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LA&C Articles
Best:
HAPI UIUC
Identifies article and review citations regarding Central and South America, Mexico, the Caribbean, and Hispanics in the U.S. in subject areas including political science, history and the humanities.
Handbook of Latin American Studies WWW
An excellent multidisciplinary resource from the Hispanic Division of the Library of Congress.
Chicano Database UIUC
Identifies publications about Mexican-American and Latino topics.
Provides selective coverage dating back to the early 1900s. Records
added since 1992 have expanded its scope to include the broader Latino
experience, including Puerto Ricans, Cuban Americans, and Central
American immigrants. The Chicano Database also includes the Spanish
Speaking Mental Health Database, covering psychological, sociological,
and educational literature.
Other:
Clase y Periodica WWW
A database of article citations from more than 2,500 Latin American and Caribbean scientific journals from from 1979 to the present.
Latin American Periodicals Tables of Contents (LAPTOC) WWW
Tables of contents for hundreds of journals in the humanities and social sciences from Latin America.
LATINDEX WWW
Directory of 12,000 journals from Latin America, the Caribbean, Spain, and Portugal in a range of disciplines.
LA&C Enviroment: E-Resources
General
Environmental History of Latin America
Environment and Natural Resources: USA.gov
Historia del petroleo en Mexico
United Nations Enviromental Program
Maps
The Mapas Project has as its focus the digitization and study of colonial Mesoamerican pictorial manuscripts. The term "mapa" was used loosely in New Spain to refer to pictorials that may or may not have had a cartographic dimension, but often showed the territories or landscapes of indigenous communities.
David Rumsey Historical Map Collection
Amazon Rain Forest
The Amazon: The World's Largest Rainforest
Finding books by subject
Finding books on a topic is easy with subject searching. Use the Catalog Quick Search. In the Search For box, type a suggested subject headings and choose the Subject option. Subject searches use Library of Congress subject headings and thus are always in English. For related subject terms, scroll through the list of results.
Suggested Subject Headings:
General Latin America -- Environmental Conditions or Environmental Conditions Example: Chile -- Environmental Conditions Rain Forest Rain forest conservation Rain forest ecology Or subject headings for specific locations of rainforests: Rain forest -- Amazon River Region
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Country Studies
US Dept. of State's Bureau of Western Affairs
CIA's World Factbook
The Economist Intelligence Unit (UIUC)
Library of Congress' Country Studies (Not all countries included)
Library of Congress' Portals to the World
Wikipedia Beware: Not all in Wikipedia is correct!
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