Campus Cultural Resources
Campus offices and organizations to connect with different cultures.
- UI International Programslook through A-Z list for individual international student organizations.
Cultural Research Resources
Databases and websites to learn more about different cultures.
- Academic Search Elite This link opens in a new windowThis multi-disciplinary database offers full text for nearly 2,000 scholarly journals, including more than 1,500 peer-reviewed titles. Covering virtually every area of academic study, Academic Search Elite offers full text information dating as far back as 1985. This database is updated on a daily basis.
- eHRAF World Cultures This link opens in a new windowSince 1949 the Human Relations Area Files at Yale University has collected and indexed nearly 1,000,000 pages of information on cultures of the world both past and present. Not all HRAF content is online, but the UI Libraries does hold material that is still in microform.
- North American Indian Thought and Culture This link opens in a new windowThis database includes autobiographies and biographies, letters, diaries, speeches, oral histories, and images documenting the history of Native Americans from 1492 to the present.
- Ethnographic Video Online This link opens in a new windowIntended to be a visual encyclopedia of human behavior and culture, online in streaming video. Contains a growing number of classic and contemporary documentaries; previously unpublished footage from working anthropologists and ethnographers in the field; and select feature films. Includes footage from every continent and hundreds of unique cultures.
- Smithsonian Global Sound This link opens in a new windowSmithsonian Global Sound is a network of international cultural institutions working to preserve and distribute music from archives worldwide, and to foster appreciation for traditional music.
- Ethnic NewsWatchEthnic NewsWatch is an interdisciplinary, bilingual (English and Spanish) and comprehensive full text database of the newspapers, magazines and journals of the ethnic, minority and native press.
- Oxford African-American Studies CenterComprehensive collection of scholarship focused on the lives and events which have shaped African American and African history and culture, coupled with precise search and browse capabilities. Features over 7,500 articles from Oxford's reference works, approximately 100 primary sources with specially written commentaries, over 1,300 images, over 100 maps, over 200 charts and tables, timelines to guide researchers through the history of African Americans and over 6,000 biographies. The core conte
Arts Resources
Databases and other tools to find culturally relevant works of art.
- Oxford Art Online This link opens in a new windowA scholarly art encyclopedia covering all aspects of Western and non-Western visual art
- Grove Music Online This link opens in a new windowIncludes the Oxford Dictionary of Music, Grove Music Online, and the Oxford Companion to Music
- Office of Visual Material (UI School of Art & Art History)Try the OVM Database - All Records - Slides and Digital Images
- UI Art Library Web ResourcesArt and Art History websites selected by the UI Art Librarian.
- Music Online This link opens in a new windowMost comprehensive database in streaming audio, video, reference, and scores on the web.Single cross-searchable platform that can potentially cross-search any combination of subscribed databases. When complete, Music Online will offer more than 400,000 audio tracks, 400,000 scores, 100,000 pages of music reference, and over 500 hours of video. Every object in the collection is indexed for subjects, historical events, genres, people, cultural groups, places, time periods, ensembles. As a result, students and scholars can combine keyword and fielded search capabilities to frame creative and highly targeted queries. Users can also select to view a single database by using the dropdown menu at the bottom of the homepage of Music Online.
- Naxos Music Library This link opens in a new window...offers the catalogs of more than 50 classical, jazz and world music labels with more labels joining every month
- Naxos Music Library Jazz This link opens in a new windowIncludes the Fantasy Jazz collection, which is different content than the jazz included in Naxos Music Library.