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Latin American Studies

Principal Internet Resources for Latin America

• UT-LANIC (University of Texas - Latin American Network Information Center)
• Hathi Trust Digital Library
• REDALYC (Red de revistas científicas de América Latina y el Caribe, España y Portugal - UAEM)
• The Center for Research Libraries
  • CRL's World Newspaper Archive
  • CRL's Topic Guides
• Latin American Microform Project (LAMP)
• Handbook of Latin American Studies (HLAS)
• Hispanic Reading Room (Library of Congress)
• Selected Bibliography of US Government and Int'l Documents on Latin America and the Caribbean

Resources at the University of Kansas

• Center of Latin American Studies
  • Video Collection
• Department of Spanish and Portuguese
  • Acceso (University of Kansas) --a complete, interactive curriculum for intermediate-level learners of Spanish
• KU Libraries
  • HAPI Online (Hispanic American Periodicals Index) via the KU Libraries' home page (Available only to KU faculty, staff, and students. A valid student or staff I.D. number is required for off-campus access.)
    • Online Tutorial (Jana Krentz)
  • LADB: Latin American Database (Available only to KU faculty, staff, and students. A valid student or staff I.D. number is required for off-campus access.)
    • LADB User's Guide
  • MLA Bibliography (Available only to KU faculty, staff, and students. A valid student or staff I.D. number is required for off-campus access.)
• Department of Anthropology
  • Prof. John W. Hoopes (personal web page)
• HALO: Hispanic American Leadership Organization (KU)
• Latin American Solidarity (LAS)
• The Life and Times of Jorge Luis Borges
• Sur (Buenos Aires, Argentina)
• Vida pública en la Argentina contemporánea
• Reader's Guide to Latin American Studies (Jana Krentz, Bibliographer)

Selected Internet Resources for Latin American Studies

Searchable Databases

• ALPE - América Latina en la Prensa Española
• América Latina. Portal Europeo. Información e investigación europeas sobre América Latina (REDIAL & CEISAL)
• Bases de datos de libros y folletos. Centroamérica siglos XIX y XX (Iván Molina Jiménez, La Escuela de Historia de la Universidad de Costa Rica )
• Biblioteca Felipe Herrera - Full text (Inter-American Development Bank)
• BLDS Bibliographic Database - Searchable version of the library catalog of the British Library for Development Studies at the Institute of Development Studies, UK
• CARINDEX (An index of social sciences and humanities literature published in the Caribbean)
• Castro Speech Database: Speeches, Interviews, Articles. 1959 - 1996
• CSIC - Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (España)
  • CINDOC - Centro de Información y Documentación Científica
  • IEDCYT - Instituto de Estudios Documentales sobre Ciencia y Tecnología
• Database of the Argentinean Parliamentary Archives developed with UNESCO's CDS/ISIS
• Documents of 20th-Century Latin American and Latino Art (ICAA) - Digital archive and publications project, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
• Guatemalan Police Archive (University of Texas)
• Handbook of Latin American Studies (HLAS)
• Hathi Trust Digital Library
• Hispanic Reading Room (Library of Congress)
• Ibero-american Migratory Movements--Portal de Movimientos Migratorios Iberoamericanos (Ministerio de Cultura--España)
• Inomics: The Internet Site for Economists
• ISN: International Relations & Security Network (includes full-text articles)
• Jolis Catalog of the Joint World Bank-IMF Library. Article and working paper citations in worldwide economics, finance, and development.
• Kellogg Institute for International Studies: Working Papers (Follow path: About/Institute Publications/Working Papers)
• Latin American Choral Music - Compilation of information about choral music by Latin American composers from 1550 to present.
• Latin American Development Archive - LADARK (Univeristy of Texas, San Antonio)
• LILACS Database - Latin American and Caribbean Health Sciences Literature
• Metabase: Meta-Database of Bibliographic References (Costa Rica)
• OECD (Organisation for Economic Co-Operation and Development)
• Online Bibliography on Latin American Environmental History
• Political Database of the Americas (Georgetown University)
• Population Index on the Web: 1986-2000 (Princeton)
• RePEc - economics papers
• SciELO - Scientific electronic library online
• Theses and Dissertations (Iberian, Latin American and Latino Resources, Brown University Library)
• Transnationalism Research Clearinghouse (Mexico-North Research Network)
• Twentieth Century Latin American Pamphlets (Rutgers University Libraries)
• UT-LANIC (University of Texas - Latin American Network Information Center)
• World Bank
• WWW Virtual Library: International Affairs Resources

