Welcome to the Erickson Library's Humanities resource guide. You'll find tabs at the top that will lead you to additional information with print and online resources.
The Erickson Library is here to help you find credible and reliable information. Please feel free to call or email with any of your research questions!
The Erickson Library is here to help you find credible and reliable information. Please feel free to call or email with any of your research questions!
Finding background information on your topic is helpful before you dive into specific databases.
Credo Reference is a great place to start to gather ideas for keywords and gather background information.
Opposing Viewpoints and Points of View Reference Center are useful databases to get ideas for topics or to narrow your research.They also offer suggestions for topics that are currently being discussed in academics and the news.
Visit the Articles tab to get more tips on using keywords in databases, and the Websites tab to find reliable tools and information from websites.
Credo Reference is a great place to start to gather ideas for keywords and gather background information.
Opposing Viewpoints and Points of View Reference Center are useful databases to get ideas for topics or to narrow your research.They also offer suggestions for topics that are currently being discussed in academics and the news.
Visit the Articles tab to get more tips on using keywords in databases, and the Websites tab to find reliable tools and information from websites.
- Credo Reference
Search over 3 million full text entries in 1,200 electronic reference books! Watch How to Run a Basic Search on Credo. - Points of View Reference Center
Points of View is a full-text database that offers students with a series of comprehensive essays with point and counterpoint arguments related to current issues in the news. Points of View Reference Center Tutorial - Opposing Viewpoints
This online resource covers today's hottest social issues, from capital punishment to immigration to marijuana. It includes rich resources for debaters and includes viewpoints, reference articles, news, images, video, and more.
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Above the Gene, Beyond Biology Toward a Philosophy of Epigenetics (eBook available online)
Contagious: Why Things Catch On (MAIN HF5415.153 .B463 2013)
Critical Digital Humanities: The Search for a Methodology (eBook available online)
Exhibiting Atrocity: Memorial Museumns and the Politics of Past Violence (eBook available online)
Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead (MAIN HD6054.3 .S265 2013)
Sapiens: a Brief History of Humankind (MAIN CB113.H4 H3713 2015)
White Fragility: Why it's so Hard for White People to Talk about Racism (MAIN HT1521 .D486 2018)- Academic Search Premier
EBSCO's largest database includes full text of thousands of scholarly publications across all academic disciplines. Watch the Ebscohost Tutorial. - Britannica Academic
Discover encyclopedia articles, full-text journal and magazine articles, primary sources, multimedia, and more. - Credo Reference
Search over 3 million full text entries in 1,200 electronic reference books! Watch How to Run a Basic Search on Credo. - EBSCO MegaFILE
Save time and search all four EBSCO databases at once. The EBSCO MegaFILE is comprised of the complete content and functionality of Academic Search Premier, MasterFILE Premier, Business Source Premier, and Regional Business News. - Gale Resources (search all Gale databases)
Accesses and allows cross-searching of the Gale databases which include: Opposing Viewpoints In Context, General Science Collection, Professional Collection, Gale in Context: High School, and Gale in Context: Middle School. - JSTOR
JSTOR is a shared digital library created in 1995 that currently includes more than 2,000 academic journals. The content on JSTOR comes from a broad range of disciplines, predominantly in the humanities, social sciences, and field sciences. - Learning Express Library
Free online courses to improve basic skills (Adult Core Skills), workplace skills (Career Preparation) college readiness skills (College Students), and computer skills (Computer Skills). Includes many practice tests for college and graduate school entrance as well as career, workplace, and preparation for entrance exams including Medical Assistant, PTA, Rad Tech, Surg Tech, Preparation for the NCLEX-PN, NCLEX-RN, Nursing Assistant/Nurse Aide Certification, Electrician Licensing, CDL Exams, EMT Certification, and Firefighter Exams. Navigating Learning Express Tutorial. - Opposing Viewpoints
This online resource covers today's hottest social issues, from capital punishment to immigration to marijuana. It includes rich resources for debaters and includes viewpoints, reference articles, news, images, video, and more. - Points of View Reference Center
Points of View is a full-text database that offers students with a series of comprehensive essays with point and counterpoint arguments related to current issues in the news. Points of View Reference Center Tutorial
Below are large collections of Humanities resources from the Open Educational Resources Initiative, a project of the Academic Senate for California Community Colleges.
