Electronic Resources for Chicanao Research

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Electronic Resources for Chicana/o Research

• Romelia Salinas
• JFK Memorial Library
• California State University Los Angeles
• rsalina_at_calstatela.edu

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Types of Electronic Resources

• Databases

• CD-Roms

• Web Resources

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Databases

• Specialized Databases
• Chicano Database
• Ethnic News Watch
• HAPI

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Chicano Database

• Only tool dedicated entirely to Chicana/o
  Literature
• Produced by UCB Ethnic Studies Library
• all aspects of Chicano and Latino life--it's
  not just for scholarly work,"
• Available on CD-ROM or online via RLG
• http//www.rlg.org/cit-cdb.html

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Chicano Database Coverage

• Mexican-Americans
• 1968-present (earlier coverage on some topics)
• Puerto Ricans, Cuban Americans, Central
  Americans
• 1992-present

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Included Printed Indexes

• Chicano Periodical Index (1967-1988)
• Chicano Index (1989- )
• Arte Chicano An Annotated Bibliography of
  Chicano Art (1965-1981)
• Chicano Anthology Index
• Chicana Studies Index (1971-1991)
• Hispanic Mental Health Research (1920-1980)

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Indexing Details

• 52,000 records (many have abstracts)
• Indexes 125 Chicano/Latino Journals
• Selectively indexes many mainstream titles for
  articles on Chicanos/Latinos
• Newspaper articles
• Books Book Articles (since 1983)
• Uses Chicano Thesaurus for indexing

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Ethnic News Watch

• Full-Text Collection of Newspapers, Magazines,
  and Journals of Ethnic Minority and
  Native Presses
• Produced by SoftLine Information
• Available by Subscription on CD-ROM and the Web
• http//www.softlineweb.com/ethnic.htm

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Ethnic News Watch Coverage

• Continuously growing since 1991
• More than 600,000 full-text articles from 200
  publications.
• Groups
• AFRICAN AMERICAN/CARIBBEAN/AFRICAN
• ARAB/MIDDLE EASTERN
• ASIAN/PACIFIC ISLAND
• EUROPEAN/EASTERN EUR
• HISPANIC
• JEWISH MULTI-ETHNIC
• NATIVE PEOPLE"

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Hispanic American Periodical Index (HAPI)

• Worldwide information about
• Central and South America
• Mexico
• Caribbean Basin
• United States-Mexico border region
• Hispanics in the United States.
• Subscription Information
• http//search2.hapi.gseis.ucla.edu/

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CD ROMs DVDs

• Useful reference sources for or about Chicanas/os
  and/or Spanish-speaking people might only be
  available in CD-Rom format.
• Inexpensive compared to online databases
• Provides for sophisticated full-text and Boolean
  searching
• Preferred mediums for intensive multimedia
  applications.

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Salt of the Earth CD -ROM

• Complete Film
• Screenplay in
• English
• Spanish
• French
• German
• Background material on
• Making of the film
• Hollywood Blacklist
• Filmmakers
• Original Strike

http//www.organa.com/salt.html
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Puerto Ricans in the USA 1898-1999

• Two Volume CD
• Contains
• Audio
• Web Links
• Historical Images
• Music
• Original Documents
• Oral Histories
• Center for Puerto Rican Studies, Hunter College
  CUNY

• http//centropr.org/publications/cd-rom.html

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El Teatro Campesino From the Fields to Hollywood
http//www.elteatrocampesino.com/campesin/cdrom/cd
rom.html
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Web Resources

• On the whole, U.S. Latino Web resources have
  remained marginalized, left un-addressed,
  un-reviewed and uncollected or are often
  misunderstood in the professional literature and
  librarian web guides. (Susan Vega Garcia)

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