Getting Started
This guide provides a list of major library resources for Latin American Studies at UC Davis. This guide was updated Winter Quarter 2025 in collaboration with History PhD student Carlos Luis Paredes Hernández.
New Trial Databases
These trials are active through the end of March 2025.
- Prensa Libre Digital ArchivePrensa Libre is a leading newspaper published in Guatemala City and distributed nationwide.
1951- - The Guatemala CollectionThe Guatemala Collection (1587-1991) concentrates primarily on the national era, particularly 1824-1948, consisting of primary documents - correspondence, annual reports, statistics, letters and litigation.
Key Journals
- Journal of Latin American Studies
The Journal of Latin American Studies (JLAS) presents recent research in the field of Latin American studies in history, politics and international relations, geography, public policy, sociology, social anthropology, and cognate subjects such as economics. Regular features include current research, short thematic commentaries on key issues, and an extensive section of book reviews. - Latin American Research Review
The 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. The journal reviews and publishes papers in English, Spanish, and Portuguese.
Key Resources
- Latin American, Caribbean, Latinx, and Iberian studies repository (LACLI)LACLI is an essential tool to find websites that provide access to a great variety of resources such as audiovisual materials, books, data, ephemera, government documents, oral histories, periodicals, reference works, visual materials, web archives and more! LACLI is managed by the Latin America Northeast Libraries Network (LANE), a network of library professionals representing academic and research libraries mainly in the Northeastern United States.
- Handbook of Latin American Studies This link opens in a new windowAuthoritative annotated bibliography of Latin American Studies research in all disciplines with most references in Spanish or English. Includes ebooks, journal articles, conference papers, and websites in disciplines of humanities and social sciences. Humanities disciplines include: art, history, literature, music, and philosophy. Social Sciences disciplines include: archeology, ethnology, economics, geography, government and politics, international relations, political economy, and sociology.
[Coverage: 1936 - present] - HAPI Online (Hispanic American Periodicals Index) This link opens in a new windowHAPI Online is the searchable Web version of the Hispanic American Periodicals Index. HAPI is your source for authoritative, worldwide information about Central and South America, Mexico, the Caribbean basin, the United States-Mexico border region, and Hispanics in the United States. From analyses of current political, economic, and social issues to unique coverage of Latin American arts and letters, HAPI Online contains complete bibliographic citations to articles, book reviews, documents, original literary works, and other materials appearing in more than 400 key social science and humanities journals published throughout the world.
- Archives of Latin American and Caribbean History, Sixteenth to Twentieth Century (Formerly World Scholar: Latin America and the Caribbean) This link opens in a new windowThis multidisciplinary resource brings together primary source documents about Latin America and the Caribbean. Digitized content of academic journals and news feeds, reference articles and commentary, manuscripts, ephemera, maps and statistics, and multimedia support research on regional topics ranging from the colonial period to the 20th century.
[Coverage: 15th - 20th centuries]