LibGuides: Latin American Studies Resources: Find Secondary Resources

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Arte Público Hispanic Historical Collection: Series 1
Focuses on U.S. Hispanic history, literature, and culture from colonial times until 1960. This resource is indexed and searchable in Spanish and English.
Clase and Periodica
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.

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*Citations and full-text to resources relating to multiple subject areas
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*Full-text to academic journals and primary sources in multiple disciplines
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*Full access to the Humanities Collection

Subject-Specific Resources:

Digital Commons Network: Chicana/o Studies
"The Digital Commons Network provides free access to full-text scholarly articles and other research from hundreds of universities and colleges worldwide. Curated by university librarians and their supporting institutions, this dynamic research tool includes peer-reviewed journal articles, book chapters, dissertations, working papers, conference proceedings, and other original scholarly work." This Digital Commons space is dedicated to scholarly materials related to Chicana/o Studies within the Race, Ethnicity and Post-Colonial Studies division.
Digital Commons Network: Latina/o Studies
"The Digital Commons Network provides free access to full-text scholarly articles and other research from hundreds of universities and colleges worldwide. Curated by university librarians and their supporting institutions, this dynamic research tool includes peer-reviewed journal articles, book chapters, dissertations, working papers, conference proceedings, and other original scholarly work." This Digital Commons space is dedicated to scholarly materials related to Latina/o Studies within the Race, Ethnicity and Post-Colonial Studies division.
Digital Commons Network: Latin American Studies
"The Digital Commons Network provides free access to full-text scholarly articles and other research from hundreds of universities and colleges worldwide. Curated by university librarians and their supporting institutions, this dynamic research tool includes peer-reviewed journal articles, book chapters, dissertations, working papers, conference proceedings, and other original scholarly work." This Digital Commons space is dedicated to scholarly materials related to Latin American Studies within the International and Area Studies division.
Latinx Studies: Library of Congress Resources
"This guide provides curated Library of Congress resources for researching LatinX Studies, including digitized primary source materials in a wide variety of formats, books and periodicals, online databases, and research strategies."
Label Me Latina/o [e-Journal]
"Label Me Latina/o is an online, refereed international e-journal founded in 2011 by Kathryn Quinn-Sanchez and Michele Shaul that focuses on Latina/o/x Literary Production in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries."

Multidisciplinary Resources

Google Scholar
Find additional journal articles and other scholarly sources in Google Scholar.
Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ)
Find open access research and scholarly articles in the DOAJ.
HathiTrust
"HathiTrust is a not-for-profit collaborative of academic and research libraries preserving 17+ million digitized items. HathiTrust offers reading access to the fullest extent allowable by U.S. copyright law, computational access to the entire corpus for scholarly research, and other emerging services based on the combined collection."
Internet Archive
"The Internet Archive, a 501(c)(3) non-profit, is building a digital library of Internet sites and other cultural artifacts in digital form. Like a paper library, we provide free access to researchers, historians, scholars, people with print disabilities, and the general public. Our mission is to provide Universal Access to All Knowledge."
Open Access Theses and Dissertations (OATD)
OATD is an index "resource for finding open access graduate theses and dissertations published around the world. Metadata (information about the theses) comes from over 1100 colleges, universities, and research institutions. OATD currently indexes 6,420,812 theses and dissertations."

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