Please note that there are MANY DIFFERENT DATABASES below VARIED in type and content. Some focus on Latin American content (either material produced/published in Latin America or material on Latin American themes) and some focus on specific subject areas, such as language and linguistics, literary studies, or Humanities and/or Social Sciences more broadly). Please BROWSE through the various OPTIONS BEFORE deciding where to start SEARCHING.
For ADDITIONAL DATABASES focused on subjects that may be relevant to your research (such as history, politics, film, etc.) see the ARTICLES tab on the Latin American Studies Research Guide.
Thousands of essays on major authors, periods, and genres.
Provides access to biographies, bibliographies, and critical analyses of authors from every age and literary discipline.
Multidisciplinary database with 17,800+ journals and magazines, of which 16,000+ are peer-reviewed and 8,750+ are full-text. Also included are books, conference papers and proceedings, government documents, newspapers, video content, and more. Coverage begins in 1887, with material in English, Spanish, German, French, Italian and Portuguese.
Search by subject or browse 2,600+ full-text titles, predominantly scholarly journals and books in social sciences, history, humanities, and science and mathematics, to their earliest issues. Many titles extend as far back as late 19th or early 20th centuries; most recent 3-5 years often not included. JSTOR provides access to more than 12 million academic journal articles, books, and primary sources in 75 disciplines.
Search by subject or browse full text scholarly journals in the arts and humanities, social sciences and mathematics. More than 700 journals from over 250 university presses and scholarly publishers are available. Coverage begins 1906 or later, depending on the publication. UCSD also has access to over 30,000 book titles.