Hispanic Studies and Spanish Language

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Edited by the Hispanic Division of the Library of Congress, the multidisciplinary Handbook alternates annually between the social sciences and the humanities. Works reviewed include books, journal articles, book chapters, and conference papers in the disciplines of Anthropology, Archaeology, Art, Economics, Ethnohistory, Ethnology, Geography, Government and Politics, History, International Relations, Literature, Music, Philosophy, and Sociology. Starting with volume 54, HLAS also includes a section on electronic resources for Latin American studies. Earlier volumes also include disciplines such as Cartography, Film, Folklore, Law and others.

The subject headings are broad, and include: Agriculture, Applied Social Sciences, Biology, Engineering, Earth Science, Health Sciences Human Sciences Linguistics, Letters, Arts, and Psychology/Psychoanalysis.
Material from the following countries is included: Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Mexico, Paraguay, Peru, Portugal, South Africa, Spain, Uruguay. Ecuador, Venezuela, and the West indies are in development.

It combines two databases: Clase indexes documents published in journals specializing in the social sciences and humanities; Periodica covers journals in science and technology.ClasePeriodica offers access to more than 400,000 bibliographic citations from documents published in 2,600 scholarly journals published in the Spanish, Portuguese, French and English languages. It contains information from 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.

Many subject areas are covered with particular emphasis on agriculture, biological sciences, economics, history, law, literature, philosophy, psychology, public administration, religion and sociology. Fuente Académica es un índice electrónico de más de 450 revistas académicas de América Latina, Portugal y España, ofreciendo acceso en línea a muchos textos completos. Todos los temas principales están cubiertos, enfatizando particularmente la agricultura, las ciencias biológicas, economía, historia, derecho, literatura, filosofía, psicología, administración pública, la religión y la sociología. La base de datos se actualiza semanalmente.

** In response to the COVID pandemic JSTOR granted free access to an extended list of journals until June 30, 2023. **
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• Arts & Sciences I (economics, history, political science, sociology, ecology, mathematics, and statistics)
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• Arts & Sciences III i(languages and literature, music, film studies, folklore, performing arts, religion, feminist & women's studies, and the history & study of art and architecture)
• Arts & Sciences IV (business, education, and law, psychology, public policy and administration)
• Health & General Sciences (historical scientific journals, health sciences)
• Books at JSTOR (50,000+ titles)
• Early Journal Content (journals published in the United States before 1923 and published in other countries before 1870)

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The database features PDF content going back as far as 1887, with the majority of full-text titles in native (searchable) PDF format.

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Abstracting coverage begins in 1984. Full-text coverage begins in 1995.Topics covered include art history & criticism, architecture & architectural history, archaeology, antiques, museum studies, graphic arts, industrial design, landscape architecture, interior design, folk art, painting, photography, pottery, sculpture, decorative arts, costume design, television and video, motion pictures, advertising art, non-western art, textiles and much more.

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