Please contact Gayle Williams (gwillia@emory.edu), Librarian for Spanish, Portuguese and Latin American Studies, Emory University General Libraries, 404-727-2577.

To find materials located at any of Emory's libraries, search EUCLID, Emory's online library catalog.

The contents of books and articles are not searchable in EUCLID. Read Finding a Journal Article in the Woodruff Library.

When searching EUCLID by subject, use the Browse search mode. Browsing puts you in an alphabetical list based on your subject heading. The terms for the headings themselves are established by the Library of Congress.  A multi-volume set of Library of Congress (LC) subject headings is available at the Woodruff Library Reference desk.

Use the Browse mode also when looking up periodical titles. It saves a lot of time.

The library uses the following terms for geographical regions:

Latin America [Assigned to books dealing with all lands south of the Rio Grande: Mexico, Central America, South America and the West Indies]
Caribbean Area
Central America
South America
West Indies
[Names of countries]

For literary topics, use:

Latin American Literature [Assigned to books dealing with Spanish and/or Portuguese literatures of Latin America]
Spanish American Literature [or Poetry, Drama, Fiction, etc.][Assigned to books dealing with Spanish language literature of Latin America]
Cuban Poetry
Caribbean Literature (Spanish)
Art, Central American
Motion Pictures Argentina

Also, after names of regions or countries, you may use the following subheadings:

Biography
Civilization
Description and Travel [for guidebooks and travelers' accounts]
Economic Conditions
History
In Motion Pictures
Intellectual Life
Languages
Politics and Government
Social Conditions
Social Life and Customs

Start with these databases when identifying articles on a topic about Latin America and the Caribbean. For certain topics, you will also want to consult the vast array of databases at the library's Electronic Resources page.

Caribbean Abstracts
1989 to present

Caribbean Abstracts is the online version of the original print index (of the same title) produced at the Royal Netherlands Institute of Southeast Asian and Caribbean Studies. This catalog contains abstracts in English of selected books and articles in the humanities and social sciences published since 1989. The publications are selected for their importance or the topicality of the subject. The Caribbean includes all islands of the Caribbean archipelago, as well as the mainland territories of Belize and the Guianas. Publications on Caribbean migrant communities in other regions are excluded.

ClasePeriódica (CLASE and PERIDICA)
1975 to present

ClasePeriódica is a combined periodical index produced at the National Autonomous University of Mexico. Articles, essays, book reviews and other information are indexed from journals published in 24 Latin American and Caribbean countries as well as publications with a Pan-American focus. Subject coverage includes the humanities, social sciences, and sciences. This database does not provide links to the full-text of articles.

Handbook of Latin American Studies
1936 to present

This online bibliography provides citations in the humanities and social sciences for monographs and periodical articles pertaining to Latin America and the Caribbean. The annual print volume of this title alternates between the humanities and social sciences and can be found at Z1605.H3.

HAPI Online: Hispanic American Periodicals Index
1970 to present

HAPI is the major index to periodical articles about Latin America and the Caribbean. HAPI covers all fields from popular topics to current events to history, literature, sciences and social sciences. The 500 source journals are in Spanish, English, Portuguese, French, German, and Italian. Some citations contain links to the full-text version of the article. The print version of this index can be found at AI3 .H58.

ìInforme! (Revistas en español en Infotrac)
1997 to present

ìInforme! is a periodicals index covering both U.S. Latino and Latin American popular magazines and journals (presently about 100). Subject and keyword searching are not always effective but users will find links to the full-text of articles.

Latin American Newsstand
2005 to present

Latin American Newsstand is a full-text database of over 35 leading newspaper titles from Latin America (including Brazil and Puerto Rico). Also included are regional magazines and wire services. Each issue of every newspaper is indexed thoroughly so that the database is cross-searchable. Citations are available for articles in all the source publications. Abstracts allow researchers to save time by allowing them to identify the complete articles they need. Full-text articles are also instantly accessible for all of the titles.

Latin American Periodicals Tables of Contents (LAPTOC)
1990 to present

LAPTOC provides bibliographical citations to journal articles in over 800 periodicals and journals from 29 Latin American and Caribbean countries. Searching is keyword only from the table of contents for author and title and does not include searching by subject headings.

