journals of the ethnic, minority and native press. Designed to provide the "other side of the story," ENW titles offer additional viewpoints from those proffered by the mainstream press.
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HAPI is your source for authoritative, worldwide information about Central and South America, Mexico, the Caribbean basin, the United States-Mexico border region, and Hispanics in the United States. From analyses of current political, economic, and social issues to unique coverage of Latin American arts and letters, HAPI Online contains complete bibliographic citations to articles, book reviews, documents, original literary works, and other materials appearing in more than 500 key social science and humanities journals published throughout the world.
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Public Affairs Information Service (PAIS) indexes public affairs literature of public affairs including current issues within communities, countries, and government. PAIS provides access to the practical literature of political science. PAIS contains references to journal articles, books, government documents, statistical directories, research reports, conference reports, publications of international agencies, and Internet sites.
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Social Sciences Abstracts is a bibliographic database that indexes and abstracts articles of at least one column in length from English-language periodicals published in the United States and elsewhere. Coverage includes a wide range of interdisciplinary fields covered in a broad array of social sciences journals. Abstracting coverage begins with periodicals published in January 1994. Abstracts range from 50 to 300 words and describe the content and scope of the source articles.
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Academic Search Premier,designed specifically for academic institutions, is the world's largest scholarly, multi-disciplinary full text database containing full text for nearly 4,700 publications, including more than 3,600 peer-reviewed publications. In addition to the full text, this database offers indexing and abstracts for nearly 8,200 journals in the collection. This scholarly collection offers information in nearly every area of academic study including: computer sciences, engineering, physics, chemistry, language and linguistics, arts & literature, medical sciences, ethnic studies, and many more.
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America: History and Life is an index of literature covering the history and culture of the United States and Canada, from prehistory to the present. Has indexing for 1,700 journals from 1964 to present. The database also includes citations and links to book and media reviews.
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Since 1932, Annual Reviews has offered comprehensive, timely collections of critical reviews written by leading scientists. Annual Reviews volumes are published each year for 32 focused disciplines within the Biomedical, Physical, and Social Sciences.
Annual Reviews is a nonprofit organization whose mission is to provide the worldwide scientific community with a useful and intelligent synthesis of the primary research literature for a broad spectrum of scientific disciplines.
Annual Reviews publications are among the most highly cited in scientific literature. All Annual Reviews series are ranked within the top ten publications for their respective disciplines.
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Selectively covers masters theses and dissertations including dissertations from Canada, Great Britain, and Europe.
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Unmatched content, usability and service make EBSCOhost® databases the most-used online information resources for millions of researchers in thousands of institutions worldwide.
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FindArticles is a vast archive of research-quality published articles. You will find articles on a range of topics, including business, health, society, entertainment, sports and more. FindArticles has articles from thousands of resources, with archives dating back to 1984.
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Historical Abstracts is your complete reference guide to the history of the world from 1450 to the present (excluding the United States and Canada, which are covered in America: History and Life). This database is packed with annotated references to information on topics from the Renaissance to Tiananmen Square?over half a million entries in all.
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JSTOR is a not-for-profit organization with a dual mission to create and maintain a trusted archive of important scholarly journals, and to provide access to these journals as widely as possible. JSTOR offers both multidisciplinary and discipline-specific collections, covering such topics as Business, Language & Literature, Mathematics & Statistics, Music, Ecology & Botany. JSTOR is not a current issues database. Because of JSTOR's archival mission, there is a gap, typically from 1 to 5 years, between the most recently published journal issue and the content available in JSTOR.
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LexisNexis® Academic provides searchable access to a comprehensive spectrum of full-text information from over 5,600 sources, selected to meet academic research needs, including: national and regional newspapers, wire services, broadcast transcripts, international news, and non-English language sources; U.S. Federal and state case law, codes, regulations, legal news, law reviews, and international legal information; Shepard?s® Citations for all U.S. Supreme Court cases back to 1789; Business news journals, company financial information, SEC filings and reports, and industry and market news
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NetLibrary offers access to the full text of reference, scholarly, and professional books. NetLibrary eBooks are digital full-text versions of books such as reference works, scholarly monographs, literature and fiction, and 3,400 publicly-accessible titles.
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Project Muse® offers nearly 200 journal titles from some 30 scholarly publishers, covering the fields of literature and criticism, history, the visual and performing arts, cultural studies, education, political science, gender studies, economics, and many others.
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The journal's interests are broad-ranging and cover the linguistic areas of Spanish, Portuguese, Galician, Catalan, Basque and Amerindian. While contributions are mainly in the areas of literature, linguistics, cultural history, film and visual arts, cultural and gender studies, it likes to reflect and engage with all aspects of 'Hispanic Studies', both traditional and modern. All articles are peer-reviewed to maintain the journal's reputation for outstanding academic quality.
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CALLALOO, the premier African Diaspora literary journal, publishes original works by, and critical studies of, black writers worldwide. The journal offers a rich mixture of fiction, poetry, plays, critical essays, cultural studies, interviews, and visual art. Frequent annotated bibliographies, special thematic issues, and original art and photography are some of the features of this highly acclaimed international showcase of arts and letters.
