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A guide to print and electronic resources including databases, reference works, links to UNIS and the catalogs of national libraries, as well as Web-based resources created and maintained by other institutions in the United States and abroad. The focus is on materials covering Latin American and Caribbean culture, economy, history, literature and politics, but some information on Portugal, Spain and the immigrant communities has been added as a matter of related interest.

Ceres Birkhead
 (library subject specialist) | U of U  Latin American Studies | {faculty liaison with library} (Department Representative)

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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 This resource is available to University of Utah users only.
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 resource is available to University of Utah users only.
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 This resource is available to University of Utah users only.
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 This resource is available to University of Utah users only.
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 This resource is available to University of Utah users only.
Abstracts of articles published in English literature, history, religion, communication, film studies, theater and other disciplines in the humanities from 1984 to present.

JSTOR This resource is available to University of Utah users only.
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) This resource is available to University of Utah users only.
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 This resource is available to University of Utah users only.
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 This resource is available to University of Utah users only.
"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 This resource is available to University of Utah users only.
Thousands of full-text articles on social, scientific, health, historic, business, economic, political and global topics.


 

ADDITIONAL LIBRARY RESOURCES return to top

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).

WEB LINKS return to top

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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Created on June 2001. Last updated on January 10, 2007