Research Guides: Caribbean Studies: Finding Articles

Article and Newspaper Databases

Academic Search Complete
Academic Search Complete is the world's most valuable and comprehensive scholarly, multi-disciplinary full-text database, with more than 7,000 full-text periodicals, including nearly 6,000 peer-reviewed journals. In addition to full text, this database offers indexing and abstracts for more than 11,000 journals and a total of more than 11,600 publications including monographs, reports, conference proceedings, etc.
Academic OneFile (Gale)
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, researchers are able to find accurate information quickly. Includes full-text coverage of the New York Times back to 1995.
Project MUSE*
Provides full text access to 200+ scholarly journals published by Johns Hopkins University Press. Subjects include art, anthropology, classics, culture, society, demographics, economics, folklore, history, language, literature, mathematics, medicine, etc.
JSTOR*
An archive of the back issues of core journals in the humanities, social sciences and sciences. The gap between the most recently published issue of any journal and the date of the most recent issue available in JSTOR is from 2 to 5 years.

WNA Latin American Newspapers*
WNA Latin American Newspapers is part of the World Newspaper Archive (Rewadex, a division of Newsbank) and in partnership with the Center for Research Libraries includes dates and eras, languages, places of publication, and newspaper titles of Latin American Newspapers. The collection contains more than 1.2 million pages of content.

Caribbean Newspaper Digital Library
This cooperative digital library for newspapers resources from the Caribbean and circum-Caribbean region is a particular collection of the Digital Library of the Caribbean.
Latin American Newspapers (via LANIC)
UT Austin's Latin American Network Information Center (LANIC) provides a useful portal to identify newspapers with online interfaces by country. It also lists alternative regional news sources.
ICON International Coalition on Newspapers (ICON)
Page highlights and links to past, present, and prospective digitization projects of historic newspapers. The focus is primarily on digital conversion efforts, not full-text collections of current news sources.

NewsBank InfoWeb*
InfoWeb 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.

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

Log into NewsBank and create an account to save your search history, save articles, save searches, and create Email alerts.

Please note that FSU does not having a data-mining subscription with Newsbank, downloading entire series or papers is prohibited.
Ethnic Newswatch*
Ethnic NewsWatch™ includes current journals, magazines, and newspapers from ethnic and independent presses.

Content covers the following ethnic categories:

African American/Caribbean/African
Arab/Middle Eastern
Asian/Pacific Islander
European/Eastern European
Hispanic; Jewish
Native Peoples

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.

Handbook of Latin American Studies*
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.

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.
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.
Informe
Indexes U.S. Latino and Latin American (including Hispanic Caribbean) popular magazines and journals in Spanish.
SCIELO
Scientific Electronic Library Online. Provides access to Spanish and Portuguese language articles and journals from Latin America, the Caribbean, and Iberia. Began as a health sciences resource but has expanded significantly beyond this. Allows for article searching by author, title, and subject; and browsing/searching by periodical title and subject, and publisher.
RedAlyc
Red de Revistas Cientificas de America Latina y el Caribe, Espana y Portugal (Web of Scientific Magazines of Latin America and the Caribbean, Spain, and Portugal). Does not index at the article level. Allows for browsing and searching of periodicals by title, subject, region, country, and publisher. Excellent source to verify publication information.
LatIndex
Sistema regional de información en linea para Revistas científicas de América Latina, el Caribe, Espana y Portugal; Regional system of online information for scientific magazines of Latin America, the Caribbean, Spain and Portugal. Does not index at the article level. Allows for browsing and searching of periodicals by title, subject, region, country, and publisher. Excellent source to verify publication information.

Art Index Retrospective & Art Full Text
Art Index Retrospective™: 1929 -1984 provides users access to over half a century of art literature covering fine, decorative, and commercial art. Content includes high-quality indexing of nearly 600 publications, many of which are peer-reviewed, and citations of over 25,000 book reviews. Art Full Text™ is a foundational art research database providing full-text art journals and books. It covers fine, decorative and commercial art, as well as photography, film and architecture.
Film and Television Literature Index*
Film & Television Literature Index is a comprehensive bibliographic database covering the entire spectrum of television and film writing. It is a bibliographic database that provides cover-to-cover indexing and abstracts for more than 380 publications (and selected coverage of 300).
International Bibliography of Theatre & Dance with Full Text*
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 100 titles.
Linguistics & Language Behavior Abstracts*
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
MLA International Bibliography*
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.
ATLA Religion Database with ATLASerials
ATLA Religion Database with ATLASerials combines the premier index to journal articles, book reviews, and collections of essays in all fields of religion with ATLA's online collection of major religion and theology journals.
Humanities Source
Humanities Source is a valuable collection for students, researchers and educators interested in all aspects of the humanities. It includes feature articles, interviews, obituaries, bibliographies, original works of fiction, book reviews, and reviews of ballets, dance programs, motion pictures, musicals, operas, plays, and much more.

Social Sciences Full Text
Social Sciences Full Text covers a wide array of areas, including addiction studies, ethics, public welfare, urban studies and much more. Covering the latest concepts, theories and methods from both applied and theoretical aspects of the social sciences, this full-text resource provides access to a wide assortment of the most important English-language social science journals.
ABI/INFORM Collection
Documents in ABI/INFORM Complete (the most comprehensive version of ABI/INFORM) number over 40 million. Over 90% of the articles can be found right in the database. For the remaining 10%, summaries and links to other resources are provided. Publications are precisely indexed and various search aids and tools are provided in the ProQuest platform to help users find information. Tools for citation generation, emailing and printing articles of interest are also provided on the platform.
AGRICOLA
(AGRICultural OnLine Access) Covers journal articles, monographs, theses, microforms, audiovisuals, software and technical reports. Consists of two data sets: NAL Online Public Access Catalog and NAL's Article Citation Database, also known as: Journal Articles. Each data set may be searched separately, or together. Index to materials related to agriculture back to 1970.
Anthropology Plus
Anthropology Plus brings together into one resource the highly respected Anthropological Literature from Harvard University and Anthropological Index, Royal Anthropological Institute from the UK. 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.
GenderWatch*
A full-text collection of international journals, magazines, newsletters, regional publications, special reports and conference proceedings devoted to women's and gender issues.

Coverage Includes

Women studies
Men's studies
Evolution of the women's movement
Transgendered community
(Changes in) gender roles
Femininity
Gender differences
Gender equity
Gender identity
Gender studies
Masculinity
Historical Abstracts
Abstracts and indexes journal articles covering countries other than the United States and Canada in the subject areas of history, the social sciences and humanities. The scope of coverage is World History (1450 - present) and related areas including culture, diplomacy, economics, international relations and politics.
PAIS Index
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.

Details: Materials on public affairs. Includes articles, books, conference proceedings, government documents, book chapters, and statistical directories about public affairs.
Format:
Coverage: from 1972-present

Key Periodicals

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]