Library Resources for "Perspectives on Gender in Latin America"

"Perspectives on Gender in Latin America"
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I. IUCAT: Indiana University Libraries Catalog

Keyword searches are a good way to get a quick idea of what is available on your topic.

Terms in keyword searches should be connected with and

women and work and latin america

Use Exact when you know the author or title, or Library of Congress subject heading. Subject searches often produce better results then keyword searches. Some helpful subject headings:

women latin america social conditions
women caribbean area social conditions
masculinity
family latin america

Use Advanced Search to limit results by date, language or format .

II. Finding your Primary Source

Academic Search Premier - searchable database of journal and magazine articles in many subject areas. Covers many popular publications such as Life and National Geographic. (Mostly full text; some images, but not always of good quality. Most sources are available in print in the IU Libraries: follow the search IUCAT for availability link at the end of the citation.)

Tip: to find articles from a specific magazine, include the title in your search, like this:
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jn "national geographic" and caribbean
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Lexis-Nexis and Dow Jones Interactive - two giant full text news databases. Coverage of most major newspapers, usually only back to the 1980s. In Lexis-Nexis, use the guided search for best results. (Full text, but no images. Many original sources are available in print in the IU Libraries.)

19th Century Reader's Guide (1890-1899) and Reader's Guide to Periodical Literature (1900-present) - Complete index of 150-200 most widely circulated American periodicals. (Citations only; most of the sources are available in the IU Libraries. Reader's Guide is shelved across from Reference Desk, AI3 .R21).

Periodicals Contents Index (PCI) - Searchable index of nearly 2,500 journals in the humanities and social sciences, from their first issues (the earliest is 1780) through 1990/1991. Covers Harper's Monthly back to 1850. (Citations only)

Search can be limited to a specific time period, using the year of publication limit field

Historical Newspapers Online - Electronic index to the New York Times, 1851-1923 and the London Times, 1790-1945. (Citations only; text is available in Microforms, AN2.N5 T5 and AN4.L8 T5)

Tip: use these searchable indexes to find significant dates to guide your reading of other newspapers that are not indexed.

Making of America - A digital library of primary sources. Currently contains approximately 1,600 books and 50,000 journal articles with 19th century imprints.

Library of Congress: American Memory - Digitized, searchable, collections of primary sources, primarily U.S. but with many individual items relating to Latin America

III. Finding Journal Articles on your Topic

Historical Abstracts and America: History and Life - World and American history from 1450 to the present. Historical Abstracts indexes about 2,000 journals; includes some books and dissertations. America: History and Life also indexes about 2,000 journals, and includes book reviews from about 100 journals. Most of the article citations include abstracts of 75-100 words.

Note: Latin America is covered by both America: History and Life and Historical Abstracts, with more coverage in Historical Abstracts.
Tip: Use Advanced Search. Select subject terms from the browsable index for best results.

JSTOR - a collection of digitized journals, including important journals for Latin American Studies. Search by author, title, keyword, etc or browse by journal title. View/print digital images of original full text of articles.

MLA (Modern Language Association) Bibliography - searchable index to journals, book chapters, etc, in modern languages, literature, linguistics and folkl ore. Good source for scholarship on gender theory. (Citations only)

Handbook of Latin American Studies - searchable index to books, journals and conference proceedings in Latin American Studies. 1990-present. (Citations only)

HAPI: Hispanic American Periodicals Index - Similar to the Handbook but covers journal articles only; 1970-present. (Citations only)

Contemporary Women's Issues and Women's Resources International - searchable indexes to feminist publications/women's issues. Women's Resources International has coverage back to the 1970s, but no full text. Contemporary Women's Issues only goes back to 1992 but is mostly full text.

October 10, 2001
Celestina Wroth ( cewroth@indiana.edu)
Librarian for History, Religious Studies,
and History & Philosophy of Science
Main Library E560, Indiana University
Bloomington, IN 47405, (812) 855-1336