A Guide to Latin American Studies Resources

A selection of classic books from the Fundación Biblioteca Ayacucho Book Series. Developed by the Latin American Council of Social Sciences, the Ministery of Culture of Venezuela and the Fundacion Biblioteca Ayacucho.

Digitized collection of Cartonera books from Latin America. Developed by University of Wisconsin-Madison Libraries.

A portal which facilitates access to Latin American social sciences grey literature from research institutes, non-governmental organizations, and peripheral agencies outside commercial publishers. It includes working documents, pre-prints, research papers, statistical documents, and other difficult-to-access materials from the "deep Web." Developed by the Latin Americanist Research Resources Project - LARRP, in collaboration with the Latin American Network Information Center - LANIC.

Digtized collection of travel accounts written and edited in the 16th and 19th century. Includes text in Spanish and English. Developed by professor James N. Green with the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies.

A project dedicated to digitized the first books printed in Mexico and Peru in the 16th century. It includes digitized editions in PDF and JPEG from different institutions collections. Developed by University of Texas in collaboration with other universities and institutions from United States, Mexico, Spain, Chile and Peru.

Digitized collections from the Instituto Ibero-Americano. Includes theater and literature magazines from the 19th century in Argentina, Coleccion Zarzuela (a selection of digitized scripts and music sheets from zarzuelas from the 19th and early 20th century), a colection of digitized litographies from Jose Guadalupe Posada, manuscripts and prints of Roberto Alrt, among others.

Digitized archive of scarce and unique pamphlets published during the 19th and early 20th centuries. Includes primarly documents from Chile, Cuba, Bolivia and Mexico. Devoloped by Harvard Libraries.

A collection of digitized Latin American left-political and unions journals from the 19th and 20th century. Developed by the Centro de Documentación e Investigación de la Cultura de Izquierdas (Buenos Aires, Argentina)

Database of audio recordings collected and registered by the Library of Congress. Includes nearly seven hundred recordings from prose to poems from thirty-two countries.

A digital database of audio and film recordings, language documentation materials and field papers related to indigeneous cultures. Developed by the LLILAS Benson Latin American Studies and Collections, the Department of Linguistics, and the Digital Library Services Division of the WashU Libraries at the University of Texas at Austin. Requires registration.

Digital archive of annotated historical and etnographic video materials from 1974 to 2007. Topics included are human rights, political violence, youth movements, the Sandinista government, guerrilla media, revolutionary literature, armed conflict and international relations. It also emphasizes he ethno-linguistic and ethno-historical legacy of indigenous peoples. Presented by Indiana WashU Libraries and developed by the Center for Research and Advanced Studies in Social Anthropology (CIESAS) in Mexico, the Institute of History of Nicaragua and Central America (IHNCA) in Nicaragua, and the Museum of the Word and the Image (MUPI).

An independent project dedicated to connect artistic productions of sound and visual art related with mapping and cartography. It includes the project Mapas Sonoros de Latinoamerica, which archives a series of landscape sounds around the Latin American region. Developed by an independent team in Chile.

Digital video archive of performance practices in the Americas from 1970's to the present. Includes recorded performances from a selection of individual and groupal performers, interviews, conferences, encuentros and lectures about performance art. Developed by the Hemispheric Institute in collaboration with NYU Libraries.

A streaming platform of Latin American films. Selected titles are available outside Latin American region. Developed by the Agencia del Desarrollo del Cine y Audiovisuales Bolivianos (Bolivia), Instituto de Cine y Creación Audiovisual del Ecuador (Ecuador), Dirección del Audiovisual, la Fonografía y los Nuevos Medios del Ministerio de Cultura del Perú (Perú), Instituto Mexicano de Cinematografía de México- (México), ICAU-Dirección del Cine y Audiovisual Nacional del Uruguay (Uruguay) and the Dirección de Cinematografía del Ministerio de Cultura de Colombia (Colombia).

Digitized collection of maps and documents related with cartography. It focuses on rare 16th through 21st century maps of North and South America, as well as maps of the World, Asia, Africa, Europe, and Oceania. Developed by Cartography Associates and Stanford University.

Digitized archive of film posters produced in the US and Latin America. Includes American posters of the mid- twentieth century, Mexican posters from 1930 to the present and cine club pamphlets from Uruguay. Developed by the University of New Mexico Libraries.

A digital collection of graphic representations from the colonial period (1492-1825). Includes books, maps and political cartoons. Developed by the John Carter Brown Library (Brown University)

A selection of photographs and visual materials from various Latin American countries from the 19th century to early 20th. It includes collections from Costa Rica, Peru, Bolivia, Mexico, El Salvador and Cuba. Developed by SMU Libraries.

Digitized archive of Latin American posters by social activists, non-governmental organizations, government agencies, political parties, and other types of organizations. Includes topics about uman rights, elections, gender issues, indigenous issues, labor, ecology and environmental issues, development, public health, and education. Developed by Princeton WashU Libraries.