Use the Library's main search box (below) to do a broad search of the UM library collections, including print books, e-books, and articles in the library databases. When viewing your search results, use the limiters on the left-hand side to limit by source type, year, and more.
Discovery Search Box
Find E-books on Cuba
Did you know the library provides access to thousands of e-books? To search specifically for e-books on a topic related to Cuba, use the link below. Please note: If you're off campus, you'll be prompted to log in using your UM username and password.
- EBSCOhost Ebook Academic Collection This link opens in a new window
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Full-text access to more than 200,000 academic e-books
Finding Articles on Cuba
Depending on what topic you choose to explore in your research paper, you may find different databases useful. Here are a few that may help you locate articles and other information related to your topic.
General databases
- Academic Search Premier This link opens in a new windowA multi-disciplinary resource that includes full-text articles from several thousand journals, in virtually every area of academic study.
- Google Scholar This link opens in a new window
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Use Google's search capability to locate scholarly materials. Use these instructions to learn how to link Google Scholar to the library's resources. This will allow you to access more full-text articles and place interlibrary loan requests.
Cuban history
- Historical Abstracts This link opens in a new windowComplete reference guide to the history of the world from 1450 to the present (excluding the United States and Canada, which are covered in America: History and Life).
- America: History & Life This link opens in a new windowComplete bibliographic reference to the history of the United States and Canada from prehistory to the present
- JSTOR This link opens in a new window
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Includes both the Arts & Sciences and Language & Literature Collections. Includes archives of over one thousand leading academic journals across the humanities, literary criticism, social sciences, and sciences, as well as select monographs and other materials valuable for academic work.
Cuban art or artists
- Art Full Text This link opens in a new windowIndexes and abstracts articles from periodicals relating to all aspects of art published throughout the world. Full-text coverage for selected periodicals is also included.
- Artstor on JSTOR This link opens in a new window
JSTOR images (otherwise known as Artstor on JSTOR) provides more than one million digital images in the arts, architecture, humanities, and sciences. Visit the Artstor on JSTOR guide to learn how to find and save images. This guide also explains how to set up an account and log in to save content. Note: If you previously set up a Artstor account, you already have a JSTOR account (so no extra steps are required).
Cuban music
- Oxford Music Online This link opens in a new window
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Offers the Grove Music series as well as The Oxford Companion to Music and its more than 8,000 articles on composers, performers, conductors, instruments and notation, forms and genres. Includes other major music reference works. | Watch Video Tutorial
**Access is limited to 3 users at a time - RILM Abstracts of Music Literature This link opens in a new windowOffers a broad international coverage of music related works from articles, books, bibliographies, dissertations, film & video to concert reviews and recording notes
Doing business in Cuba
- Business Source Complete This link opens in a new windowFull text coverage of a wide range of business journals, including over 1,100 peer-reviewed journals.
- Global Road Warrior This link opens in a new windowGlobal Road Warrior is a global knowledge database featuring information about countries' culture, history, language, travel, and education.
Education in Cuba
- ERIC (EBSCOhost) This link opens in a new window
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Provides indexing and abstracts for journals and ERIC documents in areas relating to education at all levels. | Watch video tutorial
Health system in Cuba
- PubMed This link opens in a new window
PubMed comprises more than 36 million citations for biomedical literature from MEDLINE, life science journals, and online books. Citations may include links to full-text content from PubMed Central and publisher web sites. Watch video about full-text in PubMed.
- PsycINFO This link opens in a new windowContains nearly two million citations and summaries of journal articles, book chapters, books and dissertations, all in the field of psychology
