Electronic Databases
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- Academic Search Premier Abstracts and full text journal articles in all subject categories from more than 4,650 journals.
- African American Music Reference 50,000 pages of text reference, biographies, chronologies, sheet music, images, lyrics, liner notes, and discographies which chronicle the diverse history and culture of the African American experience through music. A comprehensive coverage of blues, jazz, spirituals, civil rights songs, slave songs, minstrelsy, rhythm and blues, gospel, and other forms of black American musical expression.
- Alternative Press Index Indexes journals covering cultural, economic, political and social change.
- America: History and Life More than 2,000 international journals covering U.S. and Canadian history. Includes some journals dealing with the history of a few foreign countries.
- Black Drama 1850 to Present 1200 plays by 201 playwrites, together with detailed, fielded information on related productions, theaters, production companies, and more.
- Early Encounters in North America: Peoples, Cultures and the Environment More than 100,000 pages of letters, diaries, memoirs and accounts of early encounters.
- Education Full Text Subject coverage includes all areas of education ranging from multicultural education to computer technology. Full text.
- Eighteenth Century Collections Online Provides access to the digital images of every page of 150,000 English-language books published during the 18th Century. With full-text searching of approximately 26 million pages, the product allows researchers new methods of access to critical information in the fields of history, literature, religion, law, fine arts, science and more.
- Global Perspectives on Design and Culture This database was designed to support classes taught in the areas of living environments, including landscape; interiors; furniture; textiles and household objects within a global outlook.
- Journal of Women & Minorities in Science & Engineering "Publishes original, peer-reviewed papers that report innovative ideas and programs for classroom teachers, scientific studies, and formulation of concepts related to the education, recruitment, and retention of under-represented groups in science and engineering."
NOTE: Full text access begins with Vol. 14, Issue 1 (2008). Only the table of contents are accessible from older issues.
- JSTOR: Arts and Sciences Collections 1 & 2; Biological Sciences collection Archives of scholarly electronic journals in Sociology, Political Science, Economics, Mathematics, History; Ecology, botony, evolutionary biology, plant and animal sciences, paleontology, and conservation.
- LexisNexis Academic Provides access to 6,000 news, business, legal and reference information. Some full text.
- MLA Directory of Periodicals "Offers detailed information on over 7,100 journals, with 4,400 currently indexed in the International Bibliography. The detailed entries include editorial contact information, as well as frequency, circulation, subscription prices and submission guidelines."
- MLA International Bibliography "A bibliography of journal articles, books and dissertations. Produced by the Modern Language Association, the electronic version of the bibliography dates back to the 1920s and contains over 1.8 million citations from more than 4,400 journals and series and 1,000 book publishers."
- North American Immigrant Letters, Diaries, and Oral Histories "Immigrant Letters, Diaries and Oral Histories includes 2,162 authors and approximately 100,000 pages of information, providing a unique and personal view of what it meant to immigrate to America and Canada between 1800 and 1950."
- PsycArticles Provides full text articles on current issues in psychology from respected sources, spanning from 1987 to the present. Includes more than 34,000 full-text articles from 43 journals published by American Psychological Association and allied organizations. All journals included in this database are indexed in PsycINFO.
- PsycINFO Abstracts from over 1300 psychology journals.
- SAGE Journals Online SAGE publishes over 470 journals in Business, Humanities, Social Sciences, Science, Technology and Medicine.
Full-Text is available for articles that have been published SINCE 1999.
- Social Sciences Full Text Index to social science journals. Full text.
- Social Sciences Citation Index A citation index which can be searched by author, topic or citation.
- Twentieth Century Advice Literature: North American Guides on Race, Gender, Sex, and the Family "The collection provides a window into American social history by bringing together the instructional, prescriptive, behavioral, and etiquette literature that defined standards of personal conduct for millions of Americans and reflected the prevailing social mores across the twentieth century."
- General Electronic Databases
Comprehensive Sites on Ethnic Studies
- American Folklife Center: Library of Congress
- Center for Immigration Studies Nonprofit organization which studies the economic, social, demographic, and fiscal impacts of population movements.
- CEO-Center for Equal Opportunity CEO is a project of the Equal Opportunity Foundation, a non-profit research institution.
- Ellis Island "Peopling of America"
- Ethnic Studies Database Provides lists of visual artists, films, writers and musicians for ethnic groups in the U.S.
