LibGuides: Hispanic Heritage Month: Databases &amp; Journals

Select Databases

Arte Publico Hispanic Historical Collection This link opens in a new window
Arte Publico Hispanic Historical Collection presents a digital collection of historical content pertaining to U.S. Hispanic history, literature, and culture.
EBSCO en Espanol This link opens in a new window
EBSCO en Espanol provides directions to many different databases in Spanish.
Ethnic Newswatch This link opens in a new window
Ethnic Newswatch contains the full text of newspapers, magazines and journals of ethnic, minority and native publications.
Gale OneFile: Informe Académico This link opens in a new window
Search across full-text Spanish- and Portuguese-language scholarly journals and magazines from and about Latin America.
HAPI This link opens in a new window
HAPI Hispanic American Periodical Index (HAPI) "is your source for over 265,000 journal article citations about Central America, South America, the Caribbean, Mexico, Brazil, and Hispanics/Latinos in the United States."
Latin American Women Writers This link opens in a new window
Latin American Women Writers brings together "the most important writers from 19 countries, as well as the works of the principal feminists, in one single collection [including] ... literary works, memoirs, feminist essays, and other materials" from the colonial period to the present."
Latino-Hispanic American Experience This link opens in a new window
The Latino-Hispanic American Experience Leaders, Writers and Thinkers: Arte Publico Series 2 - This resource “presents manuscript, book, and newspaper content in the areas of Hispanic American civil rights, religion, and women’s rights ranging from the eighteenth through the twentieth century. The database features over 250,000 pages of manuscript content, over 100 newspaper titles, and over 400 books.”
MEDLINEPlus (Español) This link opens in a new window
MEDLINEPlus (Español) Informacion de salud de la Biblioteca Nacional de Medicina.
PRISMA This link opens in a new window
PRISMA (Publicaciones y Revistas Sociales y Humanisticas) "is a comprehensive reference resource providing full-text scholarly journals in the social sciences and humanities for the interdisciplinary academic study of Hispanic and Latin America, and the Caribbean Basin."
World Scholar: Latin America & the Caribbean Archive This link opens in a new window
World Scholar: Latin America & the Caribbean Archive "serves the needs of students and researchers by bringing together in a single place a rich collection of primary source documents about Latin America and the Caribbean; academic journals and news feeds covering the region; reference articles and commentary; maps and statistics; audio and video; and more."

Select Journals & Magazines

Aztlan: A Journal of Chicano Studies
Aztlán presents original research that is relevant to or informed by the Chicano experience. An interdisciplinary, refereed journal, Aztlán focuses on scholarly essays in the humanities, social sciences, and arts, supplemented by thematic pieces in the dossier section, an artist's communiqué, a review section, and a commentary by the editor, Charlene Villaseñor Black. Aztlán seeks ways to bring Chicano studies into critical dialogue with Latino, ethnic, American, and global studies.
Centro Journal
Publishes scholarly articles in the humanities & the social & natural sciences, as well as interpretive essays, interviews, fiction, reviews & art all reflecting developments in the field of Puerto Rican studies.
Confluencia
For Literary criticism & unpublished literature of the Hispanic world, including Portugal & Brazil.
Journal of Latinos and Education
The Journal of Latinos and Education (JLE) provides a cross-, multi-, and interdisciplinary forum for scholars and writers from diverse disciplines who share a common interest in the analysis, discussion, critique, and dissemination of educational issues that impact Latinos. There are four broad arenas which encompass most issues of relevance: (1) Policy, (2) Research, (3) Practice, and (4) Creative & Literary Works.
Journal of South Texas
Promotes the history and heritage of South Texas and Northern Mexico and includes a broad array of economic, political, military, and cultural issues pertinent to South Texas and the Rio Grande Valley borderlands.
Latin American Research Review
Scholarly articles and review essays on all aspects of Latin America.
MELUS: Multi-Ethnic Literature of the United States
MELUS , a prestigious and rigorous journal in the field of multi-ethnic literature of the United States, has been a vital resource for scholarship and teaching for more than forty years. Published quarterly, MELUS illuminates the national, international, and transnational contexts of US ethnic literature.....
The journal is sponsored by the Society for the Study of the Multi-Ethnic Literature of the United States. Founded in 1973, the society endeavors to expand the definition of American literature through the study and teaching of Latina/o American, Native American, African American, Asian and Pacific American, and ethnically specific Euro-American literary works, their authors, and their cultural contexts.
Revista Iberoamericana
Publishes articles, reviews and bibliographical notes on literature, literary theory and criticism Latin American, Spanish, and Portuguese.
Texas Hispanic Journal of Law & Policy
Latino Studies; Law; Public Policy & Administration; Dedicated to the discussion of Latino legal & public policy issues.