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Background Information (Encyclopedias, Handbooks)

Encyclopedia of Educational Research
Location: JPL Reference Stacks & Downtown Library, Ref LB15 .E48 1992 v. 1-4
Includes general articles on bilingual education, multicultural education, and the education of Hispanic Americans, among other topics.

Encyclopedia of Multiculturalism
Location: JPL Library Reference & Downtown Library, Ref E184 .A1 E58 1994 vol. 1-8
Features essays on Mexican Americans, Latinos, language bias, cultural pluralism, multiculturalism, the English Only Movement, ethnic journalism, bilingual education and bilingualism, and many more.

Encyclopedia of Psychology
Location: JPL Library Reference & Downtown Library, Ref BF31 .E52 2001 v. 1-4
Offers detailed essays on language, language acquisition, culture, and many other topics.

International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences
Location: JPL Library Reference & Downtown Library, Reference H40 .A2 I5 v. 1-17 (new edition on order)
Consider a classic work in social science reference, this set is useful for historical and theoretical background on a number of topics, such as language, culture, society, social control, cultural diffusion, and communication. The set is dated, however (published in 1968); therefore, it is recommended that you consult this in conjunction with other, more recent social science works.

Latino Encyclopedia
Location: JPL Library Reference & Downtown Library, Reference E184 .S75 L357 1996 v. 1-6
Also consult the Reference Library of Hispanic America (see below).

The Oxford Encyclopedia of Latinas and Latinas in the United States
Location: JPL Library Reference & Downtown Library, Ref E184 .S75 O97 2005

Reference Library of Hispanic America
Location: JPL Library Reference & Downtown Library, Reference E184 .S75 R44 1993 v. 1-3

Survey of Social Science. Psychology Series.
Location: Downtown Library, Reference BF31 .S79 1993
Includes essays on language acquisition, language development, and the cultural relativity of language, among many other topics.

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Books

Books and Materials at the UTSA Library

UCAT, UTSA Library Online Catalog
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Databases & Article Searching

The UTSA Library may not always own the items listed in the resources below.
Search UCAT to see if the library owns or subscribes to a particular item. Search both General and Subject Specific Databases

General Indexes, Abstracts, and Full-Text Databases

Academic Universe (UTSA subscription)
Provides abstracts and/or full text to nearly 6,000 titles relating primarily to news, business, and legal information. Includes U.S. and foreign newspapers, wire services, government and political news, company profiles and financial reports, industry and market news, federal and state case law, law reviews, accounting and tax information, medical news and abstracts, and state and country profiles.
You may want to search the legal section for cases and laws relating to language, society, and culture. In addition, the government and political news section, the business section, and the news and magazines section may offer you articles with insights on language issues in the workplace and society.
Also provided here is access to Statistical Universe and Congressional Universe. Updated continuously. Full Text

ArticleFirst (UTSA subscription)
Citations to journal articles in a variety of subject areas including the sciences, social sciences, business, humanities, and popular culture. Coverage is
1990-present and it is updated daily. Most records provide a list of library holdings. Citations Only

ProQuest (UTSA subscription)
Provides access to journal articles in a number of databases across all subject areas, with particular strengths in business and the social sciences. Also includes 9 major national newspapers, including Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Boston Globe, Chicago Tribune, Christian Science Monitor, Los Angeles Times, New York Times, USA TODAY, Wall Street Journal, and Washington Post. Complete content of the following databases is included: ABI/INFORM Dateline, ABI/INFORM Global, ABI/INFORM Trade & Industry, Accounting & Tax, Alt-Press Watch, Criminal Justice Periodicals, Ethnic NewsWatch, GenderWatch, ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, National Newspapers, and ProQuest Research Library. More than 5,500 titles are indexed and abstracted from at least 1971 to the present. Full text and/or images are available for more than 2,000 titles. Full Text & Full Image

Subject-Specific Indexes and Abstracts

America: History and Life (UTSA subscription)
Selectively indexes and abstracts articles on U. S. and Canadian history from prehistory to the present. Published since 1964, includes citations from more than 2,000 journals published worldwide. Also includes citations of book and media reviews from a selection of over one hundred key journals in the field. Citations Only

The Chicano Database (UTSA subscription)
The preeminent indexing service for Chicano, Latino, Cuban-American, and Puerto Rican studies, with a strong component in literature. The Chicano Database includes access to the contents of The Chicano Periodical Index, 1967-1988; The Chicano Index, 1989- ; Arte Chicano; and The Chicano Anthology Index. Citations Only

