Multicultural and Global Studies


Asian Life in America is the most comprehensive digital collection of primary source documents from and about Americans of Asian and Pacific Islander heritage—including Chinese, Filipinos, Japanese, Koreans, South Asians, Vietnamese, and many others. It provides diverse perspectives from more than 35 million primary source documents in 41 languages and has coverage from 1704 to the present.

Contains primary and secondary texts, videos, and images that provide both personal and institutional perspectives on historical and contemporary borders and migrants. Coverage is interdisciplinary and contains materials related to borders and areas of conflict across the globe.

Cambridge Companions searches across the Companions for Literature and Classics; Philosophy, Religion, and Culture; and Music.

A comprehensive source for theory and research in international affairs with scholarship ranging from university research institutes, NGOs, foundation-funded research projects, conferences proceedings, books, journals and policy briefs.

Documentary video collection on global themes, humanitarian, and environmental issues, such as pollution, child trafficking, refugee camps, LGBTQ+ rights, and indigenous people’s movements.

Provides full text access to articles from newspapers, magazines, and journals of the ethnic, minority and native presses in America from 1959 to present.

Transcripts of foreign broadcasts and news that have been translated into English by the Foreign Broadcast Information Service, a U.S. government agency.  This fully searchable digital edition is the United States' principal record of political and historical open source intelligence. The dates of coverage are 1941 to 1996.

Global Think Tanks is a public policy database that contains documents and datasets from think tanks, IGOs, NGOs, and research centers. Some of this content is uniquely found on Policy Commons, and some documents are archived from inactive organizations.

This primary source collection focuses on the experience and impact of Hispanic Americans as recorded by the news media. It spans the early Spanish settlements of the 18th century to the modern era. Articles, blogs, videos, audio recordings and more are sourced from more than 17,000 publications, including 700 Spanish-language newspapers and periodicals.

Indexes and abstracts articles in the study of language including phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax and semantics. Also the study of descriptive, historical, comparative, theoretical and geographical linguistics.