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HAPI This link opens in a new window
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Interdisciplinary database of citations and online journal articles about Latin American, Caribbean, and US Latine communities.

PRISMA Publicaciones y Revistas Sociales y Humanisticas This link opens in a new window
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Fulltext of Latin American Studies articles in humanities and social sciences, incorporating key HAPI citations. Mostly Spanish, some English.
PAIS Index This link opens in a new window
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Find journal articles, books, and government documents in the areas of international public affairs, policy, and politics.

Handbook of Latin American studies (HLAS web)
Contains scholarly assessments of publications related to Latin America, from the 1930s to the present, including books, articles, maps, e-resources, and more.

World Scholar: Latin America And The Caribbean This link opens in a new window
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Selected primary and secondary source documents about Latin America and the Caribbean
Gale OneFile: Informe Academico This link opens in a new window
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Spanish language articles on Latin America

SciELO
Access to scholarly literature in sciences, social sciences, arts and humanities published in leading open access journals from Latin America, Portugal, and Spain.

Open Source LACS

Latin American, U.S. Latinx, and Iberian Online Free E-Resources (LACLI)
LACLI is a collective effort to create a warehouse of online free e-resources with Latin American, Caribbean, U.S. Latinx, and Iberian full content.

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