Major Web Directories for Latin America Latin American Network Information Center (LANIC), http://www.lanic.utexas.edu The most comprehensive source for Latin America on the internet with well organized subject and country links. From the University of Texas at Austin. Latin American Subject Resources, http://www-personal.si.umich.edu/~rlwls/andes.html Directory includes access to bookstores, embassies, online publications, travel information and more. Compiled by Rita Wilson [rlwilson@utsa.edu] TERRA.com, http://www.terra.com/espanol.htm TERRA is a major creator of portals for many Latin American countries, acquiring and adapting local content into a standard format. Examples: Terra MEXICO, http://www.terra.com.mx Terra ARGENTINA, http://www.terra.com.ar Terra GUATEMALA, http://www.terra.com.gt Terra CHILE, http://www.terra.cl; ETC... Latin America Links, http://www.latinamericalinks.com/ Aimed primarily at travelers with access to news, country reports, airline info, etc. LatinWorld: A Latin World - Latin America on the Net, http://www.latinworld.com A commercial Latin American directory. Base Indexada de Webs Españoles, http://biwe.cesat.es A commercial directory from Spain. Search LANIC, Latin America & the World, http://www.lanic.utexas.edu/world/search/ Links to web directories and search engines in many countries.

CHICANO Database, http://www.rlg.org/cit-cdb.html

Produced by the University of California at Berkeley Ethnic Studies Library, Chicano Studies Collection, the Chicano Database provides access to scholarly research on Chicanos/Mexican Americans. Coverage begins in the 1960s, primarily, with selected references to earlier materials. Available online via the Research Libraries Group--RLG and on CD-ROM

Handbook of Latin American Studies-HLAS, http://lcweb2.loc.gov/hlas/

Although no subscription is required at this time, I'm listing HLAS in both sections since it is one of the most important Latin American bibliographic databases. HLAS is produced by the Hispanic Division of the Library of Congress and is provided FREE OF CHARGE to web users worldwide. Together with subscription resources such as HAPI, LADB, InfoLatinoamerica and others, it is one of the most important tools for scholarly research on Latin America. It provides abstracts and complete bibliographic information for published materials from and about Latin America on a wide range of topics in the humanities and social sciences and covers more than 60 years of scholarly literature in Latin American studies.

Hispanic American Periodicals Index (HAPI), via UCLA, http://hapi.gseis.ucla.edu

HAPI provides access to the contents of over 400 social sciences and humanities periodicals from and about Latin America from 1970-present. HAPI is a source for authoritative, worldwide information about Central and South America, Mexico, the Caribbean basin, the United States-Mexico border region, and Hispanics in the United States. From analyses of current political, economic, and social issues to unique coverage of Latin American arts and letters, HAPI Online contains complete bibliographic citations to articles, book reviews, documents, original literary works, and other materials. Produced by the UCLA Latin American Center, HAPI includes more than 210,000 citations, and grows at the rate of about 8,000 records a year. See the web page or email the HAPI office for more information [bvalk@ucla.edu].

InfoLatina, http://www.infolatina.com.mx/

InfoLatina provides current and archival access to the full text of a large array of Mexican publications, including newspapers, magazines, government documents, legislation and jurisprudence, etc. For some publications the archive goes back to the early 1980s. Trial subscriptions are available. For more information via email [ventas@infolatina.com.mx]

INFO-LATINOAMERICA, via NISC, http://www.nisc.com

Formerly the Info-South database from the University of Miami's North-South Center. Coverage of Latin American newspapers and journals. Most articles from 1996 on are available in full-text. Coverage tends toward mainstream news and business sources, although includes fulltext of Interpress Third World news service and new resources are added regularly. Coverage 1988--current. This link goes to the NISC homepage; from there, click on PRODUCTS for list of databases; also free trials available from the home page. See http://www.nisc.com/factsheets/qila.htm, for a factsheet on Info-Latinoamerica

Latin America Data Base (LADB), via University of New Mexico, http://ladb.unm.edu

LADB's professional journalists produce three weekly electronic news bulletins about Mexico (SourceMex), Central America and the Caribbean including Cuba (NotiCen) and South America (NotiSur). These are available on the web or by e-mail with a subscription. LADB has introduced a new monthly bulletin on Cuba (CubaSource) in May 2000, now offered on a free trial basis. LADB's searchable archive of over 24,000 articles since 1986 is updated weekly. This is a great, content-rich source for economic and political information on Latin America. See http://ladb.unm.edu/info/prices/ for prices and trial account information. Email: [info@ladb.unm.edu].

See http://lib.nmsu.edu/subject/bord/laguia/lag1999.html#data for more databases.

America: History & Life and Historical Abstracts via ABC-CLIO, http://serials.abc-clio.com:81/

Access to journals, dissertations and some monographs in history. North America (including Mexico) is covered in America: History & Life; South America is covered in Historical Abstracts.

CIAONET: Columbia International Affairs Online, http://www.ciaonet.org

Columbia International Affairs Online (CIAO) is designed to be the most comprehensive source for theory and research in international affairs. Access to working papers, articles and online books published by Columbia University Press.

Ethnic NewsWatch, http://www.softlineweb.com

Ethnic Newswatch is a full-text database of News, Culture and History from 200 publications of the ethnic, minority and native press, including Hispanic, African-American, Native-American and many other publications from minority communities in the United States. Nearly 500,000 complete articles dating back to 1990. Archival material dating back to the mid 1980's. More than 7,500 new articles added each month. Searchable in both English and Spanish, with titles in both languages and more than 100,000 articles in Spanish, Ethnic NewsWatch provides in-depth coverage of a wide range of current and historical topics easily accessed using free text and fielded searching. See http://www.softlineweb.com/ethnic.htm for detail on Ethnic Newswatch. And for sales, customer support, contact information etc., see http://www.slinfo.com/

FIRSTSEARCH, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/

The Firstsearch system provides access to over 75 academic databases in many subject areas. Several databases provide fulltext articles, while others provide abstracts. User-friendly interface; available at most academic libraries in the United States. Some of the databases relevant to Latin American studies include:

• Contemporary Women's Issues: access to articles, books and other information of interest to women's studies, global coverage
• Dissertation Abstracts: abstracts to dissertations from US and other universities, 1865--present
• EconLit: coverage of the scholarly literature in economics
• GEOBASE: worldwide literature on geography, geology and ecology
• MLA Bibliography: literature, literary criticism, linguistics, folklore, etc.
• PAIS International: abstracts to journal articles, books government documents and other materials on public affairs worldwide
• Wilson Select: fulltext articles from more than 800 magazines and academic journals
• WORLDCAT: more than 40 million bibliographic records to materials in thousands of libraries

NMSU Users: Follow this FIRSTSEARCH link.

