Research Guides: Latin American Studies: Articles

Articles

Handbook of Latin American Studies This link opens in a new window
Contains records describing books, book chapters, articles, and conference papers published in the field of Latin American studies and edited by the Hispanic Division of the Library of Congress. Coverage includes relevant books as well as over 1,350 social science and 550 humanities journals and volumes of conference proceedings published worldwide.
Abbreviation: hand-lat-amer
Vendor: Library of Congress
Subjects: Film Studies, Latin American & Caribbean Studies, Literature
Type: Indexes / Catalogs
HAPI (Hispanic American Periodical Index) This link opens in a new window
Source for authoritative, worldwide information about Central and South America, Mexico, the Caribbean basin, the United States-Mexico border region, and Hispanics in the United States. HAPI currently provides over 100,000 links to the full text of articles appearing in more than 600 social science and humanities journals published throughout the world.
HAPI Stats:
- Number of records: 300,000+
- Number of full text links: 170,000+
- Coverage: 1970-
- Update frequency: daily
- Currently indexed journals: 380+
- Total journals in database: 675+
Abbreviation: hapi
Vendor: UCLA
Coverage: 1970–Current
Subjects: History, Latin American & Caribbean Studies, Sociology
Type: Indexes / Catalogs

Dialnet
Indexes primarily journals from Spain but is adding many from Latin America. Many citations link to article abstracts and/or the full texts of articles.

JSTOR This link opens in a new window
JSTOR is a digital library of academic content in many formats and disciplines. The collections include top peer-reviewed scholarly journals as well as respected literary journals, academic monographs, research reports from trusted institutes, and diverse primary sources. FSU has access to JSTOR’s Archive, Artstor, Primary Sources, and Global Plants collections.
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Abbreviation: jstor
Vendor: JSTOR
Coverage: 1665–Current
Subjects: Arts Administration, Art History, *General / Multi-Subject
Type: E-Book Collections, E-Journal Collections
Project MUSE This link opens in a new window
Provides access to the full-text of more than 200 scholarly journals published by the Johns Hopkins University Press. Subjects include art, anthropology, classics, culture and society, demographics, economics, folklore, history, language, literature, mathematics, medicine and health, philosophy, politics, religion, science, sociology, etc. Coverage varies according to title (1993).
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Abbreviation: muse
Vendor: The Johns Hopkins University Press
Coverage: 1993–Current
Subjects: *General / Multi-Subject
Type: E-Book Collections, E-Journal Collections
PAIS Index This link opens in a new window
PAIS (Public Affairs Information Service) Index provides materials on public affairs from 1972 to date. Includes articles, books, conference proceedings, government documents, book chapters, and statistical directories about public affairs. Contains a variety of international sources including journal articles, books, government documents, statistical directories, grey literature, research reports, conference papers, web content, and more.
Subject coverage:
Administration of justice
Agriculture, forestry and fishing
Banking and finance
Business and service sector
Culture and religion
Economic conditions
Education
Energy resources and policy
Environment
Government
Health conditions
Human rights
International Relations
Labor conditions and policy
Law and ethics
Manufacturing and industry
Media and communications
Military and defense policy
Politics
Population and demographics
Science and technology
Social conditions
Trade
Transportation

Abbreviation: pais
Vendor: ProQuest
Coverage: 1972–Current
Subjects: International Affairs, Political Science, Urban and Regional Planning, Public Health, Asian Studies, Latin American & Caribbean Studies, Middle Eastern Studies, Russian & Eastern European Studies
Type: E-Book Collections, E-Journal Collections, Indexes / Catalogs
Informe Académico (Gale OneFile) This link opens in a new window
Una colección de revistas hispánicas con textos completos. Abarca negocios, salud, tecnología, cultura, temas de actualidad y otras materias.
(This database provides access to the full text of articles from 50 journals in Spanish covering a wide range of topics, including business, health, politics, and popular culture.)
Abbreviation: informe
Vendor: Gale
Subjects: International Affairs, Latin American & Caribbean Studies, Linguistics, Literature
Type: Indexes / Catalogs

Gender and Land Rights Database
Part of the Food and Agricultural organization of the United Nations. Contains country level information on social, economic, political and cultural issues as it relates to gender inequalities.

americanismo (CEEIB and Redial)
Portal providing access to Latin American resources identified by two scholarly networks dedicated to scientific and academic cooperation between Spain and Latin America: the Consejo Español de Estudios Iberoamericano (CEEIB) and the Red Europea de Documentación de Información (Redial) sobre América Latina. Includes links to online periodicals, unpublished presentations, digital libraries, and bibliographic databases.
Consejo Latinoamericano de Ciencias Sociales (CLACSO) Virtual Library Database
Contains the publications of 159 research organizations in Latin America and the Caribbean that form the membership of CLACSO. Spanish Language.
Latindex
Regional system of online information of scientific magazines from Latin America, the Caribbean, Spain and Portugal.
Scientific Electronic Library Online (SCIELO)
Provides access to Spanish and Portuguese language articles and journals from Latin America, the Caribbean, and Iberia.
RedAlyc
System of Scientific Information Redalyc of Scientific Journals from Latin America, the Caribbean, Spain and Portugal.

