Library guides and databases: Studies of the Americas: Welcome

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This guide has been put together by the Subject Librarian for the UCL Institute of the Americas and is relevant to all students in this department. You will find here an overview of the library resources and support available to you to help you in your studies or research.

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Subject Collections

Key resources in your subject area include:

America: History and Life
See the LibrarySkills@UCL guide to EBSCOhost. Complete bibliographic reference to the history of the United States and Canada from prehistory to the present.
Chicano Database
See the LibrarySkills@UCL guide to EBSCOhost. Database focusing on the Mexican-American and Chicano experience, as well as the broader Latino experience of Puerto Ricans, Cuban Americans and Central American immigrants. Explores the broad dimensions of class, race and gender within the Chicano and Latino U.S. experience.
JSTOR
Archive of important scholarly journals. Core resource. Accessibility statement for JSTOR.
Kanopy
Best streamed on Chrome, Safari, or Edge. Providing video streaming to over 26,000 films including thousands of award-winning documentaries, training films and theatrical releases. The collection includes a number of leading producers, such as the Criterion Collection, PBS, Kino Lorber, New Day Films, The Great Courses, California Newsreel, BBC and hundreds more. Accessibility statement for Kanopy.
Latin American Newspapers, Series 1: 1805-1922
This database provides more than 50 fully searchable Latin American newspapers published in the 19th and early 20th centuries. Featuring titles from Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Cuba, Guatemala, Mexico, Peru, Venezuela and elsewhere
Latin American Newspapers, Series 2: 1822-1922
The second series of digitized Latin American Newspapers expands the number of searchable titles available from this region. Providing issues from more than 250 additional titles, this online series includes newspapers published in English, Spanish and Portuguese from 20 countries, including some countries and cities not represented in the inaugural collection of Latin American Newspapers.
LatinNews : including LatinNews Daily and Latin American Weekly Report
Includes weekly and daily reports. Source of political, economic, and security analysis on Latin America and the Caribbean since 1967. To access via the app, search for LatinNews and login using the username and password.
Nexis
Current newspaper coverage from the present day back to the 1980s. Includes international, national and local newspapers.
Oxford Research Encyclopedias
Current, peer-reviewed research across 25 encyclopedias. Includes Oxford Classical Dictionary. Accessibility statement for Oxford Research Encyclopedias.
PRISMA Database
A comprehensive reference resource providing more than hundred full-text scholarly journals with articles in the social sciences and humanities for the interdisciplinary academic study of Hispanic and Latin America and the Caribbean Basin. It offers key titles in English, Spanish and Portuguese indexed in the Hispanic American Periodicals Index (HAPI).
ProQuest Historical Newspapers
Search the historical archive of The Guardian, The Observer, The Irish Times and The Weekly Irish Times‎, The South China Morning Post, The Korea Times, The Jerusalem Post, The Times of India and 31 major American newspapers including The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal and The Washington Post and the Chinese Newspapers collection. Click on 'Change Databases' and scroll down to see which titles are selected for searching
Rock's Backpages
An archive of rock and pop music history including 30,000 newspaper and magazine articles - reviews, interviews, and feature articles, from US and UK music publications from the 1960s to the present.
SCOPUS
See the LibrarySkills@UCL guide to Scopus. Multi-disciplinary database containing references to journal articles, conference proceedings, trade publications, book series and web resources. Please use IE 8 or higher, Google Chrome or Firefox browsers.
Statista
Statista is an online portal for statistics consolidating statistical data on over 80,000 topics from more than 22,500 sources and covering over 170 different industries. UCL users do not have access to the Company database or the Global Consumer Survey. The Research AI assistant can provide useful insights into Statista data, but be aware of the limitations of using generative AI for your academic work.
Web of Science
See the LibrarySkills@UCL guide to Web of Science. Defaults to a ‘Core Collection’ search, covering the main Web of Science journals database; select 'All Databases' option from the drop down menu to cross-search all of UCL's subscribed Web of Science products, including Biosis, MEDLINE etc.
Worldwide Political Science Abstracts (WPSA)
Indexing and abstracting over 1,500 serials, books and working papers. WPSA covers the international literature of political science and international relations, along with complementary fields including international law and public administration/policy.

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Studies of the Americas

Welcome to your Studies of the Americas subject guide

Subject Collections

Includes weekly and daily reports. Source of political, economic, and security analysis on Latin America and the Caribbean since 1967. To access via the app, search for LatinNews and login using the username and password.

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