MEXICAN-AMERICAN STUDIES DATABASES
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Academic Search Complete - [Contents: abstracts & full text | Coverage: 1965 - Present | Updates: regularly | Provider: Ebsco] 
This database is designed specifically for academic institutions. It is the world's largest scholarly, multi-disciplinary full text database containing full text for nearly 5,500 scholarly periodicals, including more than 4,600 peer-reviewed publications. In addition to the full text, this database offers indexing and abstracts for all 9,500 journals in the collection.
Article 1st - [Contents: citations & abstracts | Coverage: 1990 - present | Updates: daily | Provider: OCLC] 
This is an index of articles from the contents page of journals. It contains over 16,000 sources and over 23 million records covering business, humanities, medicine, popular culture, science, social science, and technology subjects.
Chicano Database - [Contents: citations only | Coverage: 1967 - present | Updates: quarterly | Provider: OCLC] 
This database identifies materials across the disciplines (esp., literature, education, sociology, psychology, the arts) pertaining to Mexican-Americans. Since 1992, scope expanded to include the broader Latino experience.
ClasePeriodica - [Contents: Citations | Coverage: varies | Updates: quarterly | Provider: OCLC] 
This database contains information from articles, essays, book reviews, monographs, conference proceedings, technical reports, interviews and brief notes published in journals edited in 24 different countries of Latin America and the Caribbean.

Economia y Negocios - [Contents: citations | Coverage: 1980's - Present | Updates: regularly | Provider: Ebscohost] 

Economia y Negocios is produced in Peru by ESAN (Escuela de Administración de Negocios para Graduados), the oldest graduate school of business in the Spanish-speaking world. This Spanish language database, which focuses on business and economics, consists of more than 74,000 bibliographic records. It includes over 300 journals published in Latin America and Spain.

Fuente Academica - [Contents: full-text | Coverage: varies | Updates: varies | Provider: Ebsco] 

Fuente Academica is a unique collection of scholarly academic journals from renowned Latin America, Portugal, and Spain. This database provides full text coverage (including PDF) for nearly 450 publications from 18 countries. Particular emphasis given to agriculture, biological sciences, economics, history and law, philosophy, religion, sociology, etc.

Google Scholar -[Contents: citations & full text | Coverage: varies | Updates: regularly | Provider: Google] 
Google Scholar allows users to search across multiply resources in one search engine. It contains scholarly information from books, journals, reviewed papers, scholarly organizations and repositories, academic publishers and much more. Google scholar automatically links to full-text articles that are in the OLLU library collection.
HeritageQuest Online - [Contents: citations & full-text | Coverage: 1790-1930 | Updates: regularly | Provider: ProQuest] 
This database contains a collection of research materials for tracing family history and American culture, including a collection of over 25,000 family and local histories and the complete U.S. Federal Census, 1790-1930.
Hispanic American Newspapers - [Contents: citations & full-text | Coverage: 1808-1980 | Updates: regularly | Provider: Newsbank] 
This database is the largest collection of Spanish-language newspapers printed in the U.S. during the 19th and 20th centuries.
HLAS (Handbook of Latin American Studies) Online - [Contents: citations & abstracts | Coverage: 1936 - present | Updates: annually | Provider: Library of Congress]  
This database contains a bibliography on Latin America consisting of works selected and annotated by scholars. Edited by the Hispanic Division of the Library of Congress, the multidisciplinary handbook alternates annually between the social sciences and the humanities.
The Latino American Experience - [Contents: full-text | Coverage: varies | Updates: regularly | Provider: ABC-CLIO]
This databases consists of information about the history and culture of Latinos living in the United States. It spans from pre-Columbian civilizations of the Americas, through Spanish and Mexican settlement of what is now the US.

Medic Latina - [Contents: full-text | Coverage: varies | Updates: regularly | Provider: Ebsco]

MedicLatina is a Spanish language collection of medical research and investigative journals published by renowned Latin American medical publishers. This unique database provides access to full text for nearly 100 peer-reviewed medical journals.

Oxford Encyclopedia of Latinos & Latinas in the U.S. - [Contents: full-text | Coverage: varies | Updates: regularly | Provider: Amigos] 
This online encyclopedia contains 936 essays about the historical and contemporary experiences of Latinos and Latinas from Hispanic nations that address topics such as politics, religion, education, art, health, and history.
Part of the Oxford Digital Reference Shelf.
Oxford Encyclopedia of Mesoamericna Cultures -  [Contents: full-text | Coverage: varies | Updates: regularly | Provider: Amigos] 
The first comprehensive reference that chronicles Pre-Hispanic, colonial, and modern Mesoamerica. It has over 600 articles that range in topics from archaeology, anthropology, history, religious studies, historiogeography, and art.
Part of the Oxford Digital Reference Shelf.
Texas Digital Sanborn Maps - [Contents: images | Coverage: 1867-1970 | Updates: regularly | Provider: Chadwyck-Healey] 
This database contains digital fire insurance maps of Texas towns and cities from 1867 to 1970 which document the history, growth and development of urban areas.

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