- Ethnographic Resources Related to Folklore, Anthropology, Ethnomusicology, and the Humanities from the Library of Congress
- Indigenous Studies Virtual Library From the Center for World Indigenous Studies and the Chief George Manuel Library
- Institute on Race and Ethnicity University of Wisconsin System
- Interracial Voice "Monthly newsletter dealing with transcending the bodily concept of identity..."
- Migration Information Source From the Migration Policy Institute, this site offers information and links for research on immigration, both in the U.S. and abroad.
- Minority Affairs Forum Maintained by Dr. Norman Matloff from the University of California at Davis. This site is devoted to education about minority-related issues.
- NARA: U.S. National Archives and Records Administration
- Population Profile of the United States U.S. Census Bureau
- Public History Resource Center "The Public History Resource Center exists to support, promote, and disseminate the scholarly and professional work of public historians."
- STANDARDS: The International Journal of Multicultural Studies
- Voices of Civil Rights Providing personal accounts of modern Civil Rights movements participants, this web site is a collaborative effort of the American Association of Retired Persons, the Leadership Conference on Civil Rights, and the Library of Congress.
- Voice of the Shuttle: Minority Studies Page Covers general minority studies issues. Maintained by Alan Liu at the University of California at Santa Barbara.
- World Heritage Committee The committee is dedicated to "preserving the cultural and natural heritage of Earth for future generations".
African American or Black American Sites
- Africa Focus: Sights and Sounds of a Continent University of Wisconsin Digital Collections
- Africa: South of the Sahara Stanford University
- The African American Experience in Ohio, 1850-1920 Ohio Historical Society
- African American Odyssey: A Quest for Full Citizenship Library of Congress
- African American Perspectives: Pamphlets from the Daniel A.P. Murray Collection, 1818-1907 Library of Congress
- African American Sheet Music: 1850-1920 Library of Congress
- African American Studies Temple University
- African American Theses and Dissertations University of California, Berkeley
- African American Women Writers of the 19th Century New York Public Library Digital Library Collections
- African Americans and National Identities in Central America Mount Holyoke College
- African Americans in Visual Arts: A Historical Perspective B. Davis Schwartz Memorial Library, Long Island University
- The African Presence in the Americas, 1492-1992 Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, New York Public Library
- African Studies Columbia University Libraries
- Africana Studies & Research Center Cornell University
- Africans in America This site features America's journey through slavery, 1450-1865 from PBS, including primary source documents, visuals, and biographies.
- American Slave Narratives: An Online Anthology
- American Visionaries: Fredrick Douglas This site is from the National Park Service and contains abolitionist Douglass's writings, visuals, and a virtual tour of the Douglass historic site in Washington, D.C.
- Black History Quest Comprehensive gateway to African and African American history, culture, and society.
- Black Members of the United States Congress, 1870-2008 This site is from the Congressional Research Service, Library of Congress.
- Black Voices Web site which reflects the diverse concerns of people of African descent.
- BlackPast.org: Remembered and Reclaimed Online reference guide to African American history.
- Booker T. Washington Papers Complete contents, text, and illustrations, published by the University of Illinois Press and scholar Louis R. Harlan.
- Celebrating Black History Visit this site to find profiles and biographies on current and historic African Americans and black history topics from Time magazine.
- Civil Rights in Mississippi Digital Archive This site provides access to written and audiovisual primary resources.
- Civil Rights Movement Veterans Including a "roll call of veterans" with updated contact information, memories, reflections, and even poetry, this web site promises to be "of, by, and for Civil Rights Movement Veterans".
- Documenting the American South By the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Academic Affairs Library
- Frederick Douglass Papers at the Library of Congress
- Harlem History From Columbia University and its 250th anniversary celebration, this extensive web site highlights American and African American culture, history, political activism, and artistic endeavors that have and continue to spring from and thrive in Harlem.
- History of Jim Crow Explore the complex African- American experience of segregation from the 1870s-1950s.
- Information Resources on Africa American Studies from Stanford University
- "I Will Be Heard": Abolitionism in America This website offers primary sources, historical antislavery archival materials in the Cornell University Library.
- Javanoir Select guide to African American Resources on the Internet.
- Malcolm X Project at Columbia University Site promotes study of the impact of Malcolm X on the U.S.
- Marian Anderson: A Life in Song From the University of Pennsylvania, this site offers information and interview clips on the renowned opera singer who lived 1897-1993.