INFORME--Revistas en Espan~ol on INFOTRAC, http://www.galegroup.com/servlet/ItemDetailServlet?region=9&imprint=000&titleCode=INFO1&type=4&id=172023

Available via the Gale Group of publishers, this database provides citations and fulltext for a selection of popular magazines in Spanish. Coverage from about 1996 to present. Covers many subject areas, but important for libraries serving Spanish-speaking communities. See the Informe Title List

Interpress Service: IPS Global Gateway

Progressive news service covering many world areas. Current stories and archives are available in several languages; full text access requires subscription. Link for subscription information is on the home page.

J-STOR, http://www.jstor.org/

A membership organization providing a fulltext archive of complete runs of over 117 major academic journals in the sciences, social sciences and humanities. Some titles go back over 100 years in the database. Several Latin American studies titles will be added to J-STOR in the near future. [Email: jstor-info@umich.edu].

Lexis-Nexis Academic Universe, http://www.lexis-nexis.com/universe

Fulltext access to thousands of news sources, including several dozen Spanish-language titles. Best segments for Latin American news are "North/South American News" and "Spanish Language News." You can restrict your search to these sets of publications.

World News Connection, http://wnc.fedworld.gov

Foreign news service provided by the US government through the Foreign Broadcast Information Service (FBIS) and the National Technical Information Service (NTIS); WNC provides English translations of news broadcasts worldwide; extensive Latin American coverage.

Public Domain Databases

The resources listed here are generally available without cost to the end user. They provide access to organized bodies of data useful for Latin American research. These may provide fulltext articles, statistical information, or bibliographic citations. In some cases, the public access version of the database will provide a lower level of information (citations and abstracts only perhaps); the user has the option of paying more for fulltext, greater coverage, etc. Some of these databases are created and maintained by government agencies or other public entities (universities) and provided free on the internet.

Latin American Databases

Americas Program, Interhemispheric Resource Center, http://www.americaspolicy.org

The US-Mexico border program of the Interhemispheric Resource Center, http://www.irc-online.org, formerly known as BIOS (Border Information and Outreach Service). The new site includes all back issues of Borderlines and other BIOS data as well as current coverage of border issues. This site has one of the most comprehensive directories of organizations working on trade, environment, human rights, indigenous peoples, migration, labor and other US-Mexico border issues.

Biblioteca Virtual de Ciencias Sociales de América Latina y el Caribe (Consejo Latinoamericano de Ciencias Sociales, CLACSO),http://www.clacso.org/wwwclacso/espanol/html/biblioteca/fbiblioteca.html

Free access to 4.000 social sciences full-text books, periodical articles, conference papers in spanish and portuguese, concerning Latin America and the Caribbean.

Bilingual English-Spanish Library & Information Science Dictionary, http://eubd1.ugr.es/RIS/RISWEB.ISA

Compiled by Tony Lozano, University of Granada, Spain, this database contains more than 60,000 bilingual entries for library science and information technology. More than just translations, many entries are fully explained. Also contains the IFLA glossary. Email contact: [alozano@ugr.es]

Brazil: SciELO--Scientific Electronic Library Online, http://www.scielo.br

Fulltext scholarly journals published in Brazil in many subject areas. Sponsored by FAPESP and BIREME. One purpose of the project is to use the internet to increase the visibility of scientific research in Brazil. Email contact: [scielo@bireme.br].

Brazilian Government Document Digitization Project, http://wwwcrl.uchicago.edu/info/brazil/

A project of the Latin American Microfilm Project (LAMP) at the Center for Research Libraries (CRL), this site provides access to full text and images of reports from different government entities from 1821-1993. This is an example of digitization for preservation of rare historical materials.

COLNODO Bases de Datos, http://bases.colnodo.org.co/consulta.html

Access to several databases created by Colombian NGOs. Some topics include ecology, sustainable development, conflict resolution, women, etc. COLNODO provides internet access to many NGOs in Colombia.

Costa Rica: Bibliographic Meta-Database, http://www.acceso.or.cr/metabase

Combined bibliographic references of several NGO information centers in Costa Rica. A search provides bibliographic records and information on how to contact the information center to obtain a copy of the item. As of May 2001, the database contains over 200,000 bibliographic records with the participation of 38 information centers. Project supported by Fundacion Acceso

Costa Rica: CEIBA, http://www.arias.or.cr/ceiba

Database of more than 1200 Central American NGOs; a project of the Fundacion Arias, http://www.arias.or.cr/ para la paz y el progreso humano. Contact: info@arias.or.cr.

Ethnologue: Languages of the World, http://www.ethnologue.com/

Compiler: Summer Institute of Linguistics. Contact: www@sil.org. Includes excellent data on American indigenous languages. Ethnologue provides detailed information on 6,700 world languages. The electronic version of the LLA is searchable by country or language name and provides details on hundreds of languages including numbers of speakers, geographic distribution, levels of bilingualism among speakers, etc.

Fourth World Documentation Project: Indigenous Peoples Information for the Online Community, http://www.cwis.org/fwdp.html

A collection of documents from nations and organizations around the world relating to indigenous peoples organized by the Center for World Indigenous Studies (CWIS). The archive contains documents on Fourth World nations in the Americas, Africa, Asia, Europe, Melanesia and the Pacific. It is a unique archive of primary source documents--treaties, tribal government information, etc. See http://www.cwis.org/americas.html for documents from North, South and Central America. The project page indicates that it has not been updated since 1997.

