Search for Books (Print and E-Books)
Background Information
- Credo Reference This link opens in a new window Over 700 reference books covering a variety of disciplines and including foreign language dictionaries. Includes a concept map, which provides related subjects and noted personalities to assist beginning research.
Selected Reference Books
Article Databases
Databases
- JSTOR This link opens in a new window
- Since results may contain articles that are not peer reviewed, search for the journal title using the A-Z Journals by Title list to verify the journal's peer-reviewed status.
- Ebsco search for HistorySearch across the following databases:Note: Choose Databases (above the search boxes) to search additional Ebsco Databases.
- Project MUSE This link opens in a new window All journal titles in Project MUSE are peer reviewed, scholarly titles. Project MUSE covers the fields of literature and criticism, history, the visual and performing arts, cultural studies, education, political science, gender studies, economics, and many others.
- HeinOnline This link opens in a new windowContains more than 150 million pages and 160,000 titles of legal history and government documents in a fully searchable, image-based format.
Note: AND, OR, NOT must be entered in all uppercase. - Google Scholar This link opens in a new window
- Click on the Full-Text@Emmanuel at the right of articles or the more option below the item record.
- Search for the journal title using the A-Z Journals by Title list to verify the journals peer-reviewed status.
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- SCARAB (Substance, Currency, Authority, Relevancy, Accuracy, Bias) Rubric
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Video Databases
- Academic Video Online (AVON) This link opens in a new window Comprehensive video subscription that delivers almost 70,000 titles spanning the widest range of subject areas including anthropology, business, counseling, film, health, history, music, and more.
Selected Web Sites
- 1619 Project: New York Times MagazineNew York Times Magazine special issue re-examining slavery in the United States
- Center for Human Rights Documentation and Research "[T]he official repository for the archives of major human rights organizations such as Amnesty International USA, the Committee of Concerned Scientists, Human Rights First, and Human Rights Watch." Columbia University Libraries.
- The Global Slavery Index "The 2018 Global Slavery Index provides a country by country ranking of the number of people in modern slavery, as well as an analysis of the actions governments are taking to respond, and the factors that make people vulnerable."
- International Justice Mission An international organization that works to end slavery on a global scale.
- National Human Trafficking Hotline In addition to serving as a hotline for victims of human trafficking, the National Human Trafficking Hotline also has a wide array of resources and statistics related to human trafficking.