Latin American and Caribbean Studies (Subject Guides)
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Databases
general resources
Handbook of Latin American Studies
The Library of Congress offers this selective annotated bibliography of scholarly works on Latin America with citations (some in Spanish or Portuguese) to materials in the humanities and social sciences. Covers 1935 to the present.
Academic
Search Premier (Full Text)
The world’s largest academic multi-disciplinary
database providing full text for nearly 4,700 publications,
including full text for more than 3,600 peer-reviewed
journals. Coverage spans virtually every area of academic
study and offers information dating as far back as 1975.
This database is updated daily.
Academic OneFile (Full Text) 
A source for peer-reviewed, full-text articles from the world's leading journals and reference sources. With extensive coverage of the physical sciences, technology, medicine, social sciences, the arts, theology, literature and other subjects, OneFile is both authoritative and comprehensive. With millions of articles available in both PDF and HTML full-text with no restrictions, researchers are able to find accurate information quickly. Includes full-text coverage of the New York Times back to 1995. Updated daily.
Latin American Periodicals Tables of Contents (LAPTOC)
The Latin American Periodicals Tables of Contents (LAPTOC) is a searchable Web database that provides access to the tables of contents of more than 800 journals, primarily in the humanities and social sciences, published in Latin America.
JSTOR
(Full Text)
A collection of full-text articles from over 150
scholarly journals, many dating from the nineteenth-century
to the last 4 or 5 years. Check the box for Latin American
Studies to search the contents of 7 core titles.
Periodicals Archive Online (formerly Periodical Contents Index - Full Text) (Full Text)
Index to articles from 1802 to 1995 in the humanities
and social sciences. Includes full-text to approximately
140 journals.
Project Muse(Full Text)
Searchable access to scholarly journals in the arts and humanities, social sciences, and mathematics.
Sociological Abstracts
An index to over 1,700 journals covering the international literature in sociology and related disciplines in the social and behavioral sciences. Also provides provides abstracts of books, book chapters, dissertations, and conference papers.
United Nations Common Database
UNCDB provides selected series from numerous specialized international data sources for all available countries and areas.
Dissertations & Theses: Full Text
The ProQuest Dissertations & Theses database includes over 2 million master's theses and dissertations, with over 60,000 titles added every year. It's a great resource for researchers in a wide variety of fields.
anthropology and archaeology
Anthropological
Index Online
Offered through the Royal Anthropological Institute
of Great Britain and Ireland this database indexes anthropological
literature from the 1970s to the present.
Anthropological
Literature
Anthropological Literature indexes articles and essays
on anthropology and archaeology and includes art history,
demography, economics, psychology, and religious studies.
Updated quarterly, Anthropological Literature includes
articles two or more pages long in works published in
English and other European languages from the late 19th
century to the present.
eHRAF World Cultures (Full Text)
The eHRAF World Cultures is a cross-cultural database that contains information on all aspects of cultural and social life. The annually-growing eHRAF database is unique in that the information is organized by cultures and ethnic groups and the full-text sources are subject-indexed at the paragraph level.
history
Country
Studies (Full Text)
Contains the on-line versions of books previously
published in by the Federal Research Division of the
Library of Congress under the Country Studies/Area Handbook
Program sponsored by the U.S. Department of Army. 102
countries and regions are covered.
Historical
Abstracts
Provides citations and abstracts to historical literature
(excluding the U.S. and Canada) from 1450 to the present.
politics and economy
CIAO:
Columbia International Affairs Online
This comprehensive source for theory and research
in international affairs publishes a wide range of scholarship
from 1991 to the present that includes working papers
from university research institutes, occasional papers
series from NGOs, foundation-funded research projects,
and proceedings from international conferences.
CQ
Electronic Library (Full Text)
Includes CQ Researcher,
a source for in-depth analysis reporting on the most
current and controversial issues of the day; CQ Weekly,
a source for expert coverrage of the U.S. Congress such
as status of bills, votes and amendments, floor and
committee activity; and CQ's Encyclopedia of American
Government.
International Relations and Security Network (ISN)
A free public service that provides a range of products and resources to encourage the exchange of information among international relations and security professionals worldwide
PAIS
International (Public Affairs Information Service)
Index to policy-oriented literature (books, journal
articles and U.S. and foreign government documents).
International coverage of information about political,
economic and social issues and events in specific countries.
Covers 1972 to the present.
science and technology
Clase/Periodica
CLASE indexes documents published in Latin American
journals specializing in the social sciences and humanities
and PERIODICA covers journals specializing in science
and technology. Together they offer access to more than
300,000 bibliographic citations from documents published
in 2,600 scholarly journals published in the Spanish,
Portuguese, French and English languages.
SciELO
Brazil (Full Text)
The Scientific Electronic Library Online - SciELO is
an electronic library covering a selected collection
of Brazilian scientific journals, providing full access
to a collection of serial titles, a collection of issues
from individual serial titles, as well as to the full
text of articles. The access to both serial titles and
articles is available via indexes and search forms.
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Print and Electronic Resources
Daily Life Through History
Daily Life Through History gives a detailed portrayal of what life was like for ordinary people in different cultures throughout history. At the heart of this database are the 27 volumes of the Daily Life Through History series from Greenwood Press and the six volume Greenwood Encyclopedia of Daily Life.
Also included in this online database are related books from Praeger Press, related reference works from Greenwood Press, and related primary source documents.
