Latin American Studies: Articles
Use this guide as a resource for research in spanish-based studies.
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SPANISH LANGUAGE RESOURCES
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HLAS Online—Handbook of Latin American StudiesA selective annotated bibliography of scholarly works on Latin America, the multidisciplinary Handbook alternates annually between the social sciences and the humanities.Works reviewed include books, journal articles, book chapters, and conference papers. Published since 1935.
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Red ALyCRed de Revistas Científicas de América Latina y el Caribe. A portal to the full text of over 100 journals from Latin America, the Caribbean, Spain, and Portugal.
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SciELOScientific Electronic Library Online. A cooperative project that is developing full-text libraries of journals in Latin America and the Caribbean.
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Bibliografía MesoamericanaBibliographic data for the published literature pertaining to the anthropology of Mesoamerica. Content includes archaeology, ethnography, ethnohistory, art history, linguistics, physical anthropology, and other related disciplines.
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Vamos a LeerVamos a Leer is overseen by the Latin American & Iberian Institute (LAII) at the University of New Mexico. The LAII is designated a National Resource Center for Latin America by the U.S. Department of Education. The Vamos a Leer blog supports K-12 teaching about Latin America by providing resources to educators, including lesson plans, author + book suggestions, and related materials.
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Google AcadémicoGoogle Académico provides a simple way to broadly search for scholarly literature in Spanish. From one place, you can search across many disciplines and sources: articles, theses, books, abstracts, and court opinions, from academic publishers, professional societies, online repositories, universities, and other Websites. Google Académico helps you find relevant work across the world of scholarly research in Spanish.
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SALALMSeminar for the Acquisition of Latin American Library Material (SALALM) is an association of librarians specialized in Latin America. This is a list of Open Access digitized collections of primary sources that relate to Latin America and the Caribbean. Sources range from collections of Mexican incunabula (1559-1600), to Latin American posters.
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SUBJECT-SPECIFIC RESOURCES
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Historical AbstractsBest database for world history. Lists scholarly articles from history journals. Allows you to search by journal name. Each article is summarized. Covers the history of civilization (excluding the United States and Canada) from 1450 to the present.
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MLA International BibliographyMLA International Bibliography offers a detailed bibliography of journal articles, books and dissertations. Produced by the Modern Language Association, the electronic version of the bibliography dates back to the 1920s and contains over 2.2 million citations from more than 4,400 journals & series and 1,000 book publishers. The indexed materials coverage is international and includes almost 60 titles from J-STOR’s language and literature collection as well as links to full text.
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MEDLINE with Full TextAuthoritative medical information on medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, the health care system, pre-clinical sciences, and much more. Created by the National Library of Medicine, MEDLINE uses MeSH (Medical Subject Headings) indexing with tree, tree hierarchy, subheadings and explosion capabilities to search citations from over 4,800 current biomedical journals.
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Sociological AbstractsContains scholarly works in sociology and related disciplines. Provides citations and summaries for articles, dissertations, books and association papers in sociology and related disciplines.
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Worldwide Political Science AbstractsIndexes and abstracts journal articles in political science and its complementary fields, including international relations, law, and public administration / policy.
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Multidisciplinary Resources
Covering a broad range of subjects and topics for numerous disciplines, these resources are a good place to start your research.
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Academic Search CompleteScholarly, multidisciplinary database containing more than 6,100 full-text journals, and indexing/abstracts for more than 10,100 journals.
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ArticleFirstIndexes 12,500 journals in science, technology, medicine, social science, business, the humanities, and popular culture. 1990 to the present.
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Google ScholarGoogle Scholar enables you to search specifically for scholarly literature, including peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, preprints, abstracts and technical reports from all broad areas of research.
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JSTORContains almost 1,000 full-text journals spanning multiple disciplines. Some journals go to back to the mid-1800's. There is a gap, typically from 1 to 5 years, between the most recently published journal issues and the issues available in JSTOR.
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ProQuest Research LibraryAbstracts and full text for scholarly journals, trade publications, magazines, and newspapers. Covers the arts, business, children, education, general interest, health, humanities, international, law, military, multicultural, psychology, sciences, social sciences, and women's studies.