Guide for Senior Essay Writers: Latin America 

Courtesy of Greg Eow's Senior Essay Guide. 

The following are some of the most common databases and reference works dealing with Latin American Studies. These provide an excellent starting point for your research projects.

• Handbook of Latin American Studies - An annotated bibliography of works on Latin America covering various fields in both the humanities and social sciences. Volumes have been published annually since 1936, by Harvard University Press, the University of Florida Press, and the University of Texas Press. HLAS is edited by the Hispanic Division of the Library of Congress. The printed version and the online database covers from 1936 to the present.

• Hispanic-American Periodical Index - HAPI is the largest index of journal information from and about Central and South America, Mexico, the Caribbean basin, the United States-Mexico border region, and Hispanics in the United States. From analyses of current political, economic, and social issues to unique coverage of Latin American arts and letters, HAPI contains complete bibliographic citations to articles, book reviews, documents, original literary works, and other materials. The printed volumes and the online version of HAPI cover from 1970 to the present.

• JSTOR - a project of The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation for development of a digital library in support of the arts and sciences on the World Wide Web. It will eventually consist of over one hundred journal titles in the areas of anthropology, asian studies, ecology, economics, education, finance, history, mathematics, philosophy, political science, population studies, and sociology and will already contains over two million journal page images. These journals are fully searchable. For strict focus on Latin American journals, make sure to select Latin American Studies in the Limit by Discipline drop down menu.

• Index to Latin American Periodical Literature, 1929-1960 - This is a hardcover publication that Indexes articles from more than 3,000 periodicals, most of which are published in Latin America (1,600 titles listed, although more are indexed). Two supplements cover 1961-1970. Invaluable source for locating articles published on a subject between 1929-1970.

• Latin American Newsletters - This has been the leading independent source of political, strategic, economic, and business intelligence on Latin America for over forty years. Since 1967 it provides analysis and insight into key political and economic events across Latin America. The paper version of these newsletters are available in the Social Science Library. Check Orbis for their locations. (Access by IP recognition: Yale/other subscribing institutions)

• NACLA Digital Archive - NACLA Report of the Americas (Access by IP recognition: Yale/other subscribing institutions)