Databases and Journals - Cultural Competence Certificate

Key Resources

Cultural Competency Resources (Medical)
Hardin Health Sciences Library's Cultural Competency resources page. Focus on clinical resources.

Academic Search Elite This link opens in a new window
This 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.

Getting Articles
Options for getting journal articles whether they are available online or only in print.
Campus Delivery Options
Delivery Off-Campus
Scanned Articles and chapters
The UI Libraries will scan printed articles and chapters from print books for you.

Sociological Abstracts
Excellent database covering journals related to society, sociology and cultural interaction.

Academic Search Elite This link opens in a new window
This 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, offers full text information dating as far back as 1985. Updated daily.
Black Studies Center This link opens in a new window
Combines three invaluable resources for research and teaching in Black Studies: Schomburg Studies on the Black Experience, International Index of Black Periodicals (IIBP), and The Chicago Defender.
Chicano Database This link opens in a new window
A comprehensive bibliographic index for all types of material about Mexican-Americans. Extensive coverage from the 1960s to the present, with selective coverage dating back to the early 1900s.

AltPressWatch
Alternative Press
Ethnic NewsWatch
Ethnic 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.
GenderWatch
Primarily a full text database with some abstracts that contains periodicals, academic journals, newsletters, magazines, regional publications, and government reports focused on gender and women's issues.

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