Diversity Awareness: October Databases

October is recognized as Diversity Awareness Month by a number of organizations, including Teacher Vision, American Medical Association, Management Mentors, and many others as a way to promote understanding, tolerance, and communication on issues pertaining to race, religion, sexual orientation, and disability. Indeed, timing of Disversity Awareness Month coincides with the recognition of Disability Awareness Week, October 26-30, at Teachers College.

The collections contain numerous resources that cover the literature of diversity from a variety of perspectives – educational, psychological, sociological, health related. Featured here are databases that offer insight into the literature of cultural pluralism, with articles, reports, conference proceedings, and other information on diversity awareness and diversity training.

Academic Search Premier contains indexing and abstracts for more than 8,300 journals, with full text for more than 4,500 of those titles. PDF backfiles to 1975 or further are available for well over one hundred journals, and searchable cited references are provided for more than 1,000 titles. Academic Search Premier contains unmatched full text coverage in biology, chemistry, engineering, physics, psychology, religion and theology, etc.

Education Full Text offers comprehensive coverage of an international range of English-language periodicals, monographs and yearbooks. The full text of articles, with indexing cover to cover, from hundreds of journals, make this an essential resource. Coverage includes about 79 journals (37 with full text) not covered by ERIC’s Current Index to Journals in Education (CIJE).

ERIC, the database of the Educational Resources Information Center is sponsored by the U.S. Department of Education to provide extensive access to educational-related literature through two main parts: Current Index to Journals in Education and Resources in Education. ERIC provides coverage of journal articles, conferences, meetings, government documents, theses, dissertations, reports, audiovisual media, bibliographies, directories, books and monographs from 1966 to the present, with full text ERIC documents available online from 1993 and up.

Gender Studies Database combines NISC's Women's Studies International and Men's Studies databases with the coverage of sexual diversity issues. Also includes relevant contributions from NISC's Child Development and Adolescent Studies as well as Family and Society Studies Worldwide databases. Source documents include professional journals, conference papers, books, book chapters, government reports, discussion and working papers, theses and dissertations and other sources. Also includes links to select websites. Gender Studies Database, produced by NISC, combines NISC's popular Women's Studies International and Men's Studies databases with the coverage of sexual diversity issues. GSD covers the full spectrum of gender-engaged scholarship inside and outside academia.

Psycinfo provides citations and abstracts to journal articles and English language books from 1806 to the present in the professional and academic literature in psychology and related disciplines including medicine, psychiatry, nursing, sociology, education, pharmacology, physiology, and linguistics.

Sage Premier provides online access to the full text of individual SAGE journals with coverage in education, psychology, and sociology. There are approximately 100 titles, including Cultural Sociology, Feminism and Psychology, Gender and Society, Journal of Cross Cultural Psychology, Journal of Health Psychology, Race and Class, Rationality and Society, and Sexualities.

Sociological Abstracts provides abstracts and indexes the international literature in sociology and related disciplines in the social and behavioral sciences. The database provides citations from 1963 to the present to journal articles, book reviews, books, book chapters, dissertations, and conference papers. Records for journal articles added after 1974 contain in-depth abstracts. Major areas of coverage include culture and social structure; demography and human biology; economic development; environmental interactions; evaluation research; family and social welfare; health and medicine and law; history and theory of sociology; management and complex organizations; mass phenomena and political interactions; methodology and research technology; policy, planning, forecast and speculation; radical sociology; religion and science; rural and urban sociology; social development; social differentiation; social psychology and group interaction; sociology of the arts, business, education; studies in violence and power; substance abuse and addiction; welfare services; women's studies.