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Full-text available Journal of Democracy


Full-text available Journal of Latin American Studies
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Full-text available Latin American Perspectives


Full-text available Latin American Research Review


Full-text available NACLA Report on the Americas


index/abstracts Chicano Database
A comprehensive bibliographic index representing all types of material for information about Mexican-American topics and the only specialized database for and about Chicanos.

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Index of Latin American journals in the sciences and humanities

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Latin American Periodicals Tables of Contents sponsored by the University of Texas



Business, Economics & Finance Databases

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full-text available ABI/Inform Global
Search worldwide business periodicals for information on advertising, marketing, economics, human resources, finance, taxation, computers, and more. Also, information on 60,000+ companies.

Full-text available Business Full Text
Some topics covered include accounting, advertising, auditing, banking, broadcasting, computers, economics, engineering, environment, general science, health care, human resources, international trends, investment analysis, management, and marketing.

Full-text available Caribbean Literature
A searchable collection of poetry and fiction produced in the region during the 19th and 20th centuries. Among the titles selected by our editors are numerous rare and hard-to-find works written in English, French, Spanish, Dutch, and various Creole languages. Future releases will also feature journals, reference works, and interviews with key writers.

Full-text available Country Commerce
Country Commerce is a practical reference guide to the specific operating conditions, commercial laws and business regulations in more than 50 countries. It offers unbiased guidance on critical issues such as obtaining proper permits and registrations, protecting your intellectual property in the Internet age and complying with local tax laws-including e-commerce rules.

Full-text available CountryWatch
CountryWatch provides political, economic, business information, and daily news for countries from around the world. An useful tool for International Business students.

Full-text available EconLit
Contains citations, with abstracts, to articles from more than 400 economics journals.

Full-text available General BusinessFile ASAP
Analyze company performance and activity, industry events and trends as well as the latest in management, economics and politics. Access to a combination of broker research reports, trade publications, newspapers, journals and company directory listings with full text and images available.

Full-text available JSTOR
The 46 titles in the Business Collection are drawn from Arts & Sciences I, II, and IV. The collection brings together core titles in economics and finance, including many publications from the leading scholarly societies, with a range of critical research journals in accounting, labor relations, marketing, management, operations research, and risk assessment.

Full-text available Political Risk Yearbook
The PRS Group provides Country Reports for 100 countries. Each report expertly assesses potential political, financial, and economic risks to business investments and trade. PRS' Country Reports are the only source for risk forecasts and analysis based on the Political Risk Services rating system, which assesses different political scenarios.

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Full-text available Expanded Academic ASAP
Indexes articles in approximately 1000 scholarly journals and popular magazines in the arts, humanities, social sciences, science and technology.


Full-text available Ingenta Connect
Ingenta Connect is a database of online journals from leading scholarly, academic and business publishers.


Full-text available Latin American Database
Welcome to the Latin America Data Base on-line news service! LADB is the first Internet-based news service in English about Latin America, publishing in-depth coverage of Latin American affairs since 1986.

Full-text available Latin America and Caribbean social science virtual library
The Latin American Public Opinion Project surveys analyzing major topics of great interest to political and social scientists, Latin Americanists, government officials, and interested citizens. LAPOP surveys analyzing citizen views on system support, political tolerance, citizen participation, local government, corruption, and views on authoritarianism.

Full-text available Original Sources
This site includes original source documents, critical selections, and acclaimed works across U.S. and World History, Literature, Social Sciences, Political Science, Law, Science, Mathematics, Religion, Philosophy, and Language. It comprises more than 350,000 documents and more than 5,000 complete books.


Full-text available Periodicals Archive Online
Periodicals Archive Online is an online periodical archive which makes the full page image of periodical articles, from 1770 to 1995, available in digital form.

Full-text available Periodicals Index Online
Periodicals Index Online is a major online periodical index from 1770 to 1995.

Full-text available Project Muse
Currently, Project MUSE® offers nearly 300 quality journal titles from 40 scholarly publishers. As one of the academic community's primary electronic journals resources, Project MUSE covers the fields of literature and criticism, history, the visual and performing arts, cultural studies, education, political science, gender studies, economics, and many others.


Full-text available SIRS Knowledge Source
A reference source which includes access to SIRS Researcher, SIRS Government Reporter, SIRS Renaissance, SIRS NetSelect and SIRS Interactive Citizenship.


Full-text available Social Sciences Full Text
Subject areas include addiction studies, anthropology, area studies, community health and medical care, corrections, criminal justice, criminology, economics, environmental studies, ethics, family studies, gender studies, geography, gerontology, international relations, law, minority studies, planning and public administration, policy sciences, political science, psychiatry, psychology, public welfare, social work, sociology, and urban studies.


Full-text available SSCI - Web of Science Citation Index
A unique citation database which allows searching cited references as well as traditional searches independently or in combination with Science Citation Index Expanded and Arts and Humanities Citation Index.

Government, Politics & Statistical Databases

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Full-text available Gallup Brain
The Gallup Brain is a searchable, living record of 70 years of public opinion. Inside, you'll find answers to more than 136,000 questions, and responses from more than 3.5 million people interviewed by The Gallup Poll since 1935. This unparalleled public opinion database also houses Gallup Poll News Service articles, Gallup Poll Tuesday Briefing articles, and Gallup Management Journal articles that feature in-depth public opinion and management data analyses.


