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This guide is an introduction to some of the library resources available for research in Latin American and Caribbean Studies. Because LACS is cross disciplinary, you may not find what you are looking for here, so please feel free to contact me if you need assistance. Individual research appointments can be made by calling the reference desk at (508) 531-1394 or through this form.

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Clase Periodica
Clase indexes documents published in Latin American and Caribbean journals specializing in the social sciences and humanities. Periodica covers journals specializing in science and technology. The database includes more than 450,000 bibliographic citations from 2700 scholarly journals published in Spanish, Portuguese, French and English.
European Views of the Americas
The database contains more than 32,000 entries and is a comprehensive guide to printed records about the Americas written in Europe before 1750. It covers the history of European exploration as well as portrayals of Native American peoples. A wide range of subject areas are covered; from natural disasters to disease outbreaks and slavery
Political Science Complete
This database contains full text for over 400 journals, and cover-to-cover indexing and abstracts for more than 800 journals with a worldwide focus. The database also features more than 180 full-text reference books and monographs, and over 27,000 full-text conference papers.
Anthropological Index Online
Contains citations to more than 750 international journals in all areas of anthropology and archaeology held by the Anthropology Library at the British Museum (Museum of Mankind).
Historical Abstracts
Citations, with abstracts, from the literature of world history
MLA International Bibliography
References for articles from professional journals in modern languages and literatures. For 299 of these journal titles, full text is available.
Academic Onefile
Academic Onefile contains articles from 8,000 academic journals, the majority in full-text; hundreds of podcasts and transcripts from NPR, CNN, and the CBC; and full-text New York Times content to 1995.
Academic Search Premier
A general-interest academic database which features full text for over 2,300 scholarly (peer-reviewed) journals as well as abstracts and indexing for many additional titles.
Credo Reference
Credo Reference service features full-text, aggregated content from more than 260 reference titles from 55 publishers, with nearly three million entries covering every major subject. Content includes encyclopedias, atlases, dictionaries, bilingual dictionaries, and subject-specific works. Additional key features include customizable, dynamic data tables; tens of thousands of images; audio pronunciation files; over 90,000 atlas images of places and geographic features
Films on Demand
Searchable database of digitized films. Click on "Humanities and Social Sciences" for a link to "Latin American Studies."