Research Databases in Latin American Studies

The librarian for Latin American Studies is Paula Covington (Central Library, Phone: 322-6282).

A complete list of all databases in Latin American Studies organized by type follows:

Articles (journals and newspapers)

Abstracts in Anthropology [Info]

Agricola -- catalog of the National Agricultural Library and its article citation database [Info] (Free database--open to all users)

America History and Life (AHL) (EBSCO Interface) [Info]

Anthropology Plus [Info]

AnthroSource [Info] Full Text Resource!

Art Full Text and Art Index Retrospective [Info] Full Text Resource!

ARTbibliographies modern [Info]

BIBLAT: Latin American Bibliography (CD-ROM) [Info]

Bibliografia Mesoamericana [Info] (Free database--open to all users)

Business Source Premier [Info] Full Text Resource!

CARINDEX: an index of social sciences and humanities literature published in the Caribbean [Info] (Free database--open to all users)

ClasePeriodica [Info]

Columbia International Affairs Online (CIAO) [Info] Full Text Resource!

EconLit with Full Text [Info] Full Text Resource!

eHRAF Archaeology (Replaces eHRAF Collection of Archaeology) [Info] Full Text Resource!

eHRAF World Cultures (Replaces eHRAF Collection of Ethnography) [Info] Full Text Resource!

Expanded Academic ASAP [Info] Full Text Resource!

Factiva [Info] Full Text Resource!

Gender Studies Database [Info] Full Text Resource!

Handbook of Latin American Studies Web version [Info] (Free database--open to all users)

HAPI, Hispanic American Periodicals Index Index to articles [Info]

Historical Abstracts (HA) (EBSCOHost interface) index to articles, excludes US and Canada [Info]

IBZ: Internationale Bibliographie der Zeitschriftenliteratur [Info]

In the First Person [Info] (Free database--open to all users)

Informe Revistas en Espanol [Info] Full Text Resource!

InfoTrac [Info] Full Text Resource!

InfoTrac OneFile [Info] Full Text Resource!

Iter: Gateway to the Middle Ages and Renaissance [Info]

JOLIS [Info]

JSTOR [Info] Full Text Resource!

Latin American Periodicals Tables of Contents (LAPTOC) [Info] (Free database--open to all users)

PAIS International, 1915 - current Public Affairs Information Service [Info]

Periodicals Index Online (PIO) This version will be going away in Summer 2013. My Archive accounts won’t be migrating to ProQuest. One must extract data manually to the repository of your choosing. [Info]

Periodicals Index Online (PIO) through ProQuest [Info]

PRISMA: Publicaciones y Revistas Sociales y Humanisticas [Info] Full Text Resource!

Project MUSE [Info] Full Text Resource!

ProQuest Central [Info] Full Text Resource!

Sociological Abstracts [Info]

World Biographical Information System Index (WBIS) (web version) [Info]

World News Connection (WNC) [Info] Full Text Resource!

Worldwide Political Science Abstracts (WPSA) [Info]

Bibliographies/Book lists

Anthropological Bibliography [Info] (Free database--open to all users)

BIBLAT: Latin American Bibliography (CD-ROM) [Info]

Columbia International Affairs Online (CIAO) [Info] Full Text Resource!

Cultura cubana [Info] (Free database--open to all users)

European Views of the Americas [Info]

Handbook of Latin American Studies Web version [Info] (Free database--open to all users)

Index Translationum [Info] (Free database--open to all users)

Iter: Gateway to the Middle Ages and Renaissance [Info]

Oxford Bibliographies Online [Info] Full Text Resource!

Biographical information

Biography and Genealogy Master Index [Info]

LexisNexis Academic (news) [Info] Full Text Resource!

World Biographical Information System Index (WBIS) (web version) [Info]

World Who's Who (formerly International Who's Who) [Info] Full Text Resource!

Catalogs/Library holdings

ACORN - the online catalog of the Vanderbilt Libraries. [Info] (Free database--open to all users)

Athena Catalog of Nashville Area Library Consortium [Info] (Free database--open to all users)

JOLIS [Info]

Kudzu Catalog of Vanderbilt and 15 other southeastern academic libraries [Info] (Free database--open to all users)

National Union Catalog of Manuscript Collections (NUCMC) [Info] (Free database--open to all users)

WorldCat [Info]

Current publications awareness

IngentaConnect (formerly Ingenta Reveal and UnCover) [Info]

Data/Datasets

Balance of Payments Statistics (BOPS) – International Monetary Fund (IMF), 1940- [Info]

Direction of Trade Statistics (DOTS) - International Monetary Fund (IMF), 1948- [Info]

EIU CountryData [Info] Full Text Resource!

Government Finance Statistics (GFS) - International Monetary Fund (IMF), 1972- [Info]

IMF Data [Info] Full Text Resource!

IMF eLibrary [Info] Full Text Resource!

International Debt Statistics (Beta Site) Formerly Global Development Finance [Info] Full Text Resource! (Free database--open to all users)

International Financial Statistics (IFS) - International Monetary Fund (IMF), 1948 - [Info]

Trade and Investment - International Monetary Fund (IMF), 2003- [Info]

World dataBank: World Development Indicators (WDI) and International Debt Statistics [Info] Full Text Resource! (Free database--open to all users)

World Development Indicators (WDI) - Beta Site [Info] Full Text Resource! (Free database--open to all users)

Dictionaries/Encyclopedias/Handbooks

Cambridge History of Latin America [Info] Full Text Resource!

Columbia Gazetteer of the World [Info]

Diccionario de Maria Moliner [Info]

Grove Dictionary of Art / Grove Art Online [Info] Full Text Resource!

