UCLA Library Collections and Internet Resources in:
Latin American Studies
UCLA Library Latin American Collection
The Latin American collection at UCLA is one of the largest and most comprehensive in the United States.
Presently numbering more than 550,000 volumes and 1,100 current serial titles, the collection includes
a wide range of research-level materials on Latin America and the Caribbean. Although materials are
collected on all countries in the region, the Library holds outstanding humanities and social sciences
collections on Argentina, Brazil, and Mexico. Secondary geographic strengths are on Chile, Peru, Cuba,
Colombia, Uruguay, Venezuela, and Costa Rica. Materials are acquired in all languages, including
less-commonly-taught languages such as Nahuatl and Quechua, and in many formats, including books, journals,
digital resources, microforms, manuscripts, photographs, government documents, audiovisual materials, and ephemera.
The collection supports the professional fields of education, library and information science, public health, management
and urban planning.
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Gateways-
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Article Databases
- Internet Resources on Latin American Studies
- Journals and Newspapers
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Institutions and Organizations
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UCLA Latin American Links
The following sites are useful gateways to Internet resources on the Latin American region.
LANIC- The University of Texas Latin American Network Information Center,
a comprehensive gateway to Internet resources on and from Latin America. Arranged by topic and country.
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Chicano/Latino Net
- Chicana/o Latina/o Network brings together Chicano/Latino research as well as
linguistic minority and educational research efforts being carried out at the University of California.
It also serves as a general Latino focused Internet site serving all segments of the community.
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Latin World
- A gateway and search engine for Iberoamerica and the Caribbean.
The site builds a community of information and resources about Latin America, its wonders, and its people to serve as a
communication platform for Latin Americans and people interested in Latin America.
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Internet Resources for Latin America
- A guide compiled by Molly Mollo, New Mexico State University Library, that provides links, descriptions,
web directories, selected library catalogs, e-books and other texts, and reviews of Latin American resources
available on the Internet.
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UCLA Reference and Instructional Services Guides
to Library Reference Sources: Latin American Studies
- Research guides prepared by RIS librarians on selected print and Internet resources available to UCLA students.
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Bibliografía Mesoamericana- A database of nearly 60,000 volumes of the published literature pertaining to the anthropology of Mesoamerica,
including archaeology, ethnography, ethnohistory, art history, linguistics, physical anthropology, and other related disciplines.
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Handbook of Latin American Studies (HLAS Online)
- A bibliography and essential guide to scholarly works on Latin America, consisting of works
selected and annotated by scholars. Edited by the Hispanic Division of the Library of Congress.
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HAPI Online: Hispanic American Periodicals Index
- Authoritative, worldwide information about Central and South America, Mexico, the Caribbean basin,
the United States-Mexico border region, and Hispanics in the United States appearing in more than
400 key social science and humanities journals. Covers articles, documents, original literary works,
and other materials appearing in leading journals published throughout the world. Produced by the UCLA Latin American Center.
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Historical Abstracts
- Index and abstracts for articles on the history of the world from 1450 to the present
(excluding the United States and Canada, which are covered in America: History and Life) published since 1967.
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Latin American Periodicals Table of Contents (LAPTOC)
- Searches the tables of contents of more than 800 periodicals, primarily in the humanities and social sciences,
published in Latin America. Once you identify articles you want, look up the journals in the
UCLA Library Catalog or Melvyl.
UCLA students, faculty, and staff may follow the instructions for photocopy request if UCLA does not own the journal.
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MLA International Bibliography
- Indexes journals, dissertations, collected works in the fields of literature, language, linguistics,
and folklore from 1963 to the present.
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Periodicals Archive Online (formerly PCI Full Text)
- Indexes thousands of periodicals in the social sciences and humanities from 1770-1995,
and currently offers full text of articles for 200 complete journal runs.
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- Brazilian Government Document Digitization Project
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Chinese in/from Latin America
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Digital Collection of Mexican and Argentine Presidential Messages
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Jewish Communities
in Latin America
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Latin American Election Statistics : A Guide to Sources
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Latin American Government Documents Project
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Latin American Jewish Studies:
A Guide to the Literature
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Political Database of the Americas
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Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz Project
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UCLA Publications
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Encruzilhadas = Crossroads
- Table of contents for volumes 5-7. Full-text not available online. YRL Stacks GR96 .E55
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Journal of Latin American Lore (JLAL)
- Articles focus on the diverse cultural manifestations of Latin American societies, and probe for culture-specific
meaning. This kind of lore is associated with the records of ancient civilizations, indigenous groups, peasant communities,
and with both the elite and popular sectors of modern urban society. The journal is published by the
UCLA Latin American Center. The website includes the tables of contents of recent issues.YRL Stacks GR114 .J826
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Mester
- Literary journal of the graduate students of the UCLA Department of Spanish and Portuguese.
