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Subject Resources: Latin American Studies

Latin American Studies:

Latin American Terrain

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Latin American Studies

Using the Library

For More Information see the Information Skills page.

For specialist subject support in Latin American Studies, please contact the Subject Librarian, Chris Anderton by email via chrisa (off-campus users add .essex.ac.uk)

Search Tools and Databases

Databases and E-Resources: Latin America

Databases and E-Resources: Theses

Databases and E-Resources: Newspaper articles

Search Multiple Databases with Research Pro

Search simultaneously across multiple databases selected by the library to find full-text articles, abstracts, books, and other resources.

Websites and Portals

UT LANIC Latin American Network Information Center, U. of Texas

Americas Society

US organisation founded by David Rockefeller in 1965, aims to promote understanding of the contemporary political, social and economic issues facing Latin America, the Caribbean, and Canada

Biblioteca Digital Brasileira de Teses e Dissertações

Central catalogue and portal of information about dissertations from Brazilian universities and colleges, including PhDs. Subject to copyright, an increasing number can be downloaded in full text from the website. Abstracts are offered for all items. All subject areas are covered

Biblioteca Digital Mexicana

Biblioteca Virtual Miguel de Cervantes

Brazilian Embassy (London)

Brazilink

Catalogue collectif des périodiques Caraibe-Amazonie

Aims to create a searchable catalogue (union list) of all periodicals held by libraries and archives in Martinique, Guadeloupe and Guyana which cover the Caribbean and Amazon

Cibera

Portal to German research on Latin America

Digital Library of the Caribbean

Offers free access to online resources about the history, culture and society of the Caribbean and its constituent nations, including historic and contemporary newspapers, photographs, government gazettes, maps, & historic books.

Handbook of Latin American Studies Online

Internet resources for Latin America, compiled by Molly Molloy

Intute: Arts and Humanities - Latin American Studies

LAPOP (Latin American Public Opinion Project)

LAPTOC (Latin American Periodicals Tables of Contents)

Latin American Studies Association (LASA) [U.S.]

Latindex

Index to over 2000 scholarly journals from Latin America, the Caribbean, Spain and Portugal which is maintained by an international network of organisations & hosted at UNAM

Metabiblioteca
Project initiated by Universidad de La Salle, Colombia which seeks to increase information and access to open access repositories in Latin American

Mexican Embassy (London)

Observatoire Politique de l'Amérique latine et des Caraïbes (OPALC)

Main French network of research on Latin American politics

PLAN-noticias [Netherlands]

Portal del hispanismo

REDIAL : Red Europea de Información y Documentación sobre América Latina

Revistas de la Red CLACSO

E-journals portal which provides free access over 80 full text journal titles from members of the CLACSO network which comprises 17 countries in Latin America and the Caribbean. Coverage is generally from 2000 onwards

Society for Latin American Studies (SLAS)

The UK Association for the study of Latin America.

Printed Bibliography

The Library holds an extensive collection of Latin American bibliography in the reference room on Floor 1, classmarks Z 1411-1945. Consult the library catalogue for full details as many items are also held in the stores. Major publications include:

Handbook of Latin American studies 1935- Z 1605
Hispanic American periodicals index 1963- Z 1605

 

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