Lexis-Nexis Academic Universe, ( Go to News /World News / North/South American News Sources (though mainly non-Latin American sources writing on Latin America) 

Newspapers from Latin America:

Latin American News at Univ. of Cal., San Diego [http://gort.ucsd.edu/news/hc.html]

Latin American News Sources at LANIC (Latin American Site at Univ. of Tex.) <http://lanic.utexas.edu/la/region/news/>

(Get a rough translation from altavista.com [http://babelfish.altavista.com/] or another similar translation site).

Articles about Latin America in Magazines and Scholarly Journals:

SOME GENERAL INDEXES:

Academic Search Elite, EBSCOHost, 1984-present; Full Text: 1990-present (updated daily) 
Available on & off campus  | about
Provides abstracts and indexing for over 3,200 scholarly journals and popular magazines and offers full text for over 1,000 journals and coverage of over 1,700 peer-reviewed journals.   (Can limit to Scholarly /peer reviewed journal articles) 

InfoTrac OneFile, 1980-present, Full Text 
(can limit to scholarly/refereed journal articles) 

Ingenta 1988-present,
Available on & off campus | See ingenta services for more information
Contains more than six million citations to articles from nearly 18,000 international magazines and journals. Includes journal holdings information for the Western North Carolina Library Network (WNCLN).
 

SOME SUBJECT SPECIFIC INDEXES

INFO-LATINOAMERICA, Biblioline, Full Text, 1988-present (updated weekly)
Available on & off campus | about
Provides indexing to newspapers, magazines, and journals covering business, economics, society and culture in Latin America. Includes full text articles.

PAIS International, FirstSearch, 1972 -present (updated monthly)
Available on & off campus | about
PAIS International indexes journal articles, books, conference proceedings, government documents and statistical directories about public affairs and social policies. Produced by the Public Affairs Information Service.

Agricola, 1970-present (updated monthly)
Available on & off campus  | about
Indexes 2,500 journals, USDA publications, state agricultural experiment station and extension services documents, FAO publications, foreign documents, conference proceedings, books, and audio-visual materials. Its subject matter covers all aspects of agriculture including rural sociology.

History of Latin America:

Historical Abstracts, ABC-CLIO, 1969-present (updated monthly)
Available on & off campus | about
Historical Abstracts indexes and abstracts information in world history and the related social sciences and humanities, excluding the U.S. and Canada. It cites articles covering the years 1450 to the present.

Check other subject specific indexes located on the ASU Library Electronic Resources web page as needed (anthropology, sociology, etc) 

LOOK AT BOOKS FOR MORE THOROUGH DISCUSSION OF AN ISSUE
(This search includes government documents, videos, microforms, etc)

Two Places to Search:

1. Local (our library) & Three-library Regional Network (ABC Express): Look at ASU Library Catalog for both local holdings and those easily acquired in a couple of days from our regional network partners at UNCA and Western Carolina (ABC Express)

2. The World (Interlibrary Loan) : Check WorldCAT for materials at all other institutions (Interlibrary Loan - available in roughly 2 weeks)

[See Latin America Specific Subject Guide on ASU Library Electronic Resources web page -- Click on Subject of "Databases and Periodical Article Indexes" and scroll down to "Latin America"] 
 
 
  Sample Topics

drug* and market and Colombia and culture and effects* world bank and jamaica* and social  Peru and pollution  Mexico City and air pollution and asthma Colombia and (rebel or reisistance) and movements Land reform and MST and Brazil maracaibo basin and oil reserves Peru and fishing and Japanese game fish and lakes and (guatamala or honduras)

Sustainable development and (country)  biodiversity and rain forest and (country)  indigenous and rights and (Zapatistas or country) patagonia and (hik* or trek*) patagonia and geology coffee and Costa Rica Inca and chasqui earthquake and (prevention or preparedness) and (Peru or Ecuador)

Issues to Note:

Consider finding both primary and secondary sources:      Primary -- Personal narrative accounts; diaries and memoirs; newspaper accounts of events (not to be confused with editorials which are secondary)       Secondary -- Articles about a subject or event (Critiques, commentaries, analysis)  Consider limiting searches to scholarly (also called peer reviewed or refereed) articles. Knowing if we have access to or own a journal cite in a database:      Check Library Catalog (Periodical Title) in a second browser while searching an online article database that doesn't have a link to the ASU catalog.  Feel free to get assistance from the Ref Desk, or by Phone, Online Chat, or a R.A.P. Session:      Come to the Reference Desk, call or access online for assistance.  For more time with a librarian, consider scheduling an extended RAP consultation.  Link to Guide for Citing Sources in you Bibliography