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Latin American & Latinx Resources

Resources specific to Latin America and Hispanic culture:

Chicana por mi Raza Digital Memory Collective
Chicana por mi Raza Digital Memory Collective is a group of researchers, educators, students, archivists and technologists dedicated to preserving imperiled Chicanx and Latinx histories of the long Civil Rights Era. The overarching objective of the project is to provide broad‐based public access to oral histories, material culture, correspondence, and rare out‐of‐print publications for use in both scholarly research and the classroom. The online repository contains approximately 7,000 available digital records and over 500 interview clips.

Digitalia Hispanica - Social and Humanities Collection This link opens in a new window
Includes Spanish-language ebooks and ejournals in Architecture, Art, Film Study, Geography, Health Sciences, History, Language & Linguistics, Literature, Philosophy, Political Affairs, Religion, Science, Social Science and Technology.
Handbook of Latin American Studies This link opens in a new window
The Handbook of Latin American Studies (HLAS) is a selective annotated bibliography of scholarly books, journal articles, conference proceedings and papers, book chapters, maps and atlases, and electronic resources (blogs, websites, online videos, etc.) dealing with Latin America. The multidisciplinary Handbook is edited and compiled by the Hispanic Division of the Library of Congress. Years of coverage: 1935-present.
Hispanic American Periodical Index (HAPI) This link opens in a new window
Provides citations to Latin American Studies articles covering the regions of Central and South America, Mexico, the Caribbean basin, the United States-Mexico border region, and Hispanics in the United States. Over 400 journals are indexed. Years of coverage: 1967-present.
Hispanic Life in America This link opens in a new window
Provides comprehensive coverage of the Hispanic American experience from the early 18th century through the early 21st century. Content is sourced from more than 17,000 publications, including 700 Spanish-language newspapers and periodicals. Library has Series I, 1704-1942: Spanish Colonialism through World War II, and Series II, 1943-2009: Immigration, Labor Rights and Civil Rights.
Informe Académico This link opens in a new window
Supports the research needs of Spanish-speaking users with a wide range of full-text Spanish- and Portuguese-language scholarly journals and magazines both from and about Latin America. Terms and thesaurus are based on the expressions Spanish-speakers commonly use, allowing users to easily navigate through the database without experiencing inaccurate search terms.

Latin American Newspapers: Libre Pensador and Nacion
Explore Latin American history and culture during the 19th and 20th centuries with two historical newspapers, both published in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Content for Libre Pensador covers 1878-1884. Content for Nacion covers 1870-1922.

PRISMA This link opens in a new window
Provides full-text scholarly journals in the social sciences and humanities for interdisciplinary study of Hispanic and Latin America, and the Caribbean Basin. Includes titles indexed in HAPI featuring Spanish, Portuguese and English language content.

SciELO
SciELO is a bibliographic database and a model for cooperative electronic publishing in a number of Latin American and countries countries as well as Spain. It is supported by the Foundation for Research Support of the State of São Paulo and the National Council of Scientific and Technological Development of Brazil, in partnership with the Latin American and Caribbean Center on Health Sciences Information (the Portuguese acronym is BIREME). The database contains 815 scientific journals from different countries in free and universal access, full-text format.

Other helpful places to search:

MUSCAT Plus This link opens in a new window
MUSCAT Plus searches for books, journal articles, media, and more in Musselman Library and beyond.
ProQuest Central This link opens in a new window
Provides access to thousands of full-text scholarly journals, trade and professional titles, newspapers, magazines, dissertations, working papers, case studies, and market reports. Content covers all major subject areas, including business, health and medical, social sciences, arts and humanities, education, science and technology, and religion.
JSTOR This link opens in a new window
Provides access to content across all disciplines. Search or browse books, journals, images, and primary sources.

Caribbean Resources

Digital Library of the Caribbean
The Digital Library of the Caribbean (dLOC) is a cooperative of partners within the Caribbean and circum-Caribbean that provides users with access to Caribbean cultural, historical and research materials held in archives, libraries, and private collections. Types of collections include but are not limited to: newspapers, archives of Caribbean leaders and governments, official documents, documentation and numeric data for ecosystems, scientific scholarship, historic and contemporary maps, oral and popular histories, travel accounts, literature and poetry, musical expressions, and artifacts.
Caribbean Newspaper Digital Library
The Caribbean Newspaper Digital Collection is now within the Digital Library of the Caribbean (dLOC), a cooperative digital library for newspapers resources from the Caribbean and circum-Caribbean. This resource provides access to digitized versions of Caribbean newspapers, gazettes, and other research materials on newsprint currently held in archives, libraries, and private collections.

Geographical, Political, and Economic Information

Political Database of the Americas
Provides reference materials, primary documents, comparative studies and statistical data for countries in the Americas.
CEPAL Review
A publication of the U.N. Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean.
Human Development Reports
This independent report commissioned by the UN Development Programme (UNDP), contains people-centered measures of human development, focusing on a different topic each year.

Newspapers & Primary Sources

Find newspaper or magazine articles in these online resources:

Access World News This link opens in a new window
Provides full-text articles from U.S. and international newspapers, offering diverse viewpoints on local, regional and world issues.
Informe Académico This link opens in a new window
Provides indexing, images and full text of popular Hispanic magazines.