UMass Amherst Libraries Research Databases

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Cultural & Area Studies

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Native American Indian Studies Research Guide

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Bibliography of Native North Americans Star

Covers books, essays, journal articles, and government documents on native North American history and culture from pre-history to the present, 1800-present.
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Ethnic NewsWatch & ENW: A History Star

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Full-text articles from newspapers, magazines and journals of ethnic communities in the United States. In several languages, 1965-present.
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America: History and Life Star

Citations and abstracts for journal articles, dissertations, and book reviews relating to United States and Canadian history and prehistory, 1954-present.
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Anthropology Plus Star

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The scholarly literature of archeology and anthropology (biological, physical, linguistic, social and cultural) in several languages, late 1800s to present.
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EHRAF World Cultures Star

Thousands of ethnographies originally published as articles, books and dissertations. Its indexing traces social features across cultures, 1983-present.
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Additional Databases in Cultural & Area Studies > Native American Studies

Academic Search Premier
A good starting point: articles from key journals in many scholarly disciplines, with some trade journals and magazines, 1975-present.
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Arts and Humanities Citation Index
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Provides a search by cited reference, topic, author, and more for articles in almost all important English-language arts and humanities journals, 1975-present.
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Dissertations and Theses @ UMass Amherst

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UMass Amherst dissertations in full text from 1997-present.
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EHRAF Archaeology
Archaeology books, journal articles, and dissertations describing prehistoric life and archaeological sites across the world, 1983-present.
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Encyclopedia of United States Indian Policy and Law
Covers history, politics and sociology of U.S./Native American relations
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ERIC
Education journal articles (EJ references) and ERIC documents (ED references), 1967-present. EDs before 1997 are in Microforms, Floor 3. Public access version.
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International Political Science Abstracts
Citations to articles from international political science periodicals, 1951-present.

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IPSA

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JSTOR
Core scholarly journals from a range of disciplines, dating from the earliest issue of each journal to a few years before present.
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Literature Resource Center
A large collection of literature reference material, including criticism and author biographies.
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MLA International Bibliography
An index to journal articles and other scholarly literature on literature, literary theory and criticism, linguistics, folklore, and (since 1996) film, 1920’s -
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Social Sciences Citation Index
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Provides indexing and citation tracking for journals in all the social sciences, 1956-present.
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