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More Indexes & Databases

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.

How to find articles tutorial

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.

Ricker Library of Architecture and Art

Argentinean Cave Paintings

Art of the Americas

Bibliografia Mesoamericana

Eloisa Cartonera

Mexican Photography

Colección Cisneros

Colombian Rock Art

Relics and selves: iconographies of the national in Argentina, Brazil and Chile, 1880-1890

U of Essex's Latin American Art

Vistas: Visual Culture in Spanish America

Museum Directories

Latin American Museums

Museums in Latin America

Diego Rivera

Diego Rivera Web Museum

Diego Rivera Mural Project

To find books about Diego Rivera, go to Catalog Quick Search and search "Rivera, Diego" using subject as the search by option.

To find articles about Diego Rivera, search the indexes available through the Ricker Library of Architecture and Art (see side bar).

Frida Kahlo

Frida Kahlo

To find books about Diego Rivera, go to Catalog Quick Search and search "Kahlo, Frida" using subject as the search by option.

To find articles about Frida Kahlo, search the the indexes available through the Ricker Library of Architecture and Art (see side bar).

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:

Art, Latin American -- Century (ex. 16th century)

Artists--Latin America--Biography