Library Research Guides: SPANISH: Find Articles

Key Databases

These databases contain a combination of full text articles (ready to read online) and citation information about articles, book chapters, or books. Check out our full Database A-Z list and choose a Subject from the drop-down menu to find other databases for your research topic.

Arts & Literature

MLA International Bibliography This link opens in a new window
literary criticism - search in Spanish or English
Literature Resource Center This link opens in a new window
Biographies, bibliographies and full-text critical analysis of authors from all genres and eras.
Film & Television Literature Index with Full Text This link opens in a new window
Articles on film and television theory, writing, production, cinematography, reviews, and more, 1914 to present.
Art Full Text This link opens in a new window
Find articles on all aspects of art, including fine, decorative and commercial art, folk art, photography, film, and architecture.
RILM Abstracts of Music Literature This link opens in a new window
Citations and abstracts for significant writings on music: journal articles, conference proceedings, Festschrifts, books & dissertations, 1967 to present

History, Politics, & Society

Historical Abstracts with Full Text This link opens in a new window
Articles on world history from 1450, excluding US & Canada, written since 1955. Can be co-searched with America: History & Life
GenderWatch This link opens in a new window
With a focus on how gender impacts a broad spectrum of subject areas, this collection gathers historical perspectives on the evolution of the women's movement, men's studies, the transgender community, and changes in gender roles, including articles dating back as far as the 1970s.
Women's Studies International This link opens in a new window
Find journal articles and books on women's studies, feminism, and gender studies.
Social Science Premium Collection This link opens in a new window
Search many social science databases at once. Disciplines covered include sociology, political science, education, economics, anthropology, linguistics, and criminology. Component databases can also be searched individually.

Multidisciplinary

Academic Search Complete This link opens in a new window
The world's largest scholarly, multi-disciplinary full text database. Dates of coverage vary by title and go back as far as 1887.
JSTOR This link opens in a new window
Collection of key scholarly journals in the humanities, social sciences & natural sciences, starting from the first issue but not the latest 3-5 years.
Ethnic NewsWatch This link opens in a new window
An interdisciplinary, bilingual (English and Spanish), full text database of newspapers, magazines, and journals from ethnic, minority and native presses, 1960 to present.

Spanish-language portals

Redalyc
Redalyc serves as a portal to more than 15,000 full text articles published in over 700 journals that come from 15 countries in Latin America, the Caribbean, Spain and Portugal, mostly in Spanish. Subject coverage includes topics in the social sciences, arts and humanities, and the natural sciences.
Dialnet
An open-access portal that provides access to citations and some full text for journal articles, books, and other scholarly materials from the Hispanic world. Can't find the full text? Request it through Interlibrary Loan!

Latin-American Studies

Handbook of Latin American Studies This link opens in a new window
Selective annotated bibliography of articles, book chapters, and papers on Latin American life and culture, 1936 to present. Disciplines covered include anthropology (archeology and ethnology), art, geography, government and politics, history, international relations, literature, music, philosophy, political economy, and sociology.