Subscription-based Electronic Databases for Latin American, Iberian, and Latino Literature

A. Subject-specific Indexes and Abstracts

Chicano Database - about - Covers Mexican-American topics and the broader Latino experience of Puerto Ricans, Cuban Americans, and Central American immigrants.
Coverage: 1967 to present Handbook of Latin American Studies (HLAS)

Handbook of Latin American Studies - about - scholarly evaluations of books, book chapters, articles, and conference papers in the field of Latin American Studies published worldwide since 1990
Coverage: 1990 to present

HAPI Hispanic American Periodicals Index - about - indexes articles from scholarly journals on Latin America, the United States-Mexico border region and Hispanics in the United States
Coverage: 1970-

Latin American Periodicals Tables of Contents (LAPTOC) - about - a searchable database that provides access to the tables of contents of more than 800 humanities and social science journals, published in Latin America.
Coverage: 1990-

 

Linguistics and Language Behavior Abstracts: LLBA - about - Covers all aspects of the study of language and contains non-evaluative abstracts of articles from over 1,200 international serials as well as other resources.
Coverage: 1973 - current

 

MLA International Bibliography - about - Indexes material in modern languages, literature, linguistics and folklore.
Coverage: 1963-

B. Subject-specific Full-text Resources

Caribbean Literature - about - Caribbean literature in fiction, poetry, manuscripts, archival content, interviews, photographs and other formats.

Latin American Women Writers - about - Prose, poetry, and drama composed by women writing in Mexico, Central America, and South America.

Latino Literature - about - a comprehensive online collection of prose, theatre, and poetry written by authors of Hispanic background working in the U.S. Includes text, pictures, and performance materials.
Coverage: Mostly 1960s to present; selected materials from 19th-century are included.

C. General and Interdisciplinary Indexes and Abstracts

AltPressIndexArchive - about - This database is a guide to alternative sources of information; international and interdisciplinary in scope.

Coverage: 1969-1990

Annual Bibliography of English Language and Literature - about - Compiled by the Modern Humanities Research Association, ABELL contains more than 807,000 bibliographic records: monographs, articles, book reviews, essay collections, and dissertations published after 1920.

Coverage: 1892-  

Arts and Humanities Citation Index - about - Search citations from arts and humanities journals published from 1975 to the present.

Coverage: 1975-

Book History Online - about - Contains titles of books and articles on the history of the printed book worldwide.

Coverage: 1990-, with some earlier items

Dissertations and Theses Abstracts - about - Comprehensive source for information on doctoral dissertations from universities in the United States and Canada. It also indexes a small number of master's theses.
Coverage: 1861-

Essay and General Literature Index - about - Provides access to essays contained in anthologies and collections.

Coverage: 1985-

 

Film Literature Index - FLI (with no access to fulltext articles) - about - Covers the film and television industry, including movie and television reviews, book reviews, and scholarly articles.

Coverage: 1976-2001

FRANCIS - about - A multidisciplinary, multilingual research tool, produced by the Institut de l'Information Scientifique et Technique (INIST). French, English, other languages.
Coverage: 1984-

Humanities and Social Sciences Retrospective - about - Bibliographic database providing access to scholarly journals in a broad array of the humanities and social sciences.
Coverage: 1907-1984

International Index to Black Periodicals - about - Index to bibliographic citations and abstracts from over 150 scholarly and popular journals, newspapers and newsletters and full-text coverage of 24 core Black Studies periodicals.
Coverage: Mixed

International Index to the Performing Arts - about - Covers the arts and entertainment industry, including dance, film, television, drama, theatre, stagecraft, musical theatre, broadcast, circus, comedy, storytelling, opera, pantomime, puppetry, magic, and more.
Coverage: 1864 to present

International Medieval Bibliography - about - The IMB indexes articles in journals, conference proceedings, collections of essays, and Festschriften. Indexing includes material worldwide in a variety of languages.
Coverage: Mixed

Iter: Gateway to the Middle Ages and Renaissance - about - Bibliographic database of interdisciplinary journal literature pertaining to the Middle Ages and Renaissance (400-1700).
Coverage: Varies: 1859-present

Periodicals Index Online - about - Citations to articles in scholarly journals in a variety of languages, from their first issues through 1995
Coverage: First issues to 1995

Philosopher's Index - about- A bibliographic database with abstracts covering scholarly research in philosophy since 1940. Cites works in English, Spanish, German, French, Italian, Russian, Chinese and Japanese.
Coverage: 1940-present

RILM Abstracts of Music Literature - about - Index with abstracts in English to all categories of literature about all genres of music. Books, theses and dissertations, articles in journals.
Coverage: 1969-

Short Story Index - about - An index to finding short stories in anthologies, collections, and periodicals.

Coverage: 1984-

 

Web of Knowledge - about - Most important journal literature, with abstracts for the more recent articles; features citation searching from a known reference to find newer literature
Coverage: 1977- 

D. Full-text Resources

Academic Search (EBSCO) - about - Provides fulltext coverage of magazine, newspaper, and scholarly journals for almost every academic discipline.
Coverage: Varies by title

 

AP Photo Archive - about - An electronic library containing the AP's current photos and a selection of pictures from their 50 million image print and negative library. International in scope.