Latino Literature
19th century to present

A full-text collection of U.S. Latino literature. When complete, it will include 100,000 pages of fiction and poetry and 450 plays, representing the Chicano culture and all the different ethnicities of Latin American writers with a Hispanic background working in the United States. Although the collection includes materials from the 19th century, the vast majority of the materials are from the Chicano Renaissance to the present.

General Online Guides Associations & Organizations Bibliographic Databases Film Full-Text Collections (Books and Journals) Government Information & Documents History Literature Maps

Political Science

General Online Guides

Latin American Information Network-LANIC

LANIC is the major webpage with extensive links arranged both by country and by topics that covers Latin America and the Caribbean.

Association & Organizations

Caribbean Studies Association (CS)

The CSA web site provides basic information about itself, including its online newsletter.

Latin American Studies Southeast Region (LASER)

LASER is the consortia of university and college libraries in the southeastern United States with strong Latin American collections.

Latin American Studies Association (LASA)

The LASA web site provides basic information about the organization, its conferences, publications, and links to other web pages with Latin American content.

Seminar on the Acquisition of Latin American Library Materials (SALALM)

SALALM is the professional organization for librarians who work with Latin American materials. It is one of the oldest area studies associations in the US. Its web site includes SALALM information, links on bibliographic instruction, video resources, and the Latin American book trade.

Bibliographic Databases

Latindex

Latindex is an excellent bibliographic database for identifying journals published in Latin America, the Caribbean, Spain and Portugal. However, this is not a journal index and cannot be used to search for articles in journals.

Latino: Bancos Bibliográficos Latinoamericanos y del Caribe

Latino is an online union catalog of over 100 online catalogs of university libraries and research institutes located in 16 countries (Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Ecuador, Guatemala, Mexico, Nicaragua, Paraguay, Peru, Spain, Uruguay y Venezuela). The Worldcat database should also be consulted to locate Latin American materials in US libraries.

Film

Latin American Cinema Guide

Portal to a variety of pages about Latin American and Caribbean cinema.

Full-Text Collections (Books and Journals)

e-journal: Las Revistas Especializadas de Mayor Prestigio

A gateway to the full-text contents of 22 journals published at the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México in the areas of science, social sciences, fine arts, administration and finance, and applied engineering. Includes a searchable database for the entire group of journals.

Red ALyC

Red ALyC (Red de Revistas Científicas de América Latina y el Caribe) is a portal to the full text of over 100 journals from Latin America, the Caribbean, Spain and Portugal. Titles are arranged by topic, including: agriculture, anthropology, art, communication, culture, demography, economics, education, environmental studies, geography, health, history, information science, information science, institutional journals, international relations, language and literature, law, multidisciplinary titles, philosophy and science, politics, psychology, public administration, and territorial studies. Includes a searchable database for all journals.

SciELO

SciELO is a cooperative development that is developing full-text libraries of journals in Latin America and the Caribbean. Each library is developed separately by country or theme. While most of the SciElo libraries focus on science journals, they also include journals with a social science theme. See the following SciElo sites:

 

SciElO Brasil

SciElO Chile

SciElO Cuba

SciELO Public Health

Government Information & Documents

Latin American and Caribbean Government Documents Project

A useful source arranged by country that provides both current and archived links to official government web sites for Latin America and the Caribbean.

History

H-Latam Discussion Network

"An international forum for the scholarly discussion of Latin American History," this page contains a variety of items as book reviews, course syllabi, bibliographies, Power Point presentations, etc.

Literature

Borges Studies On Line

A web site that collects citations of works about Borges. Includes some links to full-text.

The Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz Project

An ongoing project that provides information about as well as full-text (with searchable database) by "the greatest poet the American continent produced in the seventeenth century"

Maps

Maps of the Americas

An online collection of maps held at the Perry-Castañeda Library at the University of Texas at Austin.

Yale Map Collection-The Americas

An online collection of antiquarian maps of North and South America held at Sterlin Memorial Library's Map Collection at Yale University.

Political Science

Latin American Election Statistics

This web page summarizes the chronology and other events of elections in Latin America as of the independence era. It is a work in progress so it is important to check to see if new information or a new country has been added.

Political Database of the Americas

Outstanding resource that provides political data for 35 countries in the Western Hemisphere (includes the U.S. and Canada). Includes both searchable database and subject arrangement by Constitutions and Constitutional Studies, Electoral Systems and Election Data, Decentralization, Political Parties, Executive Institutions, Legislative Institutions, Judicial Instituions and Civil Society.

 

Latin American & Caribbean Microfilm Collections