Oxford Language Dictionaries Online (OLDO) [Info]

Directories

National Union Catalog of Manuscript Collections (NUCMC) [Info] (Free database--open to all users)

World Who's Who (formerly International Who's Who) [Info] Full Text Resource!

Dissertations and theses

Dissertations & Theses (ProQuest) - Full-Text [Info] Full Text Resource!

Electronic books, documents, and other texts

ADMYTE: Digital de Manuscritos y Textos Españoles [Info] Full Text Resource! (Free database--open to all users)

AP Images (formerly AccuNet/AP Multimedia Archive) (Associated Press Multimedia Archive) [Info] Full Text Resource!

Cambridge Collections Online [Info] Full Text Resource!

Cambridge Histories Online [Info] Full Text Resource!

Classic Mexican Cinema [Info] Full Text Resource!

Columbia International Affairs Online (CIAO) [Info] Full Text Resource!

Declassified Documents Reference System (DDRS) [Info] Full Text Resource!

Digital National Security Archive (DNSA) [Info] Full Text Resource!

ebooks on EBSCOhost [Info] Full Text Resource!

eHRAF Archaeology (Replaces eHRAF Collection of Archaeology) [Info] Full Text Resource!

eHRAF World Cultures (Replaces eHRAF Collection of Ethnography) [Info] Full Text Resource!

Eighteenth Century Collections Online (ECCO) [Info] Full Text Resource!

EIU Country Profile [Info] Full Text Resource!

EIU Country Report [Info] Full Text Resource!

EIU.com (Economist Intelligence Unit - EIU) [Info] Full Text Resource!

Historic Documents Series (CQ Online Editions) [Info] Full Text Resource!

IMF Data [Info] Full Text Resource!

IMF eLibrary [Info] Full Text Resource!

Informe Revistas en Espanol [Info] Full Text Resource!

Latin American Newsletters [Info] Full Text Resource!

LexisNexis Academic (news) [Info] Full Text Resource!

National Security Archive [Info] Full Text Resource!

netLibrary (please use ebooks on EBSCOhost) [Info] Full Text Resource!

OECD iLibrary [Info] Full Text Resource!

PARES: Portal de Archivos Españoles [Info] Full Text Resource! (Free database--open to all users)

Relatos de Viajeros [Info] (Free database--open to all users)

World Bank eLibrary [Info] Full Text Resource!

World News Connection (WNC) [Info] Full Text Resource!

World Scholar: Latin America and the Caribbean [Info] Full Text Resource!

Images/Pictures/Illustrations

ADMYTE: Digital de Manuscritos y Textos Españoles [Info] Full Text Resource! (Free database--open to all users)

AP Images (formerly AccuNet/AP Multimedia Archive) (Associated Press Multimedia Archive) [Info] Full Text Resource!

Bibliografia Mesoamericana [Info] (Free database--open to all users)

Maps

AP Images (formerly AccuNet/AP Multimedia Archive) (Associated Press Multimedia Archive) [Info] Full Text Resource!

News resources

AP Images (formerly AccuNet/AP Multimedia Archive) (Associated Press Multimedia Archive) [Info] Full Text Resource!

EIU Country Report [Info] Full Text Resource!

Factiva [Info] Full Text Resource!

Global Insight Advanced Country Analysis and Forecast (Country Intelligence) [Info] Full Text Resource!

Latin American Newsletters [Info] Full Text Resource!

Latin American Newsstand [Info] Full Text Resource!

LexisNexis Academic (news) [Info] Full Text Resource!

Niles' National Register (Baltimore), 1837-1849 [Info] Full Text Resource!

Niles' Weekly Register (Baltimore), 1814-1837 [Info] Full Text Resource!

ProQuest Central [Info] Full Text Resource!

World News Connection (WNC) [Info] Full Text Resource!

World Newspaper Archive A project of the Center for Research Libraries [Info] Full Text Resource! Vanderbilt and CRL member institutions

Statistics

Balance of Payments Statistics (BOPS) – International Monetary Fund (IMF), 1940- [Info]

Direction of Trade Statistics (DOTS) - International Monetary Fund (IMF), 1948- [Info]

EIU Country Profile [Info] Full Text Resource!

EIU Country Report [Info] Full Text Resource!

EIU CountryData [Info] Full Text Resource!

EIU.com (Economist Intelligence Unit - EIU) [Info] Full Text Resource!

Global Insight Advanced Country Analysis and Forecast (Country Intelligence) [Info] Full Text Resource!

Government Finance Statistics (GFS) - International Monetary Fund (IMF), 1972- [Info]

IMF Data [Info] Full Text Resource!

IMF eLibrary [Info] Full Text Resource!

International Debt Statistics (Beta Site) Formerly Global Development Finance [Info] Full Text Resource! (Free database--open to all users)

International Financial Statistics (IFS) - International Monetary Fund (IMF), 1948 - [Info]

LexisNexis Academic (news) [Info] Full Text Resource!

OECD iLibrary [Info] Full Text Resource!

Statistical yearbook for Latin America and the Caribbean = Anuario estadístico de America Latina y el Caribe [Info] Full Text Resource! (Free database--open to all users)

Trade and Investment - International Monetary Fund (IMF), 2003- [Info]

World Bank eLibrary [Info] Full Text Resource!

World dataBank: World Development Indicators (WDI) and International Debt Statistics [Info] Full Text Resource! (Free database--open to all users)

World Development Indicators (WDI) - Beta Site [Info] Full Text Resource! (Free database--open to all users)

Websites

Lanic [Info] (Free database--open to all users)

Latin American Studies sites recommended by Vanderbilt librarians [Info] (Free database--open to all users)