This document provides an overview of Latin American resources available through Senate House Library and the Institute of Latin American Studies at the University of London. It describes several electronic databases, institutional repositories, e-theses sources, portals, and other e-resources available for research on Latin America. These include HAPI, PRISMA, SAS-SPACE, BASE, EThOS, PQDT Open, REDIAL, LANIC, and LAEDA. The document emphasizes that Senate House Library and ILAS hold significant Latin American collections and provide access to both traditional and electronic materials.

1. LATIN AMERICAN RESOURCES:
SENATE HOUSE, ILAS, AND BEYOND
Christine Anderson
Research Librarian: Latin American Studies Senate House Library
Librarian for the Institute of Latin American Studies
Christine.Anderson@london.ac.uk

2. Senate House Library
http
://www.senatehouselibrary.ac.uk/
is the home of the joint Latin
American and Caribbean
collections of SHL and the
Institute of Latin American
Studies
http://ilas.sas.ac.uk/
Both are part of Senate House
Libraries, the umbrella name
for SHL and the libraries of SAS
(School of Advanced Study)
http://www.london.ac.uk/libraries

3. Senate House Libraries, University of London constitute one of the world's most significant
collections in the arts, humanities and social sciences. There are eight collaborating libraries:
Senate House Library and the libraries of the Institutes of the School of Advanced Study

4. Electronic as well as traditional resources

5. Electronic databases: subject-specific
as well as general
• HLAS – freely available via www
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/hlas/
Available via library subscription:
• HAPI – Hispanic American Periodicals Index
• PRISMA - Publicaciones y Revistas Sociales y
Humanísticas
Note that PRISMA works with HAPI to provide the full text of many of the journals
HAPI indexes, focusing on journals in the social sciences and humanities
concerning Latin America and the Caribbean Basin

6. Institutional Repositories
• An Institutional repository is an online locus
for collecting, preserving, and disseminating in digital form - the intellectual output of an
institution
• eg
SAS-SPACE http://sas-space.sas.ac.uk/

7. SAS-Space
http://sas-space.sas.ac.uk/

10. Other electronic repositories include:
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Birkbeck College, University of London: BIROn
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UCL: UCL Discovery
• LSE: LSE Research Online
http://eprints.bbk.ac.uk/
http://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/
http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/
•
University of Cambridge: Dspace@Cambridge https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/
•
Oxford: ORA (University of Oxford Research Archive
•
Essex: University of Essex Research Repository http://repository.essex.ac.uk/
•
Glasgow University: Enlighten
http://ora.ox.ac.uk/
http://eprints.gla.ac.uk/
• Nottingham University: Nottingham ePrints http://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/

11. How to locate electronic institutional
repositories?
SHERPA http://www.sherpa.ac.uk/repositories/
(Securing A Hybrid Environment For Research Preservation And Access)
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•
OpenDOAR- Directory of Open Access Repositories
http://www.opendoar.org/
•
ROAR –Registry of Open Access Repositories
http://roar.eprints.org/
You can search for repositories or repository content

12. BASE “is one of the world's most voluminous search engines especially for
academic open access web resources.”
BASE is operated by Bielefeld University Library
http://www.base-search.net/

13. BASE gives a variety of search options: basic, and advanced (by author, title,
subject heading, document type, publication year etc.) as well as a browsing option.

14. A sample advanced search in BASE for articles from N. America with Mexico and
pollution in the title field gave 16 hits in 52,262,108 documents in 0.32 seconds –
note the options boxes to Refine Search Result and Sort Your Results

15. E-THESES
• Available via a variety of sources including
BASE, Portals and specialised websites such
as:
• British Library EThOS.
http://ethos.bl.uk/Home.do
The home page of the British Library EThOS
service. Search across 300,000+ theses for free
and order full text quickly and easily……………

16. PQDT OPEN
http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/
PQDT Open provides the full text of open access dissertations
and theses free of charge

17. with PQDT Open you can read
the full text of open access dissertations and theses free of charge
http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/

18. PORTALS provide access to a range of
e-resources
América Latina Portal Europeo
http://www.red-redial.net/
is an example of a European Portal specialising
in Latin American resources.
This database was created by REDIAL Red
Europea de Información y Documentación
sobre América Latina and
CEISAL Consejo Europeo de Investigaciones
Sociales de América Latina

19. REDIAL - http://www.red-redial.net/

20. América Latina Portal Europeo
La Base de Datos REDIAL-TESIS

21. ILAS’s digital resources include:
Latin America and Caribbean Research Portal
http://ilas.sas.ac.uk/portal

22. • As well as a searchable directory of Latin American
and Caribbean Studies research resources in the UK
(the Libraries Archives and Museums Directory), the
Portal displays lists of academic staff / researchers,
thesis in progress, institutions/centres/universities,
libraries and museums in UK and EIRE working in this
area.

