Library Guides: Latin American Studies: All Disciplines: Find Articles

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This section is designed to help you navigate the many databases available for locating scholarly articles. No two databases will have the same journal contents and search terms and algorithms, so it's important to test and compare more than one.

Pro tip: Can't find full-text access to the article you're looking for? Try these two steps:

Search the article title in Library Search to see if TU Libraries provides full text access. If we do not, then:
Request the article through Interlibrary Loan. You'll receive a PDF scan within a few days.

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TU Library Search: Articles
Provides access to most journals and databases to which Tulane Libraries subscribe. Will also show results for articles that you can request through Interlibrary Loan. Use the RESOURCE TYPE filters to limit your search to journal articles and journals. Use REFINE YOUR SEARCH to limit your results to Peer-Reviewed results.

Google Scholar
Google Scholar searches academic publishers, professional societies and preprint archives. When off campus, sign-in with your Tulane user name and password to activate TU Link and check for holdings accessible via Tulane. See this tutorial for help: How to Link Google Scholar to Your Library Account
HAPI Online
Your source for authoritative, worldwide information about Central and South America, Mexico, Brazil, the Caribbean basin, the US-Mexico border region, and Hispanics/Latinos in the US. Contains bibliographic citations to articles, book reviews (through 2001), documents, original literary works, and other materials appearing in more than 500 key social science and humanities journals published throughout the world. *Use TU Link for access via our databases.*
PRISMA Database with HAPI Index
Includes HAPI contents in a full text viewable format when full text is available.

It offers key titles in English, Spanish and Portuguese indexed in the Hispanic American Periodicals Index (HAPI), a highly respected database produced by the Latin American Center of the University of California, Los Angeles.
BASE (Bielefeld Academic Search Engine)
BASE (Bielefeld Academic Search Engine) is one of the world's most voluminous search engines especially for academic web resources. BASE provides more than 240 million documents from more than 8,000 content providers. You can access the full texts of about 60% of the indexed documents for free (Open Access). It is particularly useful for locating scholarship produced outside the United States.
Dialnet
One of the largest portals to academic content in Spanish. Includes journals from Spain & Latin America.

Databases by Discipline

JSTOR is not the only archive of journal articles available online--far from it! Since JSTOR only has agreements to provide content published in certain journals, it's important to try other databases like those below and throughout this library guide.

JSTOR Advanced Search
A trusted archive of scholarly journals, primary sources, and books. Content spans many disciplines, primarily in the humanities and social sciences. The most recent 3-5 years of journals are generally not available; this is known as a "moving wall."
Academic Search Complete
Our broadest, most general full-text database that includes both popular and scholarly periodicals. It covers virtually all academic areas of study, including social sciences, sciences, and humanities.
Project MUSE
Access full-text, high-quality scholarly content (journals and books) in the humanities and social sciences as published by select leading university presses and scholarly societies.

Anthropology Plus
A compilation of the Anthropological Index Online and Anthropological Literature databases, this resource is an extensive index of bibliographic materials covering the fields of anthropology, archaeology, and related interdisciplinary research.
AnthroSource
Produced by the American Anthropological Association (AAA), AnthroSource provides digital access to AAA journals, newsletters, and bulletins including current issues of 15 key peer-reviewed publications such as American Anthropologist, American Ethnologist, Anthropology and Education Quarterly, and Medical Anthropology Quarterly.
Linguistics and Language Behavior Abstracts (LLBA)
Index and abstracts to the international literature in linguistics and related disciplines in the language sciences. Covers the study of language including phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax and semantics. Documents indexed include journal articles, book reviews, books, book chapters, dissertations and working papers.

Bibliografía Mesoamericana (FAMSI)
Index of citations related to the ancient cultures of Mesoamerica. Subject areas include archaeology, ethnography, ethnohistory, art history, linguistics, physical anthropology, and other related disciplines.

Art & Architecture Complete
Full-text and indexing for art journals, magazines and books. Useful for artists, art scholars and designers, it covers fine, decorative and commercial art, as well as architecture and architectural design. Also includes over 63,000 images.
Art Index Retrospective
Includes content from 1929-1984 of art journalism, from more than 600 international publications.
ARTbibliographies Modern (ABM)
Provides abstracts of journal articles, books, essays, exhibition catalogs, dissertations, and exhibition reviews on all forms of modern and contemporary art.
Oxford Art Online
Provides access to Grove Art, the foremost scholarly art encyclopedia, updated regularly and covering global art and architecture from prehistory to present day. Includes peer-reviewed articles contributed by scholars from around the world, accompanied by images, bibliographies, and links to additional resources. Limited to 8 concurrent users.

