Library Guides: Latin and Spanish New Orleans: Find Scholarly Articles

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Below find general and specialized databases to search for and find scholarly articles on connections between New Orleans and Spain, Latin America and the Caribbean.

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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
This database is a comprehensive reference resource providing more than hundred full-text scholarly journals with articles in the social sciences and humanities for the interdisciplinary academic study of Hispanic and Latin America and the Caribbean Basin.

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.

Specialized Databases

Chicano Database
Index of information about Latinos/Hispanics in the US. Provides extensive coverage of Mexican Americans from the 1960s to the present, with selective coverage dating back to the early 1900s. Records added since 1992 include the broader Latino experience, including Puerto Ricans, Cuban Americans, and Central American immigrants. Includes academic journals, periodicals & books.
America: History & Life
Scholarship on the history and culture of the United States and Canada, from prehistory to the present day.