Research Guides: Latin American Literature: Databases/Articles

Databases for Getting Started

Use databases to efficiently search through many journals at once to discover articles.

MLA International Bibliography This link opens in a new window
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An index to published scholarly journals and books in literature, language, linguistics, and folklore. Coverage is from 1969 to the present.
Can be searched in conjunction with the MLA Directory of Periodicals, which contains all information available on journals & series on the Bibliographys Master List. The Directory of Periodicals is included in the Bibliography.
Academic OneFile This link opens in a new window
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Comprehensive database of more than 8,000 journals covering all subject areas.
Historical Abstracts This link opens in a new window
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A database (1969 to the present) covering scholarly journal articles, book reviews, and dissertations in world history (excluding the United States and Canada). Includes links to JSTOR articles and other e-journals
Literature Resource Center This link opens in a new window
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Includes biographical information on authors and literary criticism of their works. The Person Search feature permits searching by the author's nationality or gender, as well as by genre, literary theme, literary movement or time period (e.g. Latin American boom novels).
Literature Online Complete This link opens in a new window
A database containing information on the world's literature that includes authors' texts, full-text journals and reference sources such as the Encyclopedia of Latin American and Caribbean Literature 1900-2003. While Latin American authors are represented in the database, sources are presented in English.
Literature Online Complete provides access to:

English poetry from 600 to the present
American and African-American poetry from 1603 to the present
The Faber Poetry Library
English drama (including Shakespeare) from 1280 to 1915
English prose from 1500 to 1900

Includes access to the Annual Bibliography of English Language & Literature (ABELL) with associated full-text, major literary reference works, & websites selected for their relevance to literary studies.

Additional Databases

Anthropology Plus This link opens in a new window
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Indexing of journal articles, reports, commentaries, edited works, and obituaries in the fields of social, cultural, physical, biological, and linguistic anthropology, ethnology, archaeology, folklore, material culture, and interdisciplinary studies. Coverage: late 19th-century to the present.
Biography in Context This link opens in a new window
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Comprehensive database of biographical information on more than one million people from throughout history and
Caribbean Literature This link opens in a new window
A searchable collection of poetry and fiction produced in the region during the 19th and 20th centuries
The acquisition of this database was made possible through the support of the Unidel Foundation.
Handbook of Latin American Studies This link opens in a new window
Multidisciplinary bibliography of published material on Latin America, 1935 to the present.
Additional information such as abbreviations, acronyms, subject term glossary, & search tips can be found in the Handbook of Latin American Studies (HLAS): A Resource Guide.
Humanities & Social Sciences Index Retrospective This link opens in a new window
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A database that cites articles from older (1907-1984) English-language scholarly journals and numerous lesser-known but important specialized magazines.
Nexis Uni This link opens in a new window
Contains the complete text of major newspapers published throughout the world since the 1970s. Included are Spanish and Portuguese language newspapers.
Vendor Lyrasis. Publisher LexisNexis.
Periodicals Index Online This link opens in a new window
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An index of older journals and magazines in the humanities and social sciences, beginning in 1665, with links to the full text of some articles. The scope is international and includes periodicals in English, Spanish, and other Western languages.
Teatro Espaol del Siglo de Oro This link opens in a new window
A full-text database that contains the most important dramatic works of sixteenth and seventeenth century Spain. TESO contains more than 800 plays written by 16 dramatists, including Lope de Vega, Calderón de la Barca, Agustín Moreto etc.
Web of Science (WoS) This link opens in a new window
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An interdisciplinary database, including the Arts and Humanities Citation Index, which permits researchers to search cited references contained in journal articles.
Women's Studies International This link opens in a new window
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An interdisciplinary combination of nine files, containing drawn from several essential women's studies databases. Included is the Women Studies Abstracts, which indexes women's studies journals from 1984 to the present.
Provides indexing & abstracts for essential sources including: journals, newsletters, bulletins, books, book chapters, reports, theses, dissertations, & grey literature.
World News Connection Archive This link opens in a new window
An online news service that offers translated and English-language news compiled by the Foreign Broadcast Information Service (FBIS) from non-U.S. media sources, including news agencies, newspapers, and radio and television stations.
Daily updates were discontinued after December 31, 2013, but researchers can still access the Archive, which contains over 1 million foreign newspaper articles, broadcast transcripts & datelines from Beijing, Beirut, Bogota, Cairo, Jakarta, Iraq, Mogadishu, Qatar, Ramallah, Sarajevo, Vienna, & hundreds of other locations around the world.