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Subjects: Classics, English and Creative Writing, History, Latin American Studies, Literature, Philosophy, Religion, Spanish, Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, World Languages, Literatures, and Cultures

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This subject guide highlights important resources for Latin American and Latinx Studies at Augustana. Whether you're a minor or taking a single class in the subject, you should find something useful here.

If you have questions about your research, get in touch with Kaitlyn Goss-Peirce (see the box on this page) or ask at the research help desk on the library's 2nd floor.

Selected New Latin American Studies Books

Key Resources

Article Databases:

Clase and Periodica This link opens in a new window
CLASE indexes documents published in Latin American journals specializing in the social sciences and humanities.
PERIODICA covers journals specializing in science and technology.
Offers access to more than 600,000 bibliographic citations from documents published in 2,600 scholarly journals published in the Spanish, Portuguese, French and English languages.

Handbook of Latin American Studies
A bibliography on Latin America consisting of works selected and annotated by scholars. Edited by the Hispanic Division of the Library of Congress, the multidisciplinary Handbook alternates annually between the social sciences and the humanities. Each year, more than 130 academics from around the world choose over 5,000 works for inclusion in the Handbook.
Subject areas: World Languages, Literatures, and Cultures; History; Political Science
Hispanic American Periodicals Index (HAPI)
Alternate Name(s): HAPI
A source of over 335,000 journal article citations, HAPI provides complete bibliographic citations to the contents of scholarly journals published around the world on Latin America and the Caribbean since the late 1960s. Coverage includes everything from political, economic, and social issues to the arts and humanities.
PRISMA
Alternate Name(s): Publicaciones y Revistas Sociales y Humanisticas
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 Institute of the University of California, Los Angeles. Coverage 1966 to present.

Reference:

Credo Reference
This is an online reference library that provides unlimited and remote simultaneous access to current, integrated, full-text content from a selection of over 200 reference books from 55 publishers with over 2 million entries. Credo includes encyclopedias, dictionaries, thesauri and books of quotations, a range of subject-specific titles covering everything from health to technology and science to law, not to mention the Bridgeman Art Library with over 16,000 art images.
Gale Virtual Reference Library
A vast collection of electronic reference books covering a wide variety of subject areas, Gale Virtual Reference Library is an excellent place to start your research.