The American Folklife Center
http://www.loc.gov/folklife/
The American Folklife Center aims to be the national center for folklife documentation and research. On this Web site you will find online presentations of multiformat collections, and other resources to facilitate folklife projects and study. The vast collections of the american Folklife Center located at the Library of Congress and online include Native American song and dance; ancient English ballads; the tales of "Bruh Rabbit," told in the Gullah dialect of the Georgia Sea Islands; the stories of ex-slaves, told while still vivid in the minds of those who endured one of the most harrowing periods of American history; an Appalachian fiddle tune that has been heard on concert stages around the world; a Cambodian wedding in Lowell, Massachusetts; a Saint Joseph's Day Table tradition in Pueblo, Colorado; Balinese Gamelan music recorded shortly before the Second World War; documentation from the lives of cowboys, farmers, fishermen, coal miners, shop keepers, factory workers, quilt makers, professional and amateur musicians, and housewives from throughout the United States; first-hand accounts of community events from every state; and international collections from every region of the world.

LANIC - Latin American Network Information Center
hhttp://www.lanic.utexas.edu
A directory of resources related to various Latin American countries maintained, in part, by the University of Texas at Austin.

H-Atlantic
http://www.h-net.org/~atlantic/links.htm
Atlantic World History from 1500 to 1800. This an interdisciplinary site for scholars who study colonial North America and the United States, Europe, West Africa, the Caribbean, and South America in a transatlantic context. This page includes links to Websites, Chronologies, Cartography, Primary Sources, Documents and Texts, Journals and Articles.

The New York Public Library Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture
http://www.nypl.org/research/sc/sc.html
The Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture is a national research library devoted to collecting, preserving and providing access to resources documenting the history and experiences of peoples of African descent throughout the world. Migration resources, online exhibitions including African Burial Grounds, Malcolm X, Triumph Over Slavery and more, electronic images and texts, timelines, African American Women Writers, Harlem 1900 - 1940, African Presence in the Americas 1492 - 1992.

WWW Resources for Native American Studies
http://www.lib.wsc.ma.edu/NativeAmer.htm

Asian American WWW Resources from Yale University
http://www.library.yale.edu/rsc/asian-american/internet.html

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United States Census Bureau
http://www.census.gov/
Current census figures, detailed tables and statistics, projections, GIS data and publications.

DHHD Center for Disease Control - Minority Health
http://www.cdc.gov/omhd/Topic/MinorityHealth.html
Up-to-date information and statistics concerning the health status of minority populations in the U.S.

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Check the ELY Library's Full-text Periodical Directory

A brief list of a few titles held:

Directory of Open Access Journals
http://www.doaj.org/
Arranged alphabetically and by subject area, look here to find freely accessible journals including many ethnology, history, language, literature, social science and art journals

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Africana : The encyclopedia of the African and African American experience
Location: REF
Call Number: DT14 .A37435 2005
The Asian Pacific American heritage : a companion to literature and arts
Location: REF
Call Number: E184.O6 A87 1999
Black women in America
Location: REF
Call Number: E185.86 .B542 2005
Countries and their cultures
Location: REF
Call Number: GN307 .C68 2001
Encyclopedia of African American women writers
Location: REF
Call Number: PS153.N5 E49 2007
Encyclopedia of contemporary Latin American and Caribbean culture
Location: REF
Call Number: F1406 .E515 2000
The Greenwood encyclopedia of multiethnic American literature
Location: REF
Call Number: PS153.M56 G74 2005
Handbook of Asian American psychology
Location: REF
Call Number: E184.O6 H36 1998
Latina and Latino voices in literature : lives and works
Location: REF
Call Number: PS153.H56 D3 2003
A Native American encyclopedia : history, culture, and peoples
Location: REF
Call Number: E76.2 .P75 2000
The Oxford Encyclopedia of Latinos and Latinas in the United States
Location: REF
Call Number: E184.S75 O97 2005

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Aluka
http://www.aluka.org/
Aluka is an international collaboration of educational and cultural institutions working together to build a growing online digital library of
scholarly materials from and about Africa."

America: History & Life
http://www.lib.wsc.ma.edu/dbalpha.htm#AATA
Provides citations to over 1,700 journals published worldwide including selected historical journals from major countries,
state and local history journals, as well as a selection of journals in the social sciences and humanities relating to the history of the
United States and Canada from prehistory to the present.

JSTOR
http://www.lib.wsc.ma.edu/dbalpha.htm#JSTOR
A full-text collection in PDF format of retrospective issues from 162 scholarly journals of prime importance in their fields. Subject coverage includes
African-American Studies, Anthropology, Asian Studies, Ecology and Botany, Economics, Education, Finance, General Science, History,
Literature, Mathematics, Philosophy, Political Science, Population / Demography, Sociology, and Statistics.

Religion & Philosophy Collection
http://www.lib.wsc.ma.edu/dbalpha.htm#Readers'_Guide
Covers world religions, major denominations, biblical studies, religious history, epistemology, political philosophy, philosophy of language, moral philosophy and the history of philosophy. Ethnicity, multiculturalism, immigration and other topics are subjects covered in this database. Provides more than 300 full text journals, including more than 250 peer-reviewed titles.

Sociological Abstracts
http://www.lib.wsc.ma.edu/dbalpha.htm#Samuel_J.
Abstracts and indexes the international literature in sociology and related disciplines in the social and behavioral sciences.

Academic Search Premier
http://www.lib.wsc.ma.edu/dbalpha.htm#AATA
Scholarly, full text resources are provided for nearly all academic areas of study: social sciences, humanities, education, computer sciences,
engineering, language and linguistics, arts & literature, medical sciences, and ethnic studies. Subject areas include emigration, immigration, ethnology, social conflict, assimilation, cultural identity...and more.

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Last update: December 18, 2007