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Research Tools for Latin American Studies
Use these research tools to find information related to Latin American Studies from sources such as scholarly articles, books and encyclopedias.
Article Databases and Indexes
Bibliographies and Subject Guides
Dictionaries, Thesauri and Quotations
Encyclopedias and Almanacs
Library and Book Catalogs
News Databases, Indexes and Web Sites
Organizations
Statistics and Numeric Data
Web Gateways and Search Engines
Article Databases and Indexes
Listings of articles in journals, magazines, newspapers, etc. Many include abstracts (article summaries). Some include or link to the full text of articles.
- Article
Databases for Latin American Studies
- Online Resources
- Latin American Periodicals Tables of Contents
- CLASE
- Caribbean Abstracts
- Print Indexes for Latin American Studies
- Index to Latin American periodical literature, 1929-1960. Compiled in
the Columbus Memorial Library of the Pan American Union. Boston, G. K.
Hall, 1962.
Doe Reference fA J17 .P3 Periodical Indexes
- Index to Latin American periodical literature, 1961-1965: first supplement. Compiled in the Columbus Memorial Library of ... Boston, Mass. : G.
K. Hall, 1968.
Doe Reference fA J17 .P3 suppl.1 Periodical Indexes
- Index to Latin American periodical literature, 1966-1970. Columbus
Memorial Library, Organization of American States Boston, Mass.: G.
K. Hall, 1980
Doe Reference fAJ 17 .P3 suppl.2 Periodical Indexes
Bibliographies and Subject Guides
Lists of materials in any format (books, artivles, videos, web sites, etc.)
organized around a common theme or topic. Subcategories as appropriate, i.e.,
chronological, language, geographic, etc.
- Print Resources
- Latin America and the Caribbean: a critical guide to research sources. Edited by Paula H. Covington; David Block ...et ... New York: Greenwood Press,
1992. Bibliographies and indexes in
Latin American and Caribbean studies; no. 2
Doe Reference F 1408 .A12 .L3225 1992
- South America, Central America and the Caribbean. London: Europa Publications
Ltd., 1985
Doe Reference F 1408.29 .S68 2004
- Newspapers and serials
- Index guide to Latin American journals. Gayle Ann
Williams; with Paula Hattox Covington. Austin, Tex. : SALALM Secretariat,
Benson Latin American Collection, The University of Texas at Austin, c1999. Bibliography
and reference series. Seminar on the Acquisition of Latin American Library
Materials, Inc. ; 44.
Doe Reference A I17 .W55 1999
- Latin American newspapers in United States libraries; a union list compiled
in the Serial Division, Library of Congress. Austin, Published for
the Conference on Latin American History by the University of Texas Press,
1969, c1968. Publication;
Conference on Latin American History; no. 2.
Doe Reference AP 1.34 .S7 .L3
- Newspapers in microform. Foreign countries. Compiled and edited by the Catalog
Management and Publication Division, Washington : Library of Congress, 1973; Cumulates the Foreign countries sections of the 1948-1972 publication, the 1973-1977
quinquennial, the annual issues for 1978-1982.
Doe Reference AP 1.25 .U525 .A43
- Women
- Guia de las mujeres 2000: America Latina y El Caribe. Montevideo, Uruguay: Instituto
del Tercer Mundo, 2000]
Doe Reference HQ 1460.5 .G85 2000
- Latinas of the Americas : a source book. K. Lynn Stoner. New
York: Garland, 1989. Garland reference library of social science ; v. 363.
Doe Reference HQ 1460.5 .A12 .S76 1989
- The historiography of women in modern Latin America: an overview and
bibliography of the recent literature. Kecia Ali. Durham, NC : Duke-University
of North Carolina Program in Latin American Studies, 1995. Working paper
series (Duke-University of North Carolina Program in Latin American Studies)
; #18.
Main Stack HQ 1460. 5.A743 1995
- Microfilm Sets
- Guide to Microform Sets on Latin America (Stanford University)
- Government Publications Microfilm Collections: Area Studies (San Diego State
University)
- Videography
- UC Berkeley Media Resources Center
- LAVA (Latin American Video Archives)
- First Run / Icarus Films (Films & Videos on Latin American Studies)
- Latin American Cinema Guide (Emory University)
Dictionaries, Thesauri, and Quotations
General and subject specific dictionaries in any language, dual language dictionaries,
thesauri, dictionaries of quotations, and acronym lists.
Encyclopedias and Almanacs
General or subject-specific encyclopedias, almanacs, and other collections
of factual information.
- Print Resources
- Encyclopedia of contemporary Latin American and Caribbean cultures Edited by Daniel Balderston, Mike Gonzalez and Ana M. Lopez. London;
New York: Routledge, 2000.
Doe Reference F 1406 .E515 2000
- Encyclopedia of Latin American politics Edited by Diana Kapiszewski;
Alexander Kazan, assistant editor. Westport, Conn. : Oryx Press, 2002.
Doe Reference F 1410 .E56 2002
- Encyclopedia of Latin American history and culture. Barbara A. Tenenbaum,
editor in chief ; associate editors, Georgette ... New York: Scribner's
: Macmillan Library Reference USA, c1996.
Doe Reference F 1406 .E53 1996
- The Oxford encyclopedia of Mesoamerican cultures: the civilizations
of Mexico and Central America. David Carrasc... Oxford; New York :
Oxford University Press, 2001.
Doe Reference F 1218.6 .O95 2001
Library and Book Catalogs
Listings of books and other items belonging to a particular library or, as with union catalogs, a group of libraries, and usually containing information on the location and subject classification of each item. This category also includes national bibliographies, or lists of all books published in a particular country.
News Databases, Indexes and Web Sites
Listings (in some cases with abstracts or full text) of articles in newspapers,
newsmagazines, broadcast news transcripts or wire services. Also includes websites
of these media, or directories of such sites.
Organizations
Listings of subject-related associations, learned societies, or professional
organizations.
Statistics and Numeric Data
Resources that provide tables of numerical information, or listings indicating
where such information can be found.
- Electronic Resource Finder
- Print Resources
- Anuario estadistico de America latina y el Caribe (Statistical yearbook for Latin America and the Caribbean). Santiago, Chil; Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean, 1986
Doe Reference JX 1977 .A64 .B6 2002
Online: http://www.eclac.cl/publicaciones/ - Click on Anuario estadistico
- Statistical abstract of Latin America. Los Angeles, UCLA Latin American
Center Publications. Reference series. University of California, Los Angeles.
Latin American Center
Doe Reference HA 931 .C3 2002
- Latin America in graphs: demographic, economic and social trends. 1994-95
ed. Washington, D.C.: Inter-American Development Bank ; Baltimore, MD:
Distributed by Johns Hopkins University Press, c1995.
Doe Reference HC 125 .L3445 1995 Government Reference
Web Gateways and Search Engines
Broad, subject-related sites and subject-specific search engines.
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