Coverage: 1840-

 

ARTstor Images - about - A digital image library of over 1,000,000 images in the areas of art, architecture, the humanities, and social sciences.

Coverage: n/a

 

Black Drama - about - This database contains over 1200 full-text plays, written by over 100 playwrights from North America, the Caribbean, and Africa.

Coverage: 1846-

 

Chicago Manual of Style Online - about - The electronic version of the classic guide to documentary style.

 

Columbia Gazetteer of the World - about - A dictionary of countries, states, cities, and regions, including rivers, mountains and other geographical features.

Coverage: 2001 edition 

 

Early English Books Online - about - Contains every book published in England, Scotland, Wales, Ireland and the United States between 1475-1700.

Coverage: 1475-1700

 

Encyclopaedia Britannica - about - The online equivalent of the complete printed Encyclopaedia Brittanica plus internet links.

Coverage: Varies

 

Ethnic NewsWatch - about - Articles from newspapers, magazines and journals of the ethnic, minority, and native press in America on news, culture and history. searchable in English and Spanish
Coverage: 1960-present

Factiva - about - General news and business information. International newswires and pictures, TV and radio transcripts. Company search for competitors, comparisons, SEC documents.
Coverage: 1985-current

Film Literature Index - FLI (with access to fulltext articles) - about - Covers the film and television industry, including movie and television reviews, book reviews, and scholarly articles.

Coverage: 1976-2001

 

GenderWatch - about - Full text database with a focus on how gender impacts a variety of subject areas.
Coverage: 1970 to current

Google Books Search - about - A tool produced by the Google search engine that searches the contents of books that they have scanned.

Coverage: Varies

 

¡Informe! (English Interface) - about - Indexing, full-text and images of Spanish-language magazines and pamphlets. Spanish thesaurus and interface. Searching in both Spanish and English. Bilingual citations.
Coverage: 1996 - present

¡Informe! (Spanish Interface) - about - Indexing, full-text and images of Spanish-language magazines and pamphlets. Spanish thesaurus and interface. Searching in both Spanish and English. Bilingual citations.
Coverage: 1996 - present

IngentaConnect - about - An index to articles published in more than 29,000 English language journals covering all subjects. Includes a free email alerting service about new articles.
Coverage: 1988 to present (varies)

John Hopkins Guide to Literary Theory and Criticism - about - Survey of individual thinkers, schools, and movements in literary criticism.

 

JSTOR - about - Provides searchable full-text of historical runs of important scholarly journals in the humanities, arts, sciences, ecology, and business.
Coverage: From the first issue of each journal up to 3-5 years ago

 

Keesing's Online - about - Keesing's Online is an authoritative monthly digest of worldwide political, diplomatic and economic affairs.

Coverage: 1931 to present

Lexis-Nexis Academic - about - NEXIS includes full text of many newspapers (including the NYT 1980-today), magazines, transcripts and more. LEXIS includes laws, statutes and legal articles.
Coverage: varies

Literature Compass - about - Peer-reviewed survey articles covering a broad range of topics in literary scholarship.

Coverage: 2004-

 

Literature Criticism Online - about - Online compilation of Gale literary criticism series.

 

Magill on Literature - about - Editorially reviewed critical analyses and brief plot summaries of popular works of literature. Search by genre, title, author,s ubject, age level, characters.

 

Oxford Reference Online - about - Approximately 100 language and subject dictionaries and reference works. Each title may be searched separately and a search may also be made across all.

 

Periodicals Archive Online - about - Offers backfiles of over 400 humanities and social science journals.

Coverage: 17th century to the present

 

Project Muse - about - Includes nearly 250 quality journal titles from 40 scholarly publishers, in full-text.
Coverage: Varies, mostly from 1995 onward

 

ProQuest Historical Newspapers - about - A database of historical newspapers from the United States.

Coverage: Varies by title

 

Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy - about - Online version of the Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy.

 

Sabin Americana 1500-1926 - about - Full-text database based on Joseph Sabin's Bibliotheca Americana covering 1500-1926.

 

Twentieth Century North American Drama - about - Full texts of some 2,000 plays, including all types of U.S. and Canadian dramas.

Coverage: 20th and 21st centuries

 

World News Digest - about - Online version of Facts On File, a resource which provides summaries of domestic and international news.

Coverage: 1940 to the present

E. Bio-Bibliography

Biography and Genealogy Master Index - about - Indexes biographical entries in about 2700 reference books, covering contemporary and historical figures.
Coverage: Ancient to present

Biography Resource Center - about - Full-text biographical information on more than 185,000 people from throughout history.
Coverage: Biographical information on individuals throughout history, with current reference sources.

Literature Resource Center - about - Biographies, bibliographies, and critical analysis of authors from all time periods in many genres. Search by author, title, genre, literary movement or literary themes.
Coverage: Authors from all time periods.