Latin American Studies Databases

Hispanic American Periodicals Index (HAPI Online)

HAPI contains complete bibliographic citations to articles, book reviews, documents, original literary works, and other materials appearing in more than 400 key social science and humanities journals published throughout the world.  HAPI combines current information about Latin America with in-depth coverage spanning  more than twenty-five years, from 1970 to the present. Now containing more than 10,000 citations,  HAPI grows at the rate of about 8,000 records a year. A complete list of subject headings, subdivisions, and cross references accepted for use in HAPI is included in the HAPI Thesaurus.  You can consult the Hispanic American Periodicals Index in its print version located on Index Table 14 on the second floor of McHenry Library  Z1605.H49 .  Access to  HAPI Online is restricted to UC IP addresses.

Handbook of Latin American Studies (HLAS)

The Handbook 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 and book alternates annually between the social sciences and the humanities. Each year, more than 130 academics from around the world choose over 5,000 works for inclusion in the Handbook. Continuously published since 1935, the Handbook offers Latin Americanists an essential guide to available resources.  You can consult the Handbook of Latin American Studies in its print version located on Index Table 14 on the second floor of McHenry Library  Z1605.H23 , or HLAS Online at the Library of Congress website.

ARL Periodicals Table of Contents Project

The Latin Americanist Research Resources Project is an initiative of the Association of Research Libraries (ARL) and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. The forty-five Participating Libraries have accepted institutional collecting responsibilities for a cross-section of over 500 journals published in Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Peru and Venezuela. The collecting responsibilities include acquiring each issue of the journal and making available through rapid delivery interlibrary loan, articles found in the journal.    Search for an article.

Latin America Data Base (LADB)

An internet-based news service in English about Latin America, publishing in-depth coverage of  Latin American affairs since 1986.  LADB's professional journalists produce three weekly electronic news bulletins about Mexico (SourceMex), Central America and the Caribbean including Cuba (NotiCen) and South America (NotiSur).   Search the LADB Archive.

Political Database of the Americas

Primary source information on Latin American politics produced by the Georgetown University Center for Latin American Studies.  The database was founded to fill a void in the electronic informational resources available to students, academics, policy analysts and government officials on Latin American politics.

Other databases of interest to Latin Americanists:

Columbia International Affairs Online (CIAO

is designed to be the most comprehensive source for theory and research in international affairs. It publishes a wide range of scholarship from 1991on that includes working papers from university research institutes, occasional papers series from NGOs, foundation-funded research projects, and proceedings from conferences.

Historical Abstracts

provides abstracts of over 18,000 articles based on editors' review of over 2,000 journals published worldwide in history, the social sciences, and related humanities (from more than 50 languages).

PAIS International

index and abstracts of articles, books, conference proceedings, government documents, book chapters, and statistical directories in the field of public affairs.

Women's Studies International (WSI)

Includes over 350,000 records drawn from a variety of essential women's studies databases (1972-present).  At main page, select Subscribers then database.

World News Connection (WNC)

is an online news service, only accessible via the World Wide Web, that offers an extensive array of translated and English-language print and broadcast news and information.

Worldwide Political Science Abstracts

database provides citations, abstracts, and indexing of the international serials literature in political science and its complementary fields, including international relations, law, and public administration / policy.

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Last revised 9 May 2003

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