Latin America

Complete List
• Barometro de Gobernabilidad Latinoamericano
  
  This source rates the governability of Latin American countries using a variety of survey information.
• Bibliografia biblica latino-americana
  
  Coverage: 1988-
  Searchable database providing citations to books and articles on the Bible, primarily from Brazilian or other Latin American publications. ... []
• Boletin reforme
  
  News items, brief reports, and publication announcements related to activities of non-governmental organizations whose focus is Latin American politics, human rights, and economics. ... []
• Cambridge history of Latin America /
  
  Call Number: HESB GEN F 1410 .C1834 1984
  Call Number: REF GEN F 1410 .C1834 1984
  A basic survey for all historic periods with excellent coverage of countries and regions as well as themes. The final volume provides a bibliographical review of major scholarship and sources. ... []
• Christian Democrat Organization of America
  
  The Christian Democrat Organization of America (ODCA) is an international movement made up of political parties, groups and associations that share Christian humanist principles and that work in coordination for freedom, democracy, human rights, world peace, development with equity, and respect for the environment. This website is largely in Spanish. Organizacion Democrata Cristiana de America La Biblioteca Digital tiene Documentos Temáticos, Documentos Oficiales, Artículos de Opinión, Referencias, Mediateca, y Catálogo de Publicaciones. ... []
• CIBERA
  
  cibera es una biblioteca interdisciplinaria para científicos especialistas y estudiantes de cultura, historia, política, economía y sociedad de los países de habla española o portuguesa y también del Caribe. El portal facilita la búsqueda especializada en * Catálogos Bibliotecarios, * una colección de Recursos en Internet, * un archivo de Textos Completos, * un Servicio de Índices de Revistas, * un Archivo de Prensa, * la base de datos 'Investigación de Habla Alemana sobre América Latina'. ... []
• CIDOC
  
  Call Number: Microforms [Lower Level HESB] General Collection
  CIDOC Collection; History of Religiosity in Latin America, c. 1830-1970 +3,000 titles, searchable Index online (EAD) http://www.idc.nl/ead/049faid.html IDC Publishers' edition of more than 3,000 nineteenth- and twentieth-century imprints documents local devotions and syncretist rituals, religious iconography and poetry, and the pastoral campaigns of the various churches and sects. They went uncollected and largely unnoticed until the early 1960s, when Ivan Illich began to collect them in the CIDOC Library of Cuernavaca, Mexico. That has been supplemented by additional microfiching in many libraries elsewhere in MEXICO, VENEZUELA, BRAZIL, ARGENTINA and CHILE. This result was a prime collection of resources documenting a wide array of expressions of popular forms of religion. ... []
• Diccionario de la lengua espanola
  
  Updating online version of 22nd edition of this dictionary, published in 2001 by Real Academia Espanola, the institution responsible for "regulating" the Spanish languages. ... []
• Directorio latinoamericano de bibliotecas publicas, universitarias y nacionales
  
  Mode of access: CD-ROM in Reserve Book Room. Software has been installed on the "Windows XP -- CD Station" computer.
  Call Number: HESB RES Electronic Z 738 .D57 1997
  Contains information on 4,000 libraries in the following Latin American countries: Argentina, Bolivia, Brasil, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Puerto Rico, Republica Dominicana, Uruguay, Venezuela. ... []
• Directorio latinoamericano de editoriales, distribuidoras y librerias. 1997-98
  
  Mode of access: CD-ROM in Reserve Book Room. Software has been installed on the "Windows XP -- CD Station" computer.
  Call Number: HESB RES Electronic Z 490.5 .D574 1997
  Contains information on thousands of publishers, distributors and libraries in 25 Latin American and Caribbean countries.
• Directorio Web de Archivos Iberoamericanos
  
  Este Directorio Web de Archivos permite consultar de manera rápida y sencilla un amplio listado de aquellos archivos iberoamericanos que disponen de una pagina web- propia o alojada en otra institución- en la que ofrezcan información relacionada con sus fondos y/o con los servicios que presta el archivo. Los archivos históricos de cada país están organizados por categorías según su dependencia administrativa o la composición de sus fondos. ... []
• Ecclesiastical Sources and Historical Research on the African Diaspora in Brazil and Cuba
  
