Dunn Library

Latin American Studies

LIBRARY DATABASES

LIBRARY CATALOG - To search for books on a particular topic, use a Subject or a Keyword Search. To search for books at other libraries use the links on the BOOKS & BOOK REVIEWS web page.
EBSCOHOST - Search multiple databases (together or separately) to access full-text periodicals, newspapers and reference tools. Academic Search Premier and Business Search Premier index peer-reviewed scholarly journals in a variety of subject areas. Other databases focus on specific areas such as health and education.
Project MUSE - Project MUSE - Basic College Collection is a unique collaboration providing full-text, user-friendly online access to 192 humanities, arts, and social sciences journals.
LexisNexis ACADEMIC - Comprehensive research database providing full-text access to various databases, including current news from international sources.
ClasePeriodica - Contains information from articles, essays, book reviews, monographs, conference proceedings, technical reports, interviews and brief notes published in journals edited in 24 different countries of Latin America and the Caribbean, as well as from publications that focus on Pan-American issues.
DES MOINES REGISTER - Excellent source for information on Iowa and Midwest immigration news.
ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA ONLINE - More than 72,000 encyclopedia articles on all subjects.

PRINT RESOURCES

Collins Spanish-English, English-Spanish Dictionary (R463.2 C713 2002) - Over 355,000 entries and translations. Includes thousands of contemporary technical, political, and business terms.
University of Chicago Spanish Dictionary: Spanish-English, English-Spanish (463.21 U588 2002)
American Heritage Spanish Dictionary: Spanish/English, ingles/espanol (463.2 A512 2001)

WEB SITES

GOOGLE Académico - Academic papers published in Spanish.
HANDBOOK OF LATIN AMERICAN STUDIES - A bibliography on Latin America consisting of works selected and annotated by scholars, edited by the Hispanic Division of the Library of Congress.
HISPANIC POPULATION OF THE UNITED STATES - From the US Census, a variety of government statistics on Hispanics in America.
INFORMACION EN VIVO - NYPL's Spanish reference service.
LATIN AMERICAN NETWORK INFORMATION CENTER - Internet based information on Latin America.
PEW HISPANIC CENTER - Premier "think tank" on US Latinos. Latino information, news and research can be found here.
POLITICAL DATABASE OF THE AMERICAS - Offers centralized and systematized information about institutions and political processes, national constitutions, branches of government, elections, political constitutional studies and other subjects related to the strengthening of democracy in the region.

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