Welcome
This guide is an introduction to some of the library resources available for research in Latin American and Caribbean Studies. Because LACS is cross disciplinary, you may not find what you are looking for here, so please feel free to contact me if you need assistance. Individual research appointments can be made by calling the reference desk at (508) 531-1394 or bu submitting a Research Consultation form.
Selected Web Resources
Free web-based resources
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Pew Research Center Hispanic Trends ProjectStatistics, news and other data about the Hispanic population in the United States.
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Latin American, Caribbean, Latinx and Iberian StudiesFree online resource repository
Online Books
Online Databases
To assist in finding journal and periodical articles - these databases may require BSU login.
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Political Science Complete This link opens in a new window
Full text for nearly 700 journals, 330 reference books, and 47,000 conference papers covering political topics with a worldwide focus. Subjects include comparative politics, humanitarian issues, international relations, law and legislation, non-governmental organizations, and political theory.
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European Views of the Americas This link opens in a new window
This new bibliographic database is a valuable index for libraries, scholars and individuals interested in European works that relate to the Americas. EBSCO Publishing, in cooperation with the John Carter Brown Library, has created this resource from “European Americana: A Chronological Guide to Works Printed In Europe Relating to The Americas, 1493-1750,” the authoritative bibliography that is well-known and respected by scholars worldwide. The database contains more than 32,000 entries and is a comprehensive guide to printed records about the Americas written in Europe before 1750.
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MLA International Bibliography This link opens in a new windowReferences for articles from professional journals in modern languages and literatures. For 299 of these journal titles, full text is available.
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Academic Search Complete [EBSCO] This link opens in a new windowYou can also search the database European Views of the Americas by clicking on the "Choose Databases" link and selecting it from the list provided.
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Historical Abstracts with Full Text This link opens in a new windowCitations, with abstracts, from the literature of world history
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Early American Newspapers, Series 1, 1690-1876: From Colonies to Nation This link opens in a new windowEssential newspapers from 23 states and the District of Columbia, offering 340,000 fully searchable issues from over 730 historical American titles. Based on Clarence S. Brigham’s “History and Bibliography of American Newspapers, 1690-1820” and other authoritative bibliographies.
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Academic OneFile This link opens in a new windowThe premier source for peer-reviewed, full-text articles for academic libraries from the world's leading journals, this comprehensive resource covers the physical and social sciences, medicine, engineering, the arts, technology, literature, and many other subjects. With millions of articles in both PDF and HTML full-text format and simultaneous, unlimited usage, researchers are able to find accurate, timely information quickly. Gale's InterLink technology intelligently connects contextually-relevant results from your library's eBook collection on GVRL within articles in a user's search results. The Topic Finder tool adds power and depth to searches, allowing students to mine their search results and develop their research focus in ways never before available.
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Fine Arts and Music Collection This link opens in a new windowFull text for more than 240 journals covered in databases such as Wilson Art Index and the Répertoire International de Littérature Musicale (RILM) index. Includes 10.4 million articles covering drama, music, art history, and filmmaking.
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Anthropological Index Online This link opens in a new windowContains citations to more than 750 international journals in all areas of anthropology and archaeology held by the Anthropology Library at the British Museum (Museum of Mankind).
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Credo Reference This link opens in a new windowCredo Reference service features full-text, aggregated content from more than 260 reference titles from 55 publishers, with nearly three million entries covering every major subject. Content includes encyclopedias, atlases, dictionaries, bilingual dictionaries, and subject-specific works. Additional key features include customizable, dynamic data tables; tens of thousands of images; audio pronunciation files; over 90,000 atlas images of places and geographic features.
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Films on Demand This link opens in a new windowSearchable database of digitized films. Click on "Humanities and Social Sciences" for a link to "Latin American Studies."
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HeinOnline Academic This link opens in a new windowHeinOnline is the world's largest fully searchable, image-based government document and legal research database. It contains comprehensive coverage from inception of U.S. statutory materials, U.S. Congressional Documents and more than 2,600 scholarly journals. HeinOnline provides topic specific databases including all of the world's constitutions, all U.S. treaties, collections of classic treatises and presidential documents, Criminal Justice, Religion and the Law, and Women and the Law among others. Full text of state and federal case law powered by Fastcase is included.
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Nexis Uni (formerly: LexisNexis Academic) This link opens in a new windowNexis Uni™ features more than 15,000 news, business and legal sources from LexisNexis®—including U.S. Supreme Court decisions dating back to 1790—with an intuitive interface that offers quick discovery across all content types, personalization features such as Alerts and saved searches and a collaborative workspace with shared folders and annotated documents.
Selected Reference Resources
These books are available on the first floor of Maxwell Library
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The Oxford encyclopedia of Latinos and Latinas in the United States byCall Number: E184.S75 O97 2005
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Literary Cultures of Latin America: A Comparative History byCall Number: PQ7081.A1 L525 2004
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The Oxford encyclopedia of Mesoamerican cultures : the civilizations of Mexico and Central America byCall Number: F1218.6 .O95
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Latino and Latina Writers byCall Number: PS153.H56 L39 2004
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The Greenwood encyclopedia of Latino literature byCall Number: PS153.H56 G74 2008
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The Latin American short story : an annotated guide to anthologies and criticism byCall Number: PQ7082.S5 B35
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Dictionary of Latin American and Cultural Studies byCall Number: F1408.3 .D5513 2012
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Celebrating Latino folklore : an encyclopedia of cultural traditions
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Call Number: E184.S75 C455 20123-volume reference work located on the first floor of the library. -
Encyclopedia of the Incas byCall Number: F3429 .E495 2015
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Puerto Rico past and present : an encyclopedia byCall Number: F1954 .F47 2015
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Historical Dictionary of U.S. Latino Literature byCall Number: PS153.H56 U75 2017Publication Date: 2017
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Additional Help
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Bibliographic Style GuidesYou will be using the MLA Citation Style to complete this assignment.
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Google ScholarYou can search Google Scholar for authors, or specific articles to find out how many times they have been cited.