School of the Americas

"Pathfinders" are guides to help you get started finding information on a topic. A St. Kate's Reference Librarian has written this guide to help you perform Library research for your structured controversy paper and presentation. It is not meant to be an exhaustive list of resources, but some places to begin your hunt.

Please stop or phone the Reference Desk (651-690-6652) if you have questions or need further assistance.

Contents:   Reference Works  | Finding Books  |  Journal Articles  |  Internet Sites

Reference Books

Note: Please remember that Reference Books may not be taken from the Library

Finding Books

Use CLICnet to search for books and videos in the Library at St. Kate's and at other ACTC colleges. Use the "Request" feature to obtain items not at St. Kate's.

Search terms:
        Subject: U.S. Army School of the Americas

Finding Journal Articles

About off-campus access

1. Use EBSCO's Academic Search Premier and InfoTrac's Expanded Academic ASAP to look for journal articles, adding enough terms to limit the search to your topic. To find only academic journals, click before the box for "scholarly (peer reviewed) journals" or "refereed publications."

Search Term(s): school of the americas

2.  Use LexisNexis Academic to look for articles in major newspapers, including the New York Times and the Minneapolis Star Tribune.  Select the News category, then General News.

    Keyword(s): school w/3 americas
        Narrow: benning

Internet Resources

School of the Americas Watch
http://www.soaw.org/index.html

School of the Americas fact sheet from the Center for International Policy
http://www.ciponline.org/facts/soa.htm