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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.
Instituto Matias Romero
Good places to start...
Q. 980.00321 C1441992 (ML&L Lib. Ref.)
The Cambridge encyclopedia of Latin America and the Caribbean. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1992.
972.9003 En19 (Undergrad. Lib. and Reference Lib.)
Encyclopedia of contemporary Latin American and Caribbean cultures.
London ; New York : Routledge, 2000. 3 Vols.
Q. 980.003 EN19 (ML&L Lib. Ref.; Undergrad. Lib. and Reference Lib.)
Encyclopedia of Latin American history and culture.
New York : C. Scribner’s Sons, 1996. 5 Vols.
Q. 980.003 L349 (ML&L Lib. Ref.)
Latinoamericana : enciclopédia contemporânea da América Latina e do Caribe. São Paulo, 2006.
Q. 972.01 Ox25 (Ed. & Soc. Sci. Lib.)
The Oxford encyclopedia of Mesoamerican cultures: the civilizations of Mexico and Central America. Oxford, 2001. 3 Vols.
LA&C Poli-Sci: E-Resources
Central American Political History Database
Latin American Public Opinion Project (LAPOP)
A wealth of freely available information on Latin American political climate.
Organization of American States
The Organization of American States brings together the nations of the Western Hemisphere to strengthen cooperation on democratic values, defend common interests and debate the major issues facing the region and the world.
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: Specific Country/Region -- Politics and Government Example: Chile -- Politics and Government Latin America -- Politics and Government
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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
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