KU Workshop: Electronic Resources for the Study of Latin America

DEPARTMENT FOR SPAIN, PORTUGAL AND LATIN AMERICA

303 Watson Library

University of Kansas, Lawrence 66045

tel: 864-3351 | e-mail: jkrentz@ku.edu

SPLAT homepage: http://www.ku.edu/~splat/

University of Kansas Libraries homepage: http://www.lib.ku.edu/

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TOPIC: Electronic Resources for the Study of Latin America
DATE: February 9, 1999, February 17, 1999
PRESENTED BY: Jana Krentz
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PRIMARY ELECTRONIC DATABASES

HAPI Online - The Hispanic American Periodicals Index contains citations to articles, book reviews, documents, original literary works, and other materials appearing in more than 400 social science and humanities journals published throughout the world. The hardcopy is located in the Reference Stacks. Dates from 1970.

HLAS - The Handbook of Latin American Studies is a selective, annotated subject bibliography of journal articles and monographs in the humanities and social sciences. Available in three formats:

HLAS Online - contains volume 1, 1935 - volume 59, 2001, available through the SPLAT homepage at http://www.ukans.edu/~splat/
HLAS/CD - CD-ROM contains volume 1, 1935 - volume 53, 1994, available at the Reference Desk.
Hardbound copy is located in the Reference Stacks (Reference Z 1605 H362 V34)

LADB- Latin American Data Base - An archive of over 23,000 recent and current full- text articles on Latin America, including Mexico, Central America, the Caribbean, and South America. News reports are synthesized from regional and international sources, mostly from newspaper reports and journal articles. Subjects covered include politics, economics, human rights, environment, drugs and military. Dates from 1986 and is updated quarterly.

Info-Latinoamerica - Bibliographic database that covers business, economics, politics, and related social and cultural issues in Latin America. Many of its records, beginning with 1995, contain full text from the original source, the remainder include indexing and abstracts only. Info-Latinoamerica is compiled from over 1,500 leading international and domestic newspapers, journals, news magazines, newsletters, and other sources. Approximately 15,000 records are added per year. Dates from 1988.

¡Informe! Revistas en Español - (Available in July). IAC database provides indexing and full-text access to 60 Spanish language magazines and 100 pamphlets. Includes the most popular and well-read titles among Hispanic library users. Citation titles in both English and Spanish.

ADDITIONAL DATABASES

Anthropological Literature on Disk (CD-ROM)

Article 1st (First Search)

Contemporary Women's Issues (First Search)

Dissertation Abstracts (CD-ROM)

Ethnic Newswatch Lexis-Nexis Academic Universe (WWW)

MLA International Bibliography (ERL)

PAIS International (First Search)

World News Connection WorldCat (First Search)

INTERNET CONNECTIONS

Some WWW addresses:

SPLAT homepage - http://www.ukans.edu/~splat/

University of Kansas Libraries homepage: http://www.lib.ukans.edu/

UT-LANIC - University of Texas Latin American Network Information Center http://www.lanic.utexas.edu/ or available through SPLAT homepage.

HLAS Online - http://lcweb2.loc.gov/hlas or available through SPLAT homepage

ARL Latin Americanist Project: Index for Journals from Argentina, Mexico and Brazil http://www.lanic.utexas.edu/project/arl or available through SPLAT homepage.

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