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PuERTO RICO - COLONY, NATION, DIASPORA
Searching for Books and Book Reviews |
Bibliograhies |
Selected Latin American Studies Journals | Scholarly Article Databases |
General Full-text Databases | Who Cited a Work | United States Government Publications News and Magazine Articles Questions
To find BOOKS (and other materials) at Penn State use the library's catalog, The CAT
Use WorldCat to search for materials in libraries worldwide. Use the "Request via ILL" link to have items delivered to you. For more see our Interlibrary Loan FAQ.
To search inside Books, use the resources on the E-Books page
Bibliographies typically contain a list of sources; books articles, etc. Use them to determine key works, and to confirm you've uncovered all the relevant literature on a topic. While the printed guides are generally comprehensive, (often hundreds of pages long), they take years to produce and thus are unable to keep pace with the newest publications. For more current scholarly literature use the article databases in the next section of this guide. The bibliographies listed below are examples only. There are many other country and topic-specific guides. To find others search using the subject heading "bibliography: in The CAT. (e.g. Caribbean and bibliography)
A Bibliography of the Caribbean (1996. 346 p.)
Latin America: a Guide to the Historical Literature (1971. 700 p.)
Latin American Studies: an Annotated Bibliography of Core Works (2002, 173 p.)
Puerto Ricans: An Annotated Bibliography (1973, 200p.)
Puerto Ricans on the United States Mainland: A Bibliography of Reports, Texts, Critical Studies and Related Materials (1972, 146p.)
Women in Spanish America: an Annotated Bibliography from Pre-conquest to Contemporary Times (1977. 696 p.)
Selected Latin American Studies Journals
Titles with links are freely available online. Search The CAT to determine where the others are (either in print or full-text in library databases.
- Anuario de Estudios Centroamericanos
- Aztlán: The Journal of Chicano/a Studies
- Bulletin of Latin American Research
- Caribbean Studies
- Centro Journal (Centro de Estudios Puertorriqueños)
- Delaware Review of Latin American Studies
- Estudios Interdisciplinarios de America Latina y el Caribe,
- Hispanic American Historical Review
- Journal of Latin American Studies
- KACIKE: Journal of Caribbean Amerindian History and Anthropology
- Latin American Literary Review
- Latin American Music Review
- Latin American Perspectives
- Latin American Research Review
- NACLA Report on the Americas
- New West Indian Guide** (Index to recent volumes online
- Nexos (Sociedad, Ciencia, Literatura)
- Red de Revistas Cientificas de América Latina y el Caribe (MANY freely available academic titles)
- Revista Américas** (popular magazine from the Organization of American States)
Historical Abstracts References to world history from 1450 to the present in about 2,000 journals and some dissertations and collections of essays. Indexing began in 1954.
Handbook of Latin American Studies List of works selected and annotated by scholars from the Hispanic Division of the Library of Congress. Each year, more than 130 academics from around the world choose over 5,000 works for inclusion in the Handbook. Continuously published since 1936, the Handbook offers Latin Americanists a guide to available resources.
HAPI (Hispanic American Periodicals Index) Use to search for articles and other materials about Central and South America, the Caribbean basin, and Hispanics in the United States appearing in more than 500 key social science and humanities journals published throughout the world.
Latin American Periodicals Tables of Contents A freely searchable Web database that provides access to the tables of contents of more than 950 journals, primarily in the humanities and social sciences, published in Latin America. Articles can be requested using our Interlibrary Loan service.
Women's Studies International A multidisciplinary search tool designed to collect information on books, articles and other research on women worldwide.
IIBP: International Index to Black Periodicals covers international scholarly and popular periodicals in Black Studies with full-text coverage of 40 core Black Studies periodicals. It covers a wide array of humanities-related disciplines including art, cultural criticism, economics, education, health, history, language and literature, law, philosophy, politics, religion, and sociology among others.
Periodicals Index Online Provides table of contents for back volumes of thousands of scholarly journals. Coverage goes back to the first issue of a given publication. A good resource to use to discover earlier scholarship that may not be covered by more current databases.
Google Scholar scans the contents of a FEW library databases. However, it only can "see" a handful of the more than 400 databases the library has. It can be very convenient, but use it as a complement to library searches, not a replacement.
The databases below include full-text of hundreds of periodicals in various disciplines.
