Michael Rodriguez

EBSCO’s Ethnic Diversity Source is a full-text research database covering “the culture, traditions, social treatment and lived experiences of different ethnic groups in America.” Both novice and expert researchers will appreciate the database’s powerful search, user-friendly design, and breadth of content.

The Booker T. Washington Papers Digital Edition gives access to multiple volumes of the innerworkings an instrumental Black educator and author. Researchers and historians will revel in the richness of this collection. Although, the platform is outdated and difficult to navigate at times, the significance of the information is likely unparalleled.

Designed for graduate and undergraduate students, SAGE Campus is an online learning platform that offers nearly 30 self-paced courses covering the fundamentals of data literacy, social science research methods, data science, and publication. Courses include interactive text and video content, lectures, quizzes, and practical exercises.

PressReader is a wonderful way to read the news. Simply and gracefully designed, it enables readers to search, browse, and page through interactive digital editions of thousands of newspapers and magazines from all over the world. With its limited date coverage and searchability, PressReader likely won’t appeal to researchers, but casual readers, language learners, travelers, businesspeople, and international students wishing to stay in touch with home will relish the global content and reading experience.

Mindscape Commons provides interactive virtual reality mental health content for students learning clinical skills and empathy in fields like counseling, psychology, and social work. It exhibits normal growing pains as a new product, but it’s an intriguing resource with potential to shake up the library streaming media market.

Covering topics such as Black studies, business, history, nature, statistics, and technology, the following databases will help academic and public libraries meet the research needs of patrons—a task that's become even more difficult now that access to physical materials is more limited owing to the pandemic.