Gale Virtual Reference Library(Full Text)
Includes searchable full-text online version of Countries and Their Cultures which surveys each country's shared values, behaviors and cultural variations from foods and rituals to pastimes and arts, using a standard entry format for easy comparison.
Encyclopedia
of Mexico
REF F1210 .E63 1997 Vol.1-2
Encyclopedia
of Contemporary Latin American and Caribbean Cultures
REF F1406 .E515 2000 Vol. 1-3
Encyclopedia
of Latin American History and Culture
REF F1406 E53 1996 Vol. 1-5
Indexed
Journals: A Guide to Latin American Serials
REF
F1408 C68 1987
Handbook
of Latin American Studies
REF F1408 H24 Vol. 52-58 (2002)
Latin
American Studies: A Basic Guide to the Sources
REF
1408 L37 1990
Encyclopedia
of Latin American Politics
REF F1410 .E56 2002
A Reference Guide to
Latin American History
REF F1410 H463 2000
The
Complete Caribbeana, 1900-1975: A Bibliographic Guide
to the Scholarly Literature
REF F2161 C63
A
Bibliography of the Caribbean
REF F2161 G67 1996
Atlas
of Central America and the Caribbean
REF G1550 D5 1985
Dictionary
of Latin American Racial and Ethnic Terminology
REF GN562 S74 1999
Statistical Abstract of Latin America
REF HA935 S79 Vol. 35
Encyclopedia
of Latin American and Caribbean Art
CofC Stacks N6502 E53 2000
Handbook
of Latin American Art: A Bibliographic Compilation
REF
N6502 H36 1984
A
Sourcebook for Hispanic Literature and Language
REF
PC4071 B53 1995
NTC's Dictionary of Latin American Spanish
REF PC4822 O65 1997
Dictionary
of Caribbean English Usage
REF
PE3304 D54 1996
The
DLB: Twentieth-century Caribbean and Black African Authors
REF
PN 451 D52 Vols. 117, 125, 157
The
World Encyclopedia of Contemporary Theatre, Vol. 2:
The Americas
REF
PN1861 W67 1994
The
International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers
REF
PN1997.8 I58 2000
Diccionario
de Literature Espanola e Hispanoamericana
REF
PQ6006 D52 1993
Hispanic
Literature Criticism
REF
PQ6039 H57 1994
A
Reference Index to Twelve Thousand Spanish American
Authors: A Guide to Bibliographies and Bio-bibliographies
REF
PQ7081 G74 1971
Biographical
Dictionary of Hispanic Literature in the United States
: The Literature of Puerto Ricans, Cuban Americans,
and Other Hispanic Writers
REF PQ7420.2 K3 1989
Fifty
Caribbean Writers: A Bio-bibliographical-critical Sourecebook
REF PR9205 A52 F54 1986
A
Bibliography of Latin American Bibliographies Published
in Periodicals
REF Z1601 A2 G76 1976
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Internet Resources
Base
de Datos Políticos de las Américas (Political
Database of the Americas)
Information collected by Georgetown University
on Latin American political, legislative, and judicial
systems. In Spanish.
BBC
News Country Profiles
Full
profiles provide an instant guide to history, politics
and economic background of countries.
Caribbean Studies Research Papers
This site has been designed to facilitate access to research pertaining to the study of Caribbean economics and development, politics, and history and culture. It features a rotating number of original research papers (in Adobe PDF format) which may be downloaded.
Hispanic
Reading Room
This is a gateway to various Latin American
resources at the Library of Congress.
Inter-American
Development Bank
The
oldest and largest regional multilateral development
institution. IDB works to help accelerate economic and
social development in Latin America and the Caribbean.
Latin
American Network Information Center
A well-organized gateway site for information covering
a broad range of topics about Latin America.
Latin American Pamphlet Digital Collection
From Harvard University’s Widener Library, a collection of more than 5,000 scarce and unique Latin American pamphlets published during the 19th and the early 20th centuries, covering a variety of topics related to cultural life, boundary disputes, religion, and politics from numerous countries.
Latin American Public Opinion Project (LAPOP): featuring academic studies based on survey research conducted mainly in Latin America.
LAPOP's research efforts to date have produced more than 60 surveys analyzing major topics of great interest to political and social scientists, Latin Americanists, government officials, and interested citizens. LAPOP surveys analyzing citizen views on system support, political tolerance, citizen participation, local government, corruption, and views on authoritarianism have been conducted and are now being archived for: Bolivia, Colombia, Costa Rica, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Venezuela as well as for Madagascar, Israel and Albania.
Latin
American Studies Association
The largest professional Association in the world for
individuals and institutions engaged in the study of
Latin America.
LatinWorld
Megasite that includes "everything you
want to know about the region and its people." Bilingual.
U.S.
Department of State Background Notes
Index of links to information for each
of the countries in Latin America and the Caribbean.
Topics include geography, people, government, economy,
history, and more. Last update is noted.
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Resources at the College
Current Print Periodicals
Américas
Ancient Mesoamerica
Cuadernos Hispanoamericanos
Hispanic American Historical Review
Hispanic Review
Jamaica Journal
Journal of Caribbean History
Journal of Interamerican Studies and World Affairs
Journal of Latin American Anthropology
Journal of Latin American Studies
Latin American Antiquity
Latin American Perspectives
Latin American Politics and Society
Latin American Theatre Review
Latina American Research Review
New West Indian Guide
North American Congress on Latin America
Report on the Americas
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