  This collaboration advances the study of slavery and the African Diaspora by creating a digitized database of rich, underutilized, and at-risk ecclesiastical sources for Africans and persons of African descent in Brazil, Cuba, and the Spanish circum-Caribbean. ... []
• Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean
  
  ECLAC, which is headquartered in Santiago, Chile, is one of the five regional commissions of the United Nations. It was founded for the purposes of contributing to the economic development of Latin America, coordinating actions directed towards this end, and reinforcing economic relationships among the countries and with the other nations of the world. The promotion of the region's social development was later included among its primary objectives. ... []
• Encyclopedia of Latin American history and culture
  
  Coverage: Description based on print version record.
  Provides a comprehensive, multidisciplinary view of Latin American history and culture from prehistoric times to the present. Covers cultural issues and includes numerous biographical profiles of important figures in politics, letters and the arts. ... []
• Guatemala Human Rights Commission/USA
  
  Founded in 1982, the Guatemala Human Rights Commission/USA is a nonprofit, nonpartisan, humanitarian organization that monitors, documents, and reports on the human rights situation in Guatemala, advocates for survivors of human rights abuses in Guatemala, and works toward positive, systemic change. ... []
• Guia de archivos de derechos humanos Mercosur-Chile
  
  Call Number: HESB RES Electronic JC 599 .S65 G84 2005
• Instituto Centroamericano de Estudios Políticos
  
  INCEP es una entidad privada regional y no lucrativa, cuya sede está en la ciudad de Guatemala, y está destinada a trabajar en la formación y capacitación de los partidos políticos democráticos de Centroamérica. ... []
• Instituto Latinoamericano de Analisis del Conflicto
  
• International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance
  
  Created in 1995, the International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance (IDEA), an intergovernmental organization with member states from all continents, has a mandate to support sustainable democracy worldwide. IDEA operates at an interface between those who analyse and monitor trends in democracy and those who engage directly in political reform or act in support of democracy at home and abroad. IDEA works with both new and long-established democracies, helping to develop and strengthen the institutions and culture of democracy. It operates at international, regional and national level, working in partnership with a range of institutions. ... []
• LADARK
  
  LADARK contains data sets and other information useful to social scientists who are doing research on Latin American development. These materials may be copied freely for scholarly research and educational purposes. ... []
• LAPOP : Latin American Public Opinion Project
  
  Survey data covering Latin American citizen views on political tolerance, citizen participation, local government, corruption, and views on authoritarianism. Includes AmericasBarometer surveys. ... []
• LAPTOC (see Latin American periodicals tables of contents (LAPTOC))
  
  Provides access to tables of contents for hundreds of journals, primarily in the humanities and social sciences, published in Latin America; Web database with search by journal and article and browse by country. ... []
• Latin America and the Caribbean: selected economic and social data
  
  Coverage: 1992:Apr.-
  An annual compilation, sometimes called LAC databook, of statistics drawn from official country sources and international institutions. ... []
• Latin American Intelligence Service
  
  Provides access to the full portfolio of Latin American Newsletter information resources along with a series of bespoke services including the Client Response Unit, Special Bulletins, Personal Briefings, and Five-Year Forecasts. Usage info: Licensed for 5 simultaneous users. ... []
• Latin American newspapers
  
  Searchable collection of historical Latin American newspapers published in the 19th and early 20th century in Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Cuba, Guatemala, Guyana, Mexico, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Trinidad and Venezuela. ... []
• Latin American periodicals tables of contents (LAPTOC)
  
  Provides access to tables of contents for hundreds of journals, primarily in the humanities and social sciences, published in Latin America; Web database with search by journal and article and browse by country. ... []
• Latin American Public Opinion Project (see LAPOP : Latin American Public Opinion Project)
  
  Survey data covering Latin American citizen views on political tolerance, citizen participation, local government, corruption, and views on authoritarianism. Includes AmericasBarometer surveys. ... []
• Latin American Review of Books
  
