Latin American & Latino Studies Research Guide

How to Use This Guide

This guide includes the library's resources in Latin American & Latino Studies:

The tabs include resources/databases for:

Primary Sources - Archival collections, news sources
Articles & Books - Journal Articles and books
Topic Overviews & Bibliographies - Background information, focused handbooks, encyclopedias etc.
Writing & Citing - Resources for writing better papers

Below are quick links to databases:

Academic Search Complete from EBSCO (ASC) This link opens in a new window
Database of articles in peer-reviewed journals, magazines, and news sources with full-text journal coverage for nearly all academic areas of study.
JSTOR This link opens in a new window
Includes the full text of 55 academic journals and hundreds of scholarly eBooks focused on Latin America. Note, current journal issues are not available in JSTOR. Consult the journals list in JSTOR for information on years of coverage.
HAPI (Hispanic American Periodicals Index) This link opens in a new window
Database of citations to scholarly articles and documents covering Central and South America, Latin America, Mexico, the Caribbean, U.S.-Mexico border region, and Hispanics in the United States. Topics include political, economic, and social issues as well as arts and humanities.
MLA International Bibliography (1926-current) This link opens in a new window
Database contains citations for articles, books, and book chapters in literature, languages, linguistics, and folklore. Compiled by the Modern Language Association.
Web of Science This link opens in a new window
Multidisciplinary database of scholarly articles. Searches citation indexes in Arts and Humanities, Social Science, and Science. Includes "cited by" feature and allows sorting by citation count.
Oxford Bibliographies This link opens in a new window
OBO offers a highly authoritative guide to the key literature in a field. UCSC access includes fields of: Anthropology, Cinema & Media Studies, International Relations, Latin American Studies. Find peer-reviewed annotated bibliographies plus links to cutting edge research from books, applicable journals, primary documents, multimedia and web resources.

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