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Periodicals Overview
Periodicals include popular magazines, newspapers, and academic journals. These may contain reviews, news, or longform essays. Remember, you can always contact us to help find what you need. Below, we have included a small selection of online databases that should contain good articles for Latin American Studies.
Periodicals Databases
These databases allow you search hundreds of periodicals all at once, or browse by title.
Here are databases that hold a wide swath of general interest magazines and newspapers:
- Academic Search Complete This link opens in a new window
This database provides complete coverage of multidisciplinary, full-text academic journals. Includes peer-reviewed journals, full-text periodicals, reports, books, and much more.
- JSTOR This link opens in a new window
Full-text access to the back issues of scholarly journals in the humanities, social sciences, and sciences, some of which date back to the 1800s. Supports such disciplines as biological sciences, business and economics, education, history, language and literature, mathematics and statistics, music, political sciences and sociology.
*Please note that issues from the last 3 to 5 years for the majority of JSTOR's journals are not available.
Below are a few subject-specific databases:
- Foreign Relations between Latin America and the Caribbean States, 1930-1944 This link opens in a new window
Organized by country, this collection covers a wide range of viewpoints on political, social, and economic issues. It sheds light on the foreign relations interactions between Central American and South American countries. In the Caribbean, Cuba, Haiti, and the Dominican Republic are represented. This collection includes cables, memoranda, correspondence, reports and analyzes, and treaties.
- Handbook of Latin American Studies (HLAS) This link opens in a new windowA bibliography on Latin America consisting of works selected and annotated by scholars.
- Historical Abstracts This link opens in a new windowIndexes and abstracts the research literature of modern (1450d- ) world history (excluding the United States and Canada, see America: History and Life).
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