Research Guides: Latin American Studies Resources: Scholarly Journals

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ProQuest
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JSTOR
Large and important archive for academic journals, books, and primary sources in the humanities, social sciences, and sciences. Many journals do not have current issues.
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Finding Scholarly Journals

The Library Catalog can help you find scholarly journals in Latin American Studies by limiting your search results to "Peer reviewed" using the search filters. You can also use a number of databases to search full-text and indexed journals in certain fields or from or about Latin America specifically.

HAPI: Hispanic American Periodicals Index
The principal index of journals on and from Latin America and the Caribbean and Hispanic Americans in the US.. Links to full text where available.
Coverage: 1970 to present.
PRISMA: Publicaciones y Revistas Sociales y Humanisticas
Scholarly articles in the social sciences and humanities relating to Iberia, Latin America, the Caribbean and Latinx Studies. Titles in English, Spanish, and Portuguese.
Coverage: 1996 to present.
Historical Abstracts
Provides indexing and links to the text of journal articles in history that relate to Spain, Africa, Latin America and the Caribbean.
Coverage: 1955 to present

Dialnet
Dialnet is a free-access database of Spanish scientific literature.
RedAlyc
Full text database of Latin American, Spanish, Caribbean, and Portuguese journals in the Sciences, Social Sciences, and Humanities from the Universidad Autónoma del Estado de México.

SciELO Scientific Electronic Library Online
Scholarly literature in the social sciences, sciences, arts, and humanities published in leading open access journals from Latin American, Portugal, Spain and South Africa.
Coverage: Open access for many journals available since the late 1990s.
Periodicals Archive Online
Older humanities and social sciences periodicals including some Spanish journals beginning around 1800. Companion database to Periodicals Index Online, a larger database indexing service, .
British Periodicals
Periodicals from the late seventeenth century to the early twentieth. Literature, philosophy, history, science, the social sciences, music, art, drama, archaeology and architecture. Helpful for topics such as Atlantic world studies, slavery in the Caribbean, British colonial involvement.
Latin American Periodicals Tables of Contents (LAPTOC)
Tables of contents of academic and research journals published in Latin America and the Caribbean. LAPTOC consists of 975 academic and research journals published in 29 countries in the region.
Coverage: 1994 and 2009.

Ibero-Amerikanischen Instituts
Index to articles from many Latin American journals. Also can search multiple databases (e.g., HLAS). Service of the Ibero-American Institute in Berlin; access to their catalog.
Latindex
Latindex is a bibliographical information system available for free consultation. The project is based on the cooperation of 17 national resource centers that gather and disseminate relevant information and data on the Iberoamerican journals.

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