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FIND BOOKS
Library Catalog (UNIS). What we
own: books, journals, audio-visual materials, newspapers, government
publications, manuscripts, rare books, photographs and more.
Scholars Portal "Scholars
Portal is an experimental project that aims to provide students, faculty
and staff with powerful tools for cross-searching a range of academic and
professional sources." BETA
SELECT DATABASES AND INDEXES
ACADEMIC
SEARCH PREMIER 
EBSCOHost Web includes several files for professional journals, newspapers
and magazines, health publications and other. Some
of the articles are available in full-text. Check also EBSCOOnline for
special features.
ACADEMIC UNIVERSE (Lexis Nexis)
This database provides access to U.S. and international newspapers, magazines
and wire services.News of interest to Latin
Americanists is covered by U.S. and foreign newspapers. Relevant information
may also be found in the "Congressional Universe" file. Updated daily. Full text.
GLOBAL
NEWS BANK
News articles covering politics, economics, culture, business, science,
technology, and the environment from Africa, Asia, Europe,
the former Soviet Union, the Pacific Rim, Central and South America,
and the Middle East. All articles are in English and are from
over 1000 translated broadcasts, news agency transmissions, wire services,
newspapers, magazines and government documents.
1996 to current. Full-text.
HISTORICAL ABSTRACTS
Historical coverage of the world from 1450 to the present (excluding the
United States and Canada). 1984-
Print edition: Split into Historical abstracts. Part A. Modern history
abstracts and Historical abstracts. Part B. Twentieth century
abstracts. Call# D299.H5 General Reference, Level 3. See also, America:
History and Life (database).
HUMANITIES
ABSTRACTS
Abstracts of articles published in English literature, history, religion,
communication, film studies, theater and other disciplines in the humanities
from 1984 to present.
JSTOR 
Provides image and full-text online access to back issues of selected
scholarly journals in history, economics, political science, demography,
mathematics, and other fields of the humanities and social sciences. Consult
the online tables of contents for holdings, as coverage varies for each
title. Full text. Indexes the Journal of Latin American Studies,
Hispanic American Historical Review, Journal of Latin American
Studies and Economia, among others.
PUBLIC
AFFAIRS INFORMATION SERVICE (PAIS)
The PAIS International database is a bibliographic index to the literature
of public policy, social policy, and the social sciences in general. Journal
articles; books; government documents; statistical compilations; committee
reports; directories; serials; reports of public, intergovernmental, and
private organizations; and most other forms of printed literature from
all over the world are indexed. Coverage: 1972 to present.
PCI WEB
PCI Web is an electronic index
to the contents of thousands of periodicals in the humanities and social
sciences, from their first issues to 1990/1991. Journals in English, French,
German Italian, Spanish, and other Western Languages are included.
PROJECT MUSE
"In 2000, Project MUSE® enters its second phase of development with
the addition of over 60 quality journal titles from other scholarly publishers,
bringing the database's total offerings to well over 100 titles. As the
academic community's primary electronic resource, Project MUSE covers
the fields of literature and criticism, history, the visual and performing
arts, cultural studies, education, political science, gender studies,
and many others." Full-text of articles included.
SIRS
RESEARCHER
Thousands of full-text articles on social, scientific, health, historic,
business, economic, political and global topics.
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REFERENCE SOURCES
The Cambridge encyclopedia of Latin America and the Caribbean
/ general editors, Simon Collier, Harold Blakemore, Thomas E. Skidmore.
2nd ed. Cambridge [England] ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1992.
F1406 .C36 1992 Level 3.
A Guide to Latin American and Caribbean census material; a bibliography
and union list/ general editor Carole Travis. Boston, MA: G.K. Hall,
c1990. HA755Z .G85 1990 Level 1.
Latin America and the Caribbean; a critical guide to research sources/
edited Paula H. Covington; David Block... [et.al.], associate editors.
New York: Greenwood Press, 1992. Z601.L3225 1992 Level 3.
The Worldmark encyclopedia of the nations; a practical guide to the
geographic, historical, political, social & economic status of all
nations, their international relationships, and the United Nations system.
[Editor-in-chief: Benjamin A. Cohen] New York, Worldmark Press [1960]
G103 .W65 1963 Level 1 (1963 edition).
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ASSOCIATIONS, INSTITUTIONS AND UNIVERSITY PROGRAMS
The Americas
and the World
Associação Nacional de Pós-Graduação
e Pesquisa em Ciências Sociais (ANPOCS)
CLCS
Observatorio Social de América Latina (OSAL) Bases
de Datos de América Latina y el Caribe.
The
Conference on Latin American History
(CLAH)
ECLAC/CEPAL
EconomicCommission for Latin America. Access
economic and social statistics and other ECLAC/CEPAL publications.
Hispanic
Division, Library of Congress
Latin
American and Caribbean Studies Portal (Univ of London,
Institute of Latin American Studies)
Inter-American Development Bank
Inter-American Dialogue
U.S. center for policy analysis, communication,
and exchange on Western Hemisphere affairs.Includes the full text of papers
on various topics of interest.
