Databases

The databases chosen contain a significant amount of articles on Cuban Americans to begin the research process. In some cases the databases may be enough for the overall research process depending on the depth of the work. Below are key terms for searching the specific topic covered by the pathfinder:

• Cuban Americans
• Marielitos
• Miami
• Politics and Cuban Americans
  
• Cuban and Americans
• Dade county and Cubans
  

ESCOhost Academic Premier – Available through SJSU
Link to Academic Premier

Full text for more than 4,650 publications, including more than 3,600 peer-reviewed journals. PDF backfiles to 1975 are available for over 100 journals. Designed specifically for academic institutions, it’s the world's largest multi-disciplinary database. The majority of full text titles are available as searchable PDFs, and some are scanned in color. This scholarly collection offers information in nearly every area of academic study including: computer sciences, engineering, physics, chemistry, language and linguistics, arts & literature, medical sciences, ethnic studies, and many more.

History Resource center: U.S - Available through SJPL
Link to History Resource

History Resource Center: U.S. provides integrated access to over 4,000 historical (primary) documents, articles from more than 30 reference titles, and over 110 full-text journal covering themes, events, individuals and periods in U.S. history from pre-Colonial times to the present. The material also includes citations from over 180 additional history journals from the Institute for Scientific Information's Arts and Humanities Citation Index, as well as the entire "American Journey Online" series.

JSTOR – Available through SJSU
http://www.jstor.org/

Electronic archive of older (at least 2-5 years) issues of core scholarly journals; coverage includes the Biological Sciences, Botany, Business, Ecology, General Science, Humanities, Language, Literature, Mathematics, Music, Social Sciences and Statistics.

Project Muse – Available through SJSU
http://muse.jhu.edu/

Full-text of journals published by Johns Hopkins Press and other scholarly publishers. Topics include literature and criticism, history, visual and performing arts, cultural studies, education, political science, gender studies, social science, mathematics.

Proquest - Dissertations & Theses – Available through SJSU
Link to Proquest

Primary database for doctoral dissertations and master's theses. Includes references for materials from 1861 to those accepted as recently as last semester. Full text of more than 1.9 million of these titles is available in PDF format. Represents over 1,000 graduate schools and universities in North America and around the world. Dissertations from 1980 & master's theses from 1988 include abstracts written by the author.