Library Guides: PL SC 456: Latin American Politics: Find Articles with Subject Specific Resources

Refine your search with a subject database

Use a subject specfic database to narrow and focus your search. To use a fishing analogy, using LionSearch or Google Scholar is like fishing in the ocean. Lots of fish and you will catch something. But is it what you want for dinner? Using a subject database that focuses on your topic is like fishing in a pond stocked with the fish you want to catch. You are much more likely to get what you want.

Worldwide Political Science Abstracts This link opens in a new window
The most important database for political science research.
Worldwide Political Science Abstracts is building on the merged backfiles of Political Science Abstracts, published by IFI / Plenum, 1975-2000, and ABC POL SCI, published by ABC-CLIO, 1984-2000. The database provides citations, abstracts, and indexing of the international serials literature in political science and its complementary fields, including international relations, law, and public administration / policy. The serials list of the new database is actively under construction, with a focus on expanding international coverage. As of February 2004 approximately 1,432 titles are being monitored for coverage; this list will continue to grow.
EconLit This link opens in a new window
The best of the databases to explore political economy.
EconLit provides citations, with selected abstracts, to the international publications on economics since 1969. EconLit covers a broad range of document types, including journal articles, books, dissertations, and articles in collective works.
HAPI (Hispanic American Periodicals Index) This link opens in a new window
An excellent source of journal literature on Latin America. Contains a significant amount of Spanish language materials.
HAPI Online contains complete bibliographic citations to articles, book reviews, documents, original literary works, and other materials about Central and South America, Mexico, the Caribbean basin, the United States-Mexico border region, and Hispanics in the United States appearing in more than 500 key social science and humanities journals published throughout the world.
Project MUSE This link opens in a new window
An interdisciplinary database with several key political science journals. such as the Journal of Democracy and history journals such as The Americas.
Project MUSE is a unique collaboration between libraries and publishers providing 100% full-text, affordable and user-friendly online access to high quality humanities, arts, and social sciences journals from scholarly publishers. MUSE began in 1993 as a pioneering joint project of the Johns Hopkins University Press and the Milton S. Eisenhower Library at JHU. Grants from the Mellon Foundation and the National Endowment for the Humanities allowed MUSE to go live with JHU Press journals in 1995. Journals from other publishers were first incorporated in 2000, with additional university press and scholarly society publishers joining in each subsequent year.
JSTOR This link opens in a new window
Contains a wide variety of scholarly journals including major journals in politics, history, and economics. However, many journals have a 3-5 year embargo so be careful to ensure you are getting the most recent issues.
JSTOR is a not-for-profit organization that provides a trusted archive of important scholarly journals and a selection of scholarly books. Content in JSTOR spans many disciplines, primarily in the humanities and social sciences. While indexing for JSTOR articles is covered in LionSearch, the full text of the articles is not searched in LionSearch. Search JSTOR itself to ensure detailed coverage of full texts.