Handbook of Latin American Studies-HLAS, http://lcweb2.loc.gov/hlas/

HLAS is produced by the Hispanic Division of the Library of Congress and is provided FREE OF CHARGE to web users worldwide. Together with subscription resources such as HAPI, LADB, InfoLatinoamerica and others, it is one of the most important tools for scholarly research on Latin America. It provides abstracts and complete bibliographic information for published materials from and about Latin America on a wide range of topics in the humanities and social sciences and covers more than 60 years of scholarly literature in Latin American studies.

Interamerican Human Rights Database, http://www.wcl.american.edu/pub/humright/digest/

Produced by the Center for Human Rights and Humanitarian Law, Washington College of Law, at the American University, the Inter-American Human Rights Database contains documents in English and Spanish adopted by the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights since its first session, in 1960.

Human Rights Library - University of Minnesota, http://www1.umn.edu/humanrts/

Searchable collection of hundreds of the most important international human rights treaties and other instruments; general comments, recommendations, decisions, and views of human rights treaty bodies; material on the work of other U.N. human rights bodies, including the Commission and its Sub-Commission; decisions and advisory opinions of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights and Inter-American Commission on Human Rights; material from the Organization on Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) and the Asylum Branch of the U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service, etc.

International Monetary Fund(IMF) Dissemination Standards Bulletin Board(DSBB), http://dsbb.imf.org

IMF members may subscribe to the Special Data Dissemination Standard (SDDS) for the provision of their economic and financial data to the public in order to "enhance the availability of timely and comprehensive statistics and therefore contribute to the pursuit of sound macroeconomic policies..." The DSBB website access to agencies within each country that provide statistics and details about how to obtain data in many formats. For some countries, a direct link is provided to the statistical source in the country. Latin American coverage includes: Argentina, Colombia, Chile, Mexico and Peru (as of May 1997). Email contact: ddsd@imf.org

LADARK: Latin America Development Electronic Archive, http://www.jhu.edu/~soc/ladark.html

Created by the Program in Comparative International Development in the Dept. of Sociology at Johns Hopkins University, LADARK contains datasets, working papers, bibliographies, course syllabi, and announcements useful to scholars researching Latin American development. For more information contact Christopher Chase-Dunn [chriscd@jhu.edu]

Latin American Election Statistics: A Guide to Sources, http://dodgson.ucsd.edu/las/

Created by Karen Lindvall-Larson (University of California--San Diego). Provides a chronology of elections since independence at the municipal state and federal levels in the Spanish-speaking countries of Latin America. Includes lists of sources for all statistics and other information provided on the website. As of July 2002, full data for Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, El Salvador, Honduras, Mexico and Panama are available. Updates are posted regularly. For more information consult: [klindval@ucsd.edu].

Latin American Government Documents Project, http://lib1.library.cornell.edu/colldev/ladocshome.html

An experimental project to organize, describe and link to Latin American official documents available on the internet. Includes national level statistical, executive, legislative, and judicial sources, and several categories of "subnational" documents. Created by David Block, Cornell University [db10@cornell.edu]

Latin Americanist Research Resources Pilot Project, http://lanic.utexas.edu/project/arl/

Access to tables of contents of several hundred journals from Mexico and Argentina. Allows academic researchers to identify and locate articles available via interlibrary loan from over 40 research libraries in the US. Joint project of the Association of Research Libraries and UT-LANIC. Email: [arl@lanic.utexas.edu]

LATINDEX: Indice Latinoamericano de Publicaciones Cientificas Seriadas, http://www.latindex.unam.mx/

Project of the UNAM libraries to provide a web-accessible database of important journals from many Latin American countries.

LEER--Spanish Language Books from all over Latin America, http://www.leer.nisc.com

Access to over one million book titles published in Spain and Latin America. Provides publisher and (in some cases) distributor information. Introduced in Spring 1999 as a free service from NISC. Users have free access to database, but must register. The site contains advertising for other NISC products.

Library of Congress Country Studies/Area Handbooks, http://lcweb2.loc.gov/frd/cs/cshome.html

A continuing series of books prepared by the Federal Research Division of the Library of Congress under the Country Studies/Area Handbook Program sponsored by the Department of the Army. This series presently contains studies of 71 countries. Use the BROWSE or SEARCH features to locate Latin American countries in the series.

LIBRO--Library of Iberian Resources Online,http://libro.uca.edu

Contains full text of recent, but out-of-print university press monographs, published in English, that discuss the peoples and nations of the Iberian peninsula. Beginning with the Hispanic Middle Ages, ca. 500 to 1500 it will eventually cover the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. A joint project of the American Academy of Research Historians of Medieval Spain and the University of Central Arkansas.

MEXICO: Direccion General de Bibliotecas: Catalogos Globales, http://www.dgbiblio.unam.mx/catalg.html

The libraries of the UNAM provide several unique databases of research material through their online system. Through this one page, the user has access to LIBRIUNAM, the holdings of the library; SERIUNAM: the Catálogo Hemerográfico Nacional; TESIUNAM: Catálogo de Tesis. CLASE: analyzes the contents of over 1000 social sciences and humanities journals; PERIODICA covers journals in science and technology. For more information on the these databases, contact, Octavio Alonso, Latin American Bibliography, DGB-UNAM, oalonso@servidor.unam.mx

MEXICO: E-journal UNAM, http://www.ejournal.unam.mx/

Electronic library providing fulltext access to selected academic journals published by the Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico. Some of the titles included: Atmosfera, Ciencias, Demos, Geofisica Internacional, Investigacion Bibliotecologica.

MEXICO: INFOJus: Instituto de Investigaciones Juridicas (UNAM), http://info.juridicas.unam.mx

Access to Mexican legislation, constitutional law, research directory, etc. See especially the Sistema de Informacion-UNAMJure, http://info4.juridicas.unam.mx/unamjure/ to search full text of laws.

