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Arts, Humanities & Social Sciences — Interdisciplinary Humanities & Social Sciences
Chicano/a Studies

Librarian Subject Specialist

Roberto Delgadillo
rdelgadillo@ucdavis.edu — (530) 752‑8266 — Humanities, Social Sciences, and Government Information Services (http://www.lib.ucdavis.edu/dept/hss/)

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Subject Specific Databases

Alternative Press Index & Archive [via OCLC] (http://uclibs.org/PID/49179) [Restricted] VPN
Alternative Press Index covers over 700 alternative, radical and left periodicals, newspapers and magazines covering cultural, economic, political & social change. The Archive indexes the years 1969-1990. For 1990-present, select "AltPressIndex" from the "Search in Database" field. To cross-search both, click on the tab labeled "Databases," then select AltPressIndex and AltPressIndexArchive.
Coverage: 1969-present
Related:
  • The print version of Alternative Press Index is available in Humanities/Social Sciences Reference, 2nd floor Shields Library, HM101.A1 A4
Chicano Database [via Eureka/RLG] (http://uclibs.org/pid/9574) [Restricted] VPN
Records for all types of materials in the areas of Mexican-American topics and Latino cultures.
Coverage: 1967-present
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Contemporary Women's Issues
The subscription to this database has been canceled. The research abstracted here can largely be accessed by searching "Women's Studies International" and other social and political science databases.
Coverage: 1992-present
Ethnic Newswatch (http://uclibs.org/PID/4737) [Restricted] VPN
A full-text collection of the newspapers, magazines and journals of the ethnic, minority and native press in the United States.
Coverage: 1960-present
HAPI Online (Hispanic American Periodicals Index) (http://uclibs.org/PID/16242) [Restricted] VPN
HAPI Online is the searchable Web version of the Hispanic American Periodicals Index. 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 400 key social science and humanities journals published throughout the world
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Left Index [via EBSCO]
THIS DATABASE HAS BEEN CANCELED FOR BUDGETARY REASONS. AS AN ALTERNATIVE, PLEASE TRY "THE ALTERNATIVE PRESS INDEX" DATABASE WHICH COVERS SIMILAR TYPES OF MATERIAL. Citations in diverse literature of the left, with an emphasis on political, economic, social and culturally engaged scholarship inside and outside academia.
Coverage: 1982-present

General Databases

Academic Search Complete [via EBSCO] (http://uclibs.org/PID/126936) [Restricted] VPN
The multi-disciplinary database Academic Search Complete (ASC) provides full-text access to more than 5,500 periodicals, including over 4,600 peer-reviewed journals, and indexing and abstracts for an additional 9,500 journals and 10,000 publications, including monographs, reports, conference proceedings, etc. This scholarly collection offers coverage of information in many areas of academic study including, but not limited to: animal science, anthropology, area studies, astronomy, biology, chemistry, civil engineering, electrical engineering, ethnic & multicultural studies, food science & technology, general science, geography, geology, law, materials science, mathematics, mechanical engineering, music, pharmaceutical sciences, physics, psychology, religion & theology, veterinary science, women's studies, zoology and many other fields. The database features PDF content going back as far as 1887, with the majority of full text titles in native (searchable) PDF format.
Coverage: 1887-present
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Google Scholar (http://scholar.google.com/)
Google Scholar searches for scholarly literature on the web, including "peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, preprints, abstracts and technical reports..from a variety of academic publishers, professional societies, preprint repositories and universities." Google Scholar also analyzes and extracts citations from online documents, so your search results may include citations to older works that are not online. Results are ordered by relevancy. Often articles cited in Google Scholar results are available to UC Davis users through electronic journal and database subscriptions that the Library has licensed and paid for. To assist you in locating print and electronic versions of cited content, the University of California has arranged UC-eLinks in Google Scholar. After setting up UC-eLinks, click on the linked "UC-elinks" phrase, which will open a window from which you can get the full-text, check the library catalog to see if we own a book or journal, or Request an article we don't own.
Related:
  • To see UCe-links from off campus, go to "Scholar Preferences" from the Google Scholar opening screen. Search for "University of California Davis" and then check "University of California, Davis (UC-eLinks)"
  • Online handout (http://www.lib.ucdavis.edu/dept/instruc/files/googlescholar.pdf)PDF
  • Library VPN (http://www.lib.ucdavis.edu/ul/services/connect/)
    When off campus, log into the VPN before using Google Scholar so that you will have access to our many electronic subscriptions.
Sociological Abstracts [via Proquest] (http://search.proquest.com/socabs/advanced) [Restricted] VPN
Sociological Abstracts Database is a primary resource for accessing the latest research sponsored in sociology and related disciplines in the social and behavioral sciences. The database draws information from an international selection of over 2,600 journals and other serials publications, plus conference papers, books, and dissertations. Records added after 1974 contain in-depth and nonevaluative abstracts of journal articles.
Coverage: 1963-present
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Full-Text Resources

