Research Guides: Latin American Studies: Find Journal Articles

Find Articles: Core Latin American Studies Databases

Hispanic American Periodicals Index(HAPI)
This database indexes over 400 critical periodicals in Latin American Studies. It focuses on all aspects of contemporary Latin American culture, including the border regions shared by Mexico and the United States.
JSTOR
JSTOR is the premier scholarly journal archive. It provides full-text access to 35 Latin American Studies journals including Journal of Latin American Studies and Hispanic American Historical Review.
Red de Revistas Cientificas de America Latina y el Caribe, Espana y Portugal
Red de Revistas Cientificas de America Latina y el Caribe, Espana y Portugal includes Revista Brasileira de Historia, Revista Mexicana del Caribe, and Signo Historicos, among others. Made available for free from the Universidad Autonoma del Estado de Mexico.
Academic Search Complete
Academic Search Complete is the Library's most comprehensive, interdisciplinary journal database; It provides full-text access to many peer-reviewed journals, including good coverage of Latin Amierca. Coverage begins about 1975.
MLA International Bibliography
MLA indexes journal articles, books and dissertations back to 1963. It provides over 1.5 million citations from more than 4,400 journals and series and over 1,000 book publishers. Far and away the most important database for language and literature studies.
Handbook of Latin American Studies
Perhaps the most important index to scholarly works, including journal articles, reference books, book chapters, and conference proceedings, about Latin America. Covers social sciences and humanities disciplines. Searches vol. 1 (1936) through vol. 68 (2013). Alternative search interface for vols. 50-70.
World Scholar: Latin America and The Caribbean
World Scholar: Latin America & the Caribbean collection of primary source documents about Latin America and the Caribbean and includes academic journals and news feeds covering the region as well as reference articles and commentary, maps and statistics, audio and video; and more.

Next Steps: Latin American Studies Databases

The following library databases also index and in many cases provide full-text access to the peer-reviewed journal literature, i.e. secondary literature, of Latin American and Caribbean Studies, whether published in English, Spanish, Portuguese, or other languages.

America: History & Life with Full Text
Provides article abstracts for 1,700+ scholarly journals (1964-date) that focus on the history of the region now occupied by the United States and Canada from prehistoric times to the present. Quite useful for researching the history of Hispanics in North America. Search for the phrase "hispanic americans" to see over 1,600 citations to articles containing that phrase.
Bibliografia Mesoamericana
Indexing project jointly developed between the Foundation for the Advancement of Mesoamerican Studies (FAMSI) and the University of Pennsylvania's Museum Library.. The groundbreaking Mesoamerican Bibliography provides access to the scholarly literature on ancient Mesoamerica and colonial Mexico and Guatemala published since 1960. "Coverage includes books, edited volumes, festschrifts, journal articles, essays in collected works, dissertations and theses, obituaries (2 pages +), CD-ROMs, audio and video tapes, and films pertaining to Mesoamerica. It will not include book reviews, sheet maps, working papers and other gray literature, juvenile literature, newspapers, unpublished manuscripts, and other unpublished materials."

Chicano Database
A comprehensive index to the literature of Chicano Studies; provides selected coverage from the early 1900s through the 1960s, and complete coverage from the 1960s to the present.

Clase and Periodica
Periodica database
Clase database
Note: Clase and Periodica are no longer being updated on FirstSearch as of 2011. Please use the links provided to access them each separately via UNAM.
Clase and Periodica contain Latin American and Caribbean journals, as well as publications on Pan-American issues. Clase indexes journals in the social sciences and humanities, while Periodica indexes journals in the sciences and technology.

Consejo Latinoamericano de Ciencias Sociales (CLACSO)
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CLACSO's member institutes publish 220 journals, of which 147 (or 67%) are available for free through the various journals' websites. To facilitate the searching of multiple journals simultaneously, CLACSO-RedALyC created an open-access portal to the full-text articles of over 100 journals from 17 countries. There are plans for the CLACSO data to be harvested by LANIC and others.
Latin American Monitoring Centre
"Latin American Monitoring Centre... consists of every report published by LatinNews arranged into 33 country sections. Through the LatinNews Monitoring Centre subscribers may access every report published by Latin American Newsletters that is relevant to each country, listed in chronological order and with a full search facility to aid easy research."
Latin American Periodicals Table of Contents (LAPTOC)
Provides access to the Table of Contents of 950 Latin American periodicals. A component of the Latin Americanist Research Resources Project (LARRP), University of Texas at Austin. Although this labor of love is said to cover the widest range of disciplinary thought in the humanities and social sciences emanating from Latin America, in reality for far too many titles TOC work has either ceased altogether or was frozen in the 2005-2007 range.

Linguistics & Language Behavior Abstracts
Linguistics & Language Behavior Abstracts LLBA provides access to abstracts and indexes for international literature in linguistics and related disciplines in the language sciences. Coverage begins in 1973.
Project Muse
Titles relevant to the study of Latin America include Journal of Colonialism and Colonial History, Journal of Latin American Geography, Hispanic American Historical Review, and Latin American Historical Review among others.

Pro/Con Databases

These databases include articles written from multiple perspectives on a number of issues. While you might not find too many articles on Latin American topics, they offer examples of how writers take positions on a topic.

Opposing Viewpoints in Context
Provides information on various social issues, including pro and con articles, topic overviews, statistics, primary documents, links to websites, and full-text magazine and newspaper articles.
CQ Researcher
Each report contained in CQ Reference has a "Pro & Con" section in which opposing experts argue two sides of an issue or topic.
Global Issues in Context
Global Issues in Context contains pages and full-text articles from newspapers, magazines, and academic journals. Focuses on issues, such as war, genocide, terrorism, human rights, poverty, famine, globalization, world trade, nuclear proliferation, and global warming.

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