Art and Art History
Communication Studies
English and Literature
Ethnic Studies
Geography
History
Philosophy
Spanish
Open Educational Resources (OER) are teaching, learning, and research materials that are either a) in the public domain or b) licensed in a manner that provides everyone with free and perpetual permission to engage in the 5R activities (retain, reuse, revise, remix, redistribute). creativecommons.org
Minnesota Humanities Center
The Minnesota Humanities Center collaborates with individuals, organizations, and communities to bring transformational humanities programming into the lives of Minnesotans throughout the state.
National Endowmnet for the Humanities
The Smithsonian Institution
CIA: The World Factbook
The World Factbook provides information on the history, people, government, economy, geography, communications, transportation, military, terrorism, and transnational issues for 266 world entities.
Individual Country Studies from the Library of Congress
This website contains online versions of 80 books previously published (1988-98) in hard copy as part of the Country Studies Series by the Federal Research Division. The books in the series present a description and analysis of the historical setting and the social, economic, political, and national security systems and institutions of select countries throughout the world.
Maplandia: Google Maps World Gazetter
This website provides a searchable world gazetteer based on Google Maps. More than 2,000,000 places all over the world are divided into geographical categories according to continents, countries, and administrative regions.
The Minnesota Humanities Center collaborates with individuals, organizations, and communities to bring transformational humanities programming into the lives of Minnesotans throughout the state.
National Endowmnet for the Humanities
The Smithsonian Institution
CIA: The World Factbook
The World Factbook provides information on the history, people, government, economy, geography, communications, transportation, military, terrorism, and transnational issues for 266 world entities.
Individual Country Studies from the Library of Congress
This website contains online versions of 80 books previously published (1988-98) in hard copy as part of the Country Studies Series by the Federal Research Division. The books in the series present a description and analysis of the historical setting and the social, economic, political, and national security systems and institutions of select countries throughout the world.
Maplandia: Google Maps World Gazetter
This website provides a searchable world gazetteer based on Google Maps. More than 2,000,000 places all over the world are divided into geographical categories according to continents, countries, and administrative regions.
CareerOneStop
Career Wise
O*NET
Birth and Death Life Cycle of Language
It is predicted that within a century more than half of the world's languages will become extinct, but as languages are lost, new ones emerge naturally or are constructed. Experts discuss current language trends and offer their opinions on which languages may emerge as front-runners of the future.
Borderless: The Lives of Undocumented Workers
This program provides an intimate look inside the lives of two non-status migrant laborers and exposes some of the hidden costs of sustaining the "first world" economy.
TEDTalks, Phillip Atiba Goff - How we can make Racism a Solvable Problem -- and Improve Policing
In an actionable talk, Phillip Atiba Goff shares his work at the Center for Policing Equity, an organization that helps police departments diagnose and track racial gaps in policing in order to eliminate them.
It is predicted that within a century more than half of the world's languages will become extinct, but as languages are lost, new ones emerge naturally or are constructed. Experts discuss current language trends and offer their opinions on which languages may emerge as front-runners of the future.
Borderless: The Lives of Undocumented Workers
This program provides an intimate look inside the lives of two non-status migrant laborers and exposes some of the hidden costs of sustaining the "first world" economy.
TEDTalks, Phillip Atiba Goff - How we can make Racism a Solvable Problem -- and Improve Policing
In an actionable talk, Phillip Atiba Goff shares his work at the Center for Policing Equity, an organization that helps police departments diagnose and track racial gaps in policing in order to eliminate them.