Library

Article and Reference Databases

Chicano Studies Results

* Includes Peer Reviewed Content

ARTstor (Provider: Andrew W. Mellon Foundation)
Description: image database covering art, architecture, design, archaeology, and more

CountryWatch (Provider: CountryWatch)
Description: info on the world's countries.

CQ Historic Documents (Provider: CQ Press)
Description: primary source material dating back to 1972. Includes the texts of significant speeches, Supreme Court decisions, international agreements, and scientific findings

Ethnic NewsWatch* (Provider: Proquest)
Description: Articles published by ethnic and minority presses

Literature Resource Center* (Provider: Gale)
Description: literary criticism, plot summaries, author biographies, bibliographies, links to web resources, and more

SocINDEX with Full Text* (Provider: EBSCO)
Description: A collection of sociology books and journals covering gender and ethnic studies, religion, criminology, marriage and family, social psychology, and more.

Article Databases (multiple subjects)

EBSCOhost* (Provider: Ebsco)
Description: Combined search of Ebsco’s academic, general, health, business, and vocational journal databases. Includes scholarly and peer reviewed articles as well as general interest magazines and consumer information.

JSTOR* (Provider: JSTOR)
Description: An archive of full-text articles from over 400 scholarly journals. JSTOR does not include the most recent few years of the journals.

ProQuest Newspapers (Provider: Proquest)
Description: "offers full-text access to over 850 regional, national, and international newspapers including the Los Angeles Times, New York Times, Washington Post, and the Times of London."

ProQuest* (Provider: Proquest)
Description: Combined search of Proquest’s academic, general, health, business, and vocational journal databases. Includes scholarly and peer reviewed articles as well as general interest magazines and consumer information.

Reference Databases (multiple subjects)

Biography Reference Bank (Provider: EBSCO)
Description: Covers over 500,000 people and includes over 36,000 images. Includes biographical profiles, feature articles, interviews, essays, book reviews, performance reviews, speeches and obituaries.

Funk & Wagnalls New World Encyclopedia (Provider: Ebsco)
Description: Basic-level, general encyclopedia.

Gale Virtual Reference Library (Provider: Gale)
Description: multi-subject reference guides and encyclopedias

Oxford English Dictionary (Provider: Oxford)
Description: definitions, pronunciation, and history of the English language

Oxford Reference Online (Provider: Oxford)
Description: contains over 125 reference works published by Oxford University Press

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