Subject: World Languages
Databases:
Key Databases
CIAO
Columbia International Affairs Online contains working papers from university research institutes, occasional papers series, foundation-funded research projects, policy briefs, and proceedings from conferences relating to international affairs.
HAPI Online (Hispanic American Periodicals Index)
Produced by the UCLA Latin American Center, this resource indexes books, documents, and journal articles for political, social, and economic issues in the geographic areas of Central and South America, Mexico, the Caribbean basin, the United States-Mexico border region, and Hispanics in the United States.
HLAS Online (Handbook of Latin American Studies)
Annotated index to books, book chapters, conference papers, and articles published worldwide in the field of Latin American studies.
Related Databases
Academic Search Premier
This large multidisciplinary database includes full-text for approximately 4,500 journals, including more than 3,600 peer-reviewed publications. Searchable cited references are also included for 1,000 titles.
Access World News
A vast resource for full text articles from local, regional, national, and international news sources. Choose a location from the map that appears on the initial search page. Narrow the geographic area down to a region, country, state, or to a specific publication. Multiple publications may be searched at once.
ARTFL
American and French Research on the Treasury of the French Language Project: full-text access to french writings. Coverage dates back to the 13th century.
Art & Humanities Search
This resource provides indexing to more than 1300 arts and humanities journals. This is the electronic equivalent of the Arts & Humanities Citation Index. Because of their indexing process, a keyword search is usually more useful than a subject search in this database.
Chicano Database
An index to Mexican-American topics dating back to the 1960s, this resource also includes the Spanish Speaking Mental Health Database.
Ethnic NewsWatch
Balanced research techniques consider multiple viewpoints and this database can help provide that balance. Full-text access is included for articles from more than 200 minority press journals dating back to 1990.
Expanded Academic ASAP
This multi-disciplinary database provides straight-forward searching. Topics may easily be limited to full-text and to refereed (peer-reviewed) journals.
Francis
Provides indexing to more than 4200 journals in the humanities and social sciences. In addition, Francis covers relevant books, book chapters, conference papers, and exhibition catalogs. One of the strengths of this database is its coverage of art history.
Humanities Full Text
Indexes articles pertaining to a wide variety of humanities-related subjects including classical studies, linguistics, and literary criticism. Searches may be limited to peer reviewed journals. Coverage is from 1984 to the present.
LatinNews.com
Considered one of the foremost resources for updates on political and economic developments in Latin America and the Caribbean. The USF Libraries subscription includes access to the Latin American Weekly Report and Latin American Regional Reports. Provides very current, full-text news resources.
LexisNexis Academic
Lexis Nexis is a standard database for business, news, and legal research. To locate international news, start at the initial search page and select “News” from tabs at the top of the search screen. At the next screen, use the "select sources" pull-down menu to choose a geographic area or publication. LexisNexis is updated daily but is so comprehensive that your search may result in too many hits—be as specific as possible when composing your search strategy.
Literature and Language Behavior Abstracts (LLBA)
MLA International Bibliography
Considered a primary research tool for literary studies, this database indexes books, journal articles and dissertations. Coverage is from the 1920’s to the present.
Wilson Omnifile Full Text Mega Edition
A large multi-disciplinary resource indexing research on a wide variety of subjects. Many citations link to the full-text of the article. Searches are easily limited to peer-reviewed journals. Coverage goes back to 1982.
E-journals
Directory of Open Access Journals
Provides full-text access to free scientific and scholarly journals. More than 2500 journal titles are included in this resource with approximately 750 of them searchable at the article level.
JSTOR
This unique resource was created to provide searchable, full-text access to the older editions of a vast number of scholarly journals. Coverage goes back to volume one of the journal but does not include the most recent few years of the title. A wide selection of disciplines are included. Note particularly the sections on Latin American studies and Languages & Literature.
OCLC ECO: Electronic Collections Online
A large, searchable database with full-text articles from a wide variety of journals and publishers.
Oxford Journals
Searchable access to the journals from Oxford University Press.
Project Muse
Provides the full-text of more than 300 scholarly journals in the arts and humanities including French studies, Latin American studies, German studies, and language/linguistics.
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