Research Guides: Portuguese Literature Resources: Finding Articles

Key Databases

SciELO Scientific Electronic Library Online This link opens in a new window
SciELO is a database covering Brazilian journals in the sciences and social sciences. Select the pesquisa de artigos to search for the text of articles on your topic.
Coverage: Open access for many journals available since the late 1990s.
HAPI: Hispanic American Periodicals Index This link opens in a new window
The Hispanic American Periodicals Index (HAPI) indexes (and provides links where possible) articles in over 700 journals worldwide about Central and South America, the Caribbean, and Hispanics/Latinos in the United States.
Coverage: 1970 to present.
MLA International Bibliography This link opens in a new window
An index of scholarly books and articles on modern languages, literature, folklore, and linguistics.
Coverage: 1926 to present.
JSTOR This link opens in a new window
This databases provides image and full text online access to back issues of selected scholarly journals. Most articles are in English, but there are many in Spanish. Note; full text does not include the most recent 3-5 years.
PRISMA: Publicaciones y Revistas Sociales y Humanisticas This link opens in a new window
PRISMA is a comprehensive reference resource providing full-text scholarly journals in the social sciences and humanities for the interdisciplinary academic study of Hispanic and Latin America, and the Caribbean Basin.
Coverage: 1996 to present.
Handbook of Latin American Studies This link opens in a new window
HLAS is a bibliography on Latin America consisting of works selected and annotated by scholars. Edited by the Hispanic Division of the Library of Congress, the multidisciplinary Handbook alternates annually between the social sciences and the humanities. Continuously published since 1936, the Handbook offers Latin Americanists an essential guide to available resources
Coverage: 1935 to present.
Informe Académico This link opens in a new window
Popular Hispanic magazines (e.g., Fem, Hemisphere, Hola, Hispanic Times, Latin Beat, Latinas, PC, Proceso, Semana). Selected pamphlets in areas such as health care. Spanish thesaurus.
Coverage: 1996 to present.
Project MUSE This link opens in a new window
Digital humanities and social science scholarly journals from university presses and scholarly societies.
Dissertations & Theses Full Text This link opens in a new window
Dissertations and theses from around the world in business, health & medicine, history, literature & language, science & technology, social sciences, and the arts. Includes Vanderbilt University dissertations and theses.
Coverage: 1743-present.

Researching Brazil: Pesquisa no Brasil
Includes journals, news, directory of institutions, bibliography of print sources, and additional websites regarding Brazilian studies.
Dissertations and Theses
Disserations and Theses published in Portuguese and made available by the Universidade de Sao Paulo.
Redalyc
Red de Revistas Científicas de América Latina y el Caribe, España y Portugal. Full text database of Latin American journal in the Sciences, Social Sciences, and Humanities from the Universidad Autónoma del Estado de México.

SUR This link opens in a new window
SUR was "one of the most important and influential literary magazines published in Latin America in the 20th Century." This resource includes images of the complete magazine including covers, photographs, and advertisements as well as a comprehensive index. A set of images of manuscripts from the first issue and an unpublished set of letters by Victoria Ocampo are also included.
Coverage: 1931-1992.

Corpus Informatizado do Portugues Medieval (CIPM)
A investigação sobre o Português Medieval da responsabilidade de uma equipa da Linha de Investigação 1 do Centro de Linguística da Universidade Nova de Lisboa visa a constituição e disponibilização de um corpus informatizado, o CIPM, e de estudos linguísticos para a constituição de uma Gramática, bem como de um Dicionário.

Literature Databases

MLA International Bibliography This link opens in a new window
Subject indexing of journals, books, proceedings, and dissertations in the areas of literature, language and linguistics, folklore, film, literary theory & criticism, dramatic arts, and the historical aspects of printing and publishing.
Coverage: 1926 to present.
Project MUSE This link opens in a new window
Digital humanities and social science scholarly journals from university presses and scholarly societies.
Gale Directory Library This link opens in a new window
Cross-search Gale directories including: Ward's Business Directory, Encyclopedia of Associations, Scholarships, Fellowships & Loans; Gale Directory of Publications and Broadcast Media; Research Centers Directory; etc.

Dissertations and Theses
O Corpus do Português
Allows you to quickly search of words in Portuguese texts from the 1300's to the 1900's.