Latin American Collections

• HAPI (Hispanic American Periodicals Index)
  Indexes books, journals, conference proceedings, and official documents on Hispanic America.
  
• Handbook of Latin American Studies
  Indexes books, journals and proceedings on Latin America.
  
• RedALyC: Red de Revistas Cientificas de America Latina y El Caribe
  Developed by the Universidad Autonoma del Estado de Mexico this resource indexes some 180 social science serials published in Latin America and Spain.
  
• ClasePeriodica
  Developed by the Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico it includes 300,000 bibliographic citations from documents published in 2,600 scholarly journals published in the Spanish, Portuguese, French and English languages.
  
• CSIC Bases de Datos Bibliograficas (Ciencias Sociales y Humanidades)
  Provides thousands of scholarly journals in the social sciences and the humanities mainly published in Spain. They mostly include citations from academic journals, but also a selection of congress and conference proceedings, serials, compilations, reports and monographs.
  
• Dialnet
  Open-access database created by a group of Spanish universities it lists almost 1.4 million articles in over 4,000 mostly Spanish journals and magazines, and thousands of books and dissertations. Some fulltext.
  
• Chicano Database
  Indexes materials about Mexican-American topics since 1967, and about Puerto Ricans, Cuban Americans, and Central American immigrants since 1992.
  
• Latin American Newspapers Series 1 (from the World Newspaper Archive)
  Full text, from 1808 to 1980 selected from America's Historical Newspapers.
  
• Latin American Women Writers
  Collection of over 100,000 pages of literature by Latin American women from the colonial period in the 17th century to the present. Includes memoirs, essays and literature in the original language of the writers.
  
• Latinobarametro
  An annual public opinion survey that involves some 19,000 interviews in 18 Latin American countries, representing more than 400 million inhabitants. Data files are available for different years and in various formats and in both Spanish - the official language - and English.
  
• Latino Literature
  Contains approximately 380 plays and 67,500 pages of prose and poetry by Chicano, Cuban, Puerto Rican, Dominican and other Latin writers working in the United States.
  
• MLA International Bibliography
  Indexes journal articles, series, monographs, dissertations, bibliographies, proceedings and other materials supporting critical scholarship on literature, language, linguistics, and folklore. Sponsored by the Modern Language Association.
  
• Historical Abstracts
  Indexes over 2,000 journals, as well as historical book reviews and dissertations, published worldwide about all aspects of world history (excluding US and Canada) from 1450 to the present. Articles covered were written from 1954 to thepresent
  
• Bibliografia Mesoamericana
  Provides bibliographic coverage of the published literature pertaining to Mesoamerica, including archaeology, art history, ethnography, ethnohistory, linguistics, physical anthropology, and related disciplines. Temporal coverage extends from the early sixteenth-century to the present. Bibliografia Mesoamericana is a joint project of the Foundation for the Advancement of Mesoamerican Studies, Inc. (FAMSI) and the Library of the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, Philadelphia, PA.
  
• Bibliographic Guide to Caribbean Literature
  Contains over 8200 records covering all aspects of life among people of African descent in the Caribbean: literature, music, history, sociology, art.
  
• CIAO (Columbia International Affairs Online)
  Indexes journals, books, policy briefs, working papers, and conference proceedings from research institutes worldwide related to international affairs analysis and advocacy materials. Also includes links to international affairs Internet sources.
  
• SciELO: Scientific Electronic Library Online
  Indexes over 650 scholarly online journals in the sciences, social sciences, arts, and humanities to meet the scientific communication needs of developing countries, particularly those in Latin America and the Caribbean. Can be searched in English, Spanish, or Portuguese.
  

• LANIC
  Web portal to Latin American resources develped by the Latin American Network Information Center, University of Austin.
• Political Database of the Americas
  The PDBA offers information about institutions and political processes, national constitutions, branches of government, elections, political constitutional studies and other subjects related to the strengthening of democracy in Latin America. It has over 1,500 pages of information.
• ISI Emerging Markets
  This resource aggregates and produces full-text news articles, financial statements, company information, industry analyses, equity quotes, macroeconomic statistics, and market-specific information, on more than 80 emerging markets.

• BBC Country Profiles
• Economist Intelleigence Unit Profiles

• LADB (Latin America Data Base)
  An online news service that provides access to three weekly electronic news bulletins about Mexico (SourceMex), Central America and the Caribbean including Cuba (NotiCen) and South America (NotiSur). LADB is also a searchable archive of over 24,000 articles.
  
• Latin America Advisor
  Online news service published by the Inter-American Dialogue. It provides access to three weekly electronic news bulletins: Latin America Advisor (every business day), Latin America Advisor: Energy (weekly), and Latin America Advisor: Financial Services (every two weeks).
  
• Latin American Newspapers Series 1 (from the World Newspaper Archive)
  This growing archive of Latin American newspapers contains more than 150,000 pages of content. New content is being added regularly and will eventually contain more than 1.5 million pages. Included in the collection are: Comercio from Peru; El Dictamen, Mexican Herald and Excelsior from Mexico; Prensa and Razon from Argentina; and more.
  

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• Latin America News

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• Center for Latin American Studies (CLAS) at UC Berkeley
  CLAS at UC Berkeley is a National Resource Center dedicated to promoting research and community awareness about issues affecting Latin America.
• UC-CUBA Multi-Campus Academic Initiative
  UC-CUBA Multi-Campus Academic Initiative, centered at UC Irvine, was established in 2006 as a grass-roots research effort by faculty members whose work includes Cuba Studies, broadly defined. Participants come from the 9 campuses of the University of California.
• Latin American Studies Association (LASA)
  LASA brings together experts on Latin America from all disciplines and diverse occupational endeavors, across the globe.
• Society for Latin American Studies (SLAS)
  Founded in 1964 SLAS is one of the leading Latin American studies organizations in Europe.
• Seminar on the Acquisition of Latin American Library Materials (SALALM)
  SALALM provides the only national and international forum focused exclusively on collection development and services in libraries with Latin American collections.
• Inter-American Dialogue
  The Inter-American Dialogue is the premier center for policy analysis, exchange, and communication on issues in Western Hemisphere affairs.
• ABINIA
  Asociación de Bibliotecas Nacionales Iberoamericanas

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