Research Guides: LTAM 300: Issues in Latin American Studies: Websites

Web Directories and Links

Uncover important bibliographies and resources created by top scholars and institutes in the field. Suggested Latin American web portals and sites:

UC San Diego Latin American Studies research guide
Center for Latin American Studies (CLAS) - Berkley
Digital Library of the Caribbean
Cooperative digital library for resources from and about the Caribbean and circum-Caribbean.
ECLAC: Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean
Statistics and data on Latin American and Caribbean countries from the U.N. Link to CEPALSTAT, social, economic, and demographic data for LAC.
Institute of Latin American Studies (ILAS - Columbia)
LANIC: Latin American Network Information Center
Huge portal to research information and directories about Latin American countries. Affiliated with UT-Austin.
Latin Americanist Research Resources Project (LARRP)
Projects from research libraries promoting open access to information from and about Latin American countries on the web.
Political Database of the Americas
Resources to political information about Latin American and Caribbean countries.
CLACSO
The Latin American Council of Social Sciences (CLACSO) is an international non-governmental institution with associative status in UNESCO, created in 1967. Currently, it brings together 680 research and postgraduate centers in the field of social sciences and humanities in 51 countries in Latin America and other continents.