Exploring the Multiethnic Experience Online
Wide-ranging and easy to use, the American Mosaic is the first-ever full-text database to focus on the history and culture of African Americans, U.S. Latinos, and American Indians. The Mosaic combines the award-winning African American Experience, the groundbreaking Latino American Experience,and the robust American Indian Experience with content that spans the centuries.
Benefits
- Expands Your Collection with content from more than 790 full-text reference and scholarly works, more than 7,000 images, 6,000 primary documents, and over 800 vetted web links.
- Provides Trustworthy Content writtenby authorities in the field. Plus, each module in the Mosaic has been designed, developed, and indexed by librariansof color and subject specialists.
- Keeps Growing with twice annual enhancements that add newly published titles – at no additional cost.
- Facilitates Research: An attractive and easy-to-use interface facilitates full search and browse functionality and other features, including The American Heritage® College Dictionary, Fourth Edition, Copyright © 2002 Houghton Mifflin Co.
- Ties into Curriculum through correlations to state standards; an extensive Skills Center with over 130 lesson plans and research guides on such topics as Avoiding Plagiarism and Writing a Research Paper; and Topic Guides designed to guide students through the research process in popular assignment areas.
This dynamic database is enhanced twice a year with newly published books from Greenwood, Praeger, and other publishers. New databases, such as the upcoming Asian American and Middle Eastern American Experience (2009), can be fully integrated into the American Mosaic or purchased as stand-alone subscriptions.
Awards and Reviews for The African American Experience
Library Journal Best Online Reference
"For school and public libraries, it's an 11 [out of 10] for its extraordinary combination of content and design." —Library Journal
Library Media Connection Editor's Choice
"This comprehensive, in-depth research database presents an uncluttered, easy-to-use, and appealing online research database." —Library Media Connection
Awards and Reviews for The Latino American Experience
"[No other resource] provides the breadth of coverage—from cooking and music to politics and literature—found here. This is a spectacular resource, reasonably priced." —Choice
"This is the most beautifully designed electronic product I've ever seen, as creatively functional as it is attractive." —Library Journal