Latin American Studies

Libraries on the Web: Mexican, Central and S. American, and Caribbean Libraries
Selected library catalogs in Mexican, Central and South American, and Caribbean Libraries
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Latin American and the Caribbean Atlas of Our Changing Environment Website
Shows environmental changes based on remotely sensed images acquired by different satellites over many years, or a few days in some cases, and through images, maps, tables, graphs and text, it presents a picture of where Latin America and the Caribbean has been, and where it is now.
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Latin America and the Caribbean Atlas of Our Changing Environment PNUMA
Top 10 environmental changes in Latin America and the Caribbean.
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  WorldCat (OCLC)

  PAIS International (ProQuest)

  Hispania

  Lusotopie

  SciELO - Scientific Electronic Library

  Sociological Abstracts (ProQuest)

  Roper Center for Public Opinion Research

  Roper Center - The Latin American Databank at The Roper Center for Public Opinion Research (LAD)

  ProceedingsFirst (OCLC)

  HAPI: Hispanic American Periodicals Index

  Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU)

  Historical Abstracts (Ebsco)

  Dissertations and Theses Full Text (ProQuest)

  CIAO - Columbia International Affairs Online

  OECD iLibrary

  EconLit with Full Text (EBSCO)

  Worldwide Political Science Abstracts - WPSA (ProQuest)