  The Latin American Review of Books is an independent space for those interested in books, literature and scholarship from and about Latin America. Our mission is to introduce readers to quality writing about one of the world's largest cultural regions, whose population exceeds 515 million people. LatAmRoB has developed out of and works in partnership with the African Review of Books, its sister site introducing readers to a continent with which Latin America shares so many hopes, dreams and problems. ... []
• Latin American Working Group - Publications
  
  The Latin America Working Group is one of the nation's longest standing coalitions dedicated to foreign policy. The Latin America Working Group and its sister organization, the Latin America Working Group Education Fund, carry out the coalition's mission to encourage U.S. policies towards Latin America that promote human rights, justice, peace and sustainable development. The LAWG publishes regular reports on events and policy issues that relate to Latin America. The LAWG closely follows US policy towards Latin America in these reports too. ... []
• Letras y folios: fuentes documentales para la historia colonial del Nuevo Reino de Granada
  
  Mode of access: CD-ROM in Reserve Book Room.
  Call Number: HESB RES Electronic F 2251 .L48 2002
  Contains digital reproductions of four works published about the colonial history of Colombia. Includes digitized archival and historical documents of the New Kingdom of Granada, Cauca, Rionegro, Marinilla, and Boyaca. ... []
• Oxford Latin American economic history database
  
  Contains statistical data for more than forty economic and social indicators during the period 1900-2000, covering twenty countries in the region. ... []
• Portal de Revistas de la Red CLASCO
  
• Portal de Revistas de la Red de Centros Miembros de CLACSO
  
  LATIN AMERICA AND THE CARIBBEAN SOCIAL SCIENCE VIRTUAL LIBRARIES NETWORK, of the Latin America Social Science Council, CLACSO - a network of 173 research institutions in 21 countries with more than 5000 full-text social science publications in Spanish and Portuguese. You can search in the full-text and/or in subject (only in Spanish), author, title. ... []
• Red de Bibliotecas Virtuales de Ciencias Sociales de la Red de Centros Miembros de CLACSO
  
  Latin America and the Caribbean Social Science Virtual Libraries Network, of the Latin America Social Science Council, CLACSO - a network of 168 research institutions in 21 countries. Holdings include thousands of full-text social science publications in Spanish and Portuguese. ... []
• Redalyc
  
  Over 300 full-text journals in the social sciences and humanities published in Latin America. This supplements Scielo (www.scielo.org) and CLACSO (www.clacso.org.ar/biblioteca/revistas) ... []
• Southern Cone History Manuscripts Database
  
  The Department of Special Collections houses a growing number of historical manuscript materials relating to the political, military, economic and other historical aspects of Southern Cone nations, especially Argentina. Much of this material is from the O'Grady Collection. ... []
• Southern Cone Literary Manuscripts Database
  
  The Department of Special Collections possesses Southern Cone literary manuscript materials, many from the O'Grady Collection. Most are from Argentine writers of the 20th Century. ... []
• Twentieth Century Latin American Pamphlets Collection - Rutgers University
  
  This database contains annotated ibliographic citations to a collectionof pamphlets, grey literature and ephemera related to political, economic, and social conditions in Latin America during the twentieth century. While the collection spans the period 1910 to 1995, the bulk of the material dates from the volatile Cold War era. With its principal strength in rare contemporary publications such as pamphlets, conference proceedings, political manifestos, speeches, serials, statistical reports, and government documents, this collection give a unique perspective on left and right wing movements in Latin America. ... []
• World Bank - Latin American Section
  
  Contains numerous reports and initiatives in Latin American and the Caribbean sponsored by the World Bank.
• World newspaper archive. Latin American newspapers (see Latin American newspapers)
  
  Searchable collection of historical Latin American newspapers. Once completed this collection will include 35 newspapers published in the 19th and early 20th century in Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Cuba, Guatemala, Mexico, Peru and Venezuela. ... []
• World Values Survey
  
  Includes statistical surveys on values and cultural changes in societies all over the world.