Databases
- Academic Search Complete This link opens in a new window
Multidisciplinary - good for nearly all subjects. Scholarly and trade journals, popular magazines, newspapers, conference proceedings, book reviews, and more.
- Art Full Text (1984 to date) This link opens in a new window
Indexes 350 art magazines and journals covering pre-historic to contemporary art. Some full text from 1995-date. For earlier dates search its companion database the Art Index Retrospective. Searching both databases simultaneously for publications dated 1929 to the present. Both databases index the Allen Memorial Art Museum Bulletin.
- Art Index Retrospective (1929-1984) This link opens in a new window
Indexes 350 art magazines and journals covering pre-history to contemporary art. Indexes the Allen Memorial Art Museum Bulletin.
- Chicano Database This link opens in a new window
Citations to articles and books on all aspects of the Mexican-American, Chicano and broader Latino experience. Broad subject coverage includes art, language, sociology, psychology, public policy, economics, history, literature, politics, and law. Dates of Coverage: 1960s to date
- Clase and Periodica This link opens in a new windowClase and Periodica is an index of 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, as well as from publications that focus on Pan-American issues. CLASE indexes documents published in Latin American journals specializing in the social sciences and humanities. PERIODICA covers journals specializing in science and technology. Together, they offer access to citations from documents published in 2,600 scholarly journals published in the Spanish, Portuguese, French and English languages. Dates of Coverage: 1975- (Clase); 1978- (Periodica).
- Ethnic NewsWatch This link opens in a new window
Full-text coverage of newspapers, magazines, and journals of the ethnic, minority, and native press in America. Dates of Coverage: 1959 to date
- Handbook of Latin American Studies This link opens in a new windowAn annotated bibliography of articles and books on humanities and social science topics. Dates of Coverage: 1936 to date
- JSTOR This link opens in a new windowScholarly journal archive for the humanities, social sciences and natural sciences; current issues (usually the last 2-5 years) are not digitized by JSTOR and may be obtained elsewhere.
- International Bibliography of Art (2008 to date) This link opens in a new window
Indexes 500 journals covering European art since antiquity, American art sincle the colonial period, and Global art since 1945. Preceded by OpenBibArt.
- OpenBibArt This link opens in a new window
Indexes the literature on arts from Late Antiquity to 2007, providing access to close to 1.2 million of bibliographic records of periodicals, books, exhibition and auction catalogues, published between 1910 and 2007. Combines records from RAA, RILA and BHA.
Journals
- Art NexusArtNexus is the leading magazine to cover the contemporary art of Latin America. From its documentation center in Bogota, the magazine covers visual art and architecture. By publishing in both Spanish and English, the magazine fulfilled its goal to be "The Nexus Between Latin America and the Rest of the World."
- Artes De Mexico
In Spanish and English.
A revival of the original journal published from 1955 to 1980.
Artes de México recruits experts and other noted writers to write interrelated articles within the issue to provide laypeople with an in-depth look at a thematic topic. Issues remain available as reference works years after publication. And despite being called “Arts of Mexico,” the publication actually covers a wide range of cultural topics, walking a middle road between pop culture and the academic. - Bulletin of Latin American Researchhe Bulletin of Latin American Research (BLAR) publishes original research of current interest on Latin America, the Caribbean, inter-American relations and the Latin American Diaspora from all academic disciplines within the Social Sciences and Humanities.
- Callahoo
Callaloo, the premier journal of literature, art, and culture of the African Diaspora, publishes original work by and about writers and visual artists of African descent worldwide. Every year the 5th issue is titled Callahoo Art. - emisférica
emisférica is the Hemispheric Institute’s peer-reviewed, online, trilingual scholarly journal. Published biannually, journal issues focus on specific areas of inquiry in the study of performance and politics in the Americas. The journal publishes academic essays, multimedia artist presentations, activist interventions, and translations, as well as book, performance, and film reviews. Its languages are English, Spanish, and Portuguese. - Latin American Research ReviewThe Latin American Research Review (LARR) publishes original research and review essays on Latin America, the Caribbean, and Latina/Latino studies. LARR covers the social sciences and the humanities, including the fields of anthropology, economics, geography, history, literature and cultural studies, political science, and sociology.
- Third Text: Critical Perspectives on Contemporary Art and culture.
Third Text is a leading peer-reviewed academic journal covering art in a global context. Contributors include prominent scholars of black studies, feminist theory, and politically engaged art criticism.
Websites
- Foundation for the Advancement of Mesoamerican Studies, Inc. (FAMSI)
Collection of pre-Columbian resources contributed by scholars around the world. Use FAMSI for it's essays, ancient maps, bibliographies, codex facsimiles, and photographs. - Maya vase database
Images of approximately 2,000 Maya vases in museums and collections across the United States, Europe, Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras, and Belize. Many of the photographs have been published in books and papers by scholars so that information about them is readily available. Many files have links to a still photograph of the vase and a number have links to essays describing details of the text from well-known scholars. - MesoWeb
A variety of resources, such as books, essays, photographs, archaeological reports, monuments, and artifacts, about or from the ancient cultures of Mexico and adjacent Central America, with a particular emphasis on the Maya. Includes a digital facsimilie of the Grolier Codex (under "Resources"). - Nahuatl Dictionary
Search for any words in English, Spanish or Nahuatl and find their meaning.