Latin American core databases
- Latin American databases best betsComprehensive list of databases for Latin American Studies.
- HLAS: Handbook of Latin American Studies This link opens in a new window(Searches through citations, subject indexing, and abstracts)
A bibliography pointing to key scholarship on Latin America. - HAPI: Hispanic American Periodicals Online This link opens in a new window(Searches through citations and subject indexing)
Includes journal articles about Central America, South America, the Caribbean, Mexico, Brazil, and Latinos in the United States. Covers 1970 - current. - RedAlyC: Red de Revistas Científicas de América Latina y el Caribe, Espana y Portugal This link opens in a new windowFull-text searchable electronic journal archive of social science, humanities, natural and physical science journals produced in Iberoamerica.
- SciELO This link opens in a new windowScientific Electronic Library Online, a JSTOR-like project for Latin America, is a model for cooperative electronic publishing of scientific journals on the Internet. Includes some social science and humanities titles. Provides scope and editorial policy.
- HeinOnline This link opens in a new windowTraditional legal materials (reported cases, statutes, government regulations, academic law reviews, commercially produced law journals and magazines, and classic treatises), historical, governmental, and political documents, legislative debates, legislative and executive branch reports, world constitutions, international treaties, and reports and other documents of international organizations.
Disciplinary databases
The following databases are great places to begin your research, after your have narrowed down your topic. These databases are interdisciplinary, and will cover topics in Latin American studies.
- Sociological Abstracts This link opens in a new window(Searches through citations, subject indexing, and some full text)
Main index to research in sociology, anthropology, and related fields in the social and behavioral sciences. Covers 1963 - current. - Anthropological Literature This link opens in a new window(Searches through citations, subject indexing, and abstracts)
Allows you to discover international scholarly work in the fields of anthropology, archaeology, and related interdisciplinary research. Covers late 19th century - current - Historical Abstracts This link opens in a new window(Searches through citations, subject indexing, and abstracts)
The primary place to find scholarship on world history. (For U.S. and Canadian History, use America: History and Life). Covers publications from 1955 - present. - ProQuest Politics Collection This link opens in a new window(Searches through citations, subject indexing, and some full text)
Search across several individual databases at once: PAIS Index, Policy File Index, ProQuest Political Science Database, and Worldwide Political Science Abstracts.
General databases
- JSTOR This link opens in a new window(Searches through citations and the full text)
A digital archive of important scholarly journal literature from many fields. Most journals are included from their first issue until 5 years ago. - Project MUSE This link opens in a new window(Searches through citations and the full text)
Search through the full text of key books and journals from across the disciplines, with emphasis on recent scholarship. - Social Sciences Citation Index This link opens in a new window(Searches through citations, subject indexing, and some full text)
Available through the Web of Knowledge. Search through current and historical literature in the social sciences, and perform cited reference searching to see who has cite a particular document. Covers 1898 - current.
Note: To do cited reference searching, click on "cited reference search," fill in an author's last name and publication date, figure out which of the resulting list of citations match the work you're looking for, and then "finish search" to see who has cited that work. - Arts & Humanities Citation Index This link opens in a new window(Searches through citations, subject indexing, and abstracts)
Available through the Web of Knowledge, this tool allows cited reference searching for literature from 1975 - current.
Note: To do cited reference searching, click on "cited reference search," fill in an author's last name and publication date, figure out which of the resulting list of citations match the work you're looking for, and then "finish search" to see who has cited that work. - Humanities International Complete This link opens in a new window(Searches through citations, subject indexing, and abstracts)
Collects the full-text of English language journals, books and other sources from around the world in all aspects of the humanities. - Confidential Print: Latin America, 1833-1969 This link opens in a new window(Searches through citations and the full text)
A collection of documents generated by the UK Foreign and Colonial Offices in countries and regions of Latin America. Covers 1833 - 1969.
Dissertation databases
- ProQuest Dissertations and Theses Global This link opens in a new window(Searches through citations, subject indexing, and some full text)
Find dissertations and some masters theses from universities in 88 countries. Most documents published since 1997 also include the full text. Covers 1861 - current.
NOTE: For international dissertations and theses not available through this tool, check CRL, and if they have the document you can order it through Interlibrary Loan. - CRL: Center For Research Libraries This link opens in a new window(Searches through citations and subject indexing)
This collection includes microfilm for foreign newspapers and foreign dissertations. You may borrow microfilm reels and other materials through Interlibrary Loan. - Cybertesis This link opens in a new windowPortal to 27,000 full text electronic theses and dissertations published in different universities of the world, stored in 27 different servers and university repositories.
- Tesiunam This link opens in a new windowDatabase of masters and doctoral theses of the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México since 1986. Full-text PDFs available for most.
