California Community College Consortium Databases
In an email to the MDC chair, Faculty Librarian Ruth Moon advised the chair about the annual
opportunity to test out free, trial access to select electronic databases available through the Community
College Consortium.
The Consortium makes statewide purchases, such as the EBSCO databases, and gives trials to
Community Colleges for free and then to purchase at discounted rates.
A list of potential trial databases representing multicultural themes are shown below. These include
Ethnic Watch and other similar databases that focus on publications in diversity related areas. Ruth
advised that faculty could try and promote the trial of these databases to see if they work for their
students, identifying the most useful databases in equity-related resource requests during Fall 2014
divisional program reviews.
Prior to the trial phase however, Ruth will contact the MDC when she gets news from the league about
the ordering deadline, which is typically in April. We can then provide her with a list of suggestions for
databases to include in the trial.
Jan 8, 2014
Philip,
This is something of a tangent but I made a quick list of resources available through the League's library
consortium of online resources that might support diversity in the classroom, these are just titles, I can
provide descriptions. If the committee wanted free trials that will be available this upcoming spring for
most of those listed. I think the committee could make a recommendation for purchase if any seem worth
it.
Multi-Cultural & Diversity related online resources available via CCLC
ABC-CLIO
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African American Experience
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American Indian Experience
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Latino American Experience
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Issues - Understanding Controversy & Society
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Pop Culture Universe - Icons, Idols, Ideas
Films on Demand
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Anthropology Collection
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World Languages Collectin
Gale
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Informe (Spanish language news)
Grolier
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La Nueva Enciclopedia Cumbre
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Lands and Peoples
InfoBase Publishing
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African American History Online
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American Indian History Online
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American Women’s History Online
Oxford UP
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Oxford African American Studies Center
ProQuest
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Black Studies Center
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CultureGrams Online
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Ethnic NewsWatch
I didn't see it on the league website, but I seem to recall ProQuest also has a GenderWatch database for
news and research on LGBTQI and gender rights issues. I could check on that if there is interest.
Ruth Moon, Librarian
College of the Redwoods
707-476-4263
ruth-moon@redwoods.edu