Research Resources:
Subject Research Guides:
Latin American Studies:
Open Access Projects
American Memory/Library of Congress
American Memory provides free and open access through the Internet to written and spoken
words, sound recordings, still and moving images, prints, maps, and sheet music that document
the American continent experience.
Biblioteca Virtual Cervantes
A digital collection that includes some primary documents from Spain and Latin American
authors, such as facsimiles of books, films and images. You may also find doctoral dissertations abstracts from Spanish
Universities.
Biblioteca Digital Diocórides (Universidad Complutense de Madrid)
Incluye 2.000 libros digitalizados a texto completo. FULL TEXT.
La colección de fondo antiguo, depositada en la Biblioteca Histórica, comprende 3.510 manuscritos, 725 incunables y 80.144 libros impresos de los siglos XVI al XVIII. [citations only]
Borges Center
The international reputation of Jorge Luis Borges (1899-1986) often hides what his work can offer as an object of interdisciplinary research. You may find full text documents about the author in this site.
Brazilian Government Document Digitization Project (Center for Research Libraries / Latin American Microfilm Project)
The project provides Internet access to executive branch serial documents issued by Brazil's national government between 1821
and 1993, and by its provincial governments from the earliest available date to 1889. In English and Portuguese.
Catalonian Manuscripts (Berkeley Digital Library Sunsite)
Makes available over 260 digitized pages of 11th through 15th
century manuscripts from Catalonia.
Código Brasiliense at the John Carter Brown Library
The purpose of the present web site is to make possible a correct
understanding of the various collections of early laws in Brazil in different libraries, to make available on-line some of
the first government documents printed in Brazil, and to stimulate future typographic studies.
Colecciones Mexicanas
A digital project consisting of Franciscans manuscripts from XIV to XIX with documents related to
missions, foundation of towns and geographic descriptions from the North of Mexico and the south of the USA. It also
contains literary periodicals of 19th century Mexico and materials related to Spaniards in Mexico in 19th century among
others.
DIALNET/Universidad de la Rioja/Spain
Organized by the Universidad de la Rioja, this database includes science, social sciences and
humanities scholarly journals and documents published in Spain. Full Text.
Digital Collection of Mexican and Argentine Presidential Messages
These digital images of Mexican and Argentine presidential speeches from
the 19th century represent the second phase of the Research Libraries
Group project.
Electronic Periodicals on Latin America and the Caribbean
This page includes links to electronic archives of many electronic periodicals in the social sciences and the humanities, and links to the tables of contents of other titles.
Fondo Antiguo de la Biblioteca de la Universidad de Sevilla
The Biblioteca de la Universidad de Sevilla, founded in 1505,
contains an exceptional collection of rare and old manuscripts, incunables and a large collection of books from XVI, XVII
and XVIII. The digital collection is entitled Fondo Antiguo.
Guaman Poma: El primer Nueva corónica y buen gobierno
Several decades
after the fall of the Inca empire, a native Andean writes to King Philip
III. Felipe Guaman Poma de Ayala's aim is to seek the reform of Spanish
colonial governance in order to save the Andean peoples from the
destructive forces of colonial exploitation, disease, and
miscegenation. Finding his most persuasive medium to be the visual
image, he organizes his 1200-page Nueva corónica y buen gobierno around
his nearly four hundred drawings, all skillfully executed by his own
hand. This manuscript is part of the collection of the Denmark Royal Library
and is listed in the UNESCO World Memory Project.
History of Spain, Primary Documents Eurodocs/Spain
This EuroDocs Wiki is designed to allow historians -- scholars, archivists, librarians, document gatherers of all descriptions -- to enter into a gated community of like-thinking contributors.
History of Portugal, Primary Documents Eurodocs/Portugal
This EuroDocs Wiki is designed to allow historians -- scholars, archivists, librarians, document gatherers of all descriptions -- to enter into a gated community of like-thinking contributors.
Inter-American Human Rights Database (Center for Human Rights and Humanitarian Law)
Contains documents in English and Spanish adopted by the Inter-American Commission on
Human Rights since its first session in 1960. Includes full-text for many recent documents.
LANIC Etext Collection
The LANIC Etext Collection is designed to facilitate access to the hundreds of thousands of
pages of full-text resources that are hosted on LANIC servers. These resources include
research papers written by Latin American studies scholars; theses and dissertations; etext
versions of books; conference proceedings; speeches by Latin American leaders; periodical
publications; and official documents. A LANIC project. Full Text
Latin American Government Documents Archive
The Latin American Government Documents Archive (LAGDA) seeks to preserve and facilitate
access to a wide range of ministerial and presidential documents from 18 Latin American and
Caribbean countries. A LANIC project. Full Text
Latin American Open Archives Project
The Latin American Open Archives Portal is a project of the
Latin Americanist Research Resources Project - LARRP,
in collaboration with the
Latin American Network Information Center - LANIC,
to improve access to social sciences grey literature produced in Latin America.
Full Text
The Library of Iberian Resources Online (LIBRO)
American Academy of Research Historians of Medieval Spain and the University of Central Arkansas.
Their search engine allows to search within Libro database and or Google, full text articles and or books on the topic..
Maps of the Americas (Perry Castañeda Library Map Collection, University of Texas)
Political and relief maps of countries
and regions in North, South, and Central America and the Caribbean. Includes some historical maps.
Memoria de Chile
A Portal with full text documents of Chilean authors. Includes books, pamphlets and newspapers articles.
National Library Spain: Hemeroteca Digital
Hemeroteca Digital supone el inicio del proyecto “Biblioteca Digital Hispánica’, que tiene como
objetivo la consulta y difusión pública a través de Internet del Patrimonio Bibliográfico Español
conservado en la Biblioteca Nacional. En esta primera etapa se ofrece el acceso público a la
colección digital de prensa histórica española que alberga la Biblioteca, compuesta inicialmente
por 143 títulos, editados entre 1772 y 1933.
Parnaseo, Universitat id Valencia
A database of Spanish Medieval Literature and History of the Book. A collection of full texts facsimiles included.
Project Gutenberg
The Project Gutenberg digital library philosophy is to make information, books and other materials
available to the general public in forms a vast majority of the computers, programs and people can easily read, use, quote,
and search.
Red de Bibliotecas Virtuales de Ciencias Sociales de America
Full texts of CLACSO publications
Scielo (The Scientific Electronic Library Online)
An electronic library covering a
selected collection of Argentina,
Brazil,
Chile, Colombia, Cuba,
Venezuela and Spain.
The library is an integral part of a project being developed by
FAPESP - Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo, in
partnership with
BIREME - the Latin American and
Caribbean Center on Health Sciences Information. Since 2002, the Project is also supported by
CNPq - Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico.
Full Text.
Spanish Archives Portal (PARES)
Includes more than 1,700,000 documents from eleven archives from Spain, including the Archivo General de Indias and the Archivo Historico Nacional. The plan is to continue expanding the portal.
Textos Lemir
One of the purposes of Textos Lemir is to have access to Medieval and
Renaissance literature from Spain in full text.
Zapatistas!
!Zapatistas! contains the full, English language text of every communique published (along
with several that were not published, as well as many interviews, letters, and essays) from
the Zapatista National Liberation Army (EZLN) from December 31, 1994 through June 12, 1994.A
LANIC project. Full Text