Other Resources

• América Latina. Portal Europeo. Información e Investigación Europeas sobre América Latina (REDIAL y CEISAL)
• Brazilian Studies (University of Michigan)
• Central America: Information Services (Grete Pasch - UT)
• Forced Migration Online
• Latin America Archive (Latin American Data Base)
• Latin American Cinema Guide (Emory University Libraries)
• The Latin American Public Opinion Project (LAPOP)
• The Latin Americanist (student-run blog)
• Living Edens: Costa Rica (PBS)
• Memoria Centroamericana (Instituto de Historia de Nicaragua y Centroamérica -- IHNCA)
• Portal Venezuela (Biblioteca Virtual Miguel de Cervantes, Universidad de Alicante)
• Universidad de Costa Rica
• www.brazilink.org (Brazilian social issues)
• WWW-VL History Central (European University Institute)

Virtual & Digital Libraries

• Biblioteca Digital Cátedra
• Biblioteca Enrique Bolaños -- Nicaragua (biblioteca presidencial virtual)
• Biblioteca Virtual Daniel Cosío Villegas (Colegio de México)
• Biblioteca Virtual de Paraguay (FONDEC)
• Digital Collection of Mexican and Argentine Presidential Messages (UT-Lanic)
• Digital Library of the Caribbean
• Ecclesiastical Sources for Slave Societies: Sacramental Records Digitalized in Havana and Matanzas, Cuba, 2004-2005 (Vanderbilt University Library)
• Humboldt Digital Library (University of Kansas and Hochschule Offenburg, University of Applied Sciences)
• Ibero-American Electronic Text Series (Luis M. Villar, University of Wisconsin - Madison Libraries)
• Latin American Library Image Archive (Tulane)
• Latin American Pamphlet (Harvard)
• Latin American Posters Collection at Princeton
• Legislación Mexicana (Complete collection from 1687 to 1902)
• Manuscritos de America en Colecciones Reales
• Mapas Project (University of Oregon) - Mesoamerican pictorial manuscripts
• OAIster (University of Michigan Digital Library Production Service)
• Red de bibliotecas virtuales de ciencias sociales de América Latina y el Caribe de la Red de Centros Miembros de CLASCO
• Repositorios Digitales de la Biblioteca Carlos Meléndez y del Centro de Investigaciones Históricas de América Central (Universidad de Costa Rica)
• Writings on the Mexican Revolution (Ricardo Flores Magón)

Archives

• Digital Archive of the Guatemalan National Police Historical Archive (University of Texas)
• Directorio Web de Archivos Iberoamericanos (Fundación MAPFRE)
• Libraries & Archives (UT-LANIC)
• TARO: Texas Archival Resources Online (University of Texas Libraries)

Images & Sounds

• Banco de imágenes y sonidos (CNICE)
• Costa Rica Photos (costaricaphotos.com)
• Latin American Library Image Archive (Tulane)
• The University of Kansas: Image Gateway
  
• New York Public Library Digital Gallery
  
• UT-LANIC Images
• AccuNet/AP multimedia archive : photos, text, audio, graphics

Film

• La Dictadura en el Cine (Argentina - Memoria Abierta)
• Latin American and Spanish Online Videos on the Internet: a Guide to Web Resources (Univ. of Albany)
• Spanish and Latin American Film (Univ. of Kansas)

Book Trade

• Resources for Locating and Evaluating Latin American Resources (SALALM)

Chicano/Latino Studies

• Andanzas al Web Latino (New Mexico State University Library)
• Anuario Hispano/Hispanic Yearbook
• Border Studies Guide (New Mexico State University Library)
• The Borderland's Encyclopedia '98 (University of Texas at El Paso)
• Centro Journal (Centro de Estudios Puertorriqueños, Hunter College - CUNY)
• Chicano/Latino Net (University of California)
• Chicano Literature Latino Literature - Pluma Fronteriza
• HALO: Hispanic American Leadership Organization (KU)
• Hispanic Population of the United States (US Census Bureau)
• Humanities - Interactive Border Studies Exhibitions
• Latino Studies (Rutgers University Libraries)
• Latinoteca (University of Houston)
• Mexican Migration Project (Princeton University)
• Portal de Cultura Chicana (Cervantesvirtual.com)
• Search Latino: Magazines and Newspapers Section

