Indexes and Databases

Primary Source indexes – Newspaper articles in Spanish

Lexis-Nexis Academic - Information on current events, sports, business, economics, and reference information for Spain and Latin America. Full text of selected newspaper articles and a foreign language news section.

¡Informe! Revistas en español - Provides indexing and full-text access to 60 Spanish language magazines and 100 pamphlets. Includes the most popular and well-read titles among Hispanic users. Citation titles in both English and Spanish. For an online tutorial, click here.  

Latin American newsstand
Latin American Newsstand provides full-text information in Spanish and Portuguese from 41 newspapers from 11 Latin American countries: Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Guatemala, Peru, Puerto Rico, Uruguay, and Venezuela. Puerto Rico and 11 Latin American countries, including Mexico, Argentina, and Brazil.

Factiva - Provides worldwide full text coverage of local and regional newspapers

País (Madrid, Spain) – Full text coverage: 1976 to present -- (Source: Single Journals)

Spanish Language News and Magazines

 

Primary Indexes (Databases) for Research

HAPI Online - The Hispanic American Periodicals Index contains citations to articles, book reviews, documents, original literary works, and other materials appearing in more than 400 social science and humanities journals published throughout the world. The hardcopy is located in the Reference Stacks. For an online tutorial, click here.

HLAS Online- The Handbook of Latin American Studies is a selective, annotated subject bibliography of journal articles and monographs in the humanities and social sciences. Also available in hardcover format (Reference Z 1605 H23).

¡Informe! Revistas en español - Provides indexing and full-text access to 60 Spanish language magazines and 100 pamphlets. Includes the most popular and well-read titles among Hispanic users. Citation titles in both English and Spanish. For an online tutorial, click here.

Historical Abstracts - Covers scholarly literature published between 1955 and the present. It indexes articles from over 2,100 journals (about 900 are published in the U.S.). Materials in many languages are indexed.

Info-Latinoamerica - Bibliographic database that covers business, economics, politics, and related social and cultural issues in Latin America. Many of its records, beginning with 1995, contain full text from the original source, the remainder include indexing and abstracts only. Info-Latinoamerica is compiled from over 1,500 leading international and domestic newspapers, journals, news magazines, newsletters, and other sources. Approximately 15,000 records are added per year. Dates from 1988.

Latin American Database - LADB is a searchable online index of reports and news on a variety of political, economic and social issues.

MLA International Bibliography  - The MLA Bibliography covers the years 1963 to the present and includes citations to journal articles from more than 3000  journals, monographs, essays, and dissertations related to research in all modern languages and literatures, literary theory, theatre, film and cultural studies. 

New York Times: 1851-current file - Provides access to full page and article images with searchable full-text back to the first issue.

ProQuest Dissertations and Theses Abstracts - Online access to over 2 million dissertations and master's theses, many of which are available in full text for immediate downloading. Citations or abstracts are available for dissertations dating from 1861 and full text online from 1997.

 

Additional Indexes 

Expanded Academic ASAP -Provides a combination of indexing, abstracts, images, and full text for scholarly and general interest journals embracing all academic disciplines.

Academic search premier - ASP contains indexing and abstracts for more than 8,200 journals, with full text for more than 4,500 of those titles. Academic Search Premier contains unmatched full text coverage in biology, chemistry, engineering, physics, psychology, religion & theology, education, English literature, etc.

Ethnic newswatch - Provides full text access to articles from newspapers, magazines, and journals of the ethnic, minority and native press in America. Searchable in English and Spanish.

WorldCat - Contains more than 32 million records describing items owned by the KU Libraries and libraries around the world. Includes records for books, films and slides, journals and newspapers (NOT individual articles), manuscripts, maps, musical scores, sound recordings, and videotapes.