Mexico Consensus Economic Forecast/Consenso De Pronósticos Económicos, http://www.cob.asu.edu/seid/eoc/mexico/

Published quarterly, the Mexico Consensus Economic Forecast provides forecasts and an analysis of the Mexico economy. The panel of forecasters is drawn from the leading experts in Mexico on the Mexican economy. Fulltext reports from 1995--present. Produced by the College of Business, Arizona State University. Contact [Tracy.Clark@asu.edu]

National Law Center for Inter-American Free Trade, http://www.natlaw.com/index.htm

Access to the InterAm Database for Mexican and Latin American laws, including many in translation. Also access to the Weekly Inter-American Trade and Investment Law Bulletin. Access to the database is via subscription. Info contact: [natlaw@natlaw.com]

Political Database of the Americas, http://www.georgetown.edu/pdba/

Produced by the Georgetown University Center for Latin American Studies and the OAS, this site provides country summaries, constitutions, election data, and other fulltext documents by and about Latin American governments. Contact information via http://www.georgetown.edu/pdba/contact.html.

SICE: Sistema de Informacion al Comercio Exterior, http://www.sice.oas.org/

Foreign Trade Information System of the Organization of American States (OAS). Contains articles, data, official treaties and trade agreements, Free Trade Area of the Americas process, etc. Excellent source for documentation on all aspects of trade in the Americas. For more information contact [sice@sice.oas.org]

Ya! Basta! Zapatista Website, http://www.ezln.org

Comprehensive database of documents relating to the uprising of the Ejercito Zapatista de Liberacion Nacional in Chiapas, Mexico. Contains every communique issued by the EZLN since January 1994; many are translated into English and other languages.

• BioMed Central, http://www.biomedcentral.com/ --"BioMed Central publishes peer reviewed research across all areas of biology and medicine, with immediate, barrier-free access for all." Fulltext articles are available via the website. Contact: info@biomedcentral.com.
  
  
• Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, http://www.cdc.gov/ --full-text access to many public health topics.
  
  
• COGPrints, http://cogprints.soton.ac.uk/ --Cognitive Sciences E-Print Archive, for papers in Psychology, Neuroscience, Linguistics, Computer Science, Philosophy, Biology, Neurology, human genetics, Anthropology, primatology, cognitive ethnology, archeology, as well as any other portions of the physical, social and mathematical sciences that are pertinent to the study of cognition.
  
  
• Electric Library--http://www.elibrary.com --Free searching in hundreds of popular magazines and some academic journals. User must pay to retrieve fulltext documents.
  
  
• Electronic Journal Miner, http://ejournal.coalliance.org/ --produced by the Colorado Alliance of Research Libraries, this site provides access to journals from many different publishers. Searches can be limited to peer-reviewed titles, free titles, etc. A quick keyword search for "Latin America" yielded 16 titles.
  
  
• Encyclopedia Britannica, http://britannica.com/ --provides free searching but users must subscribe for full access to Britannica articles. Site includes news, outside links and advertising.
  
  
• ERIC: Ask ERIC -- http://ericir.sunsite.syr.edu --Access to the ERIC database for educational research; links to ERIC Clearinghouses; many fulltext documents from the ERIC system.
  
  
• Highwire Press Free Fulltext Science Archive, http://highwire.stanford.edu/lists/largest.dtl --from Staford University, one of the two largest archives of free full-text science on Earth! As of 3/6/02, Highwire provides online publication of 404,560 free full-text articles.
  
  
• INGENTA (formerly CARL UNCOVER), http://www.ingenta.com/ --Access to over 12 million articles in 26,000 publications. Database searches and retrieval of citations and abstracts is free; document delivery provided for a fee and users can order online or through a library document delivery program.
  
  
• Los Alamos National Laboratory e-prints Archive, http://eprints.lanl.gov/lanl/ --Searchable database of eprints and preprints submitted in the fields of physics, mathematics and computer science; unlimited access to full-text of preprints.
  
  
• MEDLINE via National Library of Medicine -- http://www.nlm.nih.gov/ --Public access to one of the largest medical research databases in the world.
  
  
• NASA Astrophysics Data System, http://adswww.harvard.edu/ via Harvard University--together with HIGHWIRE, the largest free scientific information site.
  
  
• Northern Light--http://www.northernlight.com/ --One of the most comprehensive search engines on the web, Northern Light also provides fulltext of published articles for a fee. Abstracts and citations are free.
  
  
• PubSCIENCE, http://pubsci.osti.gov/ --provided by the US Department of Energy's Office of Scientific and Technical Information to facilitate searching and accessing peer reviewed journal literature in the physical sciences and other energy-related disciplines. Provides public access (no subscription required) to citations from many important journals in the physical sciences. Includes some full-text links, but these usually require subscription to the journal.
  
  

• Bibliomania, http://www.bibliomania.com/
  
  
• Biblioteca Virtual de Ciencias Sociales de América Latina y el Caribe (Consejo Latinoamericano de Ciencias Sociales, CLACSO),http://www.clacso.org/wwwclacso/espanol/html/biblioteca/fbiblioteca.html --Access to 4,000 social sciences full-text books, periodical articles, conference papers in spanish and portuguese, concerning Latin America and the Caribbean.
  
  
• Books on the Internet, via University of Texas Library Online, http://www.lib.utexas.edu/Libs/PCL/Etext.html
  
  
• Concordances of Great Books, http://www.concordance.com/
  
  
• Digital Collections via UC-Berkeley Sunsite, http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/Collections/ --includes digitized books, manuscripts, maps, photographs and other selected resources from the UC-Berkeley collections.
  
  
• Electronic Text Center, University of Virginia, http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/uvaonline.html --features online texts and Electronic Text Collections In Western European Literature -- http://www.lib.virginia.edu/wess/etexts.html --A large collection of electronic texts in Spanish, Portuguese and many other languages. UVA restricts access to some collections, but many are freely available.
  
  
• Etext Archives--http://www.etext.org --Home to electronic texts of all kinds, mostly non-copyrighted or older texts no longer under copyright. Includes electronic journals, books and other documents.
  
