Research Guides: Latin American Studies Resources: Articles and Databases

Latin American Core Databases

The databases below will help you find articles on topics relating to Latin America.

ProQuest
Provides indexing, abstracts and selected full text articles in a wide range of academic fields and includes both popular magazines and scholarly journals. Truncation symbol: *
HAPI, Hispanic American Periodicals Index
The principal index of journals on and from Latin America and the Caribbean. Links to full text.
Prisma
Scholarly journals on and from Latin America.
Handbook of Latin American Studies (HLAS)
The principal index to journals and other resources on and from Latin America and the Caribbean from 1935 to present.
Informe Académico
Informe Académico provides indexing and full text of popular Hispanic magazines (e.g., Fem, Hemisphere, Hola, Hispanic Times, Latin Beat, Latinas, PC, Proceso, Semana). Also includes selected pamphlets in areas such as health care.
JSTOR
Provides complete electronic backfiles of core journals in history and a variety of other subjects. Does not include the most recent 3-5 years. Truncation symbol: *
Historical Abstracts
Provides indexing and links to the text of journal articles in history that relate to Spain, Africa, Latin America and the Caribbean.
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.
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
Provides a searchable database and access to free articles, many of which are from Brazilian journals.
LAPTOC
The Latin American Periodicals Tables of Contents database, or LAPTOC, provides open electronic access to the tables of contents of journals published in Latin America and the Caribbean between the years 1994 and 2009. LAPTOC consists of 975 academic and research journals published in 29 countries in the region.
World Scholar: Latin America and the Caribbean
World Scholar offers a rich collection of primary source documents about Latin America and the Caribbean (see historical collections section); academic journals and news feeds covering the region; reference overviews (see special topics); articles, maps and statistics; audio and video.
Periodicals Archive Online
Older humanities and social sciences periodicals including some Spanish joiunals beginning around 1800. Companion database to Periodicals Index Online, a larger database indexing service, .
Periodicals Index Online
Indexes thousands of journals - both scholarly and popular - from 1665 to date.
British Periodicals
Covers hundreds of journals from the late 17th to the early 20th century.
Readers' Guide Retrospective, 1890-1982
Index of articles from general interest magazines, such as Time, Atlantic Monthly, Century Magazine, Christian Century, Commonweal, Foreign Affairs, Fortnightly Review (London), Ladies Home Journal, Literary Digest, The Nation, New Republic. Good source for popular US coverage of Latin American events, especially political and cultural issues.
Bibliografia mesoamericana

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