Research Guides: Brazilian Studies: Databases &amp; Guides

Databases in Portuguese

Domínio Público
A collection of 500+ of literary, artistic and scientific works (in text, sound, image and video). Works belong to public domain or have authorized distribution.
Hemeroteca Digital Brasileira
Part of the Fundação Biblioteca Nacional, the Hemeroteca Digital Brasileira is a portal to Brazilian journals and allows online consultation of magazines, bulletins and yearbooks archive, and serial publications.
PORBASE
Base Nacional de Dados Bibliográficos is catalog of Portuguese libraries and is the largest bibliographical database in the country covering materials from the Biblioteca Nacional de Portugal and 170+ libraries. Covers close to 1,500,000 bibliographical entries.
Redalyc: Red de Revistas Científicas de América Latina y el Caribe, España y Portugal.
Repository of scholarly journals in Latin America, the Caribbean Spain and Portugal. 500+ journals available online. In English, Spanish and Portuguese.
SciELO (Scientific Electronic Library Online)
Covers a large selection of Brazilian journals and periodicals in subjects related to humanities, social sciences and natural sciences. Open Access.
Sumários
Indexes Brazilian scholarly journals in the humanities, social sciences and natural sciences.

PressReader This link opens in a new window
Access to issues from the last 60 days of over 300 newspapers from around the world. The newspapers include the same content and are in the same format as the print edition of the newspaper. You can use the left-hand navigation menu (Titles by Country) to browse all the newspapers from Brazil.

MLA International Bibliography
Indexes books, articles, dissertations and websites published on modern languages, literatures, folklore, and film.
Coverage: 1925-
JSTOR
Provides full-text access to the archives of core scholarly journals in the arts, humanities, social sciences and sciences. Last five years are not covered by the database.
HAPI Online
Provides over 100,000 links to the full text of articles appearing in more than 600 key social science and humanities journals published throughout the world.
Handbook of Latin American Studies (HLAS)
Identifies articles, books and conference papers on Latin America. Edited by the Hispanic Division of the Library of Congress. For searching tips see Handbook of Latin American Studies (HLAS): A Resource Guide.
Coverage: 1935-
Informe Académico
Collection of Hispanic journals with full texts. Covers current news on business, health, technology, culture and other topics. Contains articles updated as recently as July 30, 2014. All articles have been published between 1980 and 2014. Includes magazines and journals published in Brazil.
Historical Abstracts
Historical Abstracts contains citations to articles from 2,000 journals on world history (excluding the US and Canada) from 1450 to the present.

Brazil: Hispanic Division Country Guide
From the Library of Congress, a curated guide including digitized primary source materials in a wide variety of formats, books and periodicals, online databases, and tips for searching.
Latin America Network Information Center (LANIC): Brazil
From the University of Texas-Austin, a comprehensive collection of academic research resources.
Researching Brazil
From Indiana University, a bibliographic index and a collection of online resources, including online directory of institutions, a bibliography of print sources, and links to selected websites relevant to researchers.