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Country Info
- Country Directory from the Latin American Network Information Center at UTFor each country listed, there are lists of links to quality websites in many areas, including Arts & Culture, Business & Economy, Government, Indigenous Peoples, Political Parties, Popular Culture, Sports, Travel, etc.
- Library of Congress Portals to the WorldA smiliar list of links in categories like Business, Education, Culture, History and Language & Literature, chosen by country experts in the Library of Congress
- CIA World FactbookTHE source for up-to-date factual and statistical information about a country's geography, people, government, economy, etc.
- Europa World PlusOnline Encyclopedia of country information
- Background Notes from the U.S. Department of StateThe publications listed include facts about the land, people, history, government, political conditions, economy, and foreign relations of each country.
Writers/Biographies
- Literature Resource CenterProvides access to biographies, bibliographies, and critical analyses of more than 120,000 authors from every age and literary discipline. The information is taken from Contemp. Authors, Contemp. Lit. Criticism, Dict. of Lit. Biography and other resources
- Columbia Granger's World of PoetryIndexes poetry in published anthologies, with citations providing poem title, author, publisher, subject(s), and a list of anthologies in which the selected poem appears; includes brief biographies of poets, some commentary, and full text of some poems.
Painters/Art
- ArtStorSearchable database of more than 500,000 digital images and associated catalog data. ARTstor covers many time periods and cultures, and documents the fields of architecture, painting, sculpture, photography, decorative arts, and design.
- Museo Nacional del PradoMadrid, Spain
- Museums in Latin AmericaLinks and resources provided by the Latin American Network Information Center at UT.
Newspapers
- PressReader This link opens in a new windowProvides full text of an extensive number of current national and international newspapers. (As of August 2016, there were over 5000 newspapers from over 100 countries and in 60 languages.) The full text of the articles is searchable and the publications are browsable by country. The front page provides a collage of current stories that constantly change. When you select a newspaper, you can find a calendar which allows you to look at the past 60 days of that newspaper. Articles and areas of pages can be printed and also saved/sent to others. There are also mobile apps which allow you to access the newspapers on your phone or tablet.
- Ethnic newswatch This link opens in a new window
Indexes the newspapers, magazines, and scholarly journals published by, about, and for ethnic, minority, and native peoples. Keyword and Boolean searches may be limited by one of 8 major ethnic groups, by date, by location, and by language (Spanish, English, or both). Covers all subject areas: health, immigration, education, discrimination, biography, etc. Provides full text for many of the publications indexed. ProQuest.
Scholarly Articles and Other Resources
- Fuente academica This link opens in a new windowIndexes and provides full text for over 500 selected scholarly journals from Latin America, Portugal and Spain. While many subject areas are covered, there is a particular emphasis on agriculture, biological sciences, economics, history, law, literature, philosophy, psychology, public administration, religion, and sociology.
- ClasePeriodicaIndex of Latin American journals in the sciences and humanities. CLASE (Citas Latinoamericanas en Ciencias Sociales y Humanidades), indexes documents published in Latin Amer journals specializing in the social sciences and humanities (over 1,200 sources)
- Academic search complete This link opens in a new windowThis resource is a multi-disciplinary full-text database, with more than 5,300 full-text periodicals, including 4,400 peer-reviewed journals. Tip: in Academic Search Complete, limit your results to articles in Spanish only by choosing "Spanish" under the option "Language" on the main search page.
- Immigration & MigrationLinks and resources provided by the Latin American Network Information Center at UT.
