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CSRE 55M: MMUF Seminar

CSRE 55M: Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellowship Seminar - Fall 2012 - Instructor: Dr. Jose David Saldivar with Cristina Lash (TA)
Last Updated: 3-Nov-2012

This seminar is designed to help Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellows (MMUF) honor students in the following ways: (1) developing and refining research paper topics, (2) learning about the various approaches to research and writing, and (3) connecting to Stanford University resources such as the library and faculty. 

Subject Librarians

Regina Lee Roberts
Bibliographer for Anthropology & Archaeology, Communication & Journalism, Feminist Studies, Lusophone Africa Collections, and Sociology
Cecil H. Green Library
(650) 724-0848
Mattie Taormina
Mattie Taormina
Head of Public Services and Processing Manuscript Librarian
Special Collections & University Archives

Around Stanford

Social Science Data Services (SSDS)
Comparative Studies in Race in Ethnicity

Archives

Society of American Archivists' Guide to ...

Using Archives
"Using Archives: a guide to effective research" by Laura Schmidt

Finding collections...

Archive finder [electronic resource].
[Alexandria, VA] : Chadwyck-Healey, Inc., [2008]-
ArchiveGrid [electronic resource]
[Mountain View, Calif.] : RLG
Online Archive of California [electronic resource] : OAC.
Oakland, CA : California Digital Library, [199-?]-
WorldCat [electronic resource].
Dublin, Ohio : OCLC,

Encyclopedias & General Sources

Classics in cartography : reflections on influential articles from Cartographica / edited by Martin Dodge ; with a foreword by Jeremy W. Crampton.
Chichester, West Sussex, UK ; Hoboken, NJ : Wiley-Blackwell, 2011.
Branner » Stacks » GA101.5 .C53 2011
Encyclopedia of African-American heritage / Susan Altman ; special writing and research by Joel Kemelhor ; consultants, Arnold H. Taylor, Debra Newman Ham, Arthur Burt.
2nd ed. New York : Facts on File, c2000.
Green » HASRC (Lane Room) (Non-circulating) » E185 .A455 2000
Encyclopedia of Black studies / editors, Molefi Kete Asante, Ama Mazama.
Thousand Oaks, Calif. : SAGE Publications, c2005.
Green » InfoCenter (Non-circulating) » E185 .E554 2005
The encyclopedia of Christian literature / George Thomas Kurian, editor ; James D. Smith III, coeditor ; Mark E. Roberts, associate editor ; Sarah Claudine Day, managing editor.
Lanham, Md. : Scarecrow Press, 2010.
Green » InfoCenter (Non-circulating) » BR117.3 .E53 2010 V.1
The Greenwood encyclopedia of love, courtship, & sexuality through history / edited by James W. Howell ... [et al.].
Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 2008.
Green » InfoCenter (Non-circulating) » HQ21 .G67125 2008 V.1
Encyclopedia of weird westerns : supernatural and science fiction elements in novels, pulps, comics, films, television and games / Paul Green ; foreword by Mike Hoffman.
Jefferson, N.C. : McFarland & Co., c2009.
Green » Stacks » PN1995.9 .W4 G74 2009
The handbook of visual culture / edited by Ian Heywood and Barry Sandywell ; with Michael Gardiner, Gunalan Nadarajan and Catherine Soussloff.
English ed. London ; New York : Berg, 2012.
Art » Stacks » N72 .S6 H33 2012
Oxford African American studies center [electronic resource] : the online authority on the African American experience.
New York : Oxford University Press, 2006-
The SAGE handbook of performance studies / edited by D. Soyini Madison, Judith Hamera.
Thousand Oaks : SAGE, 2006.
Green » Stacks » PN1590 .S6 S24 2006