  
• Historical Text Archive, http://historicaltextarchive.com/
  
  
• Internet Public Library Online Text Collection, http://www.ipl.org/reading/books/
  
  
• Online Books via University of Pennsylvania, http://digital.library.upenn.edu/books/
  
  
• Project Gutenberg, http://promo.net/pg/
  
  
• University of California Press E-Editions, http://www.ucpress.edu/scan/books.html
  
  

Latin American Libraries, Archives & Reference Resources via UT-LANIC, http://lanic.utexas.edu/subject/libraries.html

Links to hundreds of libraries in Latin American countries and specialized collections worldwide.

Repositories of Primary Sources: Latin America & the Caribbean, http://www.uidaho.edu/special-collections/mexico.html

A selection of links from the University of Idaho to archival collections in the region.

Selected Latin American Collections in U.S. Libraries

• Basque Studies Library, University of Nevada--Reno, http://www.library.unr.edu/depts/basqlib/
• Benson Latin American Collection, University of Texas, http://www.lib.utexas.edu/Libs/Benson/
• Cuban Heritage Collection, University of Miami, http://www.library.miami.edu/library/cuban.html
• Duke University Latin American Collection, http://www.lib.duke.edu/ias/latamer/
• Interamerican Development Bank Library, http://www.iadb.org/lib/
• Latin American Library, Tulane University, http://www.tulane.edu/~latinlib/lalhome.html
• Latin American Microform Project--LAMP, http://www.crl.edu/areastudies/LAMP/
• Notre Dame Library, Latin American Studies, http://www.nd.edu/~kic/las.html
• Princeton: Latin America, Spain & Portugal, http://www.princeton.edu/plasweb/library/
• Stanford University, Latin American & Iberian Collections, http://www-sul.stanford.edu/depts/hasrg/latinam/latamint.html
• University of California--Berkeley, Latin American Studies, http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/Collections/LatinAm/index.html
• University of Florida, Latin American Collection, http://web.uflib.ufl.edu/lac/
• University of Illinois, Latin American Library, http://www.library.uiuc.edu/lat/
• University of Massachusetts, http://www.library.umass.edu/subject/latam/
• University of New Mexico Libraries: Latin American and Iberian Collections and Resources, http://elibrary.unm.edu/ibero/
• University of North Carolina--Chapel Hill, http://www.lib.unc.edu/cdd/crs/foreign/latin/index.html
• Vanderbilt: Resources for Latin American Studies, http://www.library.vanderbilt.edu/central/latam.html

• Alexandria Digital Library Project, University of California--Santa Barbara, http://www.alexandria.ucsb.edu/
  
  
• Biblioteca Digital del Tec de Monterrey, http://www-cib.mty.itesm.mx/ --resources and services for the distance education programs of ITESM.
  
  
• California Digital Library, http://www.cdlib.org/
  
  
• D-LIB Forum, http://www.dlib.org/ --online discussion and magazine for digital library development
  
  
• Digital Libraries: Resources and Projects-via IFLA, http://www.ifla.org/II/diglib.htm --From the International Federation of Library Associations; includes a section on projects in the Americas, http://www.ifla.org/II/diglib.htm#projects-americas; and Digital Libraries: Electronic Journal and Text Archives, http://www.ifla.org/II/etext.htm
  
  
• Digital Library Federation, http://www.clir.org/diglib/dlfhomepage.htm --includes links to consortium members who are in the process of providing access to digitized collections of unique materials.
  
  
• ISTEC Digital Libraries Links, http://www.istec.org/liblink/digital-libraries.html --from the Iberoamerican Science and Technology Education Consortium.
  
  
• National Digital Library, Library of Congress, http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/dli2/html/lcndlp.html --see List of Collections, http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/dli2/html/list.html
  
  
• Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations, http://www.ndltd.org/
  
  
• PHRONESIS Biblioteca Digital, http://copernico.mty.itesm.mx/%7Etempo/phronesis/ --from Tec de Monterey.
  
  
• Untangling the Web: Applications of the Internet and Other Information Technologies to Higher Education (RAND Report), http://www.rand.org/publications/MR/MR975/MR975.pdf --includes section on digital library development.
  
  

Organizations

Information cannot really exist in isolation from the the individual, organization or other entity that creates it. In the realm of online/web information, it is especially important to consider the SOURCE of the information you find. Can you determine the source? What can you find out about the source from the webpage or online document? These caveats are especially important when using information from organizational web sites. Most organizations -- government, businesses, non-profits, etc. -- now have pages on the World Wide Web. What follows is a small selection of organizational websites that provide useful information from and about different Latin American countries, or issues relating to Latin American studies. Organization Directories provide links to hundreds of groups in different categories: international, academic, governmental, and non-governmental. Organizations use the internet in many different ways. Some organizational pages are no more than a "brochure" describing the group, its mission, contact information, etc. Other groups use their web pages to provide a great deal of information to their members and others. Many groups will provide web pages, email conferences for members, and other services through the net. Since many groups exist to promote certain policies or political/social activities, an organizational web page can be an excellent source of information on issues of interest to the group. When using organizational web pages as research sources, the user needs to critically evaluate the information, taking into account the bias of the information providers. Always look for the groups' address (cyber & terrestrial), statement of purpose and contact information on the web page. See http://lib.nmsu.edu/subject/bord/laguia/lag1999.html#orgs for more organizations.

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Organization Directories

News Sources

This section includes my favorite news directories and links to a few specific publications. This list does not begin to be comprehensive. It is possible now to read online daily newspapers from nearly all Latin American countries. Searchable news archives are much harder to find and are generally part of subscription services such as Lexis Nexis. See http://lib.nmsu.edu/subject/bord/laguia/lag1999.html#news for more news sources.

