About This Guide
This guide will walk you through the research process with recommended subject-specific resources. A list of some recommended resources included in this guide is below.
Don't forget to check out our other Research Guides for any interdisciplinary research.
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Recommended Databases
- MLA International Bibliography (EBSCOhost) This link opens in a new window
MLA International Bibliography offers a detailed bibliography of journal articles, books and dissertations. Produced by the Modern Language Association (MLA), the electronic version of the bibliography dates back to 1843 and contains over 1.7 million citations from more than 4,400 journals & series, and 1,000 book publishers.
- Latino Literature: Poetry, Drama, and Fiction (ProQuest) This link opens in a new windowContains more than 100,000 pages of poetry, fiction and drama by Chicano, Cuban, Puerto Rican, Dominican and other Latin writers working in the United States. Includes almost 400 plays.
- Latin American Women Writers This link opens in a new window100,000 pages of prose, poetry and drama by from Latino women writers across North and South America from the colonial period to the present provides a means for understanding the diversity and development of Latin America through a feminine perspective.
- HAPI Online (Hispanic American Periodicals Index) This link opens in a new window
The Hispanic American Periodicals Index (HAPI) contains over 275,000 journal article citations about Central America, South America, the Caribbean, Mexico, Brazil, and Hispanics/Latinos in the United States. HAPI currently provides over 60,000 links to the full text of articles appearing in more than 600 key social science and humanities journals published throughout the world.
- JSTOR Archival Journals and Primary Sources Collection This link opens in a new windowThis collection includes all 2,800+ academic journals on JSTOR, covering more than 60 disciplines across the humanities, social sciences, and natural sciences. Also included are millions of primary sources from the 19th Century British Pamphlets, World Heritage Sites: Africa, Struggles for Freedom: Southern Africa, and the Global Plants collections.
The JSTOR platform does not provide access to the most recent 3-5 years of a journal’s content. Current issues of journals hosted on the JSTOR platform are available through separate subscriptions on other platforms. Please check LibrarySearch for access to embargoed content. - Project MUSE This link opens in a new windowProject MUSE offers more than 300 journal titles from several scholarly publishers in the fields of literature and criticism, history, the visual and performing arts, cultural studies, education, political science, economics, and others.
- Referencia Latina This link opens in a new window
Full-text Spanish-language database. Covers a broad array of subjects inside and outside academia. It offers content from a variety of sources, including reference books, general interest magazines and health reports.
- Ethnologue: Lanugages of the World This link opens in a new windowEthnologue: Languages of the World is a comprehensive reference work cataloging all known living languages. Ethnologue has been an active research project for over 70 years involving hundreds of linguists and other researchers worldwide.
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