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Underground and Independent Comics, Comix, and Graphic Novels
The Underground and Independent Comics, Comix, and Graphic Novels is a primary source database comprised of comic books and graphic novels. The database also provides scholarly resources including: interviews, criticism, and journal articles on comics and graphic novels.
Literature
EBSCOHost Databases (Literature) is a multi-interdisciplinary suite of databases covering the arts, humanities, law, life and health sciences, social sciences, science and technology. Databases contain content from popular magazines, scholarly journals, newspapers, documents, books, reports, conference proceedings, and other digital media. Features Open Cluster Searching. Select -- Academic Search Complete; Academic Search Premier; Humanities Full Text; Humanities International Complete; Literary Reference Center; Literary Reference Center Plus and; MLA International Bibliography.
Wiley-Blackwell Encyclopedia of Literature database provides current and authoritative scholarship in literature and literary studies. The Encyclopedia is comprised of entries from "The Encyclopedia of Literary and Cultural Theory," "The Encyclopedia of the Novel," "The Encyclopedia of Twentieth-Century Fiction," "The Encyclopedia of Romantic Literature," "The Encyclopedia of English Renaissance Literature," and "The Encyclopedia of the Gothic."
Oxford Bibliographies This bibliographic driven database provides access to annotated research guides in African Studies, Childhood Studies, Latino Studies, Music, Public Health and other humanities/social science research areas.
Cambridge Histories Online This historical reference compendium provides digital access to the Cambridge Histories series. Titles include: "Cambridge History of Africa," "Cambridge History of African American Literature," "Cambridge History of African and Caribbean Literature," "Cambridge History of Latin America," and "Cambridge History of South Africa."
Modern Mass Migration
EBSCOHost Databases (Migration) is a multi-interdisciplinary suite of databases covering the arts, humanities, law, life and health sciences, social sciences, science and technology. Databases contain content from popular magazines, scholarly journals, newspapers, documents, books, reports, conference proceedings, and other digital media. Features Open Cluster Searching. Select -- Academic Search Complete; Academic Search Premier; International Political Science Abstracts; Legal Collection; Political Science Complete; Public Affairs Index and; Sociological Collection.
The Encyclopedia of Global Human Migration presents intersecting themes dealing with labor, economics, religion, culture, geopolitics, ethnicity, poverty, famine, natural resources, and war. This vetted resource contains signed articles by academic scholars and each entry contains full citations and bibliographies.
Opposing Viewpoints Opposing Viewpoints in Context contains Greenhaven Press, Gale, Macmillan Reference USA™, Charles Scribner’s Sons® and U•X•L titles. This database provides access to primary source articles, reference material, newspapers, statistics, and images covering current political and social issues.
Ethnic and American Studies
EBSCOhost Databases (Ethnic and American Studies) is a multi-interdisciplinary suite of databases covering the arts, humanities, law, life and health sciences, social sciences, science and technology. Databases contain content from popular magazines, scholarly journals, newspapers, documents, books, reports, conference proceedings, and other digital media. Features Open Cluster Searching, Select -- Academic Search Complete; Academic Search Premier; Alternative Press Index (API); America: History & Life; Caribbean Search; Chicano Database; LGBT Life with Full Text; Political Science Complete (PSC); Race Relations Abstracts; and Women's Studies International.
The Encyclopedia of Global Studies covers transnational topics and intellectual approaches to the study of the diaspora of cultures and dispersion of peoples; the global impact of environmental, technological and health; the globalization of economies and technologies; the issues related to a global civil society and; the transnational aspects of social and political change.
Pop Culture Universe Database is a diverse interdisciplinary resource covering; arts and visual culture, business and advertising, ethnic and group culture, fashion, and appearance, film, food and drink, literature, music, politics, recreation and leisure, religion and spirituality, sports, television and radio, and technology and media.