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Latin American & Latino Studies Subject Guide
Full-text newspaper and journal articles focusing on news, culture and history from the ethnic, minority and native press. Available in English or Spanish.
1990 - present
Online full-text version of the Europa World Year Book and the Regional Surveys of the World series. Covers political and economic information in more than 250 countries and territories.
Full-text database of English and Spanish language newspapers printed in the U.S. during the 19th and 20th centuries.
Covers: 1808-1980.
Multidisciplinary index to scholarly and authoritative articles. Provides access to all three parts of the Citation Index: Arts and Humanities, Social Science and Science. Search by subject, author, journal title. Cited Reference Search finds articles that cite an author or article that you specify.
Covers: 1900 - present.
World development indicators (WDI) is the World Bank's annual compilation of data about development. Provides direct access to development indicators, with time series for 208 countries and 18 country groups from 1960 to 2001.
Covers 1968-present
Oboler, Suzanne, and Deena J. González. 2005. The Oxford encyclopedia of Latinos & Latinas in the United States. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press.
Carrasco, David. 2006. The Oxford encyclopedia of Mesoamerican cultures. New York: Oxford University Press.
Free access to an online collection of over 750 Spanish language ejournals maintained by the Universidad Autónoma del Estado de México. They cover all aspects of the humanities, social sciences and sciences specialising in a focus upon materials published in and about the nations of the Spanish speaking world in Latin America, Portugal, Spain and the Caribbean.
~2000 - present
SciELO is an electronic virtual library covering over 850 open access journals. There are eight country sites: Argentina, Brasil, Chile, Colombia, Cuba, Spain, Portugal and Venezuela as well as sites for Public Health and Social Sciences. There are other development initiatives in five countries: Costa Rica, Mexico, Paraguay, Peru, and Uruguay.
~2000 - present
Gateway for internet-based information to, from, or on Latin America. LANIC's editorially reviewed directories contain over 10,000 unique URLs, one of the largest guides for Latin American content on the Internet.
Calisphere is the University of California's free public gateway to a world of primary sources. More than 200,000 digitized items — including photographs, documents, newspaper pages, political cartoons, works of art, diaries, transcribed oral histories, advertising, and other unique cultural artifacts — reveal the diverse history and culture of California and its role in national and world history.
Electronic books published by Duke University Press in the humanities and social sciences. The e-Duke Books Scholarly Collection is hosted on the ebrary® platform.
Full-text access to most University of California dissertations filed since 1996 and citations for those filed prior to 1996.
The Nettie Lee Benson Latin American Collection, a unit of the University of Texas Libraries, is a specialized research library focusing on materials from and about Latin America, and on materials relating to Latinos in the United States. Searches in the general catalog can be limited to Location= Benson Latin American Collection.
Searchable and browsable full text database of poetry, fiction, and drama written in English and Spanish by Chicano, Cuban, Puerto Rican, Dominican, and other Latin authors working in the United States. Also includes audio files of selected poems and plays.
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