Journals & Databases:
- Autoctonía
El proyecto editorial Autoctonía. Revista de Ciencias Sociales e Historia editada por el Centro de Estudios Históricos (CEH), dependiente de la Facultad de Ciencias Humanas de la Universidad Bernardo O’Higgins, se orienta a la difusión de la investigación especializada e innovadora en el ámbito de las Ciencias Sociales e Historia, mediante estudios que renueven y profundicen el conocimiento recíproco de fenómenos sociales pasados y presentes, propendiendo al diálogo interdisciplinario y admitiendo aportes de otras áreas del conocimiento aplicadas al estudio de la realidad social e histórica. Partiendo de una inspiración pluralista, encarna una vocación latinoamericanista que quiere alcanzar una más profunda integración de los pueblos y naciones del continente.
- Chicano-Latino Law Review
Provides a forum for the discussion of central issues affecting the Latino community; first legal journal that recognized how common law, statutes, legislative policy, and politically popular proposition impact the Latino community.
- Current Politics and Economics of South and Central America
Deals with South and Central America, its political dynamics, economic policies, and institutions, and its future.
- The Journal of Latino-Latin American Studies
The Journal of Latino-Latin American Studies (JOLLAS) is an interdisciplinary, international, and peer reviewed on-line journal housed at the University of Nebraska at Omaha. The journal seeks to be reflective of the shifting demographics, geographic dispersion, and new community formations occurring among Latino populations across borders and throughout the Americas. The journal emphasizes the collective understanding of Latino issues in the U.S. while recognizing the growing importance of transnationalism and the porous borders of Latino/Latin American identities.
- Latin American Politics and Society
Latin American Politics and Society publishes the highest-quality original social science scholarship on Latin America. The Editorial Board, comprising leading U.S., Latin American, and European scholars, is dedicated to challenging prevailing orthodoxies and promoting innovative theoretical and methodological perspectives on the states, societies, economies, and international relations of the Americas in a globalizing world. In addition to its traditional research articles, Latin American Politics and Society includes Critical Debates—review essays that survey major themes in recent Latin American studies literature. The Policy Issues section presents contending perspectives on major issues of significant policy relevance, and Research Notes is an outlet for shorter pieces with questions of data, theory, and method. The Book Review section provides critiques individual books.
- Harvard Latinx Law Review
The Harvard Latinx Law Review (HLLR) provides a forum for the scholarly discussion of legal issues affecting Latinx communities in the United States. Recent articles (Volume 23) have addressed issues including analyzing the effects of anti-immigrant laws in the U.S. on victims of domestic violence, sexual assault, and human trafficking through a gender-based human rights lens, framing political animosities between sexual minorities and churches in Cuba’s new Constitution, the consequences of antidumping and countervailing duty laws on immigration and poverty, the riddle of whether the Puerto Rico Oversight Board is a federal or territorial entity, and Latinidad, white supremacy, and reforming first-year moot court competitions to confront racial and ethnic bias. The previous volume (Volume 22) addressed issues including critically re-examining immigration rhetoric and policy under the Trump administration, utilizing congressional investigations to improve National Hurricane Preparedness, expanding the immigration caging machine regardless of Nielsen and the implications of environmental law and Latino property rights on modern-age border security.
- Journal of politics in Latin America
The Journal of Politics in Latin America is a peer reviewed, Open Access journal focused on comparative politics in Latin America. The journal is dedicated to promoting a deeper understanding of the political process and political institutions in the region.
- Handbook of Latin American Studies (HLAS) This link opens in a new window
The Handbook is 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. 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 an essential guide to available resources. - Latino American Experience This link opens in a new window
Latino American Experience is the first-ever online resource dedicated to the history and culture of Latinos—the largest minority group in the United States. Featuring more than 200 volumes of unique content, the database includes hundreds of primary source documents like maps, images, audio clips, interviews, music files, speeches, documents, links to relevant websites and other material. - JSTOR This link opens in a new window
JSTOR (Journal Storage) is a online collection of over 500 major academic research journals covering topics in the arts, humanities, business, and social sciences. JSTOR is always scholarly. Dominican University has access to the following collections:
Arts and Sciences I, II, III, and IV. - Academic Search Complete This link opens in a new windowAcademic Search Complete is the leading source of peer-reviewed, full-text journals for STM research, as well as for the Social Sciences and Humanities. This scholarly collection offers unmatched coverage of information spanning a broad range of important areas of academic study, including anthropology, engineering, law, sciences and more.
- ClasePeriodica This link opens in a new window
CLASE indexes documents published in Latin American journals specializing in the social sciences and humanities. PERIÓDICA covers journals specializing in science and technology. Scholarly journals published in Spanish, Portuguese, French and English.
