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100s of libraries in North America and you can order print materials through Interlilbrary Loan.
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Lots of scholarly content going back a long ways, mostly in the social sciences and humanities.
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Great, recent scholarly content, includes some ebooks as well.
Chicano Database
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Latino/a database from 1960s to the present.
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Sociology, anthropology, criminology, demography, educaton, law and penology, race relations, social psychology, and urban studies.
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