23. ISA’s Portal also gives access to some of its special
collection material in digital format
• ISA holds extensive collections of political
ephemera from Latin America.
• Some of these materials have been digitised
as part of the joint Commonwealth and Latin
American Political Archives Project
• http://polarch.sas.ac.uk/pages/intro.htm

24. ¡No a la intervención! : no la deseamos, pero no la tememos / Daniel Ortega
Saavedra.
Managua, Nicaragua : Dirección de Divulgación y Prensa de la Junta de Gobierno de
Reconstrucción Nacional, [1981]

25. Latin American Open Archives Portal
http://lanic.utexas.edu/project/laoap/project.htm
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The Latin American Open Archives Portal is a project of the Latin Americanist
Research Resources Project, in collaboration with LANIC, to improve access to
social sciences grey literature produced in Latin America. The portal provides
access to working documents, pre-prints, research papers, statistical documents,
and other difficult-to-access materials from the "deep Web." Typically, this
content is published by research institutes, non-governmental organizations, and
peripheral agencies that are not controlled by commercial publishers.
Full text search available here
http://lanic.utexas.edu/project/laoap/search/search.html

26. MISCELLANEOUS E- RESOURCES
•
ACLAIIR - http://aclaiir.org.uk/
eg Latin American and Iberian Audiovisual Collections by Sonia Morcillo
& Latin American Newspaper Census by Geoff West
• Latin American Network Information Center http://lanic.utexas.edu/
•Montevideo-Oxford Latin American Economic History Data Base, 'MOxLAD‘
http://moxlad.fcs.edu.uy/es/basededatos.html
•Political Database of the Americas http://pdba.georgetown.edu/
•Latin American Development Archive LADARK http://ladark.lib.utsa.edu/
• Comisión Económica para América Latina y el Caribe http://www.eclac.cl/
•SALALM (Seminar on the Acquisition of Latin American Library Materials)
http://salalm.org/

27. MISCELLANEOUS E-RESOURCES (2)
•The amount of statistical data produced in
Latin America has mushroomed in recent
years
•access to this data by researchers has been
limited as the availability of electronic data
sets from Latin America tends to be
incomplete and short-lived
•To address this problem, a new project has
been set up:
Latin American Electronic Data Archive
(LAEDA)
•LAEDA is a joint project of LANIC with the
Teresa Lozano Long Institute of Latin
American Studies at the University of Texas at
Austin (UT) and the University of Texas
Libraries
•
•
The initial focus of LAEDA will be on
electoral data, household survey
microdata, and data relevant to social
policy evaluation
Data sets and related information
collected as part of this project can be
downloaded from the LAEDA collection in
the University of Texas Digital Repository
(UTDR)
http://repositories.lib.utexas.edu/handle/
2152/16309

28. E-Texts, Virtual Libraries
• Project Gutenberg http://www.gutenberg.org/
• Internet Archive http://archive.org/index.php
• The WWW Virtual Library: International Affairs Resources
http://www2.etown.edu/vl/latamer.html
• Latin America and Caribbean social science virtual library –
CLACSO http://ring.ciard.net/latin-america-and-caribbeansocial-science-virtual-library-clacso
• LANIC Etext Collection http://lanic.utexas.edu/project/etext/
• Cuban Heritage Collection
http://www.library.miami.edu/chc/
• dLOC Digital Library of the Caribbean http://www.dloc.com/
• Early Americas Digital Archive http://mith.umd.edu//eada/

29. Videos and podcasts of events, lectures, news
and analyses of the hemisphere ……… a sample
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http://www.wola.org/wola_podcast
http://www.wola.org/video
http://www.chathamhouse.org/multimedia/podcasts
https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/latin-american-briefingseries/id128517803
http://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/units/latin-american-centre
http://ilas.sas.ac.uk/events/videos-and-podcasts
http://www.sas.ac.uk/videos-and-podcasts/politics-development-humanrights/canning-house-history-series-colonial-brazil
http://www.sas.ac.uk/videos-and-podcasts/politics-development-humanrights/canning-house-history-series-left-leaning-gove
http://www.lse.ac.uk/newsAndMedia/videoAndAudio/channels/publicLec
turesAndEvents/Home.aspx

30. HANDLE WITH CARE !

31. Scribd - http://www.scribd.com/
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“Scribd is a social publishing site, where tens of millions of people share original writings and documents.
Scribd's vision is to liberate the written word.”
•
“Scribd is the world's largest digital library, where readers can discover books and written works of all
kinds on the Web or any mobile device………” Since its launch in 2007 “more than 40 million books and
documents have been contributed to Scribd by the community. Scribd content reaches an audience of 80
million people around the world every month”
•
“The World’s Largest Online Library. Read, Publish, and Share Documents and Written Works ”

32. Find a .pdf ? http://www.findapdf.com/