Research Guides: Latin American Studies: Article Databases

Article Databases

In addition to general databases and other subject-specific ones, you may find some of the following useful for Latin American content.

PRISMA Database with HAPI Index This link opens in a new window
provides full-text scholarly articles written in Spanish, Portuguese, and English in the social sciences and humanities. It is an ideal source for interdisciplinary academic studies of Hispanic and Latin America as well as the Caribbean Basin. Its coverage ranges from work on past and present indigenous cultures to economic indicators, politics, society and the arts. It is useful in Anthropology, Business & Economics, History, Literature, Political Science and Sociology and it is linked to the Hispanic American Periodicals Index.
World Scholar Archives: Latin America and the Caribbean This link opens in a new window
is the result of extensive collaboration among experts representing libraries and the academic world: students, faculty, and researchers at major institutions of learning; a board of advisors drawn from Latin America and the Caribbean, the United States, and elsewhere. It provides access to research across the humanities and social sciences both for current Latin America and the Caribbean as well as a historical perspective. It includes reference materials, scholarly articles, primary source documents, audio, videos, maps, and statistical data.
Fuente Academica This link opens in a new window
is a unique collection of scholarly journals from renowned Latin American and Spanish publishers. This multi-disciplinary database offers full text content to many academic areas including business & economics, medical sciences, political science, law, computer science, library & information sciences, literature, linguistics, history, philosophy and theology. This database provides full text (including PDF) for 260 scholarly Spanish language journals.
Gale OneFile: Informe Académico This link opens in a new window
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Offers a collection of Hispanic magazines with full texts articles covering business, health, technology, culture, current affairs and other matters.
Community researchers in New Mexico can access this resource at http://go.galegroup.com/ps/start.do?p=IFME&u=nm_p_elportal
PAIS Index This link opens in a new window
provides journal articles, books, government documents, statistics, grey literature, research reports, conference papers, publications of international agencies, microfiche and internet material on public affairs, public and social policies and international relations. Its coverage is current and historical, with information from 1914 to the present.

Scielo -- Scientific Electronic Library On-Line (Portuguese)
é um modelo para a publicação eletrônica cooperativa de periódicos científicos na Internet. Especialmente desenvolvido para responder às necessidades da comunicação científica nos países em desenvolvimento e particularmente na América Latina e Caribe, o modelo proporciona uma solução eficiente para assegurar a visibilidade e o acesso universal a sua literatura científica.
LATINDEX
es un sistema de Información sobre las revistas de investigación científica, técnico-profesionales y de divulgación científica y cultural que se editan en los países de América Latina, el Caribe, España y Portugal. La idea de creación de Latindex surgió en 1995 en la Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM) y se convirtió en una red de cooperación regional a partir de 1997.

Other useful databases

Historical Abstracts with Full Text This link opens in a new window
World history including military history, women's history, history of education, and more. Indexing of scholarly journals in over 40 languages back to 1955. Coverage: 1450-present.
America: History & Life with Full Text This link opens in a new window
U.S. and Canadian history and culture which includes scholarly journal articles, magazine articles, reference sources, and other documents and multimedia. Coverage: prehistoric times to the present.