September 15 – October 15 mark Hispanic Heritage Month each year, when national institutions such as The Library of Congress, National Archives and Records Administration, National Endowment for the Humanities, National Gallery of Art, National Park Service, Smithsonian Institution and United States Holocaust Memorial Museum pay tribute to the contributions and cultural heritage of this diverse group of Americans. The University of Arkansas will be celebrating with a Hispanic Heritage Film Festival and more.
The Libraries are pleased to offer a new resource for the study of Hispanic America and Americans, HAPI. HAPI (The Hispanic American Periodicals Index) has provided indexing of journals published in Latin America, the Caribbean, and the U.S. since 1970. Produced by the Latin American Institute of the University of California, Los Angeles, HAPI indexes nearly 400 Spanish-, Portuguese-, and English-language journals such as the Afro-Hispanic Review, Américas, and Literature Mexicana. Using HAPI, you will find scholarly articles on topics such as the norteño music of the Mexico-U.S. borderlands, the portrayal of Mexican Americans in cinema, turmoil in the Venezuelan economy, or the campaign for Puerto Rican statehood–all from publications not usually found in other library databases.
You can enter your search terms in Spanish, Portuguese, or English, as articles are indexed in all three languages (though the displayed record will usually only show the English-language subject terms). More than 80% of the citations link to open access full text; for the rest, you can use the Find it! link to discover subscribed full text here are the University of Arkansas or to place an Interlibrary Loan request on ILLiad,
Want to explore even more publications from and about Latin and Hispanic America? The Handbook of Latin American Studies (HLAS), produced since 1936 by the Library of Congress, is freely available to all and lists between 3000 and 5000 books, journal articles, book chapters, and conference papers each year. Coverage alternates each year between the humanities (literature, history, music, philosophy, art) and social sciences (political science, economics, anthropology, geography, and sociology). HLAS differs from HAPI in that it lists books and conference proceedings in addition to the journal literature and in that it covers all kinds of publications ABOUT Latin America, not just a specific list of indexed journals. The online search interface can be a bit daunting so you might want to browse a print copy from our collection to get used to the terminology and organization of this resource.
Got a research assignment on Latin American or Hispanic topics? Don’t worry… be HAPI.