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A multidisciplinary, bilingual, refereed publication that welcomes scholarly articles in the humanities and the social and natural sciences, as well as interpretive essays, interviews, fiction, reviews and art, CENTRO reflects developments in the field of Puerto Rican studies.
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Hs-SH publishes articles, research notes, book reviews, and other material that contribute to social history in Canada and elsewhere. The journal is interested in all types of social phenomena - cultural, political, economic, or demographic - without methodological, temporal or geographic restrictions. The journal gives priority to studies that explicitly integrate different subfields of social history and are innovative in sources, method or interpretation.
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Human Rights Quarterly is widely recognizedas the leader in the field of human rights. Articles written by experts from around the world and from a range of disciplines are edited to be understood by the intelligent reader. The Quarterly provides up-to-date information on important developments within the United Nations and regional human rights organizations, both governmental and non-governmental.
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Click on Regional & Travel/Africa and browse annotated links to free electronic journals, or search for africa or other desired term and get additional appropriate links.
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The mission of the journal is to expand current conversations on race and ethnicity by working across geographical and disciplinary boundaries and the theory/practice divide.
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Romani
Studies features articles on the cultures of groups traditionally known as Gypsies as well as Travellers and other peripatetic groups. These groups include, among others, those referring to themselves as Rom, Roma, Romanichels, Sinti and Travellers. The journal publishes articles in history, anthropology, sociology, linguistics, art, literature, folklore and music, as well as reviews of books and audiovisual materials.
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Since 1967, Latin American Newsletters (LAN) has been a source of intelligence on political and economic developments in Latin America and the Caribbean.
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Includes video descriptions and vendor information.
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The Handbook is a bibliography on Latin America consisting of works selected and annotated by scholars. Edited by the Hispanic Division of the Library of Congress, the multidisciplinary Handbook alternates annually between the social sciences and the humanities. Each year, more than 130 academics from around the world choose over 5,000 works for inclusion in the Handbook.
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Find books, exhibits, genealogy, periodicals, photographs and more.
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This project offers students and teachers an innovative approach to learning about the role of Mexican-American, Puerto Rican, Cuban, Central and South American women in U.S. history. The interactive website uses sound, animation, photographs, timelines, biographies and links to primary and secondary sources to tell stories about those who shaped America's past and present.
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Includes Meta-Indexes & General Directories, University Library Subject Guides, The Reference Desk, Databases, Environmental Studies, Economics & Development, Language Resources, Literature & Culture, Libraries & Print Archives, Centers, Additional Sites of Interest.
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Nearly 100 sites, some in Spanish, alphabetically arranged. Major sites appear on list highlighted. Covers historical and contemporary materials. Each entry includes brief annotation. Links kept up to date and new sites are noted.
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Latinamericalinks.com is a gateway to information about Latin America on the internet.
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The Latin American collection contains over 300,000 volumes and 1,500 serial titles, along with manuscripts, oral histories, maps, prints, microform materials and a variety of electronic resources.
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Includes Meta-Indexes & General Directories and National & Country Histories.
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A well organized site, set up like Yahoo. Major headings include Countries, Economy, Education, Government, Humanities, Internet & Computing, Libraries & Reference, Media & Communication, Recreation, Regional Resources Science, Social Sciences, Society & Culture, Sustainable Development. Good for research as well as everyday questions.
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Select a country or try a topic such as Arts and Humanities, Business and Economy, Government, Health, Society and Culture.
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Within this site, teachers and students can read biographies of significant Hispanic individuals; take a Hispanic culture quiz; follow a timeline of events that helped shape the Hispanic culture; explore Hispanic holidays, musical genres and other topics with information culled from Thomson Gale resources; visit other pertinent sites and find suggestions for further readings.
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From the UCLA's Chicano Studies Research Center, includes a library, museum, community center, employment center, research center, statistics center, and student center.
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The Archives of American Art pays tribute to Mexican artist Frida Kahlo (1907-1954) and her enduring influence on American art. Photographs and letters selected from several Archives provide a glimpse into Kahlo's public and private life and reveal the relationships and events that impacted her life and her art.
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An Internet-based news service in English about Latin America, publishing in-depth coverage of Latin American affairs since 1986. Search archive of 23,000 articles. RetaNet includes lesson plans about Latin America designed for secondary school teachers, and a teaching materials and resources database.
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Join IGC net and get access to dozens of discussion groups focused on political and social issues.
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Un servicio gratuito mediante el cual podrás enviar y recibir e-mail desde cualquier sitio y desde cualquier computador.
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A source for cultural information. In Spanish.
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The Political Database of the Americas (PDBA) is a non-governmental project of the Center for Latin American Studies (CLAS) at Georgetown University in collaboration with the Department of Democratic and Political Affairs of the Organization of American States, and with the support of other institutions in the region. It offers centralized and systematized information about institutions and political processes, national constitutions, branches of government, elections, political constitutional studies and other subjects related to the strengthening of democracy in the region.
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The SocioSite is designed to get access to information and resources which are relevant for sociologists and other social scientists. It has been designed from a global point of view - it gives access to the world wide scene of social sciences.
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Promotes human rights, democracy, and social and economic justice in Latin America and the Caribbean. Includes links to publications.
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