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 Latin American Studies: 22 Databases

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Brasil
Type: eBooks & eTexts
Mode of access: Ask for CD-ROM at the Reference Desk. Software has been installed on Reference workstations 30 and 31. Select the All Titles folder, then Brasil Clasicos Tavera.
Description: Contains searchable full text of 21 works related to the historical development of Brazil.
Brazilian Government Document Digitization Project
Type: eBooks & eTexts
Description: Provides Internet access to digitized executive branch serial documents originally issued by Brazil's national government between 1821 and 1993, and by its provincial government from the earliest available for each province to the end of the Empire to 1889.
Center for Research Libraries Catalog
Type: Reference
Description: Provides online access to over 500,000 bibliographic records representing CRL's scholarly research resources (monographs, newspapers, serials, archival materials in microform, microform sets and title analytics).
CIAO: Columbia International Affairs Online
Type: Reference
Coverage: 1991-
Description: Contains searchable full text of international affairs working papers from university research institutes, conference proceedings, policy briefs, economic indicators, foundation-funded research projects and links to international affairs centers, institutes, and further resources.
Digital Collection of Mexican and Argentine Presidential Messages
Type: eBooks & eTexts
Description: Digital images from microfilmed Spanish-language government documents of Mexican and Argentine presidential speeches from the 19th century forward.
Directorio Latinoamericano de Bibliotecas Públicas, Universitarias Y Nacionales /
Type: Reference
Mode of access: Ask for CD-ROM at the Reference Desk. Software has been installed on Reference workstation 30. Select start, programs, then .
Description: Contains information on 4,0000 libraries in the following Latin American countries: Argentina, Bolivia, Brasil, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay, Perú, Puerto Rico, República Dominicana, Uruguay, Venezuela.
Directorio Latinoamericano de Editoriales, Distribuidoras Y Librerías
Type: Reference
Mode of access: Ask for CD-ROM at the Reference Desk. Software has been installed on Reference workstation 30. Select start, programs, then
Description: Contains information on 2,965 publishers, 819 distributors and 1,185 libraries located in 25 Latin American and Caribbean countries.
Handbook of Latin American Studies 
Type: Indexes & Articles
Description: "... 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. Each year, more than 130 academics from around the world choose over 5,000 works for inclusion ..."--Home page.
HAPI: Hispanic American Periodicals Index 
Type: Indexes & Articles
Coverage: 1970-
Description: Provides citations to articles, book reviews, and documents on Hispanic American topics in over 400 social science and humanities journals.
Historical Abstracts  
Type: Indexes & Articles
Coverage: 1969-
Description: Provides indexing and abstracts of scholarly articles, books, and essays on European and world history from 1450 to the present (excluding the U.S. and Canada, which are covered in: America: History and Life).
Users: Licensed for 6 simultaneous users.
Informe! (Revistas en Español)
Type: Indexes & Articles
Coverage: 1998-
Description: Full text coverage of news and popular culture entirely in Spanish.
Journal of Iberian and Latin-American Studies
    (Use Tesserae)
Latin American and Caribbean Government Documents Project
Type: Reference
Description: Organizes and describes Internet-accessible Latin American and Caribbean official documents; provides links to full text.
Latin American economy and business
    (Use Latin American Intelligence Service)
Latin American Intelligence Service  
Type: eBooks & eTexts
Description: Provides access to the full portfolio of Latin American Newsletter information resources along with a series of bespoke services including the Client Response Unit, Special Bulletins, Personal Briefings, and Five-Year Forecasts.
Users: Licensed for one simultaneous user.
Latin American Periodicals Tables of Contents (LAPTOC)
Type: Indexes & Articles
Description: Provides access to tables of contents for hundreds of journals, primarily in the humanities and social sciences, published in Latin America; Web database with search by journal and article and browse by country.
Latin American regional reports
    (Use Latin American Intelligence Service)
Latin American security and strategic review
    (Use Latin American Intelligence Service)
Latin American special reports
    (Use Latin American Intelligence Service)
Latin American weekly report
    (Use Latin American Intelligence Service)
Libros en Venta en América Latina Y España
Type: Reference
Coverage: 12.ed.(2001)
Access: This product is used through a Citrix ICA Client. If you try the resource link and have trouble, you may need a one time software download
Description: Bibliographic citations and ordering information for 300,000+ titles in print in the Spanish language from all countries on all subjects.
MLA International Bibliography  
Type: Indexes & Articles
Coverage: 1963-
Description: Provides indexing to literature, language, linguistics, and folklore in nearly 2,000 journals and series as well as covering relevant monographs, working papers, proceedings, bibliographies, etc.
Users: Licensed for 4 simultaneous users.
* MLA Directory of Periodicals a guide to journals and series in languages and literatures.
Polling the Nations
Type: Indexes & Articles
Description: A compilation of questions and responses from more than 12,000 national, state, local and special surveys, conducted by 700 polling organizations in the United States and 70 other countries from 1986 through the present.
Report of the Chilean National Commission on Truth and Reconciliation
Type: eBooks & eTexts
Description: Issued in 1991, this national commission investigated and documented human rights abuses during the dictatorship of General Augusto Pinochet (1973-1990).
Sociological Abstracts  
Type: Indexes & Articles
Coverage: 1963-
Description: Abstracts and indexes the international literature in sociology and related disciplines in the social and behavioral sciences. The database provides citations from 1963 to the present to journal articles, book reviews, books, book chapters, dissertations, and conference papers. Records for journal articles added after 1974 contain in-depth abstracts. Major areas of coverage include culture and social structure; demography and human biology; economic development; environmental interactions; evaluation research; family and social welfare; health and medicine and law; history and theory of sociology; management and complex organizations; mass phenomena and political interactions; methodology and research technology; policy, planning, forecast and speculation; radical sociology; religion and science; rural and urban sociology; social development; social differentiation; social psychology and group interaction; sociology of the arts, business, education; studies in violence and power; substance abuse and addiction; welfare services; women's studies.
WDI online
    (Use World Development Indicators)
World Development Indicators  
Type: Data/Statistics/GIS
Coverage: 1960- (where data are available)
Description: The World Bank's comprehensive database on development data (social, economic, financial, natural resources, and environmental indicators) including more than 500 indicators, more than 200 countries, and 18 regional and income groups; with coverage from 1960 onward, where data are available.
World News Connection  
Type: Indexes & Articles
Description: A successor to the Daily reports from the Foreign Broadcasting Information Service and the JPRS reports from the Joint Publications Research Service provided through the National Technical Information Service. The material is obtained from non-U.S. open-source political speeches, television programs, radio broadcasts, newspaper articles, periodicals, and books. The content focuses primarily on military, political, environmental, scientific, technical, and socioeconomic issues and events.
Users: Licensed for one simultaneous user.

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