Click on the image below to use our Immigration in America guide.
All of these resources are free for MJC students, faculty, & staff.
If you're working from off campus, you'll need to sign in. Once you click on the name of a database, simply enter your student ID (without the W) and your six-digit birth date.
Why search here? Use Access World News when you need to find current news stories. It's especially useful for local and California news. This is your source for The Modesto Bee from January 1989 to the present.
What's included: Articles from of local, regional, and national U.S. newspapers as well as full-text content of key international sources. It includes in-depth special reports and hot topics from around the country.
Watch this short video to learn how to find The Modesto Bee.
Why search here? Search 29 databases at the same time that cover almost any topic you need to research at MJC. This is a good resource to use when you want to delve deeper into your subject.
What's included: EBSCO databases include articles previously published in academic journals, magazines, newspapers, books, and other media outlets.
Why search here? When you want to find broad coverage on almost any topic you need to research at MJC, use Gale databases to search over 35 databases simultaneously.
What's included: Gale databases include articles previously published in journals, magazines, newspapers, books, and other media outlets.
Why search here? Use this database when you want to explore your topic from a global perspective or to analyze and understand the most important issues of the modern world with a global awareness.
What's included: You'll find news, global viewpoints, reference materials, country information, primary source documents, videos, statistics, and more.
Why search here? Kanopy is a video streaming database where you can stream thousands of films for free.
What's included: Kanopy includes a broad selection of over 26,000 documentaries, feature films, and training videos from thousands of producers.
For faculty: Instructions for embedding Kanopy into Canvas.
You need to be sure that you are using the best possible sources of information. You will likely find a variety of sources during your research: books, articles, Web documents, interviews, films, and more. For each and every source you use you want to make sure it passed the CRAAP test:
Currency - Is the content presented current enough for your project? For your specific research question?
Relevancy - Does it answer your research question?
Authority - Does the author have relevant expertise on the topic about which she is writing?
Accuracy - Is the information provided correct?
Point of View - Is the information biased? Is the author trying to persuade you to believe a certain way?
Watch the brief video below to learn more about the CRAAP Test:
Remaking Citizenship: Latina Immigrants and New American Politics
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Daughters and Granddaughters of Farmworkers: Emerging from the Long Shadow of Farm Labor
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Dreamers: An Immigrant Generation's Fight for their American Dream
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Domestica: Immigrant Workers Cleaning and Caring in the Shadows of Affluence
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Latino/a Popular Culture
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Mariachi Music in America
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Mexicans in the Making of America
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Why search here? Use Access World News when you need to find current news stories. It's especially useful for local and California news. This is your source for The Modesto Bee from January 1989 to the present.
What's included: Articles from of local, regional, and national U.S. newspapers as well as full-text content of key international sources. It includes in-depth special reports and hot topics from around the country.
Watch this short video to learn how to find The Modesto Bee.
This brief video from The Washington Post gives an overview of immigration as an election issue in 2016.
If you'd like much more in-depth instruction about the process of conducting research, please check out our guides: