Monday, October 6, 2008

HAPI and PRISMA bring LAS fulltext articles to you!

Over the summer the Libraries purchased access to two LAS databases with links to fulltext articles: the Hispanic American Periodicals Index (HAPI) and Publicaciones y revistas sociales y humanĂ­sticas (PRISMA). Designed to work together, these databases give you content to hundreds of periodicals published in Latin America, the Caribbean, and the U.S. You can specify English language only, or see articles in French, Spanish, and Portuguese. For most searches, start with HAPI and don't use the "limit to fulltext" option, even if you only want fulltext (that limit excludes links to fulltext that the Libraries has added, so choosing that option means you would only get a small subset of fulltext.) For the most comprehensive search, continue with PRISMA, which has about 15-20 fulltext journals not available through HAPI.

Links to these databases can be found on the Latin American Studies subject page, the best starting point for LAS library research.