Full-text available Google - U.S.Government

Full-text available JSTOR
The Arts & Sciences I Collection includes the complete back runs of 117 titles in 15 disciplines. Established in 1997, it is JSTOR's first collection and includes many of the core research and society published journals in economics, history, political science, and sociology, as well as in other key fields in the humanities and social sciences. This collection also includes a selection of titles in the more science-oriented fields of ecology, mathematics, and statistics.


Full-text available LexisNexis Congressional
Provides the tools for searching the Congressional record, tracking proposed legislation by keyword and sponsor, searching the Federal register, Congressional committee schedules, finding members of Congress, and searching the National journal.


Full-text available LexisNexis Statistical
Search summaries of U.S. government statistical publications, then link to the full-text of selected publications on LexisNexis Statistical and U.S. government web sites.


Full-text available Opposing Viewpoints
Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center draws on the acclaimed social issues series published by Greenhaven Press, as well as core reference content from other Gale and Macmillan Reference USA sources to provide a complete one-stop source for information on social issues. Access viewpoint articles, topic overviews, statistics, primary documents, links to websites, and full-text magazine and newspaper articles.


Full-text available PAIS International
Database chronicling global public policy and social issues.


Full-text available Political Database of the Americas
The Political Database of the Americas is a non-governmental Internet-based project that provides reference materials, primary documents, comparative studies and statistical data for countries in the Western Hemisphere.


Full-text available Politics and International Relations: A SAGE Full-Text Collection
Includes the full-text of 19 journals published by SAGE and participating societies, some journals going back twenty years, encompassing over 6,700 articles. It covers such subjects as General Political Science, American Government & Politics, Political Sociology, Comparative Politics, Policy Studies, Political Communication, Peace / Conflict Studies, Presidential Studies, Political Theory / Philosophy, International Relations, and Area Studies.


Literature, History & Religion Databases

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Full-text available ATLA Religion Database
The ATLA Religion Database is the premier index to journal articles, book reviews, and collections of essays in all scholarly fields of religion.


Full-text available Black Short Fiction
The most comprehensive collection of African and African-Diaspora stories yet created. When complete, it will feature the English-language literature of more than 15 countries, along with francophone authors from Africa and the Caribbean. In addition, the collection will include literature in languages that have their origins in African countries and are still present in some regions today, such as the Gullah language of South Carolina.

Full-text available Black Studies Center
Brings together essential historical and current material for researching the past, present, and future of African-Americans, the wider African Diaspora, and Africa itself. This resource is a fully cross-searchable gateway to Black Studies including scholarly essays, recent periodicals, historical newspaper articles, and much more. It combines several resources for research and teaching in Black Studies: Schomburg Studies on the Black Experience, International Index to Black Periodicals (IIBP), The Chicago Defender, and the Black Literature Index.

Full-text available Black Women Writers
With 100,000 pages of prose, poetry, and essays, Black Women Writers brings together the many voices of women from Africa and the African Diaspora in electronic format for the first time. Facing sexism and racism at the same time, these authors have had to create their own identities and movements. This collection documents that effort from its earliest beginnings. Presenting works from many different countries in three continents, and a variety of cultural experiences, the database gives a view of black women’s struggles through time; the challenges of a group facing issues that are, together, unique to this literature.

Full-text available JSTOR
Focused on the arts and humanities, the Arts & Sciences III Collection will contain a minimum of 120 titles at completion. In early 2003, the collection made available over 70 journals covering language and literature, music and the history and study of art and architecture. The completed collection will include additional titles in these fields as well as cultural studies, film, folklore, performing arts, and religion. The collection will be complete by the end of 2005.

Full-text available Latin American Women Writers
With 100,000 pages of prose, poetry, and essays, and 300 plays, Latin American Women Writers accomplishes the difficult task of bringing together the most important writers from 19 countries, as well as the works of the principal feminists, in one single collection. Starting in the colonial period and moving through to the present, the literary works, memoirs, feminist essays, and other materials will give researchers the feminine perspective of the development of an entire continent. The writings will also reveal the personal struggles and histories of the authors themselves.

Full-text available Linguistics and Language Behavior Abstracts
This database covers all aspects of the study of language including phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax and semantics.


Full-text available Literature Resource Center
Delivers biographical and bibliographical information on authors and their works. Covers authors of fiction, non-fiction, poetry, drama, history, and journalism.


Full-text available Project Muse
Currently, Project MUSE® offers nearly 300 quality journal titles from 40 scholarly publishers. As one of the academic community's primary electronic journals resources, Project MUSE covers the fields of literature and criticism, history, the visual and performing arts, cultural studies, education, political science, gender studies, economics, and many others.


Full-text available MLA International Bibliography
Modern Language Association (MLA) International Bibliography provides access to more than 1.5 million bibliographic citations from 1963 to the present in academic disciplines such as: language, literature, folklore, linguistics, and film.


Newspapers in Foreign Languages

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Full-text available Ethnic NewsWatch
Ethnic NewsWatch is is an interdisciplinary, bilingual (English and Spanish) and comprehensive full text database of the newspapers, magazines and journals of the ethnic, minority and native press. Designed to provide the "other side of the story," ENW full text titles offer additional viewpoints from those proffered by the mainstream press.


Full-text available ¡Informe! (Revistas en Español)
A collection of Spanish language journals in full text. (Una colección de revistas hispánicas con textos completos. Abarca negocios, salud, tecnología, cultura, temas de actualidad y otras materias.)


Full-text available Lexis-Nexis
Select non-English language news.


For a complete list of all available databases, visit our Electronic Collection.