Directories &
Portals
Digital Librarian
Digital Librarian is a directory of websites maintained by Librarian Margaret Vail Anderson.
With approximately 100 different categories of websites, this site may be useful as a starting point.
Of particular interest are the following:
Latin American Resources
Languages
International Resources
Eldis: The
Gateway to Development Information: Country
Profiles
A gateway to online information on development in
countries of the South. Coverage includes social,
economic, political and environmental issues.
Hosted by the Institute of Development Studies,
Sussex, England.
Internet
Resources for Latin America (La Guía)
The links in this guide will provide access to many
information resources for Latin American studies.
Compiled and copyrighted by Molly Molloy, librarian
at the New Mexico State University Library.
LANIC
Latin American Network Information Center (LANIC)
LANIC's mission is to facilitate access to
Internet-based information to, from, or on Latin
America. Many of their resources are designed to
facilitate research and academic endeavors. LANIC
is affiliated with the Institute of Latin American
Studies (ILAS) at the University of Texas at
Austin.
LANIC:
Latin American Studies Journals
LANIC: Libraries & Reference in Latin
America
LAOAP Latin American Open Archives Portal
LAOAP is a portal service providing access to social sciences grey
literature produced in Latin America by research institutes,
non-governmental organizations, and peripheral agencies. It
encompasses working documents, pre-prints, research papers,
statistical documents, and other difficult-to-access materials
that are not controlled by commercial publishers. LAOAP is part of
LARRP,
the Latin Americanist Research Resources Project.
LAPTOC Latin American Periodicals Tables of Contents
LAPTOC is a searchable Web database that provides access to the tables
of contents of more than 800 journals, primarily in the humanities and
social sciences, published in Latin America. LAPTOC is part of
LARRP,
the Latin Americanist Research Resources Project.
Latindex
Sistema Regional de Información en Línea para Revistas
Científicas de América Latina, el Caribe , España
y Portugal.
LATINO: Bancos Bibliográficos
Latinoamericanos y del Caribe
The portal gathers 114 data bases with
bibliographic descriptions from libraries of
institutions in 14 countries of the region:
Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia,
Costa Rica, Cuba, Guatemala, Mexico, Nicaragua,
Paraguay, Peru, Uruguay and Venezuela. Data from
Spain are also available. Funded by UNESCO.
Portals to the World: Selected Iberian, Caribbean
and Latin American Internet Resources (Hosted
by the Library of Congress)
This Internet portal, created and maintained by
the Hispanic Division of the Library of Congress,
provides librarian-selected links to
country-specific Internet resources.
Governmental & NGO
CLACSO Consejo Latinoamericano de Ciencias
Sociales
"CLACSO es una red internacional, no-gubernamental y sin fines de lucro dedicada a promover
la investigación, discusión y difusión académica en diversos campos de las ciencias sociales.
Fundada: Por científicos sociales latinoamericanos de 35 instituciones en 1967."
FLACSO La Facultad Latinoamericana de Ciencias Sociales
"La FLACSO es un organismo internacional de carácter autónomo y regional, creado en 1957,
por iniciativa de la UNESCO y algunos gobiernos de la región. Su principal
objetivo es promover las ciencias sociales en América Latina y el Caribe."
Fundación Global Democracia y Desarrollo
"La FGDD es una institución privada sin fines de lucro dedicada a
formular propuestas innovadoras de naturaleza estratégica y coyuntural
sobre temas relevantes de interés nacional, elevar la calidad del debate
nacional y elaborar políticas públicas cruciales para la gobernabilidad
y el desarrollo económico y social de la República Dominicana."
Libraries & University
Projects
Biblioteca Digital Puertorriqueña de la Universidad de Puerto Rico
This website is a portal to various collections of primary sources
related to the history and culture of Puerto Rico. Digitized documents
include photographs, posters, caricatures, maps, manuscripts and letters
from the 19th century to the present.
CALAFIA California Cooperative Latin American
Collection Development Group
A consortium of California libraries made up of
Stanford University, the University of California
System, and the University of Southern
California. The combined Latin American holdings
of the CALAFIA group number more than one million
volumes.
CARINDEX An index
of literature published in the Caribbean
CARINDEX is an index to the contents of some 70 West
Indian journals, published within in the Caribbean region. It also includes
theses and papers presented at conferences. CARINDEX has two parts: CARSAH
covers publications in the social sciences and humanities from 1983 onwards;
CARSCI covers publications in science and technology from 1960 onwards.
It is prepared and maintained by the Library
of the University of the West Indies (UWI).
Colecciones Mexicanas
"Colecciones Mexicanas es un proyecto que nace con la
finalidad de difundir y preservar acervos documentales, fotográficos,
videográficos, bibliográficos y hemerográficos sobre la historia de México.
Buscamos que las colecciones aquí incluidas sean de relevancia para estudiantes,
académicos, investigadores o cualquier interesado en conocer y ampliar
su cultura sobre la historia de México."
Consortium
in Latin American Studies at the University of
North Carolina at Chapel Hill and Duke
University
The Consortium's objective is to enhance the
Latin American curriculum on both campuses,
provide research and training opportunities for
students and faculty from all disciplines, and
increase public awareness of the importance of
Latin American cultural studies and traditions.
Handbook of
Latin American Studies (hosted by the Library
of Congress)
The Handbook is a bibliography on Latin America
consisting of works selected and annotated by
scholars. Edited by the Hispanic Division of the
Library of Congress, the multidisciplinary
Handbook alternates annually between the social
sciences and the humanities.
LADARK
Latin American Development Archive
LADARK, from the University of Texas at San Diego, is an online
archive of working papers and other materials related to economic
and social development in Latin America and the Caribbean.