Online News Directories

LANIC News Links

News links from UT-LANIC provides comprehensive coverage of news sources by country. Separate pages cover:
Newspapers, http://www.lanic.utexas.edu/la/region/news/
Journals & Magazines, http://www.lanic.utexas.edu/la/region/epub/
Radio & Television, http://www.lanic.utexas.edu/la/region/radiotv/
Journalism, http://www.lanic.utexas.edu/la/region/journalism/

Latin American Library, Tulane University, Electronic Periodicals on Latin America & the Caribbean

Access to an extensive list of electronic publications and news services. Some resources are by subscription and access is restricted to Tulane users. Contact: Paul Bary [pbary@mailhost.tcs. tulane.edu]
URL:http://www.tulane.edu/~latinlib/revistas.html

Latin American Newsgroups via IGC

A list of conferences on Latin American topics; some lists go back to 1990 or earlier. Access to the newsgroup contents requires subscription or membership in an affiliate organization.

Online Publications from & about Latin America

Excellent set of links to online newspapers, wire services and many other kinds of publications. Includes a detailed directory of Mexican Newspapers by State. Compiled by Rita Wilson at UT-San Antonio [rlwilson@utsa.edu]
URLs: http://www.lib.utsa.edu/Instruction/helpsheets/pubs.html
http://www.lib.utsa.edu/Instruction/helpsheets/mexstates2.html

AJR NEWSLINK

From American Journalism Review, an excellent directory to media sources (newspapers, magazines, radio, TV) worldwide.
URL: http://ajr.newslink.org

Selected Publications

BorderLines, http://www.us-mex.org/borderlines/

A monthly publication produced by the Interhemispheric Resource Center provides news on issues in the US-Mexico border region.

Frontera Norte Sur, http://www.nmsu.edu/~frontera

Monthly news digest with daily updates covering the US-Mexico border. Includes border crossing statistics, health, environment, immigration reports and more. Archives available back to 1996. Center for Latin American Studies, New Mexico State University. For more info contact [frontera@nmsu.edu]

Human Development Report, http://www.undp.org/hdro/

Major report on the state of the worlds' peoples, produced annually since 1990 by the United Nations Development Program. This website provides full text access to the current (released June 29, 2000) report and an archive of previous reports.

Information Services on Latin America (ISLA), http://www.igc.org/isla

Well-known for many years to Latin American researchers for its Latin American news publications, the ISLA website provides online current events and in-depth coverage of special events each month. Produced by the DataCenter, http://www.igc.org/datacenter/ a non-profit, progressive research organization in Oakland, CA.

Latin American Newsletters, http://www.latinnews.com

Provides sample issues and some full text articles from "Latin American Regional Reports," "Latin America Weekly Report," and other specialized newsletters. Also contains subscription information and a live newsfeed with important regional stories. More information via email [subs@latinnews.com]

Migration News/Migration Dialogue, http://migration.ucdavis.edu

A monthly summary of immigration developments covering many world regions, including Latin America and the US-Mexican border. Produced by the Department of Agricultural Economics at the University of California--Davis , the journal is distributed via email and is archived back to 1994.

NACLA REPORT--North American Congress on Latin America, http://www.nacla.org/

Progressive research on politics, environment, labor, development, etc. Website includes back issues and contents back to 1987. Email: nacla@nacla.org]

Planeta.com: Global Journal of Practical Ecotourism, http://www.planeta.com/ http://www.planeta.com/

More than a publication, this is the most extensive collection of ecotravel and tourism resources on the web. Compiled by Ron Mader [editor@planeta.com], the Planeta website contains a wealth of original articles, including ecology and tourism resource guides. The site focuses on Latin America and sponsors the Latin America Media Project and the Directory of Spanish Language Schools.

• ENRED: Foro de Redes de America Latina y el Caribe, http://www.enred.org/index.html --an association for the promotion, integration and development of a system of scientific, technical, academic and cultural information networks in Latin America and the Caribbean.
• The Internet...Why? and What for? Thoughts on Information and Communication Technologies for Development in Latin America and the Caribbean, http://www.idrc.ca/pan/pppp/ --a paper from the IDRC Panamerican Networking project, authored by Ricardo Gomez and Juliana Martinez.
• Internet Domain Survey, http://www.isc.org/ds/ --via the Internet Software Consortium. This survey is done twice yearly since 1987 and attempts to track the growth of the Internet worldwide. It is important to read the Internet Domain Survey Background in order to understand how to interpret the numbers.
• UNESCO Observatory on the Information Society, http://www.unesco.org/webworld/observatory/index.shtml --a global watch for news on the ethical, legal and societal challenges of the Information Society.
• International Telecommunications Union--ITU, http://www.itu.int/ --an international organization within which governments and the private sector coordinate global telecom networks and services. Access to databases for statistics on global telecomm development.
• IDC--Latin America, http://www.idc.com/idcla/ --market research reports and other data on information technology in Latin America.
• Latin Internet News, http://www.latpro.com/internet/, via LATPRO --a free news bulletin covering developments in the Latin American and Hispanic Internet markets. Excellent for coverage of online commercial developments in the region.
• Proyecto Mistica: Methodology and Social Impact of the Information and Communication Technologies in America, http://funredes.org/mistica/ --virtual community for Latin American networking. A project of FUNREDES, Fundacion Redes y Desarrollo/Networks & Development, dedicated to the dissemination of New Information and Communication Technologies (NICT) in developing countries, especially in Latin America and the Caribbean.
• The Internet in Latin America: Investigating the Boom, http://www.latinnews.com/consem_images/conf_internet.htm --papers from a conference held in London in October 2000. The executive summary of the conference is available gratis. Users can purchase the conference proceedings. [Files also saved locally at this link: The Internet in Latin America: Investigating the Boom]
• Development of the Internet in Latin America, http://lib.nmsu.edu/subject/bord/laguia/netdev.html --draft version of paper by Molly Molloy, May 2000.
• Exponential Growth of the Net in Latin America, http://lib.nmsu.edu/subject/bord/lag1999.html/#growth --history of internet development in the region
• TILAN--Trends in Latin American Networking, http://lanic.utexas.edu:80/project/tilan/
• LANIC Networking & Information Services, http://www.lanic.utexas.edu/la/region/networking/
• Red Nacional de Investigacion (CRNet) Latin America & Caribbean Net Statistics, http://www.cr/latstat
• Informatics 2000--Interamerican Development Bank, http://i2000i.iadb.org/ --IADB project to promote appropriate information technology initiatives in the hemisphere.
• America's Internet Connections, via Ron Mader's Planeta.com , http://www.planeta.com/ecotravel/period/internet.html. Includes La Plaza Abierta: Toward a Latin American Internet Commons, http://www.planeta.com/ecotravel/period/commons.html --Some thoughts on Latin American net-space...by Molly Molloy and Ron Mader, March 1997
  
