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Latin American Studies: Finding Articles

An introductory guide to doing research in Latin American studies in the UCSD Library

Creating Alerts to Keep up with New Publications

A great way to keep up with new periodical publications is to use BrowZine to create customized list of your favorite scholarly, peer-reviewed journals and News Sources (64 max), which you can access on the web (via BrowZine.com), through a mobile app, or both as it syncs your account across all devices. 

 

News Articles

See the News Sources on Latin America tab to find news articles that may constitute primary or secondary sources depending on your project

Key Latin American Studies Periodicals

The following journals are dedicated to publishing articles on Latin America. 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.  Clicking on the titles will bring you to the UC Library Search record to see how to access them physically (on the shelf) or electronically (online)

Américas (Washington, Organization of American States) 

The Americas (West Bethesda, Md. [etc.]: Academy of American Franciscan History)

Canadian journal of Latin American and Caribbean studies

Colonial Latin American Review

EcoAméricas: A Monthly Report on Development and the Environment in Latin America

Estudios Mexicanos/Mexican Studies

Hispania

Hispanic American Historical Review (HAHR)

Hispanic Review

Journal of Caribbean History

Journal of Iberian and Latin American Studies

Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology

Journal of Latin American Studies (JLAS)

Latin American Research Review (LARR)

Latin American Perspectives (LAP)

Luso-Brazilian Review

NACLA Report on the Americas

Revista europea de estudios latinoamericanos y del Caribe = European review of Latin American and Caribbean studies

Revista Iberoamericana

Tesserae: Journal of Iberian and Latin-American Studies

Vibrant: Virtual Brazilian Anthropology [Open-access journal publishing articles in Portuguese, Spanish, English, and French]

Subject or Regionally Specific Databases Useful for Latin American Searches

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.

ClasePeriodica Licensed by UCSD 

CLASE indexes articles published in over 1200 Latin American journals in the social sciences and humanities. PERIODICA covers over 1400 Latin American journals in science and technology. The merged database has over 400,00 citations dating back to 1975.

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.

Dialnet 

Carries over 1100 open access e-journals, primarily written and published in the Spanish language. Dialnet is produced and hosted by the Universidad de La Rioja in Spain.

Handbook of Latin American Studies 

The Handbook of Latin American Studies is an annotated bibliography of Latin American Studies literature produced by research librarians at the Library of Congress.

For the print version, see: Handbook of Latin American studies. Austin [etc.] : University of Texas Press [etc.].
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 HAPI: Hispanic American Periodicals Index Licensed by UCSD 

1970-present. Lists journal articles on Central and South America, Mexico, the Caribbean, the U.S.-Mexico border region, and Hispanics in the U.S.

LAPOP 

Vanderbilt University's LAPOP carries out surveys of public opinion in the Americas. Every two years it carries out the AmericasBarometer survey (which FSU subscribes to), which currently covers all 26 Latin American countires in North, Central and South America, and the Caribbean. Each year also it publishes dozens of academic studies and policy-relevant papers on more focused topics.

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.

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.

SciELO 

Scientific Electronic Library Online, covering over 400,000 articles from 1000 academic journals published in Latin America.

[Brazil] Fundação Getulio Vargas (FGV) Centro de Pesquisa e Documentação de História Contemporânea (CPDOC) do Brasil 

Center of Research and Documentation for the Contemporary History of Brazil

[Central America] Academico Enlace Centroamerica 

Portal to published and non-published Central American research resources, institutes and organizations.

[Central America] Metabase: Bibliografía en Red 

MetaBase se permite accesar y ubicar recursos bibliográficos disponibles en bibliotecas y centros de documentación en Centroamérica.

Encuentra una biblioteca por el URL: http://www.metabase.net/busqueda2bib.phtml?qm=a

Pone el programa en su computadora por el URL: http://www.metabase.net/acerca/

[Central America] Central American Journals Online 

[Central America] Repositorio Centroamericano 

The SIIDCA-CSUCA discoverer provides access to the contents and complete texts of institutional repositories of CSUCA's universities.

[Mesoamerican/Pre-Columbian Studies] Foundation for the Advancement of Mesoamerican Studies (FAMSI) 

Website provides definitions and maps of key terms and locations and specialized database, including Bibliografia Mesoamericana, the Maya Vase Database, and A Precolumbian Portfolio (with photographs of pre-Columbian Objects)

Interdisciplinary Subject Databases

Subject-Specific Databases: Subjects A-D

ANTHROPOLOGY and ARCHAEOLOGY


ART


AFRICAN AMERICAN STUDIES (including slavery)


BORDER STUDIES


BUSINESS and ECONOMICS


COMMUNICATION


CRIMINOLOGY

Subject-Specific Databases: Subjects E-M

EDUCATION


ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES


ETHNIC STUDIES (See also African American and Native American Studies)


FILM (Streaming/Online Film AND Film Reviews/Analysis/Criticism)


GENDER and SEXUALITY and FAMILY STUDIES


GOVERNMENT & POLICY (See also International Affairs, Law,  Political Science, Public Administration)


HEALTH


HISTORY


IMMIGRATION


INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS


LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE


LAW

Subject-Specific Databases: Subjects M-Z

MIGRATION


MUSIC (Streaming AND Musicology/Analysis)


POLITICAL SCIENCE


PSYCHOLOGY


PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION and POLICY


SOCIOLOGY