Major Databases

• Provides full-text biographical information about more than 30,000 famous and lesser-known African-Americans from all walks of life. Consists of a collection of digitized directories, encyclopedias, biographical dictionaries, yearbooks, newsfile clippings and other sources. Most biographical sketches are from the Chadwyck-Healey Black Biographical Dictionaries, 1790-1950 project.
• Covers 1790-1950
• Updated bimonthly
• Available only to users at the Claremont Colleges or connecting to a Claremont Colleges modem pool.
• Useful for exploring the contributions that African-Americans have made to history, music, religion, education and many other areas. Many entries accompanied by illustrations or photographs. Good source of biographical information about African-Americans not easily found in other sources.

African American Newspapers: The 19th Century

• Provides the full-text of articles from the following major African American newspapers published in the United States in the 19th century: Freedom's Journal, The Colored American, The North Star, The National Era, Provincial Freeman, Frederick Douglass Paper, and The Christian Recorder.
• Years covered: 1827-1902
• Available only to users at the Claremont Colleges or connecting to a Claremont Colleges proxy server or modem pool.

• Provides access to citations for western-language monographs, articles, book chapters, and conference proceedings on all parts of Asia.
• 1971-Present
• Updated Continuously
• Available only to users at the Claremont Colleges or connecting to a Claremont Colleges modem pool.
• Allows the user to search the database by using keywords, or browse articles by country, topic, or journal title.

• Provides access to citations for scholarly and popular articles, reviews, books, dissertations, and other materials in the humanities, social sciences, and the arts produced by and about people of African descent worldwide. Database is a combination of over 150,000 records from The Catalog of the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, and the Index to Black Periodicals. Includes materials dating back to the 8th century A.D., although emphasis is on 19th and 20th century materials.
• 1988-present; (1950-present in print)
• Available only to users in the search centers of the Libraries — use the Start menu to access it.
• Excellent resource for locating both popular and scholarly materials on historical and contemporary issues concerning people of African descent worldwide.

• Provides access to citations for scholarly journal articles, books, articles in popular magazines and newspapers, and other publications about Chicanos, Puerto Ricans, Cuban Americans and Central American immigrants.
• 1967-present.
• Updated quarterly.
• Available only to users at the Claremont Colleges or connecting to a Claremont Colleges proxy server or modem pool.
• Combines The Chicano Index, Arte Chicano, Chicana Studies Index, The Chicano Anthology Index and the Hispanic Mental Health Research: A Reference Guide all in one resource.
• Major database for identifying research literature in the social sciences and humanities about Chicanos/Latinos.

• Provides access to full text ethnographic information on cultural, ethnic, religious, and national groups. Focuses on mostly pre-industrial cultures from around the world, and on North American immigrant groups. Covers 78 cultural groups.
• 1991-present, including updated back files.
• Updated annually.
• Available only to users at the Claremont Colleges or connecting to a Claremont Colleges proxy server or modem pool.
• eHRAF documents (books, journal articles, dissertations) are indexed at the paragraph level with over 700 subject codes from the Outline of Cultural Materials (included)

• Provides access to fulltext articles from newspapers, magazines, and journals of the ethnic and minority press. Contains mostly popular publications, although some scholarly material is also included.
• 1960-present
• Updated monthly
• Available only to users at the Claremont Colleges or connecting to a Claremont Colleges modem pool.
• Excellent for research on both current and historical topics concerning ethnic minorities in the U.S. Provides access to topics and publications which are often not covered by the mainstream press. Has some international focus. Searchable in both English and Spanish.

• Provides access to scholarly citations for books, book chapters, journal articles and other materials published worldwide in the social sciences and humanities focusing on Latin America. Includes citations from more than 1,350 social science and 550 humanities journals and conference proceedings
• 1990-present; (1935-present in print)
• Updated annually
• Available only to users at the Claremont Colleges or connecting to a Claremont Colleges proxy server or modem pool.
• Premier database for identifying research literature on historical and emerging issues pertinent to the study of Latin America. Covers social sciences and humanities topics in alternate years.

• Major resource for identifying scholarly research on Latin America, the U.S.-Mexican border region, and Hispanics in the U.S.
• Provides access to citations for articles, reviews, bibliographies, original literary works and other documents in major disciplines of the social sciences and humanities.
• Covers more than 400 scholarly journals published worldwide.
• 1970-present
• Updated weekly
• Available only to users at the Claremont Colleges or connecting to a Claremont Colleges proxy server or modem pool.

• Provides references to some 50,000 articles, 17,000 books, 4,000 chapters in books, 7,000 dissertations, and 4,000 reviews written in English and other European languages which use the roman alphabet.
• Covers works in all subject areas published from the 16th century to 1997.
• Available only to users in the search centers of the Libraries.

HRAF (Human Relations Area File)
SEE eHRAF Collection of Ethnography (Human Relations Area Files)

• Offers more than 200 novels, many short stories, approximately 30,000 pages of poetry and more than 250 plays inspired by the intersection of cultures between the United States and six different countries and regions that constitute the Latino world.
• The majority of the works are in English with selected works of particular importance presented in Spanish. The collection begins with the works of Chicano writers in the Southwest in the early 19th century and continues to the present.
• The inaugural collection features 48 plays – 26 of which have never been published before (!) – and more than 13,000 pages of poetry and fiction from authors of Puerto Rican, Dominican, Chicano, Central American, South American, and Cuban descent.

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