Macdonald-Kelce Library: Latin American Studies: Specialized Encyclopedias, Dictionaries, Reference

Reference Sources

Sometimes you need a definition, or statistic, or basic fact for you paper that you can't find in a scholarly article. What can make this doubly frustrating is that sometimes you can find the fact in Wikipedia, but you cannot use Wikipedia in your paper. (See Using Wikipedia for more on how to use this popular resource effectively.)

You can find specialized encyclopedias and dictionaries in:

Britannica Academic This link opens in a new window
Offers the complete Encyclopedia Britannica online as well as Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary and Thesaurus.
Daily Life through History This link opens in a new window
Presents the daily life and customs of peoples throughout history and modern times with reference articles, images, maps and primary documents.
Diversity Studies This link opens in a new window
Provides access to academic journals and magazines on a variety of topics in diversity studies that explore cultural differences, contributions, and influences in our global community.
Informe Académico (Gale OneFile) This link opens in a new window
Offers a wide range of full-text Spanish and Portuguese-language scholarly journals and magazines both from and about Latin America in an interface configured for Spanish speakers.
JSTOR This link opens in a new window
Scholarly journals, ebooks, primary sources, and ebooks in the arts, humanities, social sciences, natural sciences, and business.
Oxford Reference This link opens in a new window
Access all Oxford's dictionaries, companions, and encyclopedias in one place.
Oxford Reference is a multi-disciplinary database that features a range of short entries, timelines, quotations, and lengthy in-depth reference articles on all topics. Browse by subject or enter a keyword in the search box.

Latino Stories
Latino Stories was founded in 2006, making it one of the oldest sites dedicated to Latino literature and Latino studies. It was redesigned in 2020 with a mission to provide resources that provide real stories of Latino populations.
Gale Sabin Americana: History of the Americas, 1500-1926
Delve into books, serials, and more from over 400 years of history in the Americas, drawn from Joseph Sabin's famed bibliography.

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