LADARK
Includes data sets, bibliographies, syllabi
and working papers (John Hopkins).
LANIC Latin
American Network Information Center. Comprehensive coverage.
Latin
American and Caribbean Center (University of Florida)
Latin American North East Libraries Consortium (LANE)
Latin
American Studies Southeast Region Library Collections
Midwest Organization
of Libraries for Latin American Studies (MOLLAS)
National Security Archive
at George Washington U. The NSA collects
and publishes declassified documents
acquired through the Freedom of Information Act. Includes full-text primary
documents online.
NCCLA:
North Central Council of Latin Americanists
Nettie Lee Benson Latin American Library (UT, Austin)
SALALM:
Seminar on the Acquisitions of Latin American Library Materials
World
Policy Institute, Americas Project
•See also, Latin American Studies at the
UU and Text Databases, below.
ART AND ARCHITECTURE, LATIN AMERICAN
Enciclopedia de Artes Visuais (Brazil/Itau)
Vistas "The website, Vistas: Visual Culture in Spanish America, 1520-1820, offers a critical selection of color images, primary sources, and interpretive essays on colonial history and culture."
SALA, ASU, CAED (Images, models, and drawings)
AUTHORS, LITERATURE AND
LITERARY CRITICISM
Academia Brasileira
CultVox
Electronic books in Portuguese; works by important authors in full-text.
Biblioteca
Virtual Miguel de Cervantes Additional
links to libraries and collections some of which are available in full
text.
Espaço
Machado de Assis
LEER
Provides access to over a million Spanish language titles published in
Spain and Latin America (NISC). Text of books not available. Requires
registration.
Literatura Argentina Contemporanea
For language and literature links, consult the relevant Research Guides.
BIBLIOGRAPHIES AND E-BOOKS
Libro: The Library of Iberian Resources Online
Handbook of Latin American Studies " The Handbook is a bibliography on Latin America consisting of works selected and annotated by scholars. Edited by the Hispanic Division of the Library of Congress, the multidisciplinary Handbook alternates annually between the social sciences and the humanities." (1935 to date)
BOOK REVIEWS
The Latin American Review of Books
ARGENTINA
Power & Politics in the 19th-century River Plate (U. of Notre Dame)
BRAZIL
Brazilian Government Documents Digitization Project (CRL); see also, the Latin American Microform Project (LAMP) for countries other than Brazil.
Almanak Laemmert, 1844-1889 (CRL,
full text).
Índice da historia do Brasil na Web
Instituto Fernando Henrique Cardoso
United States and Brazil: Expanding Frontiers, Comparing Cultures
CARIBBEAN RESOURCES
The Caribbean Home Page A portal
similar to Yahoo and Alta Vista.
Caribbean Regional
Resources (LANIC). Selective, but comprehensive in coverage.
The Caribbean Review of Books
Cuba on the Radio
"... Identifies radio programs that reported civil unrest, rebellions,
revolutions, the underlying causes, and the aftermaths of these events
as represented in the Peabody Awards Collection in the University of
Georgia's
Walter J. Brown Media Archives."
Guardian Unlimited (Caribbean News)
DISCUSSION GROUPS
HT-LatAm "An international
forum for the scholarly discussion of Latin American History. It is a
member of the H-Net Humanities & Social Sciences Online initiative
and affiliated with the Conference On Latin American History (CLAH). "
ENVIRONMENTAL AND HUMAN RIGHTS ISSUES
Environmental History of Latin America
"Nunca Más" (Never
Again) - Report of Conadep (Argentina: National Commission on the Disappearance
of Persons) - 1984
GEOGRAPHICAL SOURCES
The Luso-Hispanic
World in Maps (LC)
Perry-Castañeda
Library Map Collection
GOVERNMENT SOURCES
These portals include links to services
and information provided by government agencies and departments.
Argentina
Belize Bolivia, Brazil
Chile Columbia
Cuba
Ecuador El Salvador French Guiana Honduras
Nicaragua Panama Paraguay Peru San Domingo Suriname Uruguay
Venezuela
Latin American Elections
Statistics (UCSD)
Latin
American and Caribbean Government Documents Project (Cornell)
See also, under specific country.
HISTORY
Latin American Resources
(LANIC)
Latin Americanist Research Resources Project Includes the digital collection of Mexican and Argentine presidential messages.
LATIN AMERICAN STUDIES AT THE UNIVERSITY OF UTAH Check
this!
MEGASITES
Brazil Network
INFOMINE A virtual library featuring over 20,000 links to the most
useful Internet resources for the academic community. Includes journals,
textbooks, guides to the Internet for most disciplines and conference
proceedings. Keyword search: "Latin America" or "Caribbean."
Internet Resources
for Latin America One of the most comprehensive lists on the Web.(Molly
E. Molloy). See also, Andanzas
al Web Latino
Brazilink A portal to information
covering a variety of topics from foreign policy to gender to media and
more.
