Research Guides: Latin American Studies: Find Articles

Searching Databases (Video Tutorial)

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Latin American Articles & Books

UO Libraries Subscription Databases

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Academic Search Premier This link opens in a new window Multi-disciplinary database providing indexing, abstracts, and selected full text for peer reviewed/scholarly articles, magazines, trade publications, and newspapers in all fields.
HAPI This link opens in a new window Selectively indexes journals in the social sciences and humanities, focussing on Central and South America, the Caribbean, Mexico, Brazil, and Hispanics/Latinos in the U.S.
Gale OneFile. Informe académico This link opens in a new window If searches in this database retrieve incorrect results, clear cache/cookies to resolve the problem. Una colección de revistas hispánicas con textos completos. Abarca negocios, salud, tecnología, cultura, temas de actualidad y otras materias.
Created exclusively for Spanish-speaking users, this full-text electronic reference tool provides indexing, images and full text of popular Hispanic magazines -- not just translations.
Historical Abstracts This link opens in a new window Index to scholarly articles covering world history (with the exception of the US and Canada) from 1450 to the present
JSTOR This link opens in a new window Online archive of peer reviewed/scholarly journals in all disciplines. Many resources are embargoed or unavailable for the most recent 3 or 5 years, so you should also check other databases like the MLA International Bibliography or contact a librarian.
PRISMA database This link opens in a new window Provides full-text scholarly journals in the social sciences and humanities for the interdisciplinary academic study of Hispanic and Latin America, and the Caribbean Basin.
Project Muse This link opens in a new window Searches the full text of electronic journals and books in the humanities and social sciences.

Open Access Resources

OA Databases are the most common way to publish and share scholarly literature in this region, so the articles in these databases are scholarly and often peer-reviewed as well as those in paid, subscription resources.

RedALyC This link opens in a new window Indexes academic journals from throughout Latin America, the Caribbean, and the Iberian Peninsula.
SciELO - Scientific Electronic Library Online This link opens in a new window Academic journals in sciences, social sciences, and humanities from throughout the the Spanish and Portuguese-speaking world. SciELO integrates the work of database projects based across Latin America and the Iberian Peninsula. This resource also includes some English-language articles.
HathiTrust digital library This link opens in a new window HathiTrust is a partnership of academic & research institutions, offering a collection of millions of titles digitized from libraries around the world. Current UO students, faculty and staff should log into HathiTrust as the "University of Oregon". Additional functions, such as the ability to download the whole book are available only to users of member libraries. Using HathiTrust.
HLAS online This link opens in a new window Multidisciplinary handbook on Latin America covering both the social sciences and humanities.
Works by Latin American scholars, edited by the Hispanic Division of the Library of Congress.

For more OA resources, look for the box on the right column

Language Resources

Databases

Linguistics and language behavior abstracts (LLBA) This link opens in a new window Indexes and abstracts the international literature in linguistics and related disciplines in the language sciences.
Covers all aspects of the study of language including phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax and semantics. Reviews over 1,500 serials publications, and also provides abstracts of books, book chapters, and dissertations

Web resources

WordReference.com
A large, multilingual online dictionary provided by HarperCollins. User forums provide insights from native speakers.
Linguee
A Spanish-English resource, useful for looking up phrases

Popular Contemporary and Historical Periodical Resources

Arte Público Hispanic historical collection. Series 1 This link opens in a new window Digital collection of historical content pertaining to U.S. Hispanic and Latino history, literature, political commentary, and culture. This collection accurately conveys the creative life of U.S. Latinos and Hispanics, shedding new light on the intellectual vigor and traditional values that have characterized them from the earliest moments of this country's history through contemporary times.
Cuban culture and cultural relations, 1959- Part 1, "Casa y cultura". This link opens in a new window This database contains some 45,000 documents from Cubas Casa de las Amricas, covering such diverse materials as articles, newspaper clippings, cable messages, interviews, conference memorabilia, etc., from 1959 onward.
Hispanic American Newspapers, 1808-1980 This link opens in a new window Newspapers published between 1808 and 1980 that chronicle the daily life, cultural heritage and world views of Hispanic communities in the U.S.
Features Spanish-language newspapers and titles published bilingually in Spanish and English.
Gale OneFile. Informe académico This link opens in a new window If searches in this database retrieve incorrect results, clear cache/cookies to resolve the problem. Una colección de revistas hispánicas con textos completos. Abarca negocios, salud, tecnología, cultura, temas de actualidad y otras materias.
Created exclusively for Spanish-speaking users, this full-text electronic reference tool provides indexing, images and full text of popular Hispanic magazines -- not just translations.

LANIC: The Latin American Network Information Center LANIC's editorially reviewed directories contain over 10,000 unique URLs, one of the largest guides for Latin American content on the Internet. Especially strong source for government information and NGOs. LANIC ceased updating links in July of 2015.

Latin American Newspapers, Series 1 This link opens in a new window Collection of historical Latin American newspapers.Includes newspapers published between 1805 and 1922 in Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Cuba, Guatemala, Guyana, Mexico, Peru, Trinidad and Venezuela.
Latin American Newspapers. Series 2 This link opens in a new window Additional coverage of newspapers from Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Cuba and Mexico. Includes countries not represented in Latin American Newspapers I, such as Bolivia, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Costa Rica and Belize.
Nexis Uni This link opens in a new window Nexis Uni™ features more than 15,000 news, business and legal sources from LexisNexis®—including U.S. Supreme Court decisions dating back to 1790—with an intuitive interface that offers quick discovery across all content types, personalization features such as Alerts and saved searches and a collaborative workspace with shared folders and annotated documents.

Linking UO Libraries with Google Scholar to Find Full-Text Articles

When you search Google Scholar on your personal computer, you can configure your settings so that UO Libraries resource links appear in your results. Then you can click the UO FindText to access a library item.

(TIP: If you're at a temporary computer and don't want to activate these settings, you can access Google Scholar via our Databases page (Library Home Page > Databases A-Z > G > Google Scholar).

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To configure your Google Scholar Library Links, click on Settings. in the upper right of the search page.

Then select Library Links and search for "University of Oregon." Check the box in the search select and click "Save."