MaxGuides: Latin American and Caribbean Studies: Home

Welcome

This guide is an introduction to some of the library resources available for research in Latin American and Caribbean Studies. Because LACS is cross disciplinary, you may not find what you are looking for here, so please feel free to contact me if you need assistance. Individual research appointments can be made by calling the reference desk at (508) 531-1394 or bu submitting a Research Consultation form.

Maxwell Library Home Page

Selected Web Resources

Free web-based resources

Latin American and Caribbean Studies at BSU
Political Database of the Americas
Political information on Latin America, including statistics on population and geography, lists of current leaders, and texts (in Spanish) of national constitutions.
Handbook of Latin American Studies
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A searchable bibliography of works on Latin America
Country Studies
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From the Library of Congress' Federal Research Division, the online versions of numerous books in the Country Studies series. Tables and graphics are not included. Consult the Library's OPAC for additional volumes on countries not mentioned here.
Perry-Castañeda Library Map Collection
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Digital maps
LANIC: Latin American Network Information Center
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From the University of Texas
Newseum: Today's Front Pages
Americas Archive
Global Open Acess Portal
Documents of 20th Century Latin American and Latino Art
Historic Mexican & Mexican American Press
Hispanic Digital Library/Biblioteca Digital Hispanica
Platforma Democrática
Farmworker Movement Documentation Project
Bexar Archives Online
Pew Research Center Hispanic Trends Project
Statistics, news and other data about the Hispanic population in the United States.
Digital Archive of the Guatemalan National Police Historical Files
Archive of the Indigenous Languages of North America

Online Books

These resources may require a BSU login

Online Databases

To assist in finding journal and periodical articles - these databases may require BSU login.

Political Science Complete
Full text for nearly 700 journals, 330 reference books, and 47,000 conference papers covering political topics with a worldwide focus. Subjects include comparative politics, humanitarian issues, international relations, law and legislation, non-governmental organizations, and political theory.
Early American Newspapers, Series 1, 1690-1876: From Colonies to Nation
Essential newspapers from 23 states and the District of Columbia, offering 340,000 fully searchable issues from over 730 historical American titles. Based on Clarence S. Brigham’s “History and Bibliography of American Newspapers, 1690-1820” and other authoritative bibliographies.
Anthropological Index Online
Contains citations to more than 750 international journals in all areas of anthropology and archaeology held by the Anthropology Library at the British Museum (Museum of Mankind).
Historical Abstracts with Full Text
Citations, with abstracts, from the literature of world history
MLA International Bibliography
References for articles from professional journals in modern languages and literatures. For 299 of these journal titles, full text is available.
Academic OneFile
Full-text articles from the world's leading journals and reference sources. Content also includes ebooks, images, and videos. With extensive coverage of the physical sciences, technology, medicine, social sciences, the arts, theology, literature and other subjects. Articles available in both PDF and HTML full-text with no restrictions. Includes full-text coverage of the New York Times back to 1995. Updated daily.
Academic Search Premier
Full text for more than 8,500 journals, including full text for more than 4,600 peer-reviewed titles. PDF backfiles to 1975 or further are available for well over one hundred journals, and searchable cited references are provided for more than 1,000 titles.
Credo Reference
Credo Reference service features full-text, aggregated content from more than 260 reference titles from 55 publishers, with nearly three million entries covering every major subject. Content includes encyclopedias, atlases, dictionaries, bilingual dictionaries, and subject-specific works. Additional key features include customizable, dynamic data tables; tens of thousands of images; audio pronunciation files; over 90,000 atlas images of places and geographic features.
Films on Demand
Searchable database of digitized films. Click on "Humanities and Social Sciences" for a link to "Latin American Studies."