LAMP
Latin American Microfilm Project
LAMP, a CRL project, consists of forty-two
institutions which acquire, preserve and maintain
collections of unique, scarce, rare and/or bulky
and voluminous research materials pertaining to
Latin America. LAMP conducts projects in
cooperation with Latin American repositories and
devotes great attention to filming primary source
materials. Includes the
Brazilian Government Document Digitization
Project, which has digitized and provided
Internet access to executive branch serial
documents issued by Brazil's national government
during the period between 1821 and 1993, and by its
provincial governments from the earliest available
for each province to the end of the Empire in 1889.
LANE
Latin America North East Libraries Consortium
LANE consist of a group of fifteen academic and
research libraries in the northeastern United
States committed to building and maintaining
Latin American studies collections. The
consortium promotes collaborative projects that
enhance the depth and scope of the combined
collections and facilitates access to them. The
information available on their site is intended
for both LANE members and researchers with an
interest in learning about the availability of
Latin American research resources in the region.
Also includes video consortium at
NYU's Avery Fisher Center.
LARRP
Latin Americanist Research Resources Project
LARRP is is a cooperative initiative of North American,
Latin American, and Caribbean libraries that seek to improve
access to the array of research resources published in Latin America.
Its primary components are:
LAPTOC:
Latin American Periodicals Tables of Contents
LAOAP:
Latin American Open Archives Portal
Presidential
Messages from Mexico and Argentina
LASER Latin
American Studies Southeast Region
LASER is the organization of the librarians from
large academic research libraries in the
southeast U.S. and Puerto Rico that focuses on
disseminating information related to collecting
Latin Americana and Caribbeana; web site provides
links to the catalogs of these institutions.
Latin American and Caribbean National Archives
& Libraries
A list of links to the national archives and
libraries of many Latin American and Caribbean
countries. Maintained by Tulane University for
LASER.
Latin American Government Documents Archive (LAGDA)
LAGDA is a joint project of the University of Texas Libraries,
The Nettie Lee Benson Latin American Collection, and LANIC
(Latin American Network Information Center). The Archive
contains copies of the Web sites
of approximately 300 government ministries and presidencies.
Content includes full-text versions of official documents as
well as original video and audio recordings of key regional leaders.
Latindex
Sistema Regional de Información en
Línea para Revistas Científicas de
América Latina, el Caribe , España
y Portugal. Hosted by Universidad Nacional
Autónoma de México.
University of California,Berkeley, Stanford
University, and The University of Texas at Austin
Research Library Cooperative Program
Combines the Latin American resources at the
University of California, Berkeley, Stanford
University, and the University of Texas at
Austin. This agreement attempts to rationalize
acquisitions activities as they relate to the
Latin American collections and aims to extend and
deepen their strengths by focusing acquisitions
and development efforts in complementary areas
University
of California, San Diego - Latin American Election
Statistics
This site is a valuable resource for finding
sources of Latin American election statistics.
Despite the fact that only seven countries are
currently represented and although the statistics
are not reproduced here, the bibliography for
locating them is indeed comprehensive. Indexed by
year, coverage begins at independence and
continues to the end of the twentieth century. A
glossary of electoral terms is also part of the
site.
Professional Associations
BRASA Brazilian Studies Association
BRASA is an international interdisciplinary group of scholars who
support Brazilian studies in the humanities and social sciences.
Conference on Latin American
History
The Conference on Latin American History (CLAH)
is a professional association devoted to
encourage the diffusion of knowledge about Latin
America through fostering the study and improving
the teaching of Latin American history.
LASA Latin American Studies Association
"The Latin American Studies Association (LASA) is the largest professional Association in
the world for individuals and institutions engaged in the study of Latin America.
With over 5,000 members, twenty-five percent of whom reside outside the United States,
LASA is the one Association that brings together experts on Latin America from all
disciplines and diverse occupational endeavors, across the globe."
SALALM Seminar on the Acquisition of Latin
American Library Materials
SALALM's primary missions are the control and
dissemination of bibliographic information about
all types of Latin American publications and the
development of library collections of Latin
Americana in support of educational research.
The Cuban Bibliography Subcommittee of SALALM
Research
Organizations
ARL
(Association of Research Libraries, Latin
Americanist Research Resources Pilot Project)
The purpose of this project is to create a
prototype for fully connected collections for
Latin American studies; the two primary projects
focus on periodicals and presidential messages.
Participating libraries have accepted
institutional collecting responsibilities for a
cross-section of over 400 periodicals published
in Argentina, Brazil and Mexico. The Presidential
Messages database contains digital images of
presidential speeches from Mexico and Argentina.
CRL Center for Research Libraries
CRL's mission is to foster and advance scholarly
inquiry through cost-effective, cooperative
programs that provide reliable access through
traditional and electronic means to unique and
unusual collections of library materials.
Includes all appropriate formats, is
international in scope, and comprehensive in
disciplines, with an emphasis on worldwide
newspapers, international doctoral dissertations,
scholarly journals and textbooks.
Foundation for the
Advancement of Mesoamerican Studies, Inc.
(FAMSI)
This site provides information about recent
research, publications, and grants related to
Mesoamerican studies. One of the site's most
useful resources is John Montgomery's
Dictionary of Mayan Hieroglyphs, which is
made partially available over the Internet.
Entries appear in alphabetical order according to
their phonetic spelling and include the
hieroglyph, phonetic transcription, part of
speech, and meaning.
Programa Cultura, Comunicación
y Transformaciones Sociales
This organization (formerly known as Programa Globalización, Cultura
y Transformaciones Sociales) is "dedicated to the study of contemporary
social processes from a general perspective that stimulates the integracion
of the analysis of cultural aspects with political, social and economic
aspects of these processes."
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