Education Abstracts Full Text (UTSA subscription)
Selectively indexes and abstracts articles from more than 400 English-language periodicals. Books relating to education published from 1995 to the present are also indexed. Indexing coverage begins with June 1983, abstracting begins with January 1994, and full text coverage from more than 150 of the periodicals begins with January 1996. Full Text & Full Image

ERIC (UTSA subscription)
Provides citations and brief abstracts to a wide range of education related literature including journals, conference proceedings, books, federal and state documents, bibliographies, directories, curriculum guides, instructional resources, and audiovisual media, from 1966 to the present. Citations Only

JSTOR (UTSA subscription)
Full image access to a comprehensive archive to many scholarly journals. At least
12 subject areas are represented, primarily in the social sciences, with new subjects and titles added regularly. Full Image

Linguistics and Language Behavior Abstracts (UTSA subscription)
Indexes and abstracts journal articles from 1973 to the present in 29 major areas, including language variation and change, bilingualism, communications, artificial intelligence, anthropology, and psychology. Also includes abstracts of chapters in books. Citations Only

MLA Bibliography (UTSA subscription)
An international database from the Modern Language Association that indexes critical scholarship on literature, criticism, language, linguistics and folklore from 1963 to the present. Provides access to citations from more than 3,500 journals, series, books, dissertations, bibliographies, proceedings, and other materials. Citations Only

PAIS International (UTSA subscription)
Indexes and abstracts articles, books, conference proceedings #, government documents, book chapters, and statistical information in a variety of subjects including, agriculture, business, education, finance, health, political science, and the social sciences. Corresponds to the last ten years of citations from the print indexes, PAIS Bulletin, PAIS Foreign Language Index, and PAIS International in Print. Updated monthly. Citations Only

Project Muse (UTSA subscription)
Full-text and full-image versions of a large number of Johns Hopkins University Press's scholarly journals in math, science, humanities and the social sciences. The site also provides a searching facility that permits you to search the contents of all articles they make available. A list of issues included is also available. Full Text & Full Image

PsycInfo via CSA (UTSA subscription)
Covers professional and academic literature in psychology and related disciplines, including medicine, psychiatry, sociology, education, and linguistics, from 1967 to the present. Indexes and abstracts articles in more than 1400 journals worldwide as well as books, and book chapters in the English language. Dissertations are also included, although not abstracted. Citations Only

ScienceDirect (UTSA subscription)
Provides full text/full image access to approximately 700 journals published by Elsevier Science. Indexes and abstracts articles from more than 1,100 journals in the life, physical, medical, technical, and social sciences. Full Image

Sociological Abstracts (UTSA subscription)
Focuses on sociology and related disciplines in the social and behavioral sciences. Indexes from 1963 and abstracts from 1974, drawing from more than 2,500 journals as well as conference papers, books, and dissertations. Citations Only

Web of Science (UTSA subscription)
Indexes and abstracts articles in more than 8,400 journals from 1989 to the present in the arts, humanities, sciences, and social sciences. Print equivalents published by The Institute for Scientific Information are Arts & Humanities Citation Index, Science Citation Index Expanded, and Social Sciences Citation Index. Citations Only

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Further Research

American Association for Applied Linguistics
Free website: http://www.aaal.org/

Center for Applied Linguistics
Free website: http://www.cal.org/

Intercultural Development Research Association
Free website: http://www.idra.org
IDRA is an independent, non-profit organization that advocates the right of every child to a quality education. For more than 20 years, IDRA has worked for excellence and equity in education in Texas and across the United States. IDRA conducts research and development activities; creates, implements and administers innovative education programs; and provides teacher, administrator, and parent training and technical assistance. Back issues of IDRA's very informative newsletter are available online.

LMRI: Linguistic Minority Research Institute from the University of California
Free website: http://lmri.ucsb.edu/

NABE: National Association for Bilingual Education
Free website: http://www.nabe.org/

NCELA: National Clearinghouse for English Language Acquisition and Language Instruction Educational Programs (formerly NCBE: National Clearinghouse for Bilingual Education) from the U.S. Department of Education
Free website: http://www.ncela.gwu.edu/

TABE: Texas Association for Bilingual Education
Free website: http://www.tabe.org/

TESOL: Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages
Free website: http://www.tesol.org/

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