Research Guides: Diversity and Inclusion Resources: Home

This research guide provides information about multicultural and diversity research tools, digital and physical collections, programs, and services.

The library recognizes diversity as the broad range of experiences and backgrounds our community brings together to create a rich learning environment. We support the university's vision of celebrating individuality while creating an inclusive community. Our goal is to empower all users to learn and grow in a welcoming and safe climate. We seek to do so through our spaces, resources, services, and staff.

UNI Diversity
Find information about upcoming diversity-related events, news, and the campus community.
Center for Multicultural Education
The UNI Center for Multicultural Education will advance inclusion and social justice through advocacy and support of underrepresented and marginalized students, provide diversity education for all its community members, and promote a safe and welcoming environment that fosters academic success, a sense of belonging, and respect for all people and cultures.
UNI Multicultural Bilingual Resource Guide
If you are seeking interpretation services for American Sign Languages or other similar accommodations, please contact Student Accessibility Services.

Cedar Valley Inclusion Magazine
The Job Foundation
Mission: To promote financial stewardship to K-12 students in Iowa's Cedar Valley through education, mentoring, and resources for the cause of economic advancement.
Waterloo Commission on Human Rights
An administrative agency within the City of Waterloo. It was created in compliance with the Code of Iowa Chapter 216.19 that mandates cities with populations of 29,000 or greater to maintain a local civil rights agency or commission.
Grow Cedar Valley: Inclusion Tool-Kit
Additional Community Resources

Diversity Style Guide
The Diversity Style Guide is a resource to help journalists and other media professionals cover a complex, multicultural world with accuracy, authority and sensitivity.
Iowa Data Center
The State Data Center of Iowa is your source for population, housing, business and government statistics about Iowa, including data from the U.S. Census Bureau, Iowa state agencies, and other state and federal sources
A Progressive's Style Guide from SumOfUs.org
A multi-voiced guide created to combat discriminatory language when writing, speaking, or using images.
Unconscious Bias Resources

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GALE ONEFILE, Diversity Studies
"Collection of journals that explores cultural differences, contributions and influences in the global community."
Academic Search Elite (EBSCO)
Academic Search Elite, an EBSCO database, is a general academic index that indexes almost 3,000 magazines and journals from every academic discipline and provides the full-text of more than 1,200.
eHRAF World Cultures
A cross-cultural database that contains information on all aspects of cultural and social life. The annually-growing eHRAF database is organized into cultures and ethnic groups and the full-text sources are subject-indexed at the paragraph level.
Handbook of Latin American Studies - HLAS (Library of Congress)
The Handbook is a bibliography on Latin America consisting of works selected and annotated by scholars. Edited by the Hispanic Division of the Library of Congress, the multidisciplinary Handbook alternates annually between the social sciences and the humanities. Each year, more than 130 academics from around the world choose over 5,000 works for inclusion in the Handbook. Continuously published since 1936, the Handbook offers Latin Americanists an essential guide to available resources.
JSTOR
JSTOR (www.jstor.org) is a not-for-profit organization with a dual mission to create and maintain a trusted archive of important scholarly journals, and to provide access to these journals as widely as possible. Content in JSTOR spans many disciplines, primarily in the humanities and social sciences. For complete lists of titles and collections, please refer to http://www.jstor.org/about/collection.list.html.