- Martin Luther King, Jr., Research and Education Institute Stanford University offers information on the life and accomplishments of the eminent civil rights activist.
- Minority Links: Facts on the Black or African American Population
- Powerful Days in Black and White From the Kodak corporation, this site offers scenes and portraits that photojournalist Charles Moore captured during the civil rights movement.
- Roadmap to African-American and Diversity Resources (ARAADR)
- Sonja Haynes Stone Center Library for Black Culture and History Guide to the Web From the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, this site is a searchable guide to hundreds of web sites, organized by 30 subjects.
- Virginia Black History Archives The VBHA Project documents the history of African Americans in the Richmond Virginia area.
- We Shall Overcome For the virtual or actual traveler, this web site offers an itinerary of historic places of the Civil Rights Movement.
Asian American and Pacific Islander Sites
Belgian American Site
Canadian Site
- Our Roots Canadian libraries and universities collaborate with many organizations to digitize Canadian local history books in English and French. Full text searching is available for each book.
Hispanic/Latino Sites
- Arte Publico Press Recovering the U.S. Hispanic Literacy Heritage, University of Houston
- Barahona Center / Centro Barhona For the study of books in Spanish for children and adolescents.
- Benson Latin American Collection: Biblio Noticias Series University of Texas at Austin
- Centro de Estudios Puertorriquenos, Hunter College Study and interpretation of the Puerto Rican experience in the U.S.
- Chicano Studies Collections, Ethnic Studies Library, UC Berkeley
- Dominican Studies Institute, CUNY
- Hispanic Heritage Foundation Identifies, inspires, and promotes Latino leaders
- Hispanic Research Center, Arizona State University
- HLAS Online (Handbook of Latin American Studies) List of works on Latin America selected and annotated by scholars each year. Continuously published since 1935, the Handbook is an essential guide to available resources.
- IUPLR: Inter-University Program for Latino Research
- Julian Samora Research Institute
- Latin American Video Archives (LAVA)
- LatinoWeb Many helpful links, including scholarship opportunities and employers seeking bilingual Latino candidates
- Minority Links: Facts on the Hispanic or Latino Population
- NALEO Educational Fund (National Association of Latino Elected and Appointed Officials)
- Tomas Rivera Policy Center Focuses on key issues affecting Latino Communities.
- UCLA Chicano Studies Research Center Library: Chicano Online Document Index
Jewish American Sites
Native American Sites
- Aboriginal Canada Portal From directories of services and organizations to employment and cultural history, this website is available in English and French.
- Alaska's Digital Archives A wealth of historical photographs and oral histories from libraries, museums, and institutions throughout Alaska.
- American Indians of the Pacific Northwest from the University of Washington Libraries and the Library of Congress
- Chief George Manuel Memorial Library and the Fourth World Documentation Archive From the Center for World Indigenous Studies, this web site offers searching and downloading of 30 years of archived documents which record the struggles of indigenous peoples to regain their rightful place in the international community. Documents address legal, social, economic, cultural, and human rights issues.
- Index of Native American Resources on the Internet
- Indian Peoples of the Northern Great Plains
- indianz.com News and collaboration web site.
- Menominee Clans Story Sponsored by the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point
- Minority Links: Facts on the American Indian and Alaska Native Population by the U.S. Census Bureau
- National Congress of American Indians The NCAI is a forum for more than 250 tribal governments from all regions in the United States.
- National Tribal Justice Resource Center Comprehensive site dedicated to tribal justice systems, personnel, and tribal law. Project of the National American Indian Court Judges Association.
- Native American Documents Project The California State University, San Marcos provides nearly 200 documents, indexes, and explanatory articles relating to the Rogue River War.
- NativeWeb Resources for Indigenous Cultures around the world
- We the People: American Indians and Alaska Natives in the United States: Census 2000 Special Reports
Related Sites from the UW System
Ethnic Studies at UW-Platteville
- The Ethnic Studies Office is located in 315 Warner Hall, and the contact person is Rosalyn Broussard. For a listing of courses or for more information on this program, call (608) 342-1805.
- Kay Young is the Karrmann Library's liaison to the Ethnic Studies program. Contact Kay at (608) 342-1134 for individualized consultations and/or library instruction sessions in ethnic studies. Her e-mail address is young@uwplatt.edu.