Central American Studies

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Chicano Database: Over 59,000 items on Mexican-American and Chicano topics. 1960-
Academic Search Elite (EBSCO): Abstracts to 3,000 journals (over 1,500 peer-reviewed journals), with full text to more than 2,000 of the journals. Dates may vary, most from 1985-
Ethnic NewsWatch + Ethnic NewsWatch: A History (ProQuest): Full-text collection of the ethnic, minority, and native press. Over 270 titles, 1960-
General OneFile (Gale): Indexes over 9,700 journals; full text to over 5,000 journals, 1980-
HAPI Online: Hispanic American Periodicals Index: Indexes more than 500 key social science and humanities journals published throughout the world. Many of the citations are linked to full text. 1970-
ProQuest Newspapers: Full text access to over 600 US and international newspapers, hundreds of other news wires and news sources. Dates vary.
Hispanic American Newspapers, 1808-1980: Digital archive of Spanish-language newspapers printed in the U.S. during the 19th and 20th centuries. Features hundreds of titles, many published bilingually in Spanish and English.
JSTOR Latin American Studies: Comprehensive archive of back issues of core scholarly journals in Latin American studies.

America: History & Life (EBSCO): Indexes 1,700 journals as well as dissertations on the history and culture of the United States and Canada. 1964-
CountryWatch: News, statistics and trends for 192 countries.
CQ Researcher: Explores a single hot issue in the news in depth each week. Topics range from social and teen issues to environment, health, education, and science and technology.
GenderWatch: Publications that focus on the impact of gender across a broad spectrum of subject areas, 1970-
JSTOR: Comprehensive archive of back issues of core scholarly journals in the arts, business, humanities, sciences and social sciences.
LexisNexis Academic: Full-text database containing news, legal, business, and medical information. Dates vary.
Google Scholar: Searches for scholarly materials such as peer-reviewed articles, theses, books, preprints, abstracts and reports across many disciplines and sources. Freely available; however, many of the links that lead to full text resources are not. On your first visit go to Google Scholar Preferences and use the Library Links box to set CSUN as the source for no-fee access to many full text articles.

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