LibGuides: Ohio State Newark: History 4125 Seminar in Latin American History: Journals & Databases

Recommended Databases

JSTOR [OSU] This link opens in a new window
JSTOR offers multidisciplinary and discipline-specific collections in the humanities, sciences and social sciences.
The "moving wall" represents the time period between the last issue available in JSTOR and the most recently published issue of a journal. It is specified by publishers in their license agreements with JSTOR, and generally ranges from 3 and 5 years. In calculating the moving wall, the current, incomplete year is not counted.
Historical Abstracts [OSU] This link opens in a new window
A bibliographic database covering the world's scholarly literature in history,
including article abstracts and bibliographical citations of books and dissertations on the history of the world, excluding the United States and Canada, from 1550 to the present.
Humanities International Complete [OSU] This link opens in a new window
A comprehensive database which includes all data from American Humanities Index plus bibliographic records from a multitude of international journals, books and reference works.

Handbook of Latin American Studies
Contains records describing books, book chapters, articles, and conference papers published in the field of Latin American studies.
Latin Americanist Research Resources Project
The Latin Americanist Research Resources Partnership is a cooperative initiative of North American, Latin American, and Caribbean libraries that seek to improve access to the array of research resources published in Latin America. Core components of activity include: LAPTOC, a searchable Web database of tables of contents of more than 800 journals published in Latin America, primarily in the humanities and social sciences; LAOAP, a portal service providing access to social sciences grey literature produced in Latin America; and images of Mexican and Argentinian presidential messages from the early 19th century to the present.
Sabin Americana Online
This collection contains works about the Americas published throughout the world from 1500 to the early 1900's. Included are books, pamphlets, serials and other documents that provide original accounts of exploration, trade, colonialism, slavery and abolition, the western movement, Native Americans, military actions and much more.

World Development Indicators Online [OSU] This link opens in a new window
World Development Indicators (WDI) is the primary World Bank collection of development indicators,
compiled from officially recognized international sources. It presents the most current and accurate global development data available, and includes national, regional and global estimates.
World Scholar: Latin America & the Caribbean [OSU] This link opens in a new window
Contains primary source documents about Latin America and the Caribbean,
including academic journals, news feeds, reference articles and commentary, maps, statistics, audio, and video.

ARTstor This link opens in a new window
A repository of hundreds of thousands of digital images and related data; the tools to actively use those images; and a restricted usage environment that seeks to balance the rights of content providers with the needs and interests of content users.
Latin American Newsstream This link opens in a new window
Latin American Newsstream enables users to search local, national, and regional news content with archives featuring newspapers, newswire, and news sites in active full-text format. It includes titles from Brazil, Mexico, Argentina, Costa Rica, Peru, Uruguay, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Guatemala, Puerto Rico, and Venezuela. Latin American Newsstream provides newspapers in Spanish and Portuguese. Key newspaper titles include: El Universal (Mexico City);O Globo (Brazil);La Nación (Argentina);and El Mercurio (Chile).
ProQuest Historical Newspapers [OSU] This link opens in a new window
This database offers full text including images for several prominent newspapers from the 19th and 20th centuries, together in a searchable interface.
Coverage includes:
The Baltimore Afro-American (1893-1988)
Chicago Defender (1910-1975)
Chicago Tribune (1849-1987)
Cleveland Call and Post (1934-1991)
Los Angeles Times (1881-1987)
New York Amsterdam News (1922-1993)
The New York Times (1851-2007) with Index (1851-1993)
Pittsburgh Courier (1911-2002)
The Times of India (1838-2001)
The Washington Post (1877-1994)
Wall Street Journal (1889-1995)

World Newspaper Archive
Contains 340,000 pages of content from Latin American newspapers published between 1805 and 1924. Titles offer coverage of over a century of Latin American history.
1805-1924

The following links to an extensive list of online journals under the subject History: