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TOPIC: Electronic Resources for the Study of Latin America History
DATE: March 15, 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:
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.
Historical Abstracts - (CD-ROM); Covers scholarly literature published between 1955 and the present. It indexes articles from over 2,100 (about 900 are published in the U.S.). Includes books reviews and dissertations. Materials in many languages are indexed. Updated quarterly.
ADDITIONAL DATABASES
Article 1st (First Search)
Arts & Humanities Citation Index
Contemporary Women's Issues (First Search)
Dissertation Abstracts (CD-ROM)
Lexis-Nexis Academic Universe (WWW)
WorldCat (First Search)
CRIES CD-ROM. Información Socioeconómica y Política, Centroamérica. Nicaragua / El Caribe, 1979-1992. (Managua: CRIES, 1993); Contains 12 databases for research of Nicaragua and Central America, including indexes to Nicaraguan newspapers (Barricada, La Prensa, and El Nuevo Diario), covering 1979-1992; an index of 70 regional magazines; and catalogs of books, documents, and serials in the CRIES collections. In Spanish. Available in SPLAT.
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.
H-LatAm - an international forum for the scholarly discussion of Latin American History http://h-net2.msu.edu/~latam/
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