EconLit
Indexes and abstracts economic periodical literature. Citations and abstracts to economic research dating back to 1969 covering topics including accounting, capital markets, econometrics, economic forecasting, government regulations, labor economics, monetary theory, urban economics and much more.
ABI/INFORM Global
Indexes academic journals, business magazines, and newspapers, including the Wall Street Journal. Also includes country information and statistics, company profiles, industry reports and market research reports. Entire database can be searched a number of ways, including by subject, article title, author, keywords, date range, and periodical title.
Business Source Complete
Comprehensive database of core scholarly publications in disciplines including marketing, management, accounting, finance, information systems, international business, and more. Also includes industry profiles, market research reports, country reports, and SWOT analyses. Entire database can be searched a number of ways, including by subject, article title, author, keywords, date range, and periodical title.

Communication & Mass Media Complete
A research and reference resource in the communication and mass media fields.
ComINDEX Online
Contains information for journal articles published in the primary professional literature of the communication(s) field. The literature included in this database is restricted to first-line scholarship published in academic journals that serve the communication discipline. The database is comprehensive.

Below are some of the top article databases for Film Studies. For more, see: Film & Cinema: Latin America & Spain.

Film Indexes Online
Search the AFI Catalog, the International Index to Film Periodicals Plus, and Film Index International via a shared search interface.
Film Literature Index
FLI contains approximately 700,000 citations to articles, film reviews, and book reviews published between 1976-2001.

Historical Abstracts
Scholarship on the history of the world (excluding the US and Canada) from 1450 to the present. Includes world history, military history, women's history, history of education, and more.

Below are some of the top article databases for literary studies. See the Spanish & Portuguese Library Guide for more.

MLA International Bibliography
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The leading international index of journals, books, dissertations, and more on literature, language and linguistics, folklore, literary theory and criticism, and dramatic arts, as well as the historical aspects of printing and publishing.

Biblioteca Virtual Miguel de Cervantes
This major academic portal provides access to thousands of full-text literary works of historic and contemporary Spanish and Latin American authors as well as providing critical background and analysis.

Literature Resource Center
Addresses all facets of literary study, including biographical, bibliographical, critical, and contextual information on authors and their works. LRC includes access to the Dictionary of Literary Biography, Twayne's Authors Series, and Scribner Writers Series.
Literature Criticism Online
Includes: Classical & Medieval Literature Criticism, Contemporary Literary Criticism, Dictionary of Literary Biography, Literature Criticism 1400 - 1800, Nineteenth Century Literature Criticism, Shakespearean Literature Criticism.
Literary Reference Center Plus
Access full text information from respected reference works, books, literary journals as well as original content from EBSCO Publishing.

This robust full-text database provides the most relevant information on thousands of authors and their works across literary disciplines and timeframes. It contains more than 780 literary journals, over 36,000 plot summaries, synopses and work overviews as well as thousands of articles/essays of literary criticism, author biographies, reference books, books reviews, author reviews, poems, short stories, and novels. This resource gives students, teachers and librarians a complete foundation of literary reference works to meet their research needs.
International Bibliography of Theater & Dance with Full Text
Access journal articles, books, book chapters and dissertation abstracts on all aspects of theater and performance in 126 countries.

Oxford Music Online (includes Grove Music Online)
The gateway to all Oxford's music resources, including Grove Music Online, Oxford Dictionary of Music, and Oxford Companion to Music.
Music Periodicals Database
Formerly International Index to Music Periodicals (or IIMP), Music Periodicals Database is the only electronic index with abstracts to current music periodicals. The database contains complete runs of over ten important titles, such as the Journal of the American Musicological Society and Notes. It provides both current and retrospective coverage, with the most extensive backfile available electronically, with records from 1874 to 1996.
RIPM - Retrospective Index to Music Periodicals with Full Text
Retrospective Index to Music Periodicals is an international, highly annotated bibliography with detailed content analysis of writings on musical history and culture between 1800 and 1950.
International Bibliography of Theater & Dance with Full Text
Access journal articles, books, book chapters and dissertation abstracts on all aspects of theater and performance in 126 countries.

Latin American Open Archives Portal (LAOAP)
A portal service providing access to social sciences grey literature produced in Latin America by research institutes, non-governmental organizations, and peripheral agencies. It encompasses working documents, pre-prints, research papers, statistical documents, and other difficult-to-access materials that are not controlled by commercial publishers.

PAIS Index
Areas of public concern and potential legislation, including health conditions and policy; human rights; international relations; labor conditions and policy; law and ethics and more. Includes articles, books, government documents, statistical directories, grey literature, research reports, conference papers, and web content. 1914 - present.
Worldwide Political Science Abstracts
Provides abstracts, and indexing of the international serials literature in political science and its complementary fields, including international relations, law, and public administration / policy. Updated monthly.
Environment Complete
EBSCO’s Environment Complete database offers coverage in the areas of agriculture, ecosystem ecology, energy, and affiliated areas of study. The resource includes more than 1,200 full-text journals and monographs, nearly 4 million records, indexing for more than 2,000 domestic and international journals dating back more than 100 years and more than 180 full-text monographs. Offering full text and indexing for these journals, books and monographs, it is an invaluable resource for students and scholars across all environmental disciplines.

