Yale University Library Research Guides: Spanish and Latin American Literature and Culture: Finding Articles

Principal Indexes and Databases

MLA International Bibliography
The MLA Bibliography indexes materials on literature, languages, linguistics, film and folklore, excluding book reviews. Access to citations from journals and series published worldwide, as well as books, essay collections, and dissertations.
PRISMA - Publicaciones y Revistas Sociales y Humanísticas
(Publicaciones y Revistas Sociales y Humanísticas) provides full-text scholarly journals in the social sciences and humanities for the interdisciplinary academic study of Hispanic and Latin America, and the Caribbean Basin. Works in conjunction with HAPI. Can be searched in English, Spanish or Portuguese.
HAPI - Hispanic American Periodical Index
The HAPI index contains citations to articles, book reviews, documents, original literary works and other materials appearing in more than 400 journals mostly published in Latin America, 1970-to present. Can be searched in English, Spanish or Portuguese.
Fuente Academica Premier
Fuente Académica Premier offers the full text for more than 650 scholarly publications and 30 academic books from Latin America, Portugal and Spain. It covers all major subject areas with particular emphasis on agriculture, biological sciences, economics, history, law, literature, philosophy, psychology, public administration, religion and sociology. Search in Spanish or Portuguese.
Informe Académico
Informe Académico provides access to Spanish- and Portuguese-language scholarly journals and magazines. The database offers a wide range of content both from and about Latin America and Spain.
Handbook of Latin American studies (HLAS)
The HLAS is a selective, annotated subject bibliography of journal articles and monographs in the humanities and social sciences. Especially noteworthy for subject essays discussing recent research trends and scholarship.
ITER: Gateway to the Middle Ages and the Renaissance
ITER is an online bibliography of the Renaissance (1300-1700). The bibliography covers relevant secondary material published since 1700 to the current year. This material consists of both printed literature and matter in other media.
Latin American Women Writers
Latin American Women Writers (LAWW) will contain approximately 100,000 pages of prose, poetry and drama by women writers from Mexico, Central, and South America when complete. In this prototype version there are about 4200 pages of prose and poetry. Drama will be added in the next release.

Supplemental Resources in Support of Literary Studies

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Historical Abstracts
The primary resource to find resources on history. Covers scholarly literature published between 1955 and the present. Materials in many languages are indexed.
Johns Hopkins guide to literary theory & criticism
Searchable database of articles on individual critics and theorists, critical and theoretical schools and movements, and the critical and theoretical innovations of specific countries and historical periods. It also treats related persons and fields that have been shaped by or have themselves shaped literary theory and criticism. Each entry includes a selective primary and secondary bibliography.
Caribbean Literature
Caribbean Literature is a searchable collection of poetry and fiction produced in the region during the 19th and 20th centuries. Among the titles selected are numerous rare and hard-to-find works written in English, French, Spanish, Dutch, and various Creole languages.Caribbean.
Chicano Database
The Chicano Database identifies all types of material on Mexican-American topics and about Chicanos. The Chicano Database covers at least 1967 to the present, with more than 48,000 records. Records added since 1992 have expanded its scope to include the broader Latino experience, including Puerto Ricans, Cuban Americans, and Central American immigrants. The Chicano Database also includes the Spanish Speaking Mental Health Database, covering psychological, sociological, and educational literature. Updated quarterly.
Feminism in Cuba, 1898-1958
Digital archive of the Stone collection - 19th and 20th century archival documents.
Latino Literature
Latino Literature brings together more than 100,000 pages pages of poetry, fiction, and over 450 plays written in English and Spanish by hundreds of Chicano, Cuban, Puerto Rican, Dominican, and other Latino authors working in the United States. Among the gems of the collection are nearly 800 items (poems, novels, and plays) that have never been published before. Researchers will also find numerous Chicano folk tales and audio files of selected poems and plays. It contains over 133,465 pages.
Life and Times of Jorge Luis Borges Digital Archive
Provides a detailed bibliographic tool to research the manuscripts and letters, books, periodicals, photographs, audio and video recordings, newspaper and magazine clippings, and other documents — written by Borges and about Borges. It is an unrivaled resource essential for every scholar and student of Spanish literature and culture.
Sur Digital Archive
A full-text searchable database of SUR (1931-1991), one of the most important and influential literary magazines published in Latin America in the twentieth century. It contains images of the complete run of the magazine including covers, photographs and advertisements. The interface is in both Spanish and English.
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The magazine contains contributions from Virginia Woolf, Jean-Paul Satre, Jorge Luis Borges and many others as well as Ocampo’s own social commentary on political, governmental and economic affairs.
Teatro español del Siglo de Oro
The Teatro español del Siglo de Oro full text database contains the most important plays of the sixteenth and seventeenth century in Spain, either edited by the playwrights themselves or by an editor "endorsed" by the playwright. The text is copied exactly as it was written, with all peculiarities captured - accents, abbreviations etc.
Vida pública en la Argentina contemporánea
This collection presents an extensive grassroots view of Argentina and the social and political changes that have taken place there from 1983-2000. It provides access to material on Argentine society and politics beginning with the year 1996 and running to the present. Mostly primary sources.

