Try the ETHNIC NEWSWATCH Database for your Research Needs
ETHNIC NEWSWATCH is a database the Library subscribes to and includes full-text newspapers, magazines, and journals of the ethnic and minority press. The database also contains Ethnic NewsWatch: A History, which provides historical coverage of Native American, African American, and Hispanic American periodicals from 1959-1989. This database includes a unique variety of community publications not found in other databases.
More about Ethnic NewsWatch:
• Nearly a quarter of the articles included in Ethnic NewsWatch since 1989 are in Spanish, making Ethnic NewsWatch an unmatched bilingual database.
• Excellent coverage of major ethnicities including: African American, Hispanic, Jewish, Asian, and Native peoples – all primarily from their own presses. Other ethnicities and cultural groups are monitored as they develop their own presses, and these new publications are targeted. Kurdish titles and new Muslim community titles have been recently added.
• The resource allows voices of the Asian American, Jewish, African American, Native American, Arab American, Eastern European, and multi-ethnic communities to be heard, as well as cultural groups within these categories, such as Kurdish communities.
• The only periodical resource that is multi-ethnic and multi-cultural in scope and the only resource that provides access to unique ethnic, cultural, and community presses. Most of the publications cannot be found in the usual large aggregated databases.
• Provides information and opinions on topics not covered in mainstream publications.
• It is primarily a full-text resource, reducing frustration for the end user at reaching dead ends.
• Inclusion of selected dissertations and working papers, providing context and facilitating deeper research into the issues and topics of ethnic studies.
• Ethnic NewsWatch: A History provides backfile access from 1959-1989 with 1.3 million full-text articles.
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