Ecology Abstracts This link opens in a new window
Focuses on how organisms of all kinds—microbes, plants, and animals—interact with their environments and with other organisms. Included are relevant papers on evolutionary biology, economics, and systems analysis as they relate to ecosystems or the environment.
Abbreviation: ecology
Vendor: ProQuest
Coverage: 1982–Current
Subjects: Environmental Sciences, Environmental Sciences
Type: Indexes / Catalogs
Water Resources Abstracts This link opens in a new window
Water Resources Abstracts provides summaries of the world's technical and scientific literature on water-related topics covering the characteristics, conservation, control, pollution, treatment, use and management of water resources.
Subject coverage:
Groundwater
Lakes
Estuaries
Erosion and sedimentation
Water supply and conservation
Desalination
Water yield improvement
Water quantity management and control
Watershed protection
Water quality management
Water resources planning
Water law
Engineering works and hydraulics

Abbreviation: waterres
Vendor: ProQuest
Coverage: 1967–Current
Subjects: Earth Science, Environmental Sciences, *General Science, Oceanography
Type: Citation Management, Datasets / Statistics, Directories, E-Book Collections, E-Journal Collections, Government Publications, Indexes / Catalogs
AATA Online This link opens in a new window
AATA Online, formerly Art and Archaeology Technical Abstracts, is an online database of abstracts of worldwide literature related to the management and conservation of international material cultural heritage from 1932 and on.
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Abbreviation: aata
Vendor: Getty Conservation Institute
Coverage: 1932–Current
Subjects: Arts Administration, Cultural Heritage, Museum Studies
Type: Indexes / Catalogs
Linguistics and Language Behavior Abstracts (LLBA) This link opens in a new window
Covers all aspects of the study of language including phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax and semantics. This database abstracts and indexes the international literature in linguistics and related disciplines in the language sciences. Documents indexed include journal articles, book reviews, books, book chapters, dissertations and working papers.
Subject coverage:
Anthropological linguistics
Applied linguistics
Descriptive linguistics
Discourse analysis
Language - pathological and normal
Learning disabilities
Nonverbal communication
Phonetics
Phonology
Psycholinguistics

Abbreviation: llba
Vendor: ProQuest
Coverage: 1973–Current
Subjects: Anthropology, Asian Studies, Communication, Communication Disorders, Latin American & Caribbean Studies, Linguistics, Middle Eastern Studies, Rhetoric & Composition, Russian & Eastern European Studies, Teacher Education
Type: Indexes / Catalogs
MLA International Bibliography This link opens in a new window
The MLA International Bibliography provides a subject index for books and articles published on modern languages, literatures, folklore, and linguistics. Works of interest to scholars are included whether they are written for a scholarly or a more general audience, provided that the content or its treatment places them within the scope of the bibliography. Masters' theses, guides that are essentially plot summaries, and other apprentice or simplified works are excluded.
Abbreviation: mla
Vendor: EBSCO
Coverage: 1921–Current
Subjects: African-American Studies, Latin American & Caribbean Studies, Linguistics, Literature, Middle Eastern Studies, Rhetoric & Composition, Russian & Eastern European Studies, Women's and Gender Studies
Type: Indexes / Catalogs
Art & Architecture Source This link opens in a new window
Art & Architecture Source is the largest full-text art research database covering fine, decorative and commercial art, as well as architecture and architectural design. With strong international coverage, it offers hundreds of full-text art journals, magazines and books, plus detailed indexing and abstracts and thousands of images.
Abbreviation: eas
Vendor: EBSCO
Coverage: 1914–Current
Subjects: Architecture, Art Education, Art History, Art Therapy, Arts Administration, Cultural Heritage, Interior Design, Museum Studies, Studio Art, Urban and Regional Planning
Type: E-Journal Collections, Indexes / Catalogs

Latin American Periodicals Tables of Contents (LAPTOC)
LAPTOC provides bibliographical citations to journal articles in over 800 periodicals and journals from 29 Latin American and Caribbean countries.
Centro de Pesquisa e Documentação de História Contemporânea do Brasil
Center of Research and Documentation for the Contemporary History of Brazil