International Monetary Fund
Publications of the IMF are available from their website.
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Amnesty International
The library tab offers AI reports on various countries and themes.
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Pew Hispanic Center
The Pew Hispanic Center is a nonpartisan research organization that seeks to improve understanding of the U.S. Hispanic population and to chronicle Latinos’ growing impact on the nation.
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Latin American Migration Project - LAMP
Research for the Latin American Migration Project has been possible thanks to the support provided by the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (grant R01 HD35848). The surveys in Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Paraguay, and Haiti received financial support from the Mellon Foundation.
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Organization of American States - OAS
Established to achieve among its member states, as stated in Article 1 of its Charter, “an order of peace and justice, to promote their solidarity, to strengthen their collaboration, and to defend their sovereignty, their territorial integrity, and their independence.” Today it comprises the 35 independent states of the Americas and has granted permanent observer status to 63 states, as well as to the European Union. The Organization of American States constitutes the principal political, juridical, and social governmental forum in the Hemisphere.
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Political Database of the Americas (PDBA)
Through its website, the PDBA offers centralized and systematized 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 the region.
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Handbook of Latin American Studies - HLAS (LC)
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. Each year, more than 130 academics from around the world choose over 5,000 works for inclusion in the Handbook. Continuously published since 1936, the Handbook offers Latin Americanists an essential guide to available resources.
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Latin American Network Information Center (LANIC)
This major gateway to internet-based information for Latin American Studies targeted at people living in Latin America, as well as those around the world who have an interest in this region.
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Latinbarometro
Latinobarómetro is an annual public opinion survey that involves some 19,000 interviews in 18 Latin American countries, representing more than 400 million inhabitants. Latinobarómetro Corporation researches the development of democracy and economies as well as societies, using indicators of opinion, attitudes, behaviour and values. Its results are used by social and political actors, international organizations, governments and the media.
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ECLA/CEPAL - Economic Commission for Latin America
ECLAC, which is headquartered in Santiago, Chile, is one of the five regional commissions of the United Nations. It was founded with the purpose of contributing to the economic development of Latin America, coordinating actions directed towards this end, and reinforcing economic ties among countries and with other nations of the world. The promotion of the region's social development was later included among its primary objectives.
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Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU)
Commerce Reports, Country Reports, Country Profiles (last published in 2008) and Market Indicators and Forecasts from the Economist Intelligence Unit offer monthly and annual in depth analysis, data and ratings for the infrastructure, demographics, political scene, domestic economy, foreign trade, including regional and industrial sector breakdowns for over 200 countries.
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Political Handbook of the World (CQ Press)
Comprehensive country profiles chronicling national history, government, and political parties, as well as profiles on intergovernmental organizations, development banks, and the agencies and specialized bodies of the United Nations.
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Libraries on the Web: Mexican, Central and S. American, and Caribbean Libraries
Selected library catalogs in Mexican, Central and South American, and Caribbean Libraries
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Gateway to Information- Latin American Studies
Ohio State Univervity's gateway to online reference resources for Latin American and Brazilian Studies.
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Inter-American Democratic Charter
The Charter, adopted in September 2001, launched a new era of the inter-American system. It describes the conditions that define democratic governance, as well as hemispheric instruments that may be used in its defense and guidelines for its strengthening.
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Falvey's LAS Encyclopedias
Reference and main stack materials found in Falvey's collection.
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Falvey's LAS Dictionaries
These specialized dictionaries focus on a variety of topics in Latin American Studies.
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Biblioteca Virtual Cervantes
The full-text library of Spanish-language materials here includes some works on Brazil in Spanish, Portuguese, and English.
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Biblioteca Nacional Digital - Biblioteca Nacional de Portugal
An extraordinary array of historic texts on Brazil can be accessed through this site.
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National Library of Brazil - Fundação Biblioteca Nacional
The full-text retrieval of books from the classics of Brazilian literature may be accessed.
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Political Elites in Mexico, 1900-1971: Online Data Archive
The Political Elites in Mexico, 1900-1971 dataset is typically used by researchers who are familiar with statistical software programs such as SPSS or SAS. These programs are used to analyze the data and determine statistical patterns.This dataset contains information on the political office holder's sex, birthplace, profession/occupations, military service, date and place of birth and death, father's occupation, education (preparation, length, attainment, specialization, foreign training), travel abroad, intellectual activities (publications, teaching), political affiliation, political offices held and length of stay, activity during the revolution of 1910-1920, geographical entity represented, memberships in political and other organizations.
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Latin American Writers
A collection of biographical and critical essays on Latin American writers by scholars from the U.S., Latin America, and Europe.
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Lexis Nexis Academic
Provides full-text access to a wide range of news (national, international, regional, business, legal, and foreign language), business (company financial news and information, accounting, auditing & tax information, industry and market news), and legal (law reviews, federal case law, state legal research) sources. It also features news transcripts, the U.S. Code, Constitution & Court rules, state and country profiles, medical abstracts, and reference & directory sources.
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Historical New York Times (ProQuest)
The New York Times is a unique full-image archive that brings you the entire historical run of The New York Times, in-depth coverage of science and politics. It offers complete coverage from 1851 to the present with the exception of the most current two years. Includes classified ads, comics and cartoons, photos, maps, graphics, etc., editorials and commentary.
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ProQuest Newspapers
Includes coverage of 27 newspapers including The New York Times, Wall Street Journal and Washington Post, plus other important U.S., international and minority interest papers.
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Ethnic NewsWatch (ProQuest)
A comprehensive full text database of the newspapers, magazines and journals of the ethnic, minority and native press.
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Internet Public Library Newspapers
Online newspapers from around the world.
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Latin American Weekly Report
Weekly briefing on key developments in Latin America.
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Caribbean Newspaper Digitization Library (CNDL)
In developing the pilot project and plan for the Caribbean Newspaper Digitization Library, permissions to digitize a number of Caribbean newspapers was been granted by the publishers and copyright owners. Even at this early stage, many new copyright owners have already granted permissions. Those granting permissions are listed below, but this list regularly falls out of date so please see the Caribbean Newspaper Digitization Library at http://www.dloc.com/ufdc/?c=cndl for all of the materials included.
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North American Congress on Latin America (NACLA)
An independent, nonprofit organization founded in 1966 that works toward a world in which the nations and peoples of Latin America and the Caribbean are free from oppression and injustice, and enjoy a relationship with the United States based on mutual respect, free from economic and political subordination. To that end, our mission is to provide information and analysis on the region, and on its complex and changing relationship with the United States, as tools for education and advocacy - to foster knowledge beyond borders.
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Portuguese Dictionaries
Full-text reference works of general and specialized Portuguese dictionaries.
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Organization of American States - OAS
Established to achieve among its member states, as stated in Article 1 of its Charter, “an order of peace and justice, to promote their solidarity, to strengthen their collaboration, and to defend their sovereignty, their territorial integrity, and their independence.” Today it comprises the 35 independent states of the Americas and has granted permanent observer status to 63 states, as well as to the European Union. The Organization of American States constitutes the principal political, juridical, and social governmental forum in the Hemisphere.
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Pan American Health Organization
An international public health agency with more than 100 years of experience in working to improve health and living standards of the countries of the Americas. It serves as the specialized organization for health of the Inter-American System. It also serves as the Regional Office for the Americas of the World Health Organization and enjoys international recognition as part of the United Nations system.
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