Southwest Studies Subject Guide
Interdisciplinary Programs Liaison Librarian
- Krystyna Mrozek
- Tutt Library Room 201
- (719) 389-6669
- Email me
Getting Started
Finding Books
Searching
Searching TIGER by keyword or subject is often the fastest way to find books about your topic.
For books that we don’t own here at Colorado College, or books that are checked out or otherwise unavailable, use Prospector - Colorado Unified Catalog . You’ll find books (and CDs, DVDs, etc.) in libraries across Colorado that you can request and have sent to the Tutt Library circulation desk where you can check them out.
For books not available in TIGER or Prospector, you can request through Interlibrary Loan via WorldCat .
Please ask a librarian if you need help with TIGER, Prospector, or WorldCat.
Browsing
Finding Articles
- Academic Search Premier
- Coverage: 1988 - current
- Provides access to basic journal index and some full text resources. Subject coverage is general and broad. Shows CC holdings. notextile.
- JSTOR
- Coverage: late 1800's - most recent 5 years
- Archival access to many scholarly periodicals. Jstor does not cover the most recent three years of most journals.
Complete list of databases for Southwest Studies
- America, History & Life
- Coverage: 1967 - current
- Covers American history.
- Chicano Database
- Coverage: 1960s - current
- Interdisciplinary database, indexing all types of materials for Chicano studies (journal articles, books, chapters, and newspaper articles).
- Colorado Economic And Demographic Information System
- Coverage: varies, 1980's - current
- CEDIS (Colorado Economic and Demographic Information System) provides detailed local and state level economic and demographic information.
- Colorado Newsstand
- Coverage: 1986 - current
- Searchable full-text database of articles from Colorado newspapers including the Gazette (Colorado Springs), the Denver Post, the Rocky Mountain News, and six others.
- Early Encounters In North America
- Coverage: 1474 - 1600
- Full text works by 1,076 authors in the form of letters, diaries, memoirs and accounts of early encounters between American Indians, Europeans, Americans, and Africans in the area of present-day Canada and the United States, with limited coverage of Mexico. Searchable by author, source, year, encounter, people, image, place, fauna, flora, environment, cultural event, personal event, and more.
- HAPI, Hispanic American Periodicals Index
- Coverage: 1970 - current
- HAPI (Hispanic American Periodicals Index) is your source for authoritative, worldwide information about Central and South America, Mexico, the Caribbean basin, the United States-Mexico border region, and Hispanics in the United States. HAPI Online contains complete bibliographic citations to articles, book reviews, documents, original literary works, and other materials appearing in more than 400 key journals published throughout the world.
- North American Immigrant Letters, Diaries, And Oral Histories
- Coverage: 1804 - current
- The full text letters, diaries, oral histories, interviews, and other personal narratives of 342 men and women are searchable by author, source, year, place, nationality, personal event, subject, and more. Includes some audio recordings and scrapbook images.
Online journal archives
Unlike the subject-specific article databases, these online journal archives don’t concentrate on any one academic subject. Instead, they take leading journals from many fields, or all the journals from one publisher, and provide extensive archives of the full text of those journals online, usually in the form of PDF files.
- Blackwell Journals
- Coverage: varies; usually late 1990's to current
- Searchable collection of full text periodicals. Scholarly sources.
- JSTOR
- Coverage: late 1800's - most recent 5 years
- Archival access to many scholarly periodicals. Jstor does not cover the most recent three years of most journals.
- Oxford University Press Journals
- Coverage: varies; usually late 1990's - current
- A searchable collection of full text periodicals. Scholarly sources.
- Periodicals Archive Online
- Coverage: 1770-1995
- Fulltext journal collection covering the humanities and social sciences. Includes 500 journal titles covering the first issue of the journal until 1995.
- Project Muse
- Coverage: 1993 - current
- Project Muse provides access to the full text of the Johns Hopkins University Press journals. Offers current and back issues.