Research Guides: Spanish Language and Culture: Finding Journal Articles

Multidisciplinary Databases

If you're looking for scholarly journal articles across subject areas, the following databases are your best bet.

Scout This link opens in a new window
The University of Alabama's discovery service, searching content from hundreds of electronic databases, print resources from our library catalog, ebooks, videos, news and more.
Google Scholar This link opens in a new window
Google Scholar is a freely available scholarly search engine that allows you to search across many disciplines and sources: peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, abstracts and articles – from academic publishers, professional societies, preprint repositories, universities and other scholarly organizations.

This is a freely accessible site. Contents may change without warning.
JSTOR This link opens in a new window
Images of the full text of many scholarly titles in a range of subject areas, including literature, biological sciences, economics, finance, and statistics. Search the archive or pull up a specific article.
Project MUSE This link opens in a new window
Project MUSE provides full-text access scholarly journals in the humanities and social sciences. The database is a collaboration between Johns Hopkins University and other university presses and not-for-profit publishers. Also included are the UPCC collections in Asian and Pacific Studies, and Poetry, Fiction and Creative Non-Fiction.

Subject Databases

If you're looking for scholarly journal articles from a specific subject area, these databases are your best bet.

MLA International Bibliography with Full Text This link opens in a new window
Produced by the Modern Language Association of America, consists of bibliographic records pertaining to literature, language, linguistics, and folklore, and includes coverage from 1963 to the present. Provides access to scholarly research in over 3,000 journals and series, and covers relevant monographs, working papers, proceedings, bibliographies, and other formats.
Linguistics and Language Behavior Abstracts (LLBA) This link opens in a new window
Linguistics and Language Behavior Abstracts provides non-evaluative abstracts of articles from serials published worldwide, coverage of recent books, enhanced dissertation listings from Dissertation Abstracts International, and bibliographic citations for book reviews that appear in journals abstracted for Sociological Abstracts, LLC.
Business Source Ultimate This link opens in a new window
Indexes business journals worldwide; covers marketing, management, MIS, POM, accounting, finance, economics and more. Also includes financial data, case studies, investment research reports, industry reports, market research reports, country reports, company profiles, and SWOT analyses. Includes the full text of articles from many publishers and links to full text options for other articles. 1886 to present. Updated daily.
Philosopher's Index This link opens in a new window
Web-based version of printed Philosophers' Index with abstracts covering scholarly research in the fifteen fields of philosophy, published in journals and books since 1940. The database cites works in English, Spanish, German, French, Italian, Russian, Chinese and Japanese.

Spanish Language Databases

These databases primarily have Spanish language articles and specifically index Spanish language journals in various disciplines. To locate a specific journal title that UA Libraries has access to, use the search feature on the E-Journals Page.

Dialnet
A multidisciplinary database from the Universidad de La Rioja in Spain, including free text articles, books, & dissertations, 1980-present.

Clase and Periodica This link opens in a new window
Index of Latin American journals in the sciences and humanities. Combines CLASE (Citas Latinoamericanas en Ciencias Sociales y Humanidades), which indexes documents published in Latin American journals specializing in the social sciences and humanities, and PERIODICA, which covers journals specializing in science and technology. It also offers access to bibliographic citations from documents published in scholarly journals in the Spanish, Portuguese, French and English languages.

Latin American Studies

Listed here are databases that contain journal articles, books, and other resources pertaining to the field of Latin American Studies.

Handbook of Latin American Studies
An index, produced by the Hispanic Division of the Library of Congress, of articles, books, book chapters, conference proceedings, research reports, and government publications, 1939 to the present.

Hispanic American Periodicals Index (HAPI) Online This link opens in a new window
HAPI is an index to journal articles about Central America, South America, the Caribbean, and Hispanics/Latinos in the United States.
Arte Publico Hispanic Historical Collection This link opens in a new window
A digital collection of historical content pertaining to U.S. Hispanic history, literature, politics, and culture from colonial times to the 20th century. Series 1 and 2 contain advertisements, books, broadsides, essays, newspapers, pamphlets, short stories and more.

Searching in Scout

Scout This link opens in a new window
The University of Alabama's discovery service, searching content from hundreds of electronic databases, print resources from our library catalog, ebooks, videos, news and more.

This video is an introduction to basic search functions in Scout, the University of Alabama Libraries' all-in-one discovery tool. Topics include what SCOUT searches, searching for keywords, navigating the results page, interpreting short and long records, saving searches and records, downloading resources, and using limiters to refine results.

This video covers some advanced search functions and concepts in Scout, UA Libraries' all-in-one discovery tool. Topics include search fields, Boolean operators, controlled vocabulary, subject terms, search modes, smart text searching, limiters, and using search history.

Interlibrary Loan

ILL
Interlibrary Loan (ILL) provides free access to materials needed for coursework and research not available in the UA Libraries. If an item is not available at the University of Alabama libraries, you may request it through ILLiad, our InterLibrary Loan system. Visit the libraries' ILLiad page and login with your myBama username and password to make a request.

This video demonstrates how to use our Interlibrary Loan service when you need a book that is not in our collection, or an article from a journal we don't subscribe to.

Evaluating Journals

Want to know if the journal you're looking at is influential? Check out these advanced resources for comprehensive data on literature and social science journals.

MLA Directory of Periodicals This link opens in a new window
The MLA Directory of Periodicals contains information on journals and book series that fall within the scope of the MLA International Bibliography. The entries list editorial addresses, phone numbers, fax numbers, e-mail addresses, frequency of publication, descriptions of scope, circulation figures, subscription prices and addresses, advertising information, links to online content, peer review, and submission guidelines. The directory also provides statistics on the number of articles and book reviews published each year, as well as how many are submitted.
InCites Journal Citation Reports (JCR) This link opens in a new window
InCites Journal Citation Reports, often referred to as impact factor data, is an objective way to evaluate the world's leading social sciences journals and their impact and influence in the research community. Subscription includes both Science (2006 forward) and Social Science (2004 forward) editions.
Ulrichsweb: Ulrich's International Periodicals Directory This link opens in a new window
Ulrich's International Periodicals Directory provides data on regularly published and irregularly issued serials since 1979. This reference provides purchasing and contact information (conventional and electronic) for publishers in various countries.

Spanish Language and Culture