The Yocum Library Online Databases
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| eHRAF World Cultures Tutorial on campus / off campus |
√ | √ | Over 350,000 pages on all aspects of cultural and social life. |
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| ProQuest's Ethnic News Watch | √ | √ | Full-text multicultural articles | |
| CultureGrams Online Funded by the Joseph & Shirley Boscov Endowment on campus / off campus |
√ | √ | Country reports on 187 cultures | |
| Gender Watch Funded by the RACC Library Endowment |
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√ | 100,000+ articles on sexuality, societal roles, feminism, & masculinity | |
Over 350,000 paThe unique feature of the eHRAF Collection of Ethnography database is the ability to search full-texts using subjects to find relevant paragraphs. You will find that searching with these subjects (expressed as 3-digit OCM subject codes) is often much more accurate than a word search because you are searching for a concept rather than just a word in a sentence.
Search hundreds of full text ethnic magazines, journals, and newspapers. including Arab American News, Cherokee Advocate, Irish Voice, The Italian Voice, Jewish Press, Korea Times, La Prensa, Navajo Times, Polish American Journals, The Ukranian Weekly, Black Issues in Higher Education, Cultural Survival Quarterly, Race, Gender, & Class, Biracial Child, Filipinas Magazine, German Life, Hinduism Today, Hispanic Times, etc.
CultureGrams is a widely used cultural reference product originally developed at Brigham Young University. It includes information about the country's geography, history, customs, gestures, arts, commerce, economy, educational systems, etc. It also provides a currency convertor, recipe collection, and an audio recording of the national anthem for each country
Supports gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender (GLBT) studies; family studies; gender studies, and women's studies with 200+ titles.