- HAPI - A searchable index of citations to articles and documents covering Central and South America, Latin America, Mexico, the Caribbean, U.S.-Mexico border region, and Hispanics in the United States.
Subject area(s): ['Humanities', 'Social Sciences']. Covers: 1970 - present
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- CSA Illumina - Choose from any of the 30+ databases provided by CSA (formerly Cambridge Scientific Abstracts.) Cross-database searching is allowed.
- Type CSA/Illumina in the search box.
- Select Humanities OR Social Sciences from the subject drop down box located directly under the green search button.
- Select or deselect individual databases from the link labeled "specific databases" next to the drop down box.
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- LRC - The searchable database provides full-text access to biographies, bibliographies, and critical analyses of authors from classical antiquity to the present. Subjects include novelists, poets, essayists, journalists, and other writers.
Subject area(s): Humanities. Covers: Antiquity-present.
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- LION - searchable library of poetry, prose,drama,literary reference texts,and author biographies.Contains the full-text of over 260,000 works. Subject area(s): Humanities.
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- MLA -this searchable database contains citations for articles, books, and book chapters in literature,languages, linguistics and folklore. Subject area(s): Humanities.
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- Expanded Academic - Infotrac - EA ASAP from Infotrac, formerly known as the Magazine and Journal Articles database or MAGS, contains citations for articles in popular magazines and scholarly journals in the humanities, social sciences, and general sciences. Legal, business, and health journals are also included. Many records have abstracts and full text.
Subject area(s): ['Art and Art History', 'General Subjects', 'Humanities', 'Science and Engineering', 'Social Sciences']. Covers: 1980-present.
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- AnthroSource - searchable database of journal articles published by the American Anthropological Association.
Subject area(s): Social Sciences
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- CWI (Contemporary Women's Issues) - global information about women, full-text, multidisciplinary.
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- Women's Studies International - contains citations and abstracts of historical and current research in Women's Studies with a foucs on health and international issues.
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- Historical Abstracts OR America History and Life - Contains citations and abstracts for works covering the history of the world from 1450 to the present. Historical coverage of the United States and Canada, from prehistory to the present. Contains citations and abstracts for articles, book and media reviews, and dissertations. The database also includes CLIO Notes, which guides the user through chronologies and brief summaries of significant events and themes in American history.
Subject area(s): ['Humanities', 'Social Sciences']. Covers: Articles written 1964 - present.
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| Select the Newspaper link from the library research page for a list of on-line newspaper options, historical and current. |
Just as in the databases, Cruzcat may not use the terminology you use to describe your topic. Instead of femicide, try homicide, for example. Generate a list of synonyms for your terms, then try them as keywords in Cruzcat. Take note of the subject headings and link from them.
- Start with a keyword search in Cruzcat. Use the keywords you gathered through searching in the encyclopedias and web pages in Cruzcat. Make note of the subjects Cruzcat uses to describe your topic; link from the subject headings to find more potentially relevant titles. Use the modify or limit/sort button to focus your search.
- Send successful searches to your email account - put the keywords or subject terms you used in the message line to remind yourself of how you found the item(s).
Some sample subject headings based on topics submitted:
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Mexican American Women - Study and Teaching
- Mexican American Women - Social Conditions
- Mexican American Women - Ethnic Identity
- Hispanic American Women
- Crimes Against Women (Mexico)
- Family Violence (Cross-Cultural Studies)
- Cross-Cultural Counseling
- Midwives (Latin America, United States, Legal Status, History Social Aspects)
- Childbirth (Social Aspects)
- Natural Childbirth
- Birth Customs
- Sex Role
- Motherhood (Cross-Cultural Studies, Social Aspects, History, Philosophy)
- Madre de la Plaza de Mayo (Association)
- Body Art
- Tattoing (Cross Cultural Studies Or Social Aspects)
- Body Marking
- Feminism Latin America
- Melancholy Social Aspects
- Women Comedians
- Women in Art
- Feminist Criticism
- Feminism and the Arts
- Mothers and Daughters
- Women in Popular Culture
- Guadalupe, Our Lady of
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