Bracero History Archive (http://braceroarchive.org/)
Author: Center for History and New Media at Georgetown University
Started in 1942, the Bracero Program brought millions of Mexican guest workers to the United States, and over the next two decades, more than 4 million Mexicans came to work in the country. This public history resource from the Center for History and New Media at Georgetown University brings together oral histories and artifacts pertaining to the program. Visitors can read the "About" section to learn more about the program and its legacy and then move on to browse the documents. The document archive can be searched in its entirety, or users can also move through areas that include "Images", "Documents", and "Oral Histories". Educators will want to look over the "Teaching" area, as it features three different learning activities which draw on the archive's documents. Also, the "Resources" area includes a video tutorial on how to use the archive effectively and several interview questions for those who might know some former Bracero workers.
Chicano Movement Sacramento (http://artofregionalchange.ucdavis.edu/?page_id=947)
Author: The Art of Regional Change and The Chicana/o Studies Department at UC Davis
As part of a Chicano Movement course, students conducted video interviews with activists who participated in the civil rights struggle in the Sacramento region. By collecting the oral histories of Chicano and Chicana activists in the 1960s and '70s, the course connects classroom learning with living history and, in the process, builds a collective archive of that fight for future generations.
Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations (NDLTD) (http://www.ndltd.org/)

The Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations (NDLTD) is an international organization dedicated to promoting the adoption, creation, use, dissemination and preservation of electronic analogues to the traditional paper-based theses and dissertations.

This website contains information about the initiative, how to set up Electronic Thesis and Dissertation (ETD) programmes, how to create and locate ETDs, and current research in digital libraries related to NDLTD and ETDs.

Project Muse: Scholarly Journals Online (http://uclibs.org/PID/31861) [Restricted] VPN
Project Muse provides full text access to hundreds of journals in the arts, humanities, social sciences and mathematics. It is useful for searching interdisciplinary cultural studies topics. Its full-text search engine permits finer-grained searching than any other index for these journals. Coverage varies by journal.
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Theses Canada (http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/thesescanada/index-e.html)

Theses and dissertations in the Library and Archives of Canada. Full-text theses in PDF format available for some documents. The mission of Theses Canada is to acquire and preserve a comprehensive collection of Canadian theses at the Library and Archives of Canada and provide access to this valuable research within Canada and throughout the world.

As of 2008 there are approximately 300,000 theses and dissertations on microform in Library and Archives Canada's collection. Of these approximately 50,000 are also available electronically.

Virtual Oral/Aural History Archive, Cal State Long Beach (http://salticid.nmc.csulb.edu/cgi-bin/WebObjects/OralAural.woa/wa/collection?ww=1272&wh=832&pt=109)
The Virtual Oral/Aural History Archive of California State University, Long Beach (CSULB). This site provides access to the full audio recordings of oral histories that have been deposited in Special Collections of the CSULB Library - enabling you, the user, to hear the voice, pitch, and rhythm of the narrations as well as the emotions these convey. You will hear the actual spoken words of oral history narrators, rather than seeing a written version of them in the form of a transcript. The collection is strong in Asian American History, Labor History, Chicano/a History, South Asian History and the Music and general local history of Southern California and Long Beach.
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Guides to Electronic, Print, and Other Resources

Borderlands Resources (http://www.lib.ucdavis.edu/dept/hss/resources/guides/borderlands.php)
Guide to databases, full-text resources and print works related to the U.S. - Mexico borderlands region.
Hispanic/Latino Lanic (http://lanic.utexas.edu/la/region/hispanic/)
University of Texas, Latin American Information Network links to Latino/Hispanic sites.
Labor Research Portal: IRLE Library, UC Berkeley (http://www.irle.berkeley.edu/library/index.php?page=4)
This portal, produced by the Institute for Research on Labor and Employment Library at UC Berkeley, gathers guides and databases for research on industrial relations and labor economics, including the topics of immigration and globalization.

Handbooks & Tables

Minority Data Resource Center, The (MDRC) (http://www.icpsr.umich.edu/MDRC/) [Restricted] VPN
Provides data resources from the Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR) that can be used in the analysis of issues affecting racial and ethnic minority populations in the United States.
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Other Resources

Anthropological Review Database ( ARD ) (http://wings.buffalo.edu/ARD/)
This "book review" database for anthropology contains fulltext reviews of anthropology related literature and media. It also contains citations to reviews published in anthropology journals.
Coverage: 1994-present
Chican@ Website Pathfinder (http://atm-info.com/pathfind.html)
Chicano/Latino Studies Films & Videos (http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/MRC/LatinoVid.html)
UC Berkeley Media Resources Center. Documentary and primary source materials related to Chicanos and Latinos.
Ethnic Studies Library, University of California, Berkeley (http://eslibrary.berkeley.edu/)
Department of Ethnic Studies, U.C. Berkeley
Julian Samora Research Institute (http://www.jsri.msu.edu/)
The JULIAN SAMORA RESEARCH INSTITUTE is committed to the generation, transmission, and application of knowledge to serve the needs of Latino communities in the Midwest and beyond. It is a clearinghouse for the policy papers of that institute.
Medline Plus: Gateway to Resources in Hispanic-American Health (http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/hispanicamericanhealth.html)
Medline Plus is the National Library of Medicine (NLM) and National Institute of Health's (NIH's) online gateway to consumer health information. This site organizes resources selected for Hispanic American populations. It contains links to research, new studies, and health news. Researches may also wish to explore PubMed, the main database of the NLM and the NIH.
UC Davis Chicano/a Studies Department (http://chi.ucdavis.edu/)