MedicLatina
MedicLatina is a Spanish language collection of medical research and investigative journals published by renowned Latin American medical publishers.
Global Health
Covers health topics in developing and developed countries world-wide including communicable diseases, tropical diseases, parasitic diseases and parasitology, medical entomology, human nutrition, community and public health, medicinal and poisonous plants. 1910 - present.
Applied Social Sciences Index and Abstracts (ASSIA)
Covering health, social services, psychology, sociology, economics, politics, race relations and education. Updated monthly, ASSIA provides a comprehensive source of social science and health information for the practical and academic professional.
WHOLIS (Library & Information Networks for Knowledge Database)
Search the Library of the World Health Organization for many full text publications and documents produced by the World Health Organization.
Social Services Abstracts
Covers current research focused on social work, human services and related areas, including social welfare, social policy and community development. The database abstracts and indexes serial publications and includes abstracts of journal articles and dissertations and citations to book reviews.
PubMed
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Millions of citations for biomedical literature from MEDLINE, life science journals, and eBooks. Click on TU LINK within a record to explore full text options.

SocINDEX with Full Text
A full-text research database covering sociology and related disciplines. It features hundreds of full-text journals and millions of records with subject headings from a sociological thesaurus.
Sociological Abstracts
This database abstracts and indexes the international literature of sociology and related disciplines in the social and behavioral sciences. Cited references are included for many journal articles.
World Agricultural Economics & Rural Sociology Abstracts (CAB Direct)
Searchable via the CAB Direct gateway, World Agricultural Economics and Rural Sociology Abstracts (WAERSA) is an online bibliographic and abstracts database of internationally published research on applied rural socioeconomic research. Created and indexed by subject specialists, WAERSA provides access to these abstracts alongside comprehensive indexing and classification codes with a fully searchable backfile to 1973 of over 400,000 abstracts with approximately 20,000 new records added each year.
Social Theory
Offers documents that explore the nature of social behavior and organization. Content by such major theorists as Theodor Adorno, Jean Baudrillard, Simone de Beauvoir, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Émile Durkheim, Michel Foucault, Jürgen Habermas, Robert Merton, Dorothy E. Smith, and Talcott Parsons.

These Latin American databases will give different results in a wider variety of languages, offering a less Anglo-centric perspective on scholarship.

SciELO (Scientific Electronic Library Online)
Model Open Access portal to full-text journals and books published in most countries of Latin America and the Caribbean, as well as Portugal and Spain.

Biblioteca Virtual de CLACSO
La Red de Bibliotecas Virtuales CLACSO, repositorio digital, ofrece acceso libre a más de 100.000 textos de la red CLACSO y recibe más de un millón de solicitudes por mes en CLACSO y en la colección CLACSO en Redalyc.
LA Referencia
Red latinoamericana de repositorios de acceso abierto.
Redalyc
Red de Revistas Científicas de América Latina y el Caribe, España y Portugal
Scientific Information System
BibLat (Bibliografía latinoamericana)
Biblat allows you to search journals published in Latin America and the Caribbean by mining two key databases: CLASE (Citas Latinoamericanas en Ciencias Sociales y Humanidades) and PERIODICA (Índice de Revistas Latinoamericanas en Ciencias).

Fuente Academica
Fuente Academica is a unique collection of scholarly journals from renowned Latin American and Spanish publishers.

The below indices allow you to search and locate the titles of journals published in Latin America, the Caribbean & Iberia. Once you identify a title you're interested in, you can search for it in our library catalog.

CARINDEX
CARINDEX is an index to the contents of West Indian journals published in the Caribbean region. It also includes theses, conference papers and collections of working papers.
CONUCO: Índice de Puerto Rico
An index solely dedicated to journals and e-publications created in Puerto Rico or by Puerto Ricans outside the island. Includes academic, popular, and journalistic periodicals.
LANIC: Academic Journals
Directory of online journals relating to Latin America and the Caribbean. *No longer updated as of 2015.
LANIC: Magazines
A directory of online magazines from and about Latin America and the Caribbean. *No longer updated as of 2015.
Latin American Periodicals Tables of Contents (LAPTOC)
Provides access to the tables of contents of 975 journals published in Latin America and the Caribbean, most published between 1994 and 2009. Database searches can be made by journal title, keywords in author and article titles, and country of publication.
Ulrich's Periodicals Directory
Detailed, comprehensive information on serials published throughout the world.