Latin American Studies

Biographies

• Contemporary hispanic biography
  
  Biographies of Latinos and Latinas in the international Hispanic community.

Dictionaries

• Diccionario de la lengua espanola
  
  Updating online version of 22nd edition of this dictionary, published in 2001 by Real Academia Espanola, the institution responsible ... [more] for "regulating" the Spanish languages. [less]
• Tesoro de la lengua castellana o espanola /
  

Directories

• 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, ... [more] Cuba, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Puerto Rico, Republica Dominicana, Uruguay, Venezuela. [less]
• 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.
• Elections in South America
  
  This service that aims to provide a trusted source of selected, high quality Internet information for researchers and practitioners ... [more] regarding Latin American elections. It is sponsored by the Social Science Information Gateway (SOSIG), which iis part of the UK Resource Discovery Network. [less]

Government information

• Brazilian Government Document Digitization Project
  English interface
  Portuguese interface
  
  Provides Internet access to digitized executive branch serial documents originally issued by Brazil's national government between 1821 ... [more] and 1993, and by its provincial government from the earliest available for each province to the end of the Empire to 1889. [less]
• Digital collection of Mexican and Argentine presidential messages
  
  Digital images from microfilmed Spanish-language government documents of Mexican and Argentine presidential speeches from the 19th ... [more] century forward. [less]
• Directorio del Estado
  
  This portal pulls together daily information on Latin American governments. It includes news items, events, documents, and other related ... [more] information. [less]
• 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, ... [more] and at-risk ecclesiastical sources for Africans and persons of African descent in Brazil, Cuba, and the Spanish circum-Caribbean. [less]
• 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 ... [more] 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. [less]
• 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. ... [more]
• Resolucoes do Senado Federal
  Coverage: 1946/2002 produced in 2003.
  

Guides and finding aids

• CIAO: Columbia international affairs online
  Coverage: 1991-
  
  Contains searchable full text of international affairs working papers from university research institutes, conference proceedings, ... [more] policy briefs, economic indicators, foundation-funded research projects and links to international affairs centers, institutes, and further resources. [less]
• Directorio Web de Archivos Iberoamericanos
  
  Este Directorio Web de Archivos permite consultar de manera rápida y sencilla un amplio listado de aquellos archivos iberoamericanos ... [more] 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. [less]
• Guia de documentos novohispanos del Archivo Historico de la Basilica de Guadalupe
  Mode of access: CD-ROM in Reserve Book Room.
  Call Number: HESB RES Electronic BX 4610 .B27 G85 2006
  
• Latin American Historical Surveys
  
  This guide provides a selected list of books that survey Latin American history.
• Latin American History Research Resources
  
  This guide provides selected library tools that will help one find the appropriate books and articles for Latin American history research ... [more] projects. [less]
• Latin American Primary Resources in Translation
  
  This guide lists important Latin American texts that have been translated. These include Spanish colonial official documents, letters ... [more] and essays by Simon Bolivar, and other materials. [less]
• 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 ... [more] documents of the New Kingdom of Granada, Cauca, Rionegro, Marinilla, and Boyaca. [less]
• Projeto resgate
  
  Full-text access to thousands of historical documents related to Brazil, particularly its colonial period.

Reviews (book, film, etc.)

• 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 ... [more] 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. [less]