History: Latin America

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Fuente Academica from EBSCO This link opens in a new window
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Searches about 450 journals from scholarly journal articles from Latin American, Spanish and Portuguese publishers. Mostly 1990's - present; mostly full-text.
This database offers full text content to many academic areas including business & economics, medical sciences, political science, law, computer science, library & information sciences, literature, linguistics, history, philosophy and theology. This database provides full text (including PDF) for more than 200 scholarly Spanish language journals. Coverage varies by publication. Most are 1995 to present.
Hispanic American Periodicals Index from Univ. California, Los Angeles This link opens in a new window
Index of multidisciplinary research related to the Spanish- and Portuguese-speaking Western Hemisphere.
Covers political, social and economic issues as well as the humanities including literature, art, religion, etc. Includes bibliographic citations to both English language and Spanish language articles, book reviews, documents, and other materials appearing in over 400 key social sciences and humanities journals published throughout the world. 1970 to present.
Historical Abstracts from EBSCO This link opens in a new window
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The standard indexing service for academic historical writings on all areas of the world, except the United States and Canada. Covers items published from 1972 to present.
JSTOR from JSTOR This link opens in a new window
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Broad collection of full-text scholarly journals (approximately 2700 titles). Discipline coverage uneven and usually does not include the most-recent three years.

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Gale Primary Sources from Gale This link opens in a new window
Searches several primary source databases simultaneously: allows full-text searching of scanned historical newspapers, books, maps, ephemera, and more. Comprised primarily of publications of the 'western' world. 1500-1926.
Searches: 17th and 18th Century Burney Collection; Eighteenth Century Collections Online; Making of the Modern World; Nineteenth Century Collections Online; and Sabin Americana; Times Digital Archive, 1785-2009; and the Times Literary Supplement Historical Archive, 1902-2010.
Border and Migration Studies from Alexander Street Press This link opens in a new window
Historical background on thirty plus worldwide border areas, including: U.S. and Mexico; the European Union; Afghanistan; Israel; Turkey; The Congo; Argentina; China; Thailand; and others.

Caribbean History and Culture, 1535-1920 from Newsbank
Covers the history of Caribbean islands over nearly 400 years. Includes books, pamphlets, almanacs, broadsides and ephemera.

Foreign Broadcast Information Service Daily Reports from Newsbank This link opens in a new window
Online full-text translations of foreign-language documents from around the world used by U.S. government agencies in their intelligence work. 1941-1996.