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Bibliografía Mesoamericana

Index of citations related to the ancient cultures of Mesoamerica. Subject areas include archaeology, ethnography, ethnohistory, art history, linguistics, physical anthropology, and other related disciplines.

Biblioteca Virtual de Ciencias Sociales de América Latina y el Caribe (CLACSO)

Sala de Lectura provee acceso gratuito a los textos completos de más de 4.000 libros y artículos de ciencias sociales.

Country Studies (Area Handbook Series) (Library of Congress)

Substantial surveys of history, society, culture, environment, health, education, economy, government and politics, military, science and technology in each country. Includes extensive subject bibliographies.

Cuba On-Line (University of Miami)

Dialnet

Lists almost 1.4 million articles in over 4,000 mostly Spanish journals and magazines, and thousands of books and dissertations. Subjects covered include primarily the sciences and technology, but also the social sciences, humanities, education, business, and law. Open-access database created by a group of Spanish universities under the leadership of the Universidad de la Rioja, Logrono, Spain. Free article-alert service for registered users. Coverage: 2001 - present.

dLOC - Digital Library of the Caribbean

The Digital Library of the Caribbean is a cooperative digital library for resources from and about the Caribbean and circum-Caribbean that provides access to digitized versions of Caribbean cultural, historical and research materials currently held in archives, libraries, and private collections.

Internet Resources for Latin America (La Guía) (New Mexico State University)

The links in this guide will provide access to many information resources for Latin American studies. Compiled and copyrighted by Molly Molloy, librarian at the New Mexico State University Library.

LAPOP (Latin American Public Opinion Project)

Full text of academic studies based on survey research conducted mainly in Latin America.

Latin American Network Information Center (LANIC) (University of Texas at Austin)

Latin American Periodicals Tables of Contents (LAPTOC)

Provides searchable interface for tables of contents of more than 800 journals, primarily in the humanities and social sciences, published in Latin America.

Latin American Open Archives Portal (LAOAP)

LAOAP is a portal service providing access to social sciences grey literature produced in Latin America by research institutes, non-governmental organizations, and peripheral agencies. It encompasses working documents, pre-prints, research papers, statistical documents, and other difficult-to-access materials that are not controlled by commercial publishers.

Latindex

Latindex -Sistema Regional de Información en Línea para Revistas Científicas de América Latina, el Caribe, España y Portugal- es producto de la cooperación de una red de instituciones que funcionan de manera coordinada para reunir y diseminar información bibliográfica sobre las publicaciones científicas seriadas producidas en la región.

Perry-Castañeda Library Map Collection: Maps of the Americas (University of Texas-Austin)

Portals to the World: Iberia, the Caribbean, and Latin America (Library of Congress)

This Internet portal, created and maintained by the Hispanic Division of the Library of Congress, provides librarian-selected links to country-specific Internet resources.

Presidential Messages

The Presidential Messages database contains digital images of over 75,000 pages of presidential speeches from the early 19th century to the present from Mexico and Argentina.

Red ALyC (La Red de Revistas Científicas de América Latina y El Caribe, España y Portugal)

Web portal which provides full-text access to articles in humanities and social science journals primarily from Latin America but also the Caribbean, Spain, and Portugal.

SciELO (Scientific Library Online)

A model for cooperative electronic publishing of scientific journals on the Internet which provides free full-text access to articles in journals from Latin America and the Caribbean.

World Factbook (U.S. Central Intelligence Agency)

This online resource provides maps and basic information by country on the geography, people, government, economy, communications, transportation, military and transnational issues.

 

   
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