Latin American and Iberian Collections
and Resources (UNM)
Latin American Open Access Portal " The portal provides access to working documents, pre-prints, research papers, statistical documents, and other difficult-to-access materials from the 'deep Web.' Typically, this content is published by research institutes, non-governmental organizations, and peripheral agencies that are not controlled by commercial publishers."
Social Science Research Network "Social
Science Research Network (SSRN) is devoted to the rapid worldwide dissemination
of social science research and is composed of a number of specialized
research networks in each of the social sciences... We now have hundreds
of journals, publishers, and institutions in Partners in Publishing and
in academic and other Cooperating Institutions that provide working papers
for distribution through SSRN's eLibrary and abstracts for publication
in SSRN's electronic journals."
TERRA TERRA has published portals
for sixteen Latin American countries to date (similar to the service
offered
by Yahoo and Alta Vista).
MEXICO
Archivo General de la Nación
Estadísticas sociodemográficas
Gobierno
Mexico: From Empire
to Revolution "Reproduced in the digital resource are cabinet
cards, cartes de visite,commemorative albuns and documentary photos--all
drawn from the collection of the Getty Research Institute."
MIGRATION STUDIES
The African Diaspora
The International Center for
Migration, Ethnicity and Citizenship
U.S.Census Bureau Population
figures and distribution of Latinos in the U.S.
The WWW Virtual Library
on Migration and Ethnic Relations
NEWSPAPERS, MAGAZINES AND OTHER PERIODICAL PUBLICATIONS
Arachne Journal of Iberian
and Latin American Literary and Cultural Studies.
Brazzil.com (news)
CLASCO, Red de Bibliotecas Virtuales de Ciencias Sociales de America Latina. Cierca de "4100 textos completos de ciencias sociales: libros, artículos de revistas, ponencias en congresos, documentos de trabajo y tesis."
Electronic Periodicals
on Latin America and the Caribbean (Tulane).
IDB America Online. Magazine
published by the Inter-American Development Bank.
IPS, Inter Press Service "The
world´s leading provider of information on global issues, is backed by
a network of journalists in more than 100 countries, with satellite communication
links to 1,200 outlets." See, regional news, critical issues.
LAPTOC (Latin American
Periodicals Tables of Contents, ARL).
Latin American Newsletters Full-text
reports available (not archived).
Magazines and Newspapers from Latin America (Ohio State U./LANIC)
Electronic Periodicals on Latin America and the Caribbean (Ohio State
U.) A-Z list of magazines published in Latin America and the Caribbean
and covering a variety of topics in the humanities and social sciences.
Includes many publications not available in databases.
European Periodicals About Latin
America A country-by-country list of European periodicals including
tables of contents.
Journals and Magazines (LANIC)
A country list of periodicals including popular magazines and scholarly
publications.
REDIAL "Se constituyeron
en miembros fundadores 35 centros de investigación, bibliotecas, ONGs,
asociaciones y centros de documentación especializados en América Latina
de Austria, España, Bélgica, Alemania, Países Bajos, Reino Unido y Francia".
SciELO Full text of Latin American journals in several disciplines. "SciELO
- Scientific Electronic Library Online is a model for cooperative electronic
publishing of scientific journals on the Internet."
Online
Publications from and about Latin America (UTSA Library)
Veja (Brazilian weekly)
Zona Latina A directory of Latin American news sources and newspapers.
PHILOSOPHY AND RELIGION
Cuban Philosophy (Cuba) "La
obra de los pensadores cubanos, constituye una reflexión sobre cuestiones
de interés universal vistas desde la perspectiva cubana, que se inicia
en la época colonial y se potencia en nuestros días." Includes the
full-text of selected works.
Filosofia
no Brasil (Luís Washington Vita). Bibliography.
Kriterion (UFMG) Journal.
Philosophy (LANIC)
Philosophy in Latin America (Paideia).
Papers.
Various
microfilm collections
PORTUGAL AND SPAIN
Portugal Focus
on business, but includes other useful links.
Portugal Pages A
collection of pages including literature and language, newspaper and
university links.
Projecto Vercial Portuguese literature in full-text, medieval to contemporary works.
TELEVISION AND RADIO
TV Radio
World "Some of the features you will find on our site
include listings of local radio and television stations on the web, in
depth listings of local television broadcast stations throughout North
and South America, including contact information."
TEXT DATABASES AND
DATA SETS
EuroDocs: Primary Historical
Documents from Western Europe (R. Hacken, BYU) Primary sources for
Portugal and Spain.
Ibero-American Electronic
Text Series (UW-Madison) "The Ibero-American Electronic Text
Series is a project developed at the University of Wisconsin-Madison
devoted
to Iberian and Latin American works in the humanities."
Latin American Election
Statistics: A Guide to Sources
Oxford University's Centre for Brazilian
Studies Full text of working papers.
O Rio de Janeiro atraves
de seus journais (1888-1969) Articles from Brazilian newspapers.
Political Databases of the Americas (multilingual)
Includes primary documents, statistical data and reference materials.
Manuscript Collections (Tulane
U.)
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