Electronic Journals & Other Publications

• Banco Central de Reserva del Peru: Publicaciones (Click on "Informes y publicaciones")
• EURE (Revista latinoamericana de estudios urbano regionales del Instituto de Estudios Urbanos de la Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile)
• IDB América - External newsmagazine from the Inter-American Development Bank
• Inter-American Development Bank: 2001 Annual Report
• Istmo: revista virtual de estudios literarios y culturales centroamericanos (electronic publication)
• Journals and Magazines (UT-LANIC)
• Juazeiro do Norte online
• Latin American Travelogues (Brown University Library)
• The Madrid Codex: A Maya Hieroglyphic Book - Searchable Database (Gabrielle Vail, Christine Hernández)
• Mexican-American War and the Media (Linda Arnold, Dept. of History, Virginia Tech)
• Revistas de El Colegio de México
• Revistas del patrimonio cultural
• SciELO - Scientific electronic library online
• Sur (Buenos Aires, Argentina)
• TodaVia (Argentina)

Newspapers & News Sources

• América Latina en la Prensa Española (ALPE)
• The Center for Research Libraries' World Newspaper Archive
• CNN en Español
  • CNN Internacional
  • CNN Latin América
  • CNN Chile
  • CNN México
• Costa Rica News (costaricaphotos.com)
• Costa Rica News
• Foreign Language News and Newspapers (MIT)
• Infoplease--Brazil
• ISLA Links (Information Services Latin America - news and other information resources)
• Kidon Media Link
• La Nación (Costa Rica) Historical Archives
• Latin American News Sources (Yale)
• LatinWorld
• Narco News Bulletin
• News (UT-LANIC)
• Periódicos - CiberCentro
• Periodistadigital.com
• Prensaescrita
• A Provisional Census of Current Latin American Newspaper Holdings in UK Libraries (Advisory Council on Latin American and Iberian Information Sources --ACLAIIR)
• Publicaciones Periódicas del Uruguay
• Spanish Language News and Magazines (MIT)
• Titulares --search for news stories in over 70 Spanish-language newspapers from Spain and some Latin American countries
• Worldpress - News and Views from around the World

Government Documents

• Brazilian Government Documents Project (CRL)
• Database of the Argentinean Parliamentary Archives developed with UNESCO's CDS/ISIS
• Directory of Development Organizations
• Guatemalan Police Archive (University of Texas)
• Latin American Election Statistics: A Guide to Sources (Karen Lindvall-Larson, Social Sciences and Humanities Library, UCSD)
• LAGDA--Latin American Government Documents Archive
• Latin American and Caribbean Government Documents Project (Cornell)
• National Security Archive Declassified Documents (George Washington University)
• U.S. Dept. of State FOIA Electronic Reading Room

Country Overviews

• Library of Congress Country Studies
• The World Fact Book (CIA)

International Organizations

• ASFADDES: Asociación de Familiares Detenidos-Desaparecidos en Colombia / Colombian Association of Relatives of the Detained and Disappeared
• Directory of Development Organizations – list by country.
• Global Policy Forum - NGOs
• The Hauser Center for Nonprofit Organizations (Harvard, JFK School of Government)
• International Documents Finding Guide (Jana Krentz)
• IGOs--International Governmental Organizations
  • IGO Resources (Duke University Libraries)
  • IGOs & NGOs--Children in Contemporary Society (Duke University Libraries)
  • Government & NGO documents (Duke University Libraries)
  • IGOs & NGOs--International Development Seminar (Duke University Libraries)
  • IGOs & NGOs--Globalization, Women, & Development (Duke University Libraries)
• International Monetary Fund
  • IMF Country Reports
• INTAL - Institute for the Integration of Latin America and the Caribbean
• Inter-American Development Bank
  • Biblioteca Felipe Herrera (full text, searchable database)
• Latin American NGOs
• Naciones Unidas Comisión Económica para America Latina y el Caribe (CEPAL)
• Non-Governmental Organizations--NGOs
  • United Nations--NGO Database
  • NGO Research Guide - World Bank and NGOs (Duke University Libraries)
  • NGOs--International Human Rights and World Politics (Duke University Libraries)
  • NGO Research Guide--Key Resources (Duke University Libraries)
    • Latin American NGOs
• Organization of American States
• United Nations Development Programme
• United Nations Environment Programme
• World Bank Latin America and the Caribbean Region Technical Dept.

