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Books & Media Search

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Borinquena
Edgardo Miranda-Rodriquez
PN6790.P934 .B675 2018 (Main)
Comics and memory in Latin America
Jorge L. Catala-Carrasco
(ebook)
Darkroom
Lila Quintero Weaver
(ebook)
Graphic borders: Latino comic books...
Frederick Luis Aldama
PN6790.L29 .G73 2016 (Main)
Graphic indigeneity: comics in...
Frederick Luis Aldama
(ebook)
Latinx superheroes in mainstream comics
Frederick Luis Aldama
PN6725 .A37 2017 (Main)
Multicultural comics
Frederick Luis Aldama
(ebook)
Your brain on Latino comics
Gus Arriola
PN6725 .A38 2009 (Main and ebook)

Article Search

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EBSCO OneSearch

Pros

One stop shopping
Searches multiple databases
Searches almost everything we own
Good for finding a needle in a hay stack
Provides citations for items found

Cons

Results can be overwhelming
Subject words are not uniform across databases
Finds more false hits

Library Databases

Below are listed some of the library databases you can use to find information and statistics about places:

General Databases for Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles and Magazine & Newspaper Articles:

Academic Search Ultimate This link opens in a new window Comprehensive scholarly, multi-disciplinary full-text database, with more than 11,000 full-text periodicals.
JSTOR This link opens in a new window JSTOR offers full-text journal coverage in the social sciences and humanities. Examples of disciplines covered are: history, economics, Asian studies, classics, archaeology. African, Latin American, Slavic, Middle Eastern studies, the literary cultures of many different countries. The lag time in publication ranges from 3 and 5 years. Updated in an ongoing basis.
ProQuest Research Library This link opens in a new window Research Library provides access to full-text journals across a wide range of subject areas, including business, education, literature, political science, and psychology with 2,600 active Research Library sources-- over 1,700 are available in full text. Over 1,600, in full image. Coverage 1971 to the present.
Social Sciences Citation Index This link opens in a new window Social Sciences Citation Index, accessed via Web of Science®, provides users with access to the bibliographic and citation information they need to find research data, analyze trends, journals and researchers, and share their findings. Includes essential data from over 1,950 of the world's leading social sciences journals across 50 disciplines, as well as 3,500 of the world's leading scientific and technical journals. Coverage: 1900 - Current
Sociology Source Ultimate This link opens in a new window Sociology Source Ultimate (formerly SocINDEX) is the world's most comprehensive and highest quality sociology research database. The database includes 3,278 active indexed and abstracted journals. 3,145 of them are peer-reviewed.
Taylor & Francis Social Sciences & Humanities Library This link opens in a new window The Social Sciences & Humanities Library provides access to over 1,400 journals spanning a broad range of academic disciplines.

Specialty Databases: Business and Legal Information:

HeinOnline This link opens in a new window HeinOnline’s Government, Politics & Law contains more than 80 million pages of content across 80,000 titles and 195,000 volumes. HeinOnline bridges the gap in history by providing comprehensive coverage from inception of more than 2,300 periodicals. In addition to its vast collection of journals, the database also contains the Congressional Record bound volumes in entirety, complete coverage of the U.S. Reports back to 1754, constitutions for every country in the world, classic books from the 18th & 19th centuries, all United States Treaties, the Federal Register and CFR from inception, and much more!
Newspaper Source This link opens in a new window Newspaper Source provides selected full text coverage for more than 240 newspaper, such as, cover-to-cover full text for USA Today, The Christian Science Monitor and The Times (London) as well as selected full text from more than 180 regional newspapers. Updated daily.

In addition to company and industry profiles, business magazines and journals and lots of statistics, Business Source includes journals and trade publications for the tourism and hospitality industries which you may find helpful