This guide will help students researching topics related to Latin America using resources from the Latin American and Caribbean Collection at the University of Florida and from outside institutions.
The UF Libraries subscribe to many databases useful for locating articles, books, and other media related to Latin American and Caribbean Studies. Here is a selection to assist you in beginning your research.
The Handbook is a bibliography on Latin America consisting of works selected and annotated by scholars. Edited by the Hispanic Division of the Library of Congress, the multidisciplinary Handbook alternates annually between the social sciences and the humanities. Each year, more than 130 academics from around the world choose over 5,000 works for inclusion in the Handbook. Continuously published since 1936, the Handbook offers Latin Americanists an essential guide to available resources.
The Hispanic American Periodicals Index (HAPI) is your source for approximately 300,000 journal article citations and over 100,000 full-text articles appearing in more than 600 key social science and humanities journals published throughout the world.
LANIC Web-based Resource Guides are great subject area-specific lists of web-based resources on Latin American Economy, Education, Geography and Environment, Government, Humanities, Internet and Computing, Libraries and Reference, Media and Communication, Recreation, Science, Social Sciences, and Society and Culture.