• Networking in Developing Nations--compiled by Larry Press, http://som1.csudh.edu/fac/lpress/devnat/index.htm --a collection of original papers on many aspects of networking in the developing world, including many relating to Latin America.
• The Internet and Poverty: PANOS Media Briefing No. 28, April 1998, http://www.oneworld.org/panos/briefing/interpov.htm
• Generación de Productos de Calidad en Internet by Grete Pasch, Graduate School of Library & Information Science, University of Texas.
• NUA Internet Surveys, http://www.nua.ie/surveys/ --excellent global coverage of internet development issues. You can search or browse archives for articles on Latin America and other world regions.
• Recent articles on Latin American Networking --The articles linked here were downloaded from InfoLatinoamerica via Biblioline, http://www.nisc.com and Lexis Nexis Academic Universe, http://www.lexis-nexis.com/universe and several other sources; used with permission.
  • The Impact of the Internet on the Politics of Cuba, http://firstmonday.org/issues/issue5_8/williamson/index.html--Andy Williamson; published in online peer-reviewed journal, FirstMonday, August 2000.
  • Free Access Rocks the Latin Web Market, http://www.thestandard.com/article/display/0,1151,15003,00.html--Juan Carlos Perez, The Standard, May 11, 2000. Text version of article.
  • Constituye la Internet un obstáculo o un apoyo para la sociedad civil? --a current research project by Fundacion Acceso and the International Development Research Centre on the use of the internet by Central American NGOs.
  • Internet Explodes in LatAm, But Only for Elite, http://news.excite.com/news/r/000410/13/net-latam-internet --Shasta Darlington, April 10, 2000, via Excite News.
  • The Number of Internet Users in Latin America Continues to Sky Rocket with 29.6 Million Expected by 2003, IDC Says --message posted to Latin American Internet News, March 22, 2000. Downloaded from Lexis-Nexis Academic Universe, March 31, 2000. Original available via IDC Latin America Research.
  • Terra Offers Free Net Access in Mexico --Sam Quinones, March 10, 2000 The Standard, http://www.thestandard.com
  • The Americas Online --Matthew Yeomans, January 27, 2000 The Standard, http://www.thestandard.com
  • Funding La Vida Loca, http://www.herring.com/insider/1999/1118/vc-global.html --the venture capital behind new commercial Latino sites.
  • THE HIGH COST OF FREE INTERNET ACCESS --Ian Katz, Business Week, January 24, 2000.
  • COMMUNICATIONS-LATIN AMERICA: INTERNET CHEAPER, MORE ACCESSIBLE --Abraham Lama, Interpress Service, December 29, 1999.
  • TECHNOLOGY: LATIN AMERICA NEXT FOR INTERNET REVOLUTION --Gumisai Mutume, Interpress Service, November 7, 1999.
  • COMMUNICATIONS-LATAM: INTERNET GROWS BY LEAPS AND BOUNDS --Nefer Munoz, Interpress Service, October 7, 1999.
  • Internet Fever. Latin Trade; 6(8):61+, August 1998.
  • Uneven growth of Internet hosts. Market Latin America: 6(6):3, June 1998
  • Internet increasingly informs, empowers ordinary Latin Americans. Miami Herald; April 13, 1998.
  • Latin America Online: The Internet, development, and democratization. Margaret Everett, in Human Organization 57(4), Winter 1998. Text version posted here with author's permission.
  • LATIN AMERICA: THE FUTURE OF CYBERSPACE --Diego Cevallos, Interpress Service, April 17, 1996.
  • Cyberculture Comes to the Americas, by Barbara Belejack, Originally published in NACLA Report, December 1996.
  • Linking Up Latin America, by Julio Ojeda-Zapata, St. Paul Pioneer Press, August 19, 1996.
  • Mexico: Window on Technology and the Poor , by Gary Chapman, LA Times, October 28, 1996.

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Finding it on the Web/La Busqueda en Espan~ol

In addition to using subject guides, indexes and web search engines, the Internet researcher can follow a few "rules of thumb" or criteria in the search for information. I am much indebted to my colleagues, Donald Barclay and Susan Beck for their collaboration in the development of these ideas. See for example:
http://library.nmsu.edu/projects/tutorial/www.approaches.html

Geographic criteria--Where in the world...? Use regional directories such as LANIC or the WWW Virtual Library to "go" to the region, country, state or city of interest. For example, if you want to find a list of universities, companies or newspapers in Peru, you can begin with a visit to a Peruvian website such as the Red Cientifica Peruana.

Organizational criteria--Who in the world...? Look for the name of a company, a government agency, or a non-governmental organization that specializes in the topic of interest. To find information on health in the Americas, for example, you can consult the Pan-American Health Organization site. For current information on human rights, you may consult Human Rights Watch or Amnesty International. For technical support or information on new products from Apple Computer, you may look at Apple Computer, Latin America.

Subject criteria--What is it about? Take a look at one of the subject guides. These are generally organized in a hierarchy from general to specific. YAHOO provides a very popular subject guide and it is now available in Spanish: Yahoo en Espan~ol, http://espanol.yahoo.com/.

Search Engines--Seek and find. The automatic web search engines are getting better by the day at providing a way to search through millions of web pages. Nevertheless, they are still somewhat limited in their capacity to provide context for the information and to deliver only the most relevant information to the researcher. Search engines are really good at returning "mass quantities" of URLs on almost any search topic. It is then up to the user to take into account the free and unedited character of the great majority of the information available on the web. The user must take responsibility for crtically evaluating the information retrieved in a search. For an excellent review of many search engines, search strategy, subject lists and more consult Internet Scout Project, at http://http://scout.cs.wisc.edu/index.html. Also, my colleague Susan Beck has created an excellent tutorial, The Good, the Bad & the Ugly, or why it's a good idea to evaluate web information, http://lib.nmsu.edu/instruction/eval.html.

