Research Guides: Latine and Indigenous Studies: Databases

Databases

HAPI Online This link opens in a new window
HAPI is your source for authoritative, worldwide information about Central and South America, Mexico, Brazil, the Caribbean basin, the United States-Mexico border region, and Hispanics/Latinos in the United States. HAPI Online contains complete bibliographic citations to articles, book reviews (through 2001), documents, original literary works, and other materials appearing in more than 500 key social science and humanities journals published throughout the world. HAPI Online combines current information about Latin America with in-depth coverage spanning more than thirty years.
Ethnic NewsWatch (ProQuest) This link opens in a new window
Historic backfile only, covers 1959-1989. Provides historical coverage of Native American, African American, and Hispanic American periodicals.

ProQuest All Subscribed Content This link opens in a new window
All ProQuest databases, ranging from dissertations to newspaper articles to scholarly journals to trade journals to wire services.

A "shopping mall" of newspaper, magazine and journal articles in all subject areas

Use it to get an overview on your subject or familiarize yourself with issues to learn about a new subject; find current events, interviews, commentary, etc.

Use the power of this database by Limiting Dates, Document Type (e.g. interviews, reviews), and using the fields in the search section (Citation and Abstract vs. Citation and Document Text)
Narrow your results list by using the menu on the right to choose scholarly journals, a subject area or to select a publication date range
This is a good starting place for most topics “to see what’s out there.” It's also a great database for news, popular views, interviews

PressReader This link opens in a new window
PressReader provides access to the most current 3 months of a large collection of newspapers and magazines from around the world. Use the language filter on the right side of the screen to focus on Spanish-language publications, if desired. It's also possible to limit by the publications' country of origin.
For web browsers only, PressReader app not supported.

JSTOR This link opens in a new window
JSTOR is a not-for-profit organization with a mission to create and maintain a trusted archive of important scholarly journals and to provide access to these journals as widely as possible. Content in JSTOR spans many disciplines, primarily in the humanities and social sciences. Recent articles are generally not available. JSTOR now includes access to the Artstor collection. Artstor is an extensive image resource for educational and scholarly use . Including high-quality images and visual media from top museums, archives, scholars, artists, and contributors around the world.
Project Muse This link opens in a new window
Project MUSE is a collaboration between libraries and publishers providing full-text, affordable and user-friendly online access to high quality humanities, arts, and social sciences journals from scholarly publishers.

Project Muse and JSTOR provide "boutique" access to:

Full Text of selected Academic Journal Articles
Articles in most fields of the humanities and social sciences
Project Muse covers the most current five to ten years (this varies by journal title, check under Browse Journals for exact dates)
JSTOR covers past years mainly, mostly up to 1-4 years ago

Digital Library of the Caribbean
The Digital Library of the Caribbean (dLOC) is a cooperative digital library for resources from and about the Caribbean and circum-Caribbean.

Ask Yourself: Who Cares about My Topic?

Go to our A-Z Databases listing and use the All Subjects drop box filter to identify database that fit the lens through which you want to explore your topic - for example Anthropology or Art.

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