Latin American Studies Guide

For individual countries, use Country Profiles (from IGOs and NGOs) and Country Guides (for business and economics).

Starting Your Research

• Encyclopedia of Latin American History and Culture Knight Reference F1406 .E53 2008
• Encyclopedia of Contemporary Latin American and Caribbean Cultures Knight Reference F1406 .E515 2000
• Historical Atlas of Latin America Knight Maps F1408 .W66 1967

Finding Articles in Scholarly Journals

• PRISMA (Publicaciones y Revistas Sociales y Humanísticas)
• HAPI: Hispanic American Periodicals Index
  • Use the FindText button to access articles.

• Project MUSE
• JSTOR
• Academic Search Premier

Finding Articles in Newspapers & Popular Magazines

• World News Connection Newspapers and broadcast transcripts translated into English by the CIA.
  • Region/Topic Search > Region: Americas
• LexisNexis Academic
  • Sources > Find Sources
  • Publication Type: check News
  • More options:
    • Regions of Coverage: check Central America & Caribbean/South America
    • Publication Languages: check English/Spanish/Portuguese
  • Click Find Sources
  • Check relevant publications and click OK - Continue
  • Add topic keywords and click Search

• Ethnic NewsWatch US newspapers of local cultural communities, in English and Spanish

• Latin American Newspapers Historic archive with text-searchable images of 19th and 20th century newspapers in Spanish, English, and Portuguese.

Finding Books & Movies

• Handbook of Latin American Studies
  • HLAS searches citations only. Copy citations into WorldCat to find or request books.

• Books & Movies - Refine these results by adding search terms to the box at the top, or by clicking on the descriptions in the left column. Or substitute a country name for Latin America, as in Chile - History or Bolivia - Social Policy.
  • Latin America -- History

• • Latin America - Geography

• • Latin America - Politics and Government
  • Latin America - Relations (with other regions or countries)
  • Latin America - Social Conditions and Latin America - Social Policy

• • Latin America - Economic Conditions and Latin America - Economic Policy

• • Latin America - Ethnic Relations
  • Hispanic Americans (i.e., Latin@s in the US)
• Movies in Spanish and Movies in Portuguese - includes documentaries and feature films

Finding Institutional Sources

• Political Database of the Americas
  • Constitutions, political parties, human rights, indigenous peoples, and more. Multilingual.

• Organization of American States
• United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America (ECLA/CEPAL)
  • Books and articles by ECLA/CEPAL
• Inter-American Development Bank
• Mercosur
  • South American organization for international trade. Spanish and Portuguese only.

• Choike News and reports from Southern civil society NGOs.

Finding Statistics

• CEPALSTAT - Economic, demographic, social, and environmental data
• Latin American Public Opinion Project, Vanderbilt University
• International Historical Statistics: The Americas, 1750-1993 Knight Reference HA175 .M55 1998

Finding Maps and Images

• Maps of Latin America are available in the Map Library in the drawers for call numbers G4390 to G5667. For a specific country, see this map.

•  Braceros in Oregon Photograph Collection
• The Mapas Project Digitized Mesoamerican pictorial manuscripts