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Subjects: Asian Studies, Dutch, French, German, Kinesiology, Spanish

Getting Started with Research for SPAN301/302!

Need a review of Hekman Library basics? Check out this "Get Connected" guide or browse our How-to playlist on Youtube.
If you're off-campus, remember to start at the library homepage when connecting to databases and ebooks, so you'll be recognized as a Calvin user (when you're prompted to login, enter your Calvin username and passphrase).
Struggling with citations? For more help, see the library's longer Citation 101 guide or try using Purdue's OWL (Online Writing Lab)

More Research How-tos

Books on Contemporary Issues in the Hispanic World

Making the MexiRican City: Migration, Placemaking, and Activism in Grand Rapids, Michigan

Latinx studies : the key concepts

E184.S75 A77 2019 (5th Floor)

Apostles of Change : Latino Radical Politics, Church Occupations, and the Fight to Save the Barrio

Inventing Latinos : A New Story of American Racism

Oxford encyclopedia of Latina and Latino literature

Debates on U. S. Immigration

Recommended Research Databases

Does your professor require you to find a certain number of articles or pages in Spanish? Here's a tip: Most database have a way to limit by language. Look on the left or right side of the screen to find the limiting features for the database.

Academic Search Complete (EBSCO)
Great database to start your research. An interdisciplinary database covering a wide variety of subjects, primarily from academic and scholarly journals.

Coverage on a wide range of topics. Includes peer-reviewed full text for STEM research, as well as for the social sciences and humanities. Scholarly content covers a broad range of important areas of academic study, including anthropology, engineering, law, sciences and more. Academic Search Complete also offers access to video content from the Associated Press, the world’s leading news agency.
Communication & Mass Media Complete (EBSCO)
Great database for research in communication and rhetoric, also covers public relations, advertising, linguistics, language acquisition.
Education Source (EBSCO)
Doing research on an education topic such as teaching Hispanic students or how to teach Spanish? This is the database to look at.
Historical Abstracts (EBSCO)
Covers the wide range of world history (excluding the United States and Canada) from the 15th century to the present
JSTOR
Well-known database covering many topics, mainly in the arts and humanities - only includes full-text articles from peer-reviewed journals
Project Muse
Full text peer-reviewed journal articles as well as ebooks. Many useful resources for topics related to Hispanic concerns.
Sociology Database (ProQuest)
Use to search the research literature on why groups of people behave the way they do. Covers social work topics as well as culture and behavior.

Special Resource: Country Information

BBC Country Profiles
From the BBC, "full profiles... to history, politics and economic background of countries and territories, and background on key institutions." Also, some audio and video from the BBC archives
CIA World Factbook
Provides information on the history, people, government, economy, energy, geography, communications, transportation, military, and transnational issues for 267 world entities.