Latin American & Caribbean: Orientation  Tags: latin_america caribbean  

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More Indexes & Databases

Best:

HAPI UIUC
Identifies article and review citations regarding Central and South America, Mexico, the Caribbean, and Hispanics in the U.S. in subject areas including political science, history and the humanities.

Handbook of Latin American Studies WWW
An excellent multidisciplinary resource from the Hispanic Division of the Library of Congress.

Chicano Database UIUC
Identifies publications about Mexican-American and Latino topics. Provides selective coverage dating back to the early 1900s. Records added since 1992 have expanded its scope to include the broader Latino experience, including Puerto Ricans, Cuban Americans, and Central American immigrants. The Chicano Database also includes the Spanish Speaking Mental Health Database, covering psychological, sociological, and educational literature.

Other:

Clase y Periodica WWW
A database of article citations from more than 2,500 Latin American and Caribbean scientific journals from from 1979 to the present.

Latin American Periodicals Tables of Contents (LAPTOC) WWW
Tables of contents for hundreds of journals in the humanities and social sciences from Latin America.

LATINDEX WWW
Directory of 12,000 journals from Latin America, the Caribbean, Spain, and Portugal in a range of disciplines.

How to find articles tutorial

To find articles and books, try the Library's Easy Search

• Academic Search Premier (EBSCO)
• Academic OneFile (Infotrac)
• Arts and Humanities Citation Index
• Current Biography Illustrated 1940- present
• CQ Researcher
• Humanities and Social Sciences Retrospective 1907-1984

Full-Text Article Databases (see box below for online journal portals)

• JSTOR
• Periodicals Archive Online
• Project Muse through the Online Research Resources

Anthropology

Anthropology Indexes & Databases

Art

Art Indexes & Databases

Business

Business & Economics Indexes & Databases

Education

Education Indexes & Databases

History

History Indexes & Databases

Linguistics

LLBA Database

MLA International Bibliography Database

Literature

LLBA Database

MLA International Bibliography Database

Bibliografía de la Literatura Española desde 1980

Index to Film Periodicals

Film Literature Index

Political Science

Political Science Indexes & Databases

Religion

Religion Indexes & Databases through the HNPL

Sociology

Sociology Indexes & Databases

Women's Studies

Gender and Women's Studies Indexes & Databases

Americanismo--journals on Latin American topics

Cibera Virtual Library on Ibero-America, Spain and Portugal

CSIC Scholarly and scientific journals from Spain

Directory of open access journals

Electronic Journals Library --a wealth of online journals

E-revistas --This portal is maintained by El Centro de Información y Documentación Científica (CINDOC) in association with other leading research instututions to provide free access to full text academic journals in Spanish

Estudios Afroamericanos --provides links to online peer reviewed journals in the field

Directory of open access journals

Universidad de La Rioja' Dialnet

Intute--lists individual online journals

Linking the Americas --full-text access to various 20th century literary journals

Miguel de Cervantes Virtual Library --0ffers electronic journals, mostly in literature and culture.

Portal de Revistas Electrónicas from the Complutense University in Madrid --gives full-text free access to electronic versions of all the scholarly journals edited by the University

Portal Europeo de América Latina --a key online gateway to research in the field of Latin American studies across Europe. Resulting from a partnership between REDIAL (Red Europea de Información y Documentación sobre América Latina) and CEISAL (Consejo Europeo de Investigaciones Sociales de América Latina)

Portal del Hispanismo --or new issues of journals related to the field of Latin American studies

Scielo: Scientific Electronic Library Online

RedALyc: La Red de Revistas Científicas de Américan Latina y el Caribe, España y Portugal --Free access to an online collection of over 400 Spanish language ejournals

Revistes catalanes amb Accés Obert (RACO), or Open Access Catalan Journals, an online repository of scholarly journals from Catalonia

Sitios Culturales de Chile is a vast online portal to websites useful for Chilean cultural studies including journals