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GENERAL
Academic Search Complete
Databases and Electronic Resources: General
A database of articles and article citations from over 9,300 journals
and magazines in virtually every academic subject. Areas include social
sciences, physical sciences, technology, and humanities.
Expanded Academic
ASAP
Databases and Electronic Resources: General
Multi-disciplinary index to scholarly academic and general interest
periodicals. Includes some full text sources.
JSTOR
Databases and Electronic Resources: General
A full-text archive of over 700 scholarly journals in the humanities,
social sciences, and sciences, including Latin American studies (16+
titles), economics, ecology, political science, history, literature,
and other subjects. It covers all issues published, except for the last
2 to 5 years.
ARTS
RILM Abstracts of
Music Literature
Abstracts of scholarly writings on music as well as music-related disciplines
in over 140 languages dating from 1967 through the present.
Music Index
Citations for articles from over 655 international music journals.
New Grove Online
This online music encyclopedia brings together The New Grove Dictionary
of Music and Musician, New Grove Jazz, and New Grove Opera. The author
of each article is listed at the end of the article.
HISTORY
Historical Abstracts
Databases and electronic resources: History
Major index to over 2,000 international journals, book reviews, and
dissertations on the history of the world, except United States and
Canada. Covers topics from 1450 (i.e. the Renaissance) to the present.
Indexes publications published from 1955 to current.
History Reference
Center
Databases and electronic resources: History
LATIN AMERICAN STUDIES
Handbook of Latin American Studies (HLAS)
ENGLISH
ESPAÑOL
PORTUGUÊS
Indexes journals, books, documents, and reports on Latin America and
Mexico. Covers the humanities and social sciences. 1935-currrent.
LANIC: Latin
American Network Information Center
Based at the University of Texas at Austin, LANIC's mission is to facilitate
access to Internet-based information to, from, or on Latin America.
The target audience includes people living in Latin America, as well
as those around the world who have an interest in this region.
Latin
American Periodicals Tables of Contents (LAPTOC)
Housed on the LANIC site, LAPTOC is a searchable Web database that provides
access to the tables of contents of more than 800 journals, primarily
in the humanities and social sciences, published in Latin America. Articles
indexed are primarily in Spanish & Portuguese. Do not use the ILL
link in the records - use Mansfield ILL to request articles in journals
we do not own.
LANIC
Etext Collection
Designed to facilitate access to the full-text resources that are hosted
on LANIC servers. Resources include research papers written by Latin
American studies scholars; theses and dissertations; etext versions
of books; conference proceedings; speeches by Latin American leaders;
periodical publications; and official documents. Some of the etexts
are in Spanish, others are in English. In all cases, copyright resides
with the respective authors.
Red
de Redes
Multiple Databases related to the development process in Latin America
with information primarily in Spanish. Subjects include: Agriculture
and biotechnology; banking and finance; social sciences, economy and
state reform; education, children, and family.
EcoAméricas
A Monthly Report on Development and the Environment in Latin America
is available in English and in Spanish, back to Nov. 1998.
NEWS SOURCES
LexisNexis Academic
Universe
Databases and Electronic Resources: General
Provides access to the full text of national and international newspapers,
magazines, wire services, and more. Also includes business, financial,
and legal information.
For news coverage (in English) from Latin America, choose World News,
then limit to North/South American news sources. For news in Spanish,
choose non-English Language News.
Newspaper Source
Databases and Electronic Resources: General
Database for regional US newspapers, international newspapers, newswires,
and newspaper columns. Includes some full text.
SOCIAL SCIENCES
SocINDEX
Indexes core scholarly social science journals worldwide. Search by
cited authors or works, or search by words in the bibliographic citations.
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