American Indian Heritage (November Databases)

November is American Indian Heritage month and in recognition the Gottesman Libraries is featuring resources that address the literature from a number of perspectives: educational, psychological, cultural, and historical.

America: History and Life is an index of literature covering the history and culture of the United States and Canada, from prehistory to the present. The database indexes journals from 1964 to present and includes citations and links to book and media reviews.

American Indian History and Culture, drawn from Encyclopedia Smithsonian, offers an extensive list of resources related to Native American heritage and culture. Teachers and students can find links to Internet resources, selected Smithsonian online exhibits, and recommended reading.

AnthroSource is an online portal serving the needs of educators, students, researchers, and practitioners. An online service of the American Anthropological Association, AnthroSource offers access to more than 100 years of anthropological knowledge.

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.

JStor offers a high-quality, interdisciplinary archive to support scholarship and teaching. It includes archives of over one thousand leading academic journals across the humanities, social sciences, and sciences, as well as select monographs and other materials valuable for academic work. With 112 titles, JStor Arts and Sciences Collection (IV) provides a strong focus on the professions of business, education, and law, and also includes titles in psychology and public policy and administration. JStor Health and General Science Collection features important historical scientific journals and seminal publications in the health sciences, and it offers published scientific research from as far back as 1665. The collection includes publications of the Royal Society of London, which extend back to the seventeenth century, and Proceedings of the National Academy of Science, which dates from the early twentieth century. A cluster of titles in nursing and epidemiology is also available through the Health and General Sciences Collection today.

The Kraus Curriculum Development Library is a searchable database of curricula, frameworks, and standards that brings together educational objectives, content, instructional strategies, and evaluative techniques for all subjects covered in PreK-12 and Adult Basic Education.

North American Indian Thought and Culture, published by Alexander Street Press, contains biographies, auto-biographies, personal narratives, speeches, diaries, letters, and oral histories. Biographies include works on Quanah Parker, Dennis Banks, Susan La Flesche Picotte, Cochise, Jim Thorpe, Crowfoot, Peter Pitchlynn, Sacajawea, Geronimo, Hosteen Klah, Black Elk, Pocahontas, George Washington Grayson, Standing Buffalo, and many more

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.

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.