Latin American History
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Best Sources for Finding Articles & Databases
Hispanic American Periodical Index (HAPI)
Latin America and U.S. Hispanics focus of index to articles, links to some full text. Publictions indexed cover 1970 to the present.
HLAS (Handbook of Latin American Studies)
Citations and abstracts to books, chapters in books, and journal articles about all aspects of Latin American studies. Many of the indexed publications are published in Latin America.
Historical Abstracts (from EBSCO) [TIPS]
World history, excluding the U.S. and Canada, from time period 1450 to the present. Good coverage of Latin American history.
JSTOR
Fully searchable and full image of complete runs of the major periodicals in history, economics, sociology, and Latin American studies. Will not include the most recent few years of a journal, but in a few cases links to Project Muse.
PRISMA - Publicaciones y Revistas Sociales y Humanísticas
Many full-text scholarly journals for the interdisciplinary study of Hispanic and Latin America and the Caribbean Basin. Includes articles in Spanish, Portuguese and English.
Project Muse
Fully searchable and full image of more current issues of major scholarly journals. In some cases links to older issues in JSTOR.
Other Sources for Finding Articles & Databases
Academic Search Complete
Indexes articles of news and other sources from 1980 to the present. Inlcudes full-text for many articles from 1992 to the present.
America: History and Life (ABC CLIO) [TIPS]
History of the United States and Canada, all time periods. Covers Latin American history that intersects with U.S. history.
America: History & Life (From EBSCO) [TIPS] Alert!
EthnicNewswatch
Bilingual (English and Spanish) and comprehensive full text database of newspapers, magazines and journals from ethnic and minority presses in the U.S. Linking the current database (1990-present) with a retrospective backfile of titles, not all full text, (1960-1989).
ACLS History E-Book Project
This American Council of Learned Societies History E-Book Project has over 1,000 texts of classic history works, fully digitized and searchable.
Dissertations-University of Arizona Only 1996- present
These are University of Arizona dissertations only.
Dissertations and Theses - Full Text (Proquest) 1861-present
Dissertations published from 1980 forward include 350-word abstracts written by the author. Master's theses published from 1988 forward include 150-word abstracts.
Includes full text of dissertations from 1996 to present.
International Index to Black Periodicals
U.S., African, and Caribbean and other parts of Latin American history, with some full-text coverage.
Periodical Archives Online..Full Text
Periodicals Archive Online contains over 400 journals, published between 1802 and the 1990s, representing over 1.2 million articles. Periodicals Archive Online continues to add new titles, to give undergraduate and graduate students, university faculty and libraries access to a growing collection of the most historically respected journals in the humanities and social sciences
Public Affairs Information Service Bulletin (PAIS)
Index to articles from journals, books, hearings, reports on issues relating to public policy, politics, and social issues. 1915- present.
Web of Knowledge
Includes Social Sciences Citation Index, and Arts & Humanities Citation Index. Index to core journal articles and cited references. Includes some abstracts. Updated weekly- very current.