LibGuides: Spanish: Find Articles

About Databases

This page lists databases most useful for finding scholarly articles and book chapters, including Spanish databases.

Why use databases? Since you are doing research within a specific subject, using databases can help you eliminate undesired, irrelevant articles.

Search Tips for ML&L Students

Spanish-Specific Databases

HAPI This link opens in a new window
The Hispanic American Periodicals Index provides citations to peer-reviewed articles on Latin America, the Caribbean, and Latinx communities in the U.S. since the late 1960s. Includes content from political, economic, and social issues to the arts and humanities. About 80% of indexed titles include links to full text sources.
Chicano Database This link opens in a new window
Peer-reviewed and non-scholarly articles focused on the Mexican-American and Chicano experience, as well as the broader Latino experience of Puerto Ricans, Cuban Americans, and Central American immigrants from 1992 onward. Includes research on mental health and psychology for Spanish-speaking populations.
Handbook of Latin American Studies This link opens in a new window
A selective annotated bibliography of scholarly works on Latin America. Works reviewed include books, journal articles, book chapters, and conference papers. No full text.
Informe Académico This link opens in a new window
Peer-reviewed and non-scholarly articles in Spanish and Portuguese both from and about Latin America.
Fuente Académica Plus This link opens in a new window
Spanish- and Portuguese-language peer-reviewed articles. It provides journals from Latin America, Portugal, and Spain covering all major subject areas, including agriculture, economics, history, law, literature, psychology, and sociology.

SciELO
The SciELO collection is continually updated and includes scholarly peer reviewed journals, from Spain, Portugal, several South American countries and Cuba, which predominantly publish the results of original research, and other original works.
Biblioteca Virtual Miguel de Cervantes
Largest open-access repository of digitized Spanish language historical texts and literature from the Ibero-American world. Includes books, periodicals, documents, manuscripts, dissertations, images, and audiovisual resources.

Other Useful Databases

MLA International Bibliography This link opens in a new window
Peer-reviewed articles in literature, language, folklore, dramatic arts (film, radio, television, theater), linguistics, the history of publishing, and teaching in all these areas.
JSTOR This link opens in a new window
Peer-reviewed articles across the humanities, social sciences, and sciences, as well as select ebooks and other materials.
Project Muse This link opens in a new window
Peer-reviewed articles and eBooks in the humanities and social sciences.
Linguistics & Language Behavior Abstracts This link opens in a new window
Peer-reviewed articles in linguistics and its various sub-disciplines. It also includes summaries of monographs, recent books, technical reports, and more.

All Databases (A-Z List)

All Databases
Want more options? Go to the library's Database page to browse 300+ databases.

GoogleScholar

GoogleScholar searches the entire web for scholarly materials.

Downside of using Google Scholar:

There is no way to search for only peer-reviewed articles in academic journals.
It lists unpublished works, such as dissertations or theses, without a way to filter them out.
You will get millions of results organized by popularity (highest cited).

Upsides of using Google Scholar:

You can easily search for an article by title.
You can press the "cited by" button to find similar articles and to see who else has cited the article.
Google Scholar can recognize you as a Cal State LA student so you have better access to articles (see below)

How to get Google Scholar to recognize you are a Cal State LA Student:

If Google Scholar knows you are a Cal State LA student, you will see "Find it @ Cal State LA" links, pictured below.

If you are on-campus, access Google Scholar from the library home page to ensure you are connected to Cal State LA's articles.

If you are off-campus, access Google Scholar from the library home page. If you do not go through the library homepage, make sure you add Cal State LA to your institutions: