Latin American and Latino Studies: Web Resources

Latin American Network Information Center from the University of Texas.

The country directory provides links to internal and external organizations providing information about Latin American countries such as government, history, tourism, arts, culture and blogs in English and Spanish.

The Pew Hispanic Center conducts studies and public opinion surveys on a wide range of topics to illuminate Latino views on a range of social matters and public policy issues, such as identity, immigration, education, politics, social trends, and more.

"Spanish National Research Council (CSIC) produces since 1971 three bibliographic databases with references to articles published in mainly Spanish scientific journals." Also has humanities and social sciences. Some full-text.

The Digital Library of the Caribbean (dLOC) is a cooperative digital library for resources from and about the Caribbean and circum-Caribbean.

Retrieve information from all the FAMSI collections including the bibliographic and image collections.

Provides access to high quality scholarly journals in the social sciences, humanities and sciences. The titles are in Spanish and are published in Spain and Latin America.

The SciELO collection is continually updated and includes scholarly peer reviewed journals, from Spain, Portugal, several South American countries and Cuba, which predominantly publish the results of original research, and other original works.

The PDBA is a non-governmental project of the Center for Latin American Studies (CLAS) at Georgetown University and other organizations. It offers information about institutions and political processes, national constitutions, branches of government, elections, political constitutional studies and other subjects related to democracy in the Americas.

LANIC's mission is to facilitate access to Internet-based information to, from, or on Latin America.

New Mexico State University guide to border studies. You may not have access to all of the databases but you can find links to open Web sources.

The foremost source of intelligence on political and economic developments in Latin America and the Caribbean.

Speeches, interviews, etc., by Fidel Castro from 1959 to 1996 provided by LANIC

An exploration of Mesoamerican cultures, includes reports, articles, and other information resources.