Latin American Studies

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Indexes

   General

Wilson Web OmniFile A multidisciplinary database providing abstracts and some full-text. Use SearchPlus to limit to a specific Subject Area or to filter results for peer-reviewed journals only.

Academic Search Complete Academic Search Complete is a comprehensive scholarly, multi-disciplinary full-text database, with more than 5,300 full-text periodicals, including 4,400 peer-reviewed journals. In addition to full text, this database offers indexing and abstracts for more than 9,300 journals and a total of 9,810 publications including monographs, reports, conference proceedings, etc. Full text coverage of information in: archaeology, area studies, astronomy, biology, chemistry, ethnic & multicultural studies, general science, geography, law, mathematics, music, physics, psychology, religion & theology, women's studies, and other fields. The database features PDF content going back as far as 1865, with the majority of full text titles in native (searchable) PDF format. Searchable cited references are provided for nearly 1,000 journals.


Britannica Online Full-text of the Encyclopedia Britannica including photos, drawings, flags, biographies, and geographical articles. Also includes the Merriam-Webster Dictionary.

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the Humanities, the Sciences, or the Social Sciences.

   Subject

LexisNexis Academic provides access to a vast array of general news, government and political news, foreign and international news services, country and biographical information, and state and federal court cases.

MLA International Bibliography, a database of citations to materials in literature, linguistics and languages. Good source for citations to articles on Spanish literature.

Essay and General Literature Index cites essays and articles contained in collections of essays and miscellaneous works published in the U.S., Great Britain, and Canada. Includes citations to many articles dealing with Latin American issues.

HLAS Online is the 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.

NOTE: To locate Periodicals in Abell Library, search using the "Periodical Title" field in the online catalog. Check the record(s) to determine Location.

E-Sources

   Journals

SpringerLink Journals provides electronic access to the complete contents of a vast and growing collection of Springerlink journals (formerly Kluwer) in subjects including Latin America.

Project Muse offers indexing and full-text of periodicals published by Johns Hopkins University Press and other university pressess. Includes 6 titles specific to Latin American Studies.

JSTOR is an archive of scholarly journals, including 5 Latin American Studies journals. Current issues are not available through JSTOR; its role is an archive, with new holdings added each year.

Reference Works

Columbia International Affairs Online publishes a wide range of scholarship from 1991 forward that includes working papers from university research institutes, occasional papers series from NGOs, foundation-funded research projects, and proceedings from conferences.

CountryWatch.com publishes Country Reviews and Country Wire. Together they provide a convenient way to stay abreast of breaking news developments in all the world's countries and to have access to a substantial set of geopolitical and business background information and data on individual countries.

The Oxford Companion to World ExplorationThis landmark scholarly work offers comprehensive, reliable, and accessible information about the fastest growing minority population in the United States. With an unprecedented scope and cutting-edge scholarship, the Encyclopedia draws together the diverse historical and contemporary experiences in the United States of Latinos and Latinas from Mexico, Puerto Rico, Cuba, the Dominican Republic, Central America, South America, Europe, Asia, and the Middle East. Over 900 A-to-Z articles written by academics, scholars, writers, artists, and journalists, address such broad topics as identity, art, politics, religion, education, health, and history. The Encyclopedia fills a void in the historical scholarship of an underserved population.

The Oxford Encyclopedia of Latinos and Latinas in the United States This landmark scholarly work offers comprehensive, reliable, and accessible information about the fastest growing minority population in the United States. With an unprecedented scope and cutting-edge scholarship, the Encyclopedia draws together the diverse historical and contemporary experiences in the United States of Latinos and Latinas from Mexico, Puerto Rico, Cuba, the Dominican Republic, Central America, South America, Europe, Asia, and the Middle East. Over 900 A-to-Z articles written by academics, scholars, writers, artists, and journalists, address such broad topics as identity, art, politics, religion, education, health, and history. The Encyclopedia fills a void in the historical scholarship of an underserved population.

The Oxford Encyclopedia of Meso American CultureThe Oxford Encyclopedia of Mesoamerican Cultures is the first comprehensive reference source to chronicle Pre-Hispanic, colonial, and modern Mesoamerica, defined as the lands stretching from Mexico to the southern tip of Central America. With more than 600 articles, it is invaluable for those interested in the rich heritage of this land. Encompassing the great civilizations of the pre-Columbian era (including the Olmec, Aztec, and Maya peoples) up through the colonial and postcolonial periods, the Encyclopedia covers art, archaeology, religious studies, anthropology, history, and historiography of the region in fully cross-referenced, signed articles by the leading scholars in the discipline.

Books

netLibrary is a collection of full-text electronic books that library users can search and read over the Internet. Academic, reference, and scholarly books are included. Users can search across the entire eBook collection for authors, titles, or keywords, and they can search within books for keywords and phrases.

These materials are shared by people all over the state of Texas. For some titles, there may only be one copy, but for others there are several copies. Though it is not necessary for Austin College students, faculty or staff to set up their own account, this is an option discussed on the netLibrary website. It may also speed up your connection to the material.

About the Catalog

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Some subject headings used for this discipline are listed below. For additional headings, refer to the Library of Congress Subject Headings volumes located behind the Reference Desk.

• Art, Latin American
• Latin America--Economic conditions
• Latin America--History--20th century
• Latin America--Politics and government
• Latin American literature--History and criticism

Internet Sites

• The WWW Virtual Library: Latin American Studies Latin American Network Information Center - LANIC. Search from a variety of categories: Economy, Government, Humanities, Sciences, Social Sciences, Society & Culture, and more.

• Internet Resources for Latin America prepared by New Mexico State University's Latin American and Borderlands Specialist at the NMSU Library.

• ISN is based at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich (ETHZ), featuring an international perspective with grey literature of all types, daily briefings, a monthly summary, primary source material, books, and many journals - over 15,000 items primarily in English in the Publishing House section alone - from institutes, universities, and agencies around the world, as well as case studies and hundreds of e-learning courses, all in full-text, and abstracted, archived, and indexed.

• Latin American Links from Stanford University's Center for Latin American Studies.

• Latin American Studies Association is the one Association that brings together experts on Latin America from all disciplines and diverse occupational endeavors, across the globe.

• Political Database of the Americas is a collaborative effort of Georgetown University's Center for Latin American Studies and the Organization of American States. It is a multilingual site with instructions in English, Spanish, Portuguese and French.

• Library of Congress Hispanic Reading Room provides resources relating the geographical areas of the Caribbean, Latin America, and Iberia; the indigenous cultures of those areas; and peoples throughout the world historically influenced by Luso-Hispanic heritage.

About the Department

Latin American Studies   Course Information

   Citing Sources

Various Style Manuals may be used in Latin American Studies, depending upon the aspect you are studying: history, literature, social sciences, etc. Check with your professor to determine which format you should use for a particular class. Select from a variety of Style Manuals online and on Reserve within the library.