Latin American Studies
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HAPI -- Hispanic American Periodicals Index
Covers over 500 journals from or about Latin America. Includes book reviews, drama and film reviews and articles which may be written in English, Spanish, or Portuguese. Good for unique viewpoint. Full-text access to some journals available via links to JSTOR.
HLAS -- Handbook of Latin American Studies
Annual. Volumes alternate: one year Social Sciences, the next, Humanities. Excellent traditional source for books and periodicals on Latin America. Subject index gives access to books and articles.
Latin American Newsstand
Latin American Newsstand offers the full text of articles in 37 major Latin American newspapers and major international newswires covering Latin America like BBC Monitoring and Notas Financieras. Users will get the entire, cover-to-cover text of the newspapers rather than a selection of articles. Titles include El Universal (Mexico), O Globo (Brazil), and La Nacion (Argentina). Coverage varies, with most newspaper coverage beginning in January 2005. However, some newspapers go back as far as 1995.
Prisma - Publicaciones y Revistas Sociales y Humanísticas
Full-text scholarly journals in the social sciences and humanities for the interdisciplinary academic study of Hispanic and Latin America and the Caribbean Basin. Many of the journals indexed in PRISMA are linked to the Hispanic American Periodicals Index (HAPI). PRISMA's content includes articles in Spanish, Portuguese and English.
Full-Text Databases that Include Latin American Studies Journals
JSTOR
Click here for a list of journals in Latin American Studies.
Project Muse
Click here for a list of all Project Muse journals, including Latin American Studies journals.
Latin America-Specific Databases
Latin American Women Writers
A prototype version of a planned collection of approximately 100,000 pages of prose, poetry and drama by women writers from Mexico, Central, and South America. The prototype version features about 4200 pages of prose and poetry. Drama will be added in the next release.
DRSW - Documentary Relations of the Southwest: Spanish Colonial Documents on Microfilm
LAPTOC - Latin American Periodicals Tables of Contents
Tables of contents to 600 journals from 15 Latin American countries.
ISLA: Information Services on Latin America - F 1408 .I5 Main Ref
Clippings collected from English-language newspapers, compiled by country.
General Databases with Latin America-Related Content
Anthropological Literature
Anthropology, archaeology and cultural studies. Also available in paper at GN1 .A58 Main Ref. (Index shelves)
EBSCOhost
Multidisciplinary database that includes some full-text articles.
Global Newsbank (International news)
International news. Includes articles, news summaries, etc.
Historical Abstracts
World history plus U.S. in world events.
MLA Bibliography
1921- present. The most comprehensive collection of citations to literary criticism available. MLA indexes periodicals and books in many languages. Criticism of Spanish and Latin American authors from the middle ages to comtemporary times. Spanish, Portuguese, and Latin American Literatures are arranged chronologically, then alphabetically by author. available through (1963-present).
Public Affairs Information Service (PAIS International)
Indexes and abstracts to articles in the social sciences. International coverage.
Sociological Abstracts
Citations and abstracts to articles from an international collection of journal titles. Includes abstracts to dissertations and conference proceedings.
Social Science Citation Index
Multidisciplinary database through cited authors.