This guide has been designed to help students in Professor Clark's Composition course.
Here you will find links to databases, books, and other resources that will help you research various cultures.
Provides multidisciplinary articles related to the Caribbean region. Also contains country reports compiled by CountryWatch, covering demographic, political, economic, business, cultural and environmental information. Primarily English-language sources but French and Spanish included as well.
This is a multidisciplinary database that provides a comprehensive guide to English-language articles pertaining to the countries and people of the Caribbean region. Resources include scholarly journals, magazines, newspapers, reports and reference books.
Contains articles and magazines with a multifaceted view of Jewish civilization from its historical origins to the present.
Jewish Studies Source contains over 400 full-text titles. Sources comprising the collection include full-text for leading academic journals within the discipline, monographs, related articles from major periodicals and newspapers, and over 1600 biographies of leading historical and contemporary Jews. This database includes 123 full-text journals & magazines, including 66 that are unavailable from Academic Search . Jewish Studies Source also offers extensive full-text backfiles. In addition, Jewish Studies Source contains the entire Jewish Telegraphic Agency database from 1922 to present.
Contains research related to the countries and people of the Middle East, Central Asia, and North Africa with coverage spanning from 1900 to present. Includes scholarly and policy research.
Middle Eastern & Central Asian Studies, produced by NISC, is a systematic and non-evaluative bibliographic index of research, policy and scholarly discourse on the countries and peoples of the Middle East, Central Asia and North Africa. This database contains more than 639,000 records and coverage spans from 1900 and earlier to present.
JSTOR is an interdisciplinary archive of over one thousand leading academic journals from the humanities, social sciences, and sciences, as well as select monographs and other materials valuable for academic work.
JSTOR is an interdisciplinary archive of over one thousand leading academic journals from the humanities, social sciences, and sciences, as well as select monographs and other materials valuable for academic work. It is full-text searchable and includes images. There are embargos of between 3-5 years for most journal titles. Journals are always included from volume 1, issue 1.
Contains articles covering world history from 1450 to present (excluding U.S. and Canada).
Historical Abstracts is a reference guide to the history of the world from 1450 to the present (excluding North America, which is covered in America: History and Life). Historical Abstracts indexes key historical journals from virtually every major country, plus a targeted selection of hundreds of journals in the social sciences and humanities that are of special interest to researchers and students of history.
Historical Abstracts also cites new books reviewed in key English-language history and review journals. Dissertation citations relevant to the subject scope are derived from Dissertation Abstracts International.
Subject keywords: History. Multicultural Studies. Sociology. Psychology. Women's Studies/Gender Studies. Religion. Anthropology. Political Science. History of Science, Economics, Business, Education, Music, Art, and Law.
Contains research on every dimension of security & counter-terrorism. Includes scholarly journals and reports from the Congressional Research Service and Homeland Security.
The International Security & Counter Terrorism Reference Center (ISCTRC) contains information on virtually every dimension of security & counter-terrorism and is designed to inform the analysis process, as well as enhance the general understanding of security and terrorism-related issues, combining deep background from scholarly writings with expert commentary from a variety of organizations, agencies and publisher and timely reviews of recent developments across the international political, military, economic, social and technical spectrum. ISCTRC provides a comprehensive Open Source Intelligence Resource for analysts, risk management professionals, and students. Content includes hundreds of full text journals and periodicals, hundreds of thousands of selected articles, news feeds, reports, summaries, books, FAQs, and proprietary Background Information Summaries that pertain to terrorism and security.
Covers peace and conflict resolution research. Topics include nonviolence, war, international affairs and peace psychology. Contains journal articles, books, government documents, and speeches.
Covers areas related to ethnic and racial studies, including discrimination, immigration studies, and more.
Contains articles from political science journals from every region of the world. Covers areas of political science, political communications, international relations, international law, human rights, conflict studies, and ethnic studies.
International Political Science Abstracts includes current indexing and abstracts from over 1000 of the world's leading journals in political science.
Covers all aspects of national and global public policy issues. Topics include public health, the environment, housing, civil rights, and international commerce.
Public Affairs Index draws from a diverse array of carefully selected scholarly journals, conference papers, trade publications and government documents. It provides up-to-date information on a broad range of public policy topics of concern to the world today.
Index and abstracts for publications covering Women's Studies.
Women's Studies International covers the core disciplines in Women's Studies to the latest scholarship in feminist research. This database covers over 2,000 periodicals and nearly 800 other essential sources, including journals, newspapers, newsletters, bulletins, books, book chapters, proceedings, reports, theses, dissertations, NGO studies, Web sites & Web documents, and grey literature. Women's Studies International supports curriculum development in the areas of sociology, history, political science & economy, public policy, international relations, arts & humanities, business and education.
Provides full-text scholarly and popular sources on film and television studies.
Film & Television Literature Index is the online resource for film and television research. It is a comprehensive bibliographic and full text database covering the entire spectrum of television and film. Subject coverage includes film & television theory, preservation & restoration, writing, production, cinematography, technical aspects, and reviews. The database provides cover-to-cover indexing and abstracts for more than 270 publications (and selected coverage of more than 300), as well as full text for more than 70 journals and nearly 50 books. The database has been designed for use by a diverse audience that includes film scholars, college students, and general viewers.
When researching foreign films, consider all the different spellings for your keywords.
For example, when researching Sophie Scholl, consider researching using the keyword White Rose and its German spelling, Weisse Rose or Die Weiße Rose.
Museum websites and university archives can also be useful sources for your research.