A collection that explores and provides historical background on more than thirty key worldwide border areas, including: U.S. and Mexico. The collection (documents, videos, and images) is organized around fundamental themes associated with border and migration issues.
Below are some suggested library databases related to different disciplines. There are many more! Contact me for more ideas, or browse other databases from library homepage's Databases section -- click on the dropdown box labeled SUBJECTS.
Interdisciplinary
Multidisciplinary collection of citations and abstracts for scholarly journal articles, proceedings, data sets, and other resources. Has a tool for citation analysis. Includes the Arts & Humanities Citation Index, Science Citation Index, Social Science Citation Index, among others.
A comprehensive archive of multidisciplinary scholarly journals and books. Coverage: 1800s to 3-5 years ago; Includes ARTstor - images across the arts, architecture, humanities, and social sciences with tools to view, present, and manage images for research and teaching. Coverage: ancient times to today.
This multidisciplinary resource contains access to scholarly journals, book reviews, magazine articles, newspaper articles, books, videos, and trade publications in English and a wide variety of other languages. Coverage: 1887-present
History
World history including military history, women's history, history of education, and more. Indexing of scholarly journals in over 40 languages back to 1955. Coverage: 1450-present.
Political Science
Sociology
Articles on sociology and related disciplines in the social and behavioral sciences. Includes Social Services Abstracts database which focuses on social work, human services, social welfare, social policy, and community development. Coverage: 1952-present.
Psychology
The best resource for psychology related topics in journal articles, book chapters, books, dissertations and reports. Published by the American Psychological Association (APA). Coverage: 1887-present.
Economics
The key resource for economic literature from scholarly journals, working papers, dissertations, etc. Research covers all fields of economics, including capital markets, country studies, econometrics, economic forecasting, environmental economics, etc. From the American Economic Association (AEA). Coverage: 1888-present.
Religion
Business
Articles on business, management, marketing, and organizations from scholarly journals, magazines, and trade publications. Also, includes current company, industry, and country reports from third parties. Coverage 1820-present.
Art
This database includes scholarly journal articles from a variety of international peer-reviewed journals covering art, architecture, and design. Coverage: 1880-present. Art Full-Text has been subsumed into this database.
Indexes international arts publications, including reproductions of artworks. Includes architecture, design, museology, and photography. Coverage: 1929 to 1984
Music
Education
The Education Resources Information Center (ERIC) includes scholarly articles, reports, curriculum and teaching guides and conference papers covering multiple levels of education from preK to higher education.
It is sponsored by the Institute of Education Sciences (IES) of the United States Department of Education. Provides a more robust search interface of the freely available ERIC database. Coverage: 1966-present.
Anthropology
Scholarly and popular publications on gender and the evolution of gender roles. Coverage: 1970-present.
Combines two major indexes: Harvard University's Anthropological Literature and the United Kingdom's Anthropological Index. Citations to journal articles, reports, commentaries, obituaries, and more. Includes the fields of social, cultural, physical, biological and linguistic anthropology, ethnology, archaeology, folklore, material culture, and related interdisciplinary studies. Coverage: 19th century-present.
Environment/Ecology/Earth/Agriculture
Health/Biomedicine
Communication
Language & Linguistics
These databases may include academic journal articles as well as government and NGO reports (often called "gray literature").
Focused on public policy research and issues. Includes international journal articles, books, government documents, statistical directories, grey literature, research reports, conference reports, and publications of international agencies. Does not include newspapers. Coverage: 1915-present.
Searchable collection of open access scientific peer-reviewed journals and books from Latin America, the Caribbean, Spain, Portugal, and South Africa. Subjects include life sciences, earth sciences, medicine, engineering, agriculture, social sciences, and more. NOTE: Contains English, Spanish, and Portuguese language content. Part of Web of Science.
Literature reviews can be found in almost all databases -- some databases even have a limit you can use to search only for them. Also, searching the ANNUAL REVIEWS database below is an excellent place to search. ANNUAL REVIEWS is a publisher that only publishes invited literature reviews by top scholars.