Includes critical articles, interviews and book reviews in the fields of Spanish, Portuguese, Spanish American,
Brazilian and Chicano literatures, as well as Spanish and Portuguese linguistics.
Full text of introduction and reviews available online for current issue. Table of contents for issues from 2000-2002
here. YRL Stacks PQ7081.A1 M56
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Mexico and the World: Web Journal
- An electronic academic journal to investigate and contribute to the understanding of the course of recent
Mexican development, the challenges Mexico faces in the twenty-first centur, and Mexico's changing global role.
Co-published on a quarterly basis by PROFMEX (Consortium for Mexico Policy Research) in cooperation with
UCLA's Program on Mexico.
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Statistical Abstract of Latin America (SALA)
- An essential source for quantitative research on Latin America containing reliable statistics on the societies,
economies, and politics of Latin America. Compiles and presents data from some 250 national and international sources
for twenty Latin American countries, and guides users to additional quantitative publications and statistical sources
on the region. To facilitate historical research, statistics are presented in time series covering several years or
decades whenever possible. SALA Supplements are analytical, interpretive volumes that focus analysis on a specific
theme, present new data, or offer new analytical treatment of statistical series.YRL Reference Department HA931 .C12
Journals
- For a list of electronic journals on Latin American Studies, go to
UCLA Library Online Materials
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Latin American Academic Journals - LANIC
- Links to academic journals in Latin America, arranged by country. Also includes regional and
international academic journals of interest to Latin Americanists.
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Latin American Journals & Magazines - LANIC
- Links to magazines and journals in Latin America, arranged by country.
Also includes regional and international resources, and directories of electronic publications of interest
to Latin Americanists.
Newspapers
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Center for Research Libraries Foreign Newspapers Database
- A directory of over 6,000 newspaper titles published outside the United State available at the Center for
Research Libraries. No longer updated.
You may search current CRL newspaper holdings here.
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Latin American News - LANIC
- Links to newspapers in Latin America, arranged by country. Also provides links to regional and world news
sources and to Spanish-language newspapers in the continental U.S.
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Revolutionary Mexico in Newspapers, 1900-1929: Guide to the Microfilm Set
- The University of Texas at Austin General Libraries and its Nettie Lee Benson Latin American Collection
have preserved on microfilm 227,930 pages from 560 Mexican newspaper titles which date primarily from 1900 to 1929.
The majority of the newspapers (326, 58.2%) were published in the Distrito Federal; but a substantial number
(234, 41.8%) were published in Mexican cities from twenty-eight states. These newspaper issues are rarely
held in U.S. libraries, and some are uniquely held in the Benson Collection-489 newspaper titles in this set
came from its holdings. This site provides a guide to the reels of microfilm containing the newspapers.
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Libraries & Archives in Latin America - LANIC-
LAMP: Programs, Collections, and Online
Catalogs of Member Institutions
- Links to the online catalogs of the 42 research libraries who are members of the Latin American Microform Project.
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Latin American Microform Project (LAMP)
- A cooperative collection development program of the Center for Research Libraries to preserve and maintain for
its subscribers microform collections of unique, scarce, rare and/or bulky and voluminous research materials pertaining
to Latin America. Guides to collections and a LAMP Holdings List linked from the website provide users with detailed
information about research materials in the LAMP collection. UCLA is a member institution.
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Brazilian Studies Association (BRASA)-
Calafia
- California Cooperative Latin American Collection Development Group
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Conference of Latin Americanist Geographers (CLAG)
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Conference on Latin American History (CLAH)
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Latin American Studies Association (LASA)
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PROFMEX
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Seminar on the Acquisition of Latin American Library
Materials (SALALM)
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UC MEXUS
- The University of California Institute for Mexico and the United States
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UCLA Latin American Institute
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Latin American Studies Program
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Latin American Studies MA Program
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Student Association for Latin American Studies (SALAS)
- A UCLA student assocation for undergraduate and graduate students in the Latin American Sudies interdepartmental program.
Additional information may be found
here.
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Cotsen Institute of Archeology at UCLA
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Department of Spanish and Portuguese
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Fowler Museum of Cultural History
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Symposium on Portuguese Traditions
(Europe, America, Africa, Asia)
- An annual forum dedicated to the exchange and dissemination of ideas and information about the
language and culture of the far-flung, Portuguese-speaking world, past and present. The symposium,
sponsored by the UCLA Department of Spanish and Portuguese, welcomes the widest range of pertinent
topics and traditionally has no fixed theme. Proceedings are published in the journal, Encruzilhadas = Crossroads.
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