Library Guides: SPN 450: Art and Social Change in Latin America: Lecturas de Fondo

Scholarly Works

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Consejo Latinoamericano de Ciencias Sociales (CLACSO)
Repository of Latin American and Caribbean libraries providing open access to academic articles, thesis, presentations, working papers, and multi-media sources. Search the online catalog of the Network of Virtual Social Sciences Libraries from Latin America an the Caribbean, and CLACSO's Latin American and the Caribbean Social Sciences bookstore, including over 1500 open access online books published by CLACSO and affiliated centers.

Fuente Academica This link opens in a new window
Full text of scholarly Spanish-language academic journals.

Latin American Open Archives Portal
Links to Latin American "grey literature," publications from think tanks, non-governmental organizations, etc.
Latin American Periodicals Tables of Contents (LAPTOC)
Tables of contents of 975 academic and research journals published in 29 countries in the region, including bibliographic references to more than 340,000 articles in the area's major languages.
Redalyc
Redalyc (La Red de Revistas Científicas de América Latina y el Caribe, España y Portugal) is an indexing system that contains open access journals of scientific and editorial quality. After 16 years of providing visibility and supporting the consolidation of journals, it now incorporates exclusively those journals, from any part of the world, that share the non-profit publishing model in order to preserve the scholarly and open nature of scientific communication.

ProQuest Coronavirus Research Database This link opens in a new window
Full-text articles and dissertations providing authoritative content about the novel coronavirus (COVID-19).

National Statistical Offices
Central repository of countries' national statistics offices, from the United Nations Statistics Division.

The America: An Encyclopedia of Culture and Society
Call Number: Available online
Publication Date: 2022
This two-volume encyclopedia profiles the contemporary culture and society of every country in the Americas, from Canada and the United States to the islands of the Caribbean and the many countries of Latin America.
The Companion to Latin American Studies
Call Number: Available online
Encyclopedia of Latin American History and Culture
Call Number: Available online
Publication Date: 2008

Global Road Warrior This link opens in a new window
Country profiles including business culture, education systems, social customs, health and medical information, and more.

United Nations Human Development Reports
Explore human development data from around the world using interactive tools.