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Latin American & Latino Studies Subject Guide

Top Article Databases
  • Chicano Database
    Citations to articles in art, language, sociology, economics, history, literature, and politics of Mexican-American and Latino cultures. Abstracts are not available.
    Covers: 1967 - present
  • Clase and Periodica (ClasePeriodica)
    CLASE indexes documents published in Latin American journals specializing in the social sciences and humanities. PERIÓDICA covers journals specializing in science and technology. Scholarly journals published in Spanish, Portuguese, French and English.
    Covers: 1975-present (Clase), 1978-present (Periódica)
  • HAPI Online (Hispanic American Periodicals Index)
    Database of citations to articles and documents covering Central and South America, Latin America, Mexico, the Caribbean, U.S.-Mexico border region, and Hispanics in the United States.
    Covers: 1970 - present
  • Handbook of Latin American Studies (HLAS)
    The Handbook is a selective annotated bibliography of scholarly works on Latin America. Edited by the Hispanic Division of the Library of Congress, the multidisciplinary Handbook alternates annually between the social sciences and the humanities
    Covers: 1935 - present
    HLAS Web
  • World scholar. Latin America & the Caribbean
    A rich collection of primary source documents about Latin America and the Caribbean; academic journals and news feeds covering the region; reference articles and commentary; maps and statistics; audio and video; and more.
Other Articles Databases
  • Ethnic NewsWatch from Proquest
    Full-text newspaper and journal articles focusing on news, culture and history from the ethnic, minority and native press.  Available in English or Spanish.
    1990 - present
  • Web of Science / Web of Knowledge
    Multidisciplinary index to scholarly and authoritative articles. Provides access to all three parts of the Citation Index: Arts and Humanities, Social Science and Science. Search by subject, author, journal title. Cited Reference Search finds articles that cite an author or article that you specify.
    Covers: 1900 - present.
  • REDALYC (Red de Revistas Científicas de América Latina y el Caribe)
    Free access to an online collection of over 750 Spanish language ejournals maintained by the Universidad Autónoma del Estado de México. They cover all aspects of the humanities, social sciences and sciences specialising in a focus upon materials published in and about the nations of the Spanish speaking world in Latin America, Portugal, Spain and the Caribbean.  
    ~2000 - present
  • SciELO - Scientific Electronic Library Online
    SciELO is an electronic virtual library covering over 850 open access journals. There are eight country sites: Argentina, Brasil, Chile, Colombia, Cuba, Spain, Portugal and Venezuela as well as sites for Public Health and Social Sciences. There are other development initiatives in five countries: Costa Rica, Mexico, Paraguay, Peru, and Uruguay.
    ~2000 - present

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