Another EXCELLENT site for learning how to choose and operate the various search engines is How to Choose the Search Tools you Need, http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/TeachingLib/Guides/Internet/ToolsTables.html, created by the library of the University of California--Berkeley. Rates each tool, provides search tips and links.

Finally, to "overgeneralize," we can arrange Internet subject guides and search engines on a continuum from the most INclusive (the greatest number of sites included without any evaluative criteria) to the most EXclusive(fewer sites but with more critical evaluation for quality and reliability of information). Here are just a few examples (and there are many more in each category!):

• Inclusive:

  • Altavista, http://www.altavista.com/
  • Excite, http://www.excite.com
  • Hotbot, http://www.hotbot.com
  • Northern Light, http://www.northernlight.com/
  
  
  

• Exclusive:

  • Librarians' Index to the Internet, http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/InternetIndex/
  • Google Search Engine, http://www.google.com (Stanford University)
    
    

Spanish Language Search Engines

This is just a short list of sources for search engines in Spanish

• Search LANIC, Latin America & the World, http://www.lanic.utexas.edu/world/search/ --Buscadores en distintos paises por medio de UT-LANIC
• Motores de Busqueda en Espan~ol, http://lonestar.utsa.edu/jbarnett/mainsearch.html --Desde la Universidad de Texas en San Antonio; provee resen~as de los buscadores.
• Buscador Terra de Espan~a, http://buscador.terra.es/
• AltaVista en Espan~ol, http://www.altavista.magallanes.net/jump.html

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La Busqueda

Ademas de usar guias, indices y motores de busqueda, el investigador puede seguir algunas "reglas" o criterios en la busqueda de informacion en el Internet. [Debo mucho a mis colegas, Donald Barclay y Susan Beck para su colaboracion en el desarrollo de estas ideas. Ver, por ejemplo http://library.nmsu.edu/projects/tutorial/www.approaches.html.

El criterio geografico--Donde estara'...? Use los directorios regionales como los de LANIC o lo de la WWW Biblioteca Virtual para "ir" primeramente al pais, estado, provincia o ciudad de interes. Por ejemplo, si desea encontrar una lista de universidades o companias o periodicos en Peru, puede comenzar con una pagina web del Peru, como la Red Cientifica Peruana.

El criterio de organizacion--Quien lo hara'...? Busque el nombre de una compania, un departamento gubernamental o una ONG que especializa en el tema de interes. Para encontrar informacion de la salud en las Americas, por ejemplo, puede consultar la pagina de la Organizacion Panamericana de la Salud. Para informacion actualizada sobre derechos humanos, puede consultar la pagina de Human Rights Watch o Amnesty International. Para apoyo tecnico o informacion de nuevos productos de Apple Computer, consulte la pagina de Apple Computer, Latin America.

El criterio tematico--De que trata? Revise uno de varios guias tematicas del Internet. Generalmente estan organizados en una jerarquia de lo mas amplia a lo mas especifica de materias. YAHOO ofrece una guia muy popular y esta disponible ahora en Espan~ol: Yahoo en Espan~ol, http://espanol.yahoo.com/

Motores de busqueda--Buscar/encontrar. Los buscadores automaticos ahora estan mejorando rapidamente y ofrece una manera de buscar millones de paginas web. Sin embargo estan todavia muy limitada en su capacidad de proveer informacion contextual y de entregar solamente la informacion mas relevante al investigador. Los motores de busqueda facilitan la recuperacion de una gran cantidad de URLs (paginas web) sobre cualquier tema, pero el usuario debe tomar en cuenta el caracter "libre" o "inedito" de la gran mayoria de la informacion disponible en la red. Hay que tomar responsabilidad de evaluar criticamente todo lo encontrado. Para un excelente resumen de muchos buscadores y la estrategia de la busqueda en Internet, consulte Internet Scout Project, at http://scout.cs.wisc.edu/index.html. Mi colega, Susan Beck ha elaborado una pagina especial para ensen~ar la tecnica de evaluacion de paginas web: The Good, the Bad & the Ugly, or why it's a good idea to evaluate web pages, http://lib.nmsu.edu/instruction/eval.html.

Otro sitio excelente para conocer como escoger y usar los motores de busqueda es How to Choose the Search Tools you Need, http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/TeachingLib/Guides/Internet/ToolsTables.html de la biblioteca de la Universidad de California-Berkeley.

Para "generalizar" demasiado, podemos decir que se pueden colocar los guias y buscadores en una linea continua de lo mas INclusivo (la cantidad mas grande de sitios incluidos sin evaluacion) a lo mas EXclusivo (menor cantidad de sitios pero con mas aplicacion de criterios evaluativos sobre calidad de informacion). Ejemplos (y hay muchos mas ejemplos en cada categoria!):

• Inclusivo:

  • Altavista, http://www.altavista.com/
  • Excite, http://www.excite.com
  • Hotbot, http://www.hotbot.com
  • Northern Light, http://www.northernlight.com/
  
  
  

• Exclusivo:

  • Librarians' Index to the Internet, http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/InternetIndex/
  • Google Search Engine, http://www.google.com (Stanford University)

Motores de Busqueda en Espan~ol

Aqui es una lista (corta) de fuentes de buscadores en Espan~ol.

• Search LANIC, Latin America & the World, http://www.lanic.utexas.edu/world/search/ --Buscadores en distintos paises por medio de UT-LANIC
• Motores de Busqueda en Espan~ol, http://lonestar.utsa.edu/jbarnett/mainsearch.html --Desde la Universidad de Texas en San Antonio; provee resen~as de los buscadores.
• Buscador Terra de Espan~a, http://buscador.terra.es/
• AltaVista en Espan~ol, http://www.altavista.magallanes.net/jump.html

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