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Latin America-specific: Major gateways

Adanzas al Web Latino
Compiled by Molly Molloy at New Mexico State University, this is an extensive annotated guide to Latin American Internet gateways, as well as cultural, political and economic Web sites, and mailing lists and newsgroups. http://lib.nmsu.edu/subject/bord/latino.html

Association of Research Libraries—Latin American Research Resources Pilot Project
An ARL pilot project to create a prototype for fully connected collections for Latin American studies. Hosts a table of contents serials database of almost 400 academic journals from Argentina, Brazil and Mexico. The journals, and individual articles, can be located through a variety of browsing and searching combinations. Users can request delivery of articles directly through the database (but for libraries, other than participating libraries, this may be subject to interlibrary loan fees). http://lanic.utexas.edu/project/arl/

The Caribbean Home Page - West Indies Website Directory
This portal is a handy starting point for all things Caribbean. There are extensive links sections to business and trade, education and universities, government and organizations, newspapers and periodicals, radio and TV stations, as well as many links of general interest, including travel and tourism. The site even recognizes your personal user IP address, informs you how many people are accessing the site at the same time as you, tells you the local time, and tells you the local air temperature, which was 90 degrees with humidity at 87 per cent when we visited the site-"which is great for Carnival but it's really far too hot to work!" http://www.caribinfo.com/default.html 

Cultural Studies Virtual Library [Latin America]
Created by PROSSIGA and maintained by the Programa Avançado de Cultura Contemporânea at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, this site provides good annotated links to Latin American publishers, bookstores, libraries, journals, institutions, researchers, associations, museums, lists and newsgroups, seminar and conference announcements, etc. http://www.prossiga.br/estudosculturais/pacc/  

Duke Library Caribbean Studies
This is a useful descriptive guide to Internet resources on the Caribbean region from Duke University's Perkins Library. It includes gateways and search engines, and links to library collections in the United States, the Caribbean, and the United Kingdom
http://www.lib.duke.edu/ias/pmg.html 

Internet Resources for Latin America
An excellent resource, 45 pages (160k file) of links to Latin American resources on the Internet, including Web sites, Internet directories and indexes, national and international organizations, databases, networks, on-line discussion and Usenet newsgroups, and much more. Compiled by Molly Molloy at New Mexico State University Library. http://lib.nmsu.edu/subject/bord/laguia/

Latin American & Caribbean Studies Program (LACS)-Useful Web Links
A collection of links from LACS (University of Michigan) of Internet sites for Latin American and Caribbean studies (academic, databases/archives, commercial), as well as dictionary sites and Web resources for and by University of Michigan Latinamericanists. http://www.umich.edu/~iinet/lacs/resources/links.htm 

The Latin America Development Archive (LADARK)
Developed by the Department of Sociology at Johns Hopkins University, LADARD contains data sets, working papers, bibliographies, Internet resources and other information useful to social scientists who are doing research on Latin American development. http://www.jhu.edu/~soc/ladark.html

Latin America: Subject Resources
Compiled by Rita Wilson, this is a very useful `quick jump' gateway to Latin American subject-based resources, including bibliographies and guides, book stores, university collections, Latino and Chicano sites, government sources, museums, and more. http://www-personal.si.umich.edu/~rlwls/andes.html

Latin American Links
A Web page (in English and Spanish versions) containing links to many resources related to culture and news in Latin America, including country-specific links. Maintained by Simon Thomas. http://www.ozemail.com.au/~ecuapita/latam.html

Latin American Network Information Center (LANIC)
This gateway maintained by LANIC at the University of Texas is Austin is probably the most comprehensive directory of links to Internet information on Latin America. It provides a directory by country and by broad subject areas, together with links to regional and global resources, and it is updated very frequently. http://lanic.utexas.edu/

LatIndex
An on-line regional bibliographical information system for scholarly journals published in Latin America, the Caribbean, Spain and Portugal. The first product, a Directory, contains basic data of over 6,800 serial titles from 25 countries.
http://www.latindex.com

Latin World-Latin America on the Net
A directory of (more general) Internet resources on Latin America and the Caribbean, its regions and its people. (English and Spanish) http://www.latinworld.com/

Library of Congress-HLAS Handbook of Latin American Studies On-line
This multidisciplinary Handbook is a constantly updated bibliography on Latin America consisting of works selected and annotated by scholars; it alternates annually between the social sciences and the humanities. HLAS Online provides rapid access to current, future, and retrospective volumes of the Handbook. http://lcweb2.loc.gov/hlas

Portal del Libro. Enciclopedia del libro em Internet
A portal (in Spanish) for Web sites and resources on all aspects of the book in Latin America (though primarily Argentina), including publishers, booksellers, libraries, reference works, writers, illustrators, etc. as well as links to other book-related sites. http://www.portaldellibro.com/ 

ScieELO-Scientific Electronic Library Online
An electronic virtual library providing full-text access to 29 Brazilian scholarly journals in a variety of subjects in the sciences as well as the social sciences and the humanities. Articles to the different serial titles and individual articles contained in them is available through indexes and search facilities. http://www.scielo.br/

Society for Caribbean Studies-Some Interesting Links
A small links collection from the (UK) Society for Caribbean Studies, including links to other societies, networks and communities, journals, newspapers, literary links, and a number of academic links. http://www.scsonline.freeserve.co.uk/calinks.htm 

This page was last updated on: 07 July 2003 © International Network for the Availability of Scientific Publications (INASP) 1998-2003.