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Contributor: University of California, Berkeley. Chicano Studies Library. Publications Unit.

Summary: Portions of the database were published and sold separately as the Chicano periodical index; the Chicano index; Arte Chicano; the Chicano anthology index; and the Chicana studies index.; Beginning with Version 3.5, the coverage of the Chicano database on CD-ROM expanded to includes bibliographic information on Puerto Ricans, Cuban Americans, and Central American refugees as well as persons of Mexican heritage. Citations begin in mid-1960s and index terms are from the Chicano thesarus and are built into the system.

Subject: Mexican Americans > Periodicals > Indexes.; Mexican American periodicals > Indexes.; Hispanic Americans > Periodicals > Indexes.; Mexican Americans > Indexes.; Puerto Ricans > Indexes.; Cuban Americans > Indexes.; Central Americans > Indexes.; Mexican American art > Indexes.; Mexican American literature (Spanish) > Indexes.; American literature > Mexican American authors > Indexes.

Database topics: American History; Sociology; Art, Architecture and Design; Language; American Literary Studies; Race and Ethnicity; Spanish, Portuguese and Latin American Studies

Beginning date: 1990
Frequency: Semiannual, <July 1991->
Former Publication Frequency: Annual, <1990->
Vol/date range: Version 1 (1990)-
Note: Discs for <July 1991-> also contain the KAware2 retrieval system.; Title from disc label.
Note: Also available on the Internet to subscribing institutions.
Format: System requirements: IBM-PC or equivalent with 640K RAM, MS-DOS or PC-DOS 3.1 or above; hard disk, and CD-ROM drive.
Note: Available online to Stanford-affiliated users.
Related Work: Goldman, Shifra M., 1926-2011 Arte Chicano.; García-Ayvens, Francisco, 1948- Chiano anthology index.; Chicano periodical index.; Chicano index.; Chicana studies index.
Continues: Chicano index
ISSN: 1056-2516
Key Title: Chicano database