Article Databases

America, history and life with full text
Provides full text coverage of the history and culture of the United States and Canada from prehistory to the present. Includes nearly 200 journals and 100 books, selective indexing for over 1,700 journals, and abstracts in English of foreign language articles.
ATLA religion database
The ATLA Religion Database is a comprehensive database designed to support religious and theological scholarship in graduate education and faculty research. 
Berg Fashion Library
Provides integrated text and image content on world dress and fashion throughout history.
Black Thought and Culture
Black Thought and Culture contains 1,297 sources with 1,098 authors, covering the non-fiction published works of leading African Americans. Particular care has been taken to index this material so that it can be searched more thoroughly than ever before.
Contemporary Women's Issues
Database of articles from numerous periodicals about women's issues. May be searched using keywords and/or selections from a set of thesaurus or controlled vocabulary entries.
ERIC
The Educational Resources Information Center (ERIC) is a national information system designed to provide users with ready access to an extensive body of education-related literature. ERIC, established in 1966, is supported by the U.S. Department of Education, Office of Educational Research and Improvement, and the National Library of Education.
Ethnic News Watch
Full text articles from newspapers and periodicals published by the ethnic, minority and native press in the U.S. Coverage is from 1960 to date.
Humanities & social sciences index retrospective
Provides citations to journal articles covering a wide range of interdisciplinary fields from a broad array of humanities and social sciences journals. 1974-1983.
GenderWatch
Full text collection of journals, magazines, newsletters, regional publications, books, booklets and pamphlets, conference proceedings and governmental n-g-o and special reports devoted to women's and gender issues. Contains materials dating back to the 1970's.
IBSS -International Bibliography of the Social Sciences 
Bibliographic database compiled by the British Library of Political and Economic Science of the London School of Economics and Political Science.
LexisNexis Statistical Insight
Provides statistical data from U.S. government publications from 1973, state and private sources from 1980, and international organizations from 1983.
Project Muse
Features a collection of online scholarly journals that focuses on the humanities, social sciences, and mathematics.
Psycinfo
Contains citations and summaries of journal articles, book chapters, books, and technical reports in the field of psychology and psychological aspects of related disciplines including medicine, psychiatry, nursing, sociology, education, pharmacology, physiology, linguistics, anthropology, business and law.
SCOPUS - Social Sciences
Scopus is the largest abstract and citation database, including peer-reviewed titles from international publishers, Open Access journals, conference proceedings, trade publications, quality web sources.
Social Science Citation Index
An international, multidisciplinary index to the literature of the social, behavioral, and related sciences.
Sociological Abstracts
Sociological Abstracts abstracts and indexes the international literature in sociology and related disciplines in the social and behavioral sciences. The database provides abstracts of journal articles and citations to book reviews drawn from over 1,800+ serials publications, and also provides abstracts of books, book chapters, dissertations, and conference papers.
Sociology
Sage Journals Online - See also "Journals" tab.
Urban Studies Abstracts
Urban Studies Abstracts includes bibliographic records covering essential areas related to urban studies, including urban affairs, community development, urban history, and other areas of key relevance to the discipline. Records are selected from many of the top titles within the discipline, including Journal of Urban Affairs, Urban Studies, and Canadian Journal of Urban Research.
Women and social movements, international : 1840 to present
Online archive of published and manuscript primary sources focusing on women's international activism since the mid-nineteenth century. The archive includes proceedings of women's international conferences, books, pamphlets, articles from newspapers and journals, as well as correspondence, diary entries, and memoirs. It is also rich in online publications of contemporary Non-Governmental Organizations.

Newspapers

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  1. ProQuest news & newspapers [electronic resource].

    A database of articles from newspapers. This includes general databases, such as Alt-Press Watch, Ethnic NewsWatch, GenderWatch, US Hisp...

  2. America's historical newspapers [electronic resource] : featuring Early American newspapers, 1690-1922

    Ser.1, 1690-1876. This collection provides images and full-text content access to historic newspapers listed in Clarence Brigham's author...

  3. Historical newspapers online [electronic resource].

    Online indexing of the Times (London) from 1790-1980 and the New York times from 1851-1923. Indexes can be searched individually or in co...

  4. ProQuest historical newspapers. Norfolk journal and guide [electronic resource].

    Contains full text of the newspaper Norfolk journal including its title variants.

  5. African American newspapers [electronic resource] : the 19th century

    This enormous collection of African-American newspaper contains a wealth of information about the cultural life and history during the 18...

  6. ProQuest historical newspapers. New York tribune/Herald tribune (1841-1962)

    Contains full text of the newspaper New York tribune from 1841-1962 including its title variants.

  7. 19th century U.S. newspapers [electronic resource].

    Searchable database containing digital facsimile images of newspapers; presented as full page layout as well as single articles; advertis...

  8. African-American newspapers , 1827-1998 [electronic resource].

    A compilation of African American newspapers taken from the America's historical newspapers collection

  9. Proquest historical newspapers Pittsburgh courier [electronic resource].

    This database provides full page and article images with searchable full text from the Pittsburgh courier (1911-1950 : City ed.), Courier...

  10. Ethnic American newspapers from the Balch collection, 1799-1971 [electronic resource] : selected from America's historical newspapers

    "More than 130 searchable newspapers published by members of many of the most influential American ethnic groups in 25 U.S. states" --inf...