Open Access Databases from Latin America and Spain

El Centro de Información y Documentación Científica (CINDOC)
Humanidades y Ciencias Sociales - Muchos de los trabajos realizados en el CINDOC dieron lugar a publicaciones editadas por el propio centro. Su actividad editorial también se hizo extensiva a la edición de trabajos en colaboración con personas e instituciones de relevancia en el campo de la información de carácter científico. Esta Colección histórica en Digital.CSIC intenta reunir una parte importante de las obras publicadas por el CINDOC a lo largo de su existencia.
Dialnet.
This is a virtual library of Spanish academic journals, hosted by the University de la Rioja in Spain. Primarily a bibliographic index with tables of contents, it covers more than 5,000 journals and 2.1 million documents. There are a growing number of fulltext articles available as content is continuously updated. Subjects covered include the sciences, social sciences and the humanities and arts. It is particularly useful for subjects related to Spain, such as history and Islamic studies, not well covered by other popular databases. English language search is available. Coverage is 1980 to ther present.
LatAm-Studies - Estudios Latinoamericanos
An open source online journal database. Contains thousands of studies and articles available in .pdf format that can be downloaded for teaching and research purposes.
RedALyC: Red de Revistas Cientificas de America Latina y El Caribe
Indexes some 180 social science serials published in Latin America and Spain. Includes over 160,000 full text articles. Developed by the Universidad Autonoma de Estado de Mexico.
RedALyC: Red de Revistas Cientificas de America Latina y El Caribe
Indexes some 180 social science serials published in Latin America and Spain. Includes over 160,000 full text articles. Developed by the Universidad Autonoma de Estado de Mexico.
Red de Bibliotecas Virtuales de Ciencias Sociales de América Latina y el Caribe (CLASCO)
El Repositorio Digital de CLACSO ofrece acceso libre y gratuito a producción de los 324 Centros Miembros de CLACSO en 25 países de América Latina y el Caribe. Actualmente, pueden acceder a más de 30.000 textos completos de artículos, documentos de trabajo, libros y ponencias publicados por la red CLACSO.
Scientific Electronic Library Online - SciELO
A model for cooperative electronic publishing of scientific journals on the Internet, conceived to meet the scientific communication needs of developing countries, particularly Latin America and the Caribbean countries, it provides an efficient way to assure universal visibility and accessibility to their scientific and other scholarly literature. The SciELO collection is continually updated and currently includes 630 scholarly peer reviewed journals, from Spain, Portugal, several South American countries and Cuba, which predominantly publish the results of original research, and other original works, and contribute significantly to knowledge in the area covered by the journal. Subjects include Agricultural, biological, health and earth sciences, chemistry, engineering, geosciences, mathematics, social sciences, humanities, linguistics, and the arts. Coverage is from 1997, or from its first issue in the case of journals founded after that year.

Spanish and Latin American Literature and Culture: Finding Articles

Principal Indexes and Databases

Supplemental Resources in Support of Literary Studies

Open Access Databases from Latin America and Spain

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