- History Cooperative E-Journals
- JSTOR
- Periodicals Archive Online
- Project MUSE
- Red de Revistas Cientificas de América Latina y el Caribe (MANY freely available academic titles)
Who cited A Work: Citation Indexes
Citation indexes are a special type of index. They allow you to discover who has referenced a particular work. If you have a publication which is important to your research, you could use a citation index to find more recent articles which have cited it. This can be a good way to find responses to an important publication.
- Web of Science includes the Arts and Humanities Citation Index and the Social Sciences Citation Index. Use the "Cited Ref" search to determine who else has cited a specific work. Can be tricky to use (for example only first initials are included) so ask for help!.
- Google Scholar Uses the technology of the Google search engine but ranks results by how often they have been cited. Google has not detailed their criteria, but it seems to focus on postings of research organizations and university departments. Also scans the contents of a FEW library databases. However, it only can see a handful of the more than 400 databases the library has. It can be very convenient, but use it as a complement to library searches, not a replacement.
United States Government Publications
The U.S. Government issues thousands of reports on legal, social, and political issues. Most are in the Social Sciences Library, 2nd Floor, Paterno. Some government documents appear in The CAT, others require specialized access tools.CONGRESSIONAL DEBATES since 1874 appear in the Congressional Record.. Print volumes can be found in the Social Sciences Library, 2nd Floor Paterno.
Debates since 1986 are online in
EXECUTIVE BRANCH DOCUMENTS (State Dept., U.S. Army, etc.) are often listed in The CAT. Search by topic, or agency. Search the President as AUTHOR in The CAT to find other documents. Many early Presidential messages and addresses are included in The Serial Set (see Lexis Nexis Congressional above) Also see the
COURT DECISIONS and LAWS are online via , Lexis Nexis Academic Universe Laws from 1789 are also in U.S. Statutes at Large , Call #, KF50.A3, Legal Alcove, Social Sciences Library, 2nd Floor Paterno
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Magazine and news articles can provide a snapshot of contemporary opinion on a topic, revealing current attitudes |
Early 20th Century News Sources Online
- American Periodicals Series, 1741-1900+, 1,000+ magazines up to around 1930
- America's Historical Newspapers, 1690-1922
- British Periodicals (17th to early 20th Century)
- New York Times Digital Archive, 1851- (current years on Proquest)
- Times of London, 1785-1985
Recent 20th Century News Sources
Dates vary, but typically coverage goes back only to the 1990s or 1980s.- America's Newspapers, U.S. newspapers back to the 1980s
- Ethnic Newswatch (Hispanic-American news sources)
- FBIS: Foreign Broadcast Information Service (Full text, 1974-1996) and World News Connection (Full text, 1996-present) Both databases provide translations of selected world news broadcasts and newspapers articles
- Lexis Nexis Academic Universe (full-text news sources, some back to the early 1980's)
- New York Times Digital Archive, 1851- (current years on Proquest>
- Newspaper Photos Digital images from the AccuNet/Association Press Photo Archives
- Times of London, 1785-1985 (if a British perspective is desired)
- Television News Archive, 1851- includes video of TV news broadcast back to 1968
NOT EVERYTHNG IS ONLINE In addition to news database the library has many newsapers in the News and Microforms Library, Ground Floor of West Pattee. To identify articles by topic consult a print index.
Preliminary Guide to Articles in La Prensa Relating to Puerto Ricans in New York City between 1922 and 1929
Call Number: Z1318.N5P73 1981, Pattee Stacks Level 2Preliminary Guide to Articles in Puerto Rican Newspapers Relating to Puerto Rican Migration between 1900 and 1929
Call Number: JV7381.P74 1981, Social Sciences Library, 2nd Floor PaternoReaders Guide to Periodical Literature (an index to articles in over 200 American magazines since 1890.
Arts and Humanities Index Tables, 2nd Floor PatteeAlternative Press Index Use to find articles published in liberal magazines
Call #: HN1.A48, Social Sciences Reference, 2nd Floor PaternoUnderground Newspaper Collection Radical left-wing newspapers from the 60's, 70's and 80's on microfil, Search the Cat to see a list of papers in this collection.
Right Wing Collection of the University of Iowa Libraries, 1918-1977
Serials and ephemera from the period, including publications from anti-immigrant groups. Search The CAT to see a list of the titles in this collection. |
Contact Eric Novotny, ecn1@psu.edu, 814-865-1014, AIM: HistoryLibrarian |