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Important Databases
- HAPI: Hispanic American Periodicals Index This link opens in a new windowHAPI contains citations to articles published since 1970 in more than 500 scholarly journals treating Latin American or U.S. Hispanic topics. Coverage includes Spanish, Portuguese, English, French, German and Italian language articles.
- Communication and Mass Media Complete This link opens in a new windowRECOMMEND USING CHROME; Combines CommSearch (formerly produced by the National Communication Association (NCA)), and Mass Media Articles Index (formerly produced by Pennsylvania State University).
- Ethnic Newswatch Complete This link opens in a new windowEthnic NewsWatch is a current resource of full-text newspapers, magazines, and journals of the ethnic and minority press, providing researchers access to essential, often overlooked perspectives. The database now also contains Ethnic NewsWatch: A History, which provides historical coverage of Native American, African American, and Hispanic American periodicals from 1959-1989
- Historical Abstracts This link opens in a new windowHistorical Abstracts offers coverage of world history, from 1450 onward, outside the US and Canada. (The companion index for those countries is America: History and Life). Historical Abstracts provides citations with abstracts to articles in over 1,700 journals, published 1954 to the present. It also contains bibliographic citations to books and dissertations. Limited to 6 simultaneous users.
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Books from Beyond the University of Iowa
InfoHawk+ will first return results from the University of Iowa Libraries. As a member of the Big Ten Academic Alliance (it's more than just football!), we also have access to the libraries of other Big Ten universities through UBorrow. Materials requested through UBorrow will arrive and be available for your use in about a week. When searching WorldCat, use the Interlibrary Loan/Article Delivery Request System link in the left column of this guide.
- Uborrow This link opens in a new windowSearch over 90 million books from the collections of 13 research libraries, request, and receive within a week.
- WorldCatWorldCat will help you find books from many libraries in the United States, plus some libraries worldwide.
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Selected Reference Sources
- The borderlands : an encyclopedia of culture and politics on the U.S.-Mexico divideMain Library F786 .B74 2008
- The Cambridge history of the native peoples of the AmericasElectronic resource. Also available in print: Main Reference Collection E77 .C28 1996
- Encyclopedia of Latin American history and culture, 2nd ed.Call number: Main Reference Collection FOLIO F1406 .E53 2008
- Encyclopedia of Latino cultureElectronic resource. Also available in print: Main Library E184.S75 E588 2014
- Encyclopedia of free Blacks and people of color in the AmericasElectronic resource.
- Celebrating Latino folklore: An encyclopedia of cultural traditionsElectronic resource.