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Recommended Databases for Ethnic Studies

Academic OneFile (Gale)
Peer-reviewed, full-text PDF and HTML articles from many journals and reference sources. Covers the sciences, technology, medicine, the arts, theology, literature and other subjects.
Academic Search Complete (EBSCOhost)
A full text database for scholarly publications and peer-reviewed journals. Coverage spans virtually every area of academic study.
ERIC (EBSCOhost)
Index to research articles, government and independent reports and conference papers covering all areas of education at all levels.
1966-present. Includes thesaurus searching, links to the OSU Libraries Online Catalog and full text document service (EDRS), where applicable (via the Locate Document button).
1966-present. Links are provided for full text articles and documents.
1966-present. Index and Abstracts plus links to the EDRS collection.

Concurrent Users: unlimited
Coverage Dates: 1966 - present
Structural racism and police violence : causes, impact, and reform
The work of social and behavioral scientists is crucial in helping to dismantle mechanisms of discrimination, oppression, and violence and create a radically improved society. This collection shares freely accessible articles to support researchers in future scholarship and amplify their critical work; educators as they discuss the impacts of systemic racism with students; and policymakers and advocates in their fight to make sweeping reform.

Ethnic NewsWatch (ProQuest)
OSU Libraries subscribes to the back file of Ethnic NewsWatch™ (ENW). ENW features newspapers, magazines, and journals of the ethnic and minority press, providing researchers access to essential, often overlooked perspectives. With titles dating from 1990, ENW presents a comprehensive, full-text collection of more than 300 publications offering both national and regional coverage. While the content may mirror mainstream media coverage, the viewpoints are decidedly unique. Ethnic NewsWatch delivers hundreds of ethnocentric publications. The voices of the Asian-American, Jewish, African-American, Native-American, Arab-American, Eastern-European, and multi-ethnic communities can be heard.
Coverage Dates: 1959 - 1989

Gender Issues and Sexuality: Social Issues Primary Sources Collection
Provides insight into the personal, social, and political issues of gender and sexuality--issues that range from intimate matters of personal belief to matters that profoundly shape modern society.
Coverage Dates: - 2006

Historical Abstracts with Full Text (EBSCOhost)
Historical Abstracts is an exceptional resource that covers the history of the world (excluding the United States and Canada) from 1450 to the present, including world history, military history, women's history, history of education, and more - essential for libraries supporting upper-division and graduate research. This authoritative database provides indexing of more than 1,700 academic historical journals in over 40 languages back to 1955.
Historical Statistics of the United States (Cambridge)
This is the fourth edition of Historical Statistics of the United States. The U.S. Bureau of the Census published the prior editions in 1949, 1960, and 1975, the last known as the Bicentennial Edition. Cambridge University Press publishes this, the Millennial Edition, with the permission of the Census Bureau. Some of the data and table documentation presented here are used without explicit quotation, but with permission, from the earlier editions.
Coverage Dates: 1610 - 2000

Immigration and Multiculturalism: Social Issues Primary Sources Collection
Offers insight into two centuries of global changes in populations and cultures.
Coverage Dates: - 2006

Northwest Digital Archives (NWDA)
Northwest Digital Archives (NWDA) provides enhanced access to archival and manuscript materials in Idaho, Montana, Oregon, and Washington through a union database of Encoded Archival Description (EAD) finding aids. NWDA was established in June 2002 through grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) and the National Historical Publications and Records Commission (NHPRC). Phase I was successfully completed in December 2004. The database currently contains more than 2,500 finding aids.
Coverage Dates: - present

Oxford Encyclopedia of Latinos & Latinas in the United States
This landmark scholarly work offers comprehensive, reliable, and accessible information about the fastest growing minority population in the United States. With an unprecedented scope and cutting-edge scholarship, the Encyclopedia draws together the diverse historical and contemporary experiences in the United States of Latinos and Latinas from Mexico, Puerto Rico, Cuba, the Dominican Republic, Central America, South America, Europe, Asia, and the Middle East. Over 900 A-to-Z articles written by academics, scholars, writers, artists, and journalists, address such broad topics as identity, art, politics, religion, education, health, and history. The Encyclopedia fills a void in the historical scholarship of an underserved population.
Coverage Dates: - 2005
Alternative Press Index
Alternative Press Index (API) indexes journal, newspaper, and magazine articles from over 300 international alternative, radical, and left periodicals. API covers theories and practices of socialism and revolution along with the topics of Ecology, Democracy and Anarchism, Feminism and Organized Labor, Indigenous Peoples and Gays/Lesbians.
Coverage Dates: 1991 - present

America's Historical Newspapers (Newsbank)
Also known as Early American Newspapers, Series I, 1690-1876. This historical collection contains hundreds of historic newspapers listed in Clarence Brigham's authoritative bibliography and in additional subsequent bibliographies. Coverage: 1690-1876.

Concurrent Users: unlimited
Coverage Dates: 1690 - 1876