International Business

• Brazilink
• GlobalEDGE (formerly known as International Business Resources on the WWW - MSU)
• InterAm Database (National Law Center for Inter-American Free Trade)
• International Business (American University Library)
• LATCO Tools of the Trade (Latin American Trade Council of Oregon)
• Latin Focus

Internet Resources for the Study and Teaching of Languages of Latin America

• Guarani
• Haitian Creole
• Jamaican Patois
• Maya
• Portuguese (Brazilian)
• Quechua
• Spanish
• Spanish Grammar Exercises (Colby College)
• Yoruba
• Other Languages
  • Ethnologue: Languages of the World
  • iLoveLanguages (formerly known as The Human Languages Page)
  • Languages-on-the-Web ("The Site with 30,000 Language Links")
• Intute: Arts & Humanities
  • Spanish
  • Amerindian Languages
  • Portuguese

Literature - Latin America (see also Spanish and Luso-Brazilian Literature)

• Center for Amazonian Literature and Culture (Smith College)
• CubaLiteraria, publicaciones cubanas en la red
• Decimonónica: revista de producción cultural hispánica decimonónica
• Internetaleph (Life and works of Jorge Luis Borges, Martín Hadis)
• Istmo: revista virtual de estudios literarios y culturales centroamericanos (electronic publication)
• LETRS: Library Electronic Text Resource Service (U of Indiana)
• The Life and Times of Jorge Luis Borges
• Links a recursos literarios
• Literatura Argentina Contemporanea (Argentina)
• Mundo Latino - Rincón Literario
• Pan-Hispanic Ballad Project
• Peregrino del Ciberespacio (CiberTextos Interactivos)
• Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz Project - searchable database (Dartmouth College)
  • Plays, poetry, and prose
• Spanish Prosody (Trinity)
• Sur (Buenos Aires, Argentina)
• UT-LANIC: Literature

MLA Resources

• Documentation

• Using Modern Language Association (MLA) Format (This site created by the Online Writing Lab of Purdue University has many links to MLA format sites.)
• Citation Management (Cornell University)
• Citing Electronic Resources - MLA (Middlebury College)
• Frequently Asked Questions about MLA Style (Modern Language Association)
• MLA Documentation (University of Wisconsin at Madison Writing Center)
• Citation Styles Handbook: MLA (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)

• Tutorials
  • MLA Citation Style Tutorial (Indiana State University Library)
  • MLA Style Citation Tutorial (Franklin Pierce College)

Organizations & Associations

• Latin American Studies Association
• MOLLAS - Midwest Organization of Libraries for Latin American Studies
• SALALM - Seminar on the Acquisition of Latin American Library Materials
  • SALALM blogspot

Radio and Television Broadcasts

• RadioTower.com
• RadioStationWorld
• RTVE - Radio Televisión Española - Access to Free Programs

Reference Shelf

• Biografías y vidas
• Diccionarios.com
• Dicionário da Língua Portuguesa Online
• Enciclopedia de Puerto Rico
• Jergas de habla hispana
• LOGOS Dictionary
• Recursos lingüísticos para profesionales de las bibliotecas y la documentación (Español-Inglés) (Tony Lozano/IFLA)
• travlang's Translating Dictionaries
• UT-LANIC: Reference Shelf
• Vocabulário Ortográfico da Língua Portuguesa

Maps

• The Luso-Hispanic World in Maps: A Selective Guide to Manuscript Maps to 1900 in the Collections of the Library of Congress (John R. Hébert and Anthony P. Mullen)
• Maps of the Americas (Perry-Castañeda Library Map Collection, UT Austin)
• Maps of the Pimería: Early Cartography of the Southwest (Jack D. Mount, University of Arizona Libraries)

Search Engines

• Latin World
• Ponteiro: guía de informações
• Yachay: Red Científica Peruana/Internet Peru

Data

• LAEDA (Latin American Electronic Data Archive)

Statistics

• Anuario estadístico de América Latina y el Caribe (Available in Spanish or English)
• Anuario Hispano/Hispanic Yearbook
• Estudio económico de América Latina y el Caribe (ECLAC - United Nations)
• Inter-American Development Bank (Statistics)
• International Data Base (U.S. Census Bureau)
• International Social Indicators (United Nations)
• International Statistics (U.S. Census Bureau)
• Latin American Election Statistics: A Guide to Resources (Karen Lindvall-Larson, Univ. of California -San Diego)
• Oxford Latin American Economic History Database (Oxford University)
• Statistical Resources on the Internet (University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee)

Teaching Tools

• Introduction to Latin American Library Resources (LAA 700)
• K-12 Resources
• The Mesoamerican Ballgame (Requires the latest Flash plug-in. Download provided.)
• RETANET: Resources for Teaching about the Americas -- Images only. (University of New Mexico)
• Tropical America (Latin American History Game - OnRamp Arts)

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