Academic Search Complete is a comprehensive scholarly, multi-disciplinary full-text database, with more than 8,500 full-text periodicals, including nearly 7,300 peer-reviewed journals. In addition to full text, this database offers indexing and abstracts for more than 13,200 journals and publications including monographs, reports, conference proceedings, etc.
This database offers full-text coverage of information in many areas of academic study including, but not limited to: animal science, anthropology, area studies, astronomy, biology, chemistry, civil engineering, electrical engineering, ethnic & multicultural studies, food science & technology, general science, geography, geology, law, materials science, mathematics, mechanical engineering, music, pharmaceutical sciences, physics, psychology, religion & theology, veterinary science, women's studies, zoology and many other fields. Updated daily.
Academic OneFile includes extensive coverage of the physical sciences, technology, medicine, social sciences, the arts, theology, literature and other subjects. Academic OneFile is both authoritative and comprehensive, with millions of articles available in both PDF and HTML full text with no restrictions.
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Abbreviation: aone
Vendor: Gale
Coverage: 1980–Current
Subjects: *General / Multi-Subject
Type: Indexes / Catalogs
Provides access to the full text of more than 700 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, and sociology.
Abbreviation: muse
Vendor: The Johns Hopkins University Press
Coverage: 1993–Current
Subjects: *General / Multi-Subject
Type: E-Book Collections, E-Journal Collections
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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Primary Source Collection: 19th-Century British Pamphlets (00:51)
Abbreviation: jstor
Vendor: JSTOR
Coverage: 1665–Current
Subjects: Arts Administration, Art History, *General / Multi-Subject
Type: E-Book Collections, E-Journal Collections
WNA Latin American Newspapers—from Readex’s World Newspaper Archive and developed in partnership with the Center for Research Libraries—includes dates and eras, languages, places of publication, and titles of over 50 Latin American newspapers published between 1805 and 1922. FSU has access to Series 1.
Abbreviation: latinnews
Vendor: NewsBank
Coverage: 1805–1922
Subjects: History, Latin American & Caribbean Studies
Type: Historical / Primary Sources, Newspapers and Newswires
NewsBank is a Web-based collection of primary source information from regional, national and international newspapers, newswires, government and international documents, regional business journals, and periodicals.
Please note that FSU does not having a data-mining subscription with NewsBank. Downloading entire series or papers is prohibited.
This database includes:
NPR Transcripts from 1990–Current
Broadcast Transcripts from Nightly News local and national
World & US Newswires
Current full text of major metro newspaper articles
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Abbreviation: infoweb
Vendor: NewsBank
Coverage: 1789–Current
Type: Government Publications, Historical / Primary Sources, Newspapers and Newswires
Please also see online research guides for relevant subject areas, such as Anthropology, Art History, Business, History, Political Science, International Studies, Modern Languages, etc. They will provide helpful pointers on using some of the databases listed below and also identify additional databases which index materials on the Caribbean as well as other regions.
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
Please also see online research guides for relevant subject areas, such as Anthropology, Art History, Business, History, Political Science, International Studies, Modern Languages, etc. They will provide helpful pointers on using some of the databases listed below and also identify additional databases which index materials on the Caribbean as well as other regions.
Film & Television Literature Index is a comprehensive bibliographic database covering the entire spectrum of television and film writing with cover-to-cover indexing and abstracts for more than 800 publications.
Abbreviation: ftl-ind
Vendor: EBSCO
Subjects: Communication, Film Studies, Literature
Type: Indexes / Catalogs
International Bibliography of Theatre & Dance with Full Text contains all of the content available in International Bibliography of Theatre & Dance as well as full text for over 100 titles.
Abbreviation: ibtd
Vendor: EBSCO
Subjects: Dance, Literature, Music, Theatre
Type: Indexes / Catalogs
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
Please also see online research guides for relevant subject areas, such as Anthropology, Art History, Business, History, Political Science, International Studies, Modern Languages, etc. They will provide helpful pointers on using some of the databases listed below and also identify additional databases which index materials on the Caribbean as well as other regions.
The AGRICOLA (Agricultural Online Access) database covers journal articles, monographs, theses, microforms, audiovisuals, software and technical reports. It consists of two data sets: National Agricultural Library (NAL) Online Public Access Catalog and Article Citation Database. Each data set may be searched separately, or together. Coverage from 1970 to the present.
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Abbreviation: agricola
Vendor: ProQuest
Coverage: 1970–Current
Subjects: Earth Science, Environmental Sciences
Type: Indexes / Catalogs
Anthropology Plus brings together into one resource the highly respected Anthropological Literature from Harvard University and Anthropological Index, Royal Anthropological Institute from the United Kingdom. Anthropology Plus provides extensive worldwide indexing of journal articles, reports, commentaries, edited works, and obituaries in the fields of social, cultural, physical, biological, and linguistic anthropology, ethnology, archaeology, folklore, material culture, and interdisciplinary studies. The index offers excellent coverage of all core periodicals in the field in addition to local and lesser-known journals. Coverage is from the late 19th century to the present.
Abbreviation: anthplus
Vendor: EBSCO
Coverage: 1869–Current
Subjects: Anthropology, Linguistics
Type: Indexes / Catalogs
The following journals are dedicated to publishing articles on the Caribbean. It may be useful to browse the table of contents (electronically, or physically – in the library) for some of them to get an idea of the kinds of subjects that scholars in particular fields work on and to find articles for your research. See also the list of periodicals dedicated to Latin American Studies on the Latin American Studies libguide, as many of these include articles on the Caribbean
Canadian journal of Latin American and Caribbean studies [Available electronically from 2002 to present in Academic One File]
Caribbean Affairs [Available in print from 1988 to 1997: STROZIER 972.9005C2778; LAW 972.9005C2778]
Caribbean Quarterly [Available in print from 1952-1977, 2005 to present: STROZIER 050C277 and Available on microfilm 1949-1963, 1974-1989, 1990-2002: FilmPR 660]
Caribbean Studies [Available in print from 1911 to 1996: STROZIER 972.9005 C277 and Available electronically from 2006 to present in Academic One File]
Cuban Studies/Estudios Cubanos [Available in print from 1975-1978, 1980-1988, 1994-1999: STROZIER F1751.C986 and Available electronically from 2003 to present in Project Muse]
Journal of Caribbean History [Available in print from 1989-present: STROZIER 972.9005J86]
Journal of Eastern Caribbean Studies [Available electronically from 2004-present in ABI/Inform Global]
Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology [Available electronically from 2007 to present in OmniFile Omega]
Revista europea de estudios latinoamericanos y del Caribe/European review of Latin American and Caribbean studies [Available in print 1989-1995 and 1997-2005: STROZIER 980.05 B688 and Available electronically 2000 to present in Omnifile]
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