The Handbook of Latin American Studies (HLAS) 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 between 2,000-3,000 works for inclusion in the Handbook. Continuously published since 1936, the Handbook offers Latin Americanists an essential guide to available resources.

Updated regularly, HLAS Web provides rapid, comprehensive access to decades of scholarship on Latin America. Besides annotated citations for books and journal articles published in the mid-1930s to the present, HLAS Web also includes book chapters, conference papers, maps and atlases, and e-resources. HLAS Web is an ADA-compliant, mobile friendly site with robust search options and permalinks for each record. Citations from older volumes may be searched via HLAS Online. Tables of contents and introductory essays for a range of HLAS volumes may be browsed via HLAS TOCs and Essays. The print volume of the Handbook is published annually by the University of Texas Press.

SciELO Social Sciences English Edition is the product of a joint effort between SciELO and several other institutions whose objective is to promote international access to Latin American scientific journals in the social sciences. The website provides access to the full text of journal articles via author, title, and subject indexes and/or searches by author, title, keyword or publication year. Currently there are more than 30 open access journals from Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Paraguay and Uruguay. Journals will be added at a rate of approximately four a month.

The British Library’s Endangered Archives Programme seeks to preserve cultural heritage and make it available to as wide an audience as possible. “Endangered” means material that is at risk of loss or decay, and is located in countries where resources and opportunities to preserve such material are lacking or limited. “Archives” refers to materials in written, pictorial or audio formats, including manuscripts, rare printed books, documents, newspapers, periodicals, photographs and sound recordings. The Endangered Archives Programme primarily funds digitization projects to record and preserve the content of archives. Our projects create digital material in a format that facilitates long-term preservation, and at least two copies of these are stored: a primary copy that remains at an appropriate repository in the country of origin, and a secondary copy held at the British Library. The EAP website provides access to these digital collections for research, education, and enjoyment. Digital collections reflect archives from many African, Caribbean, Eastern European, Middle Eastern, South American, South Asian, and Southeast Asian countries.

The Center for Research Libraries (CRL), based in Chicago, is an international consortium of university, college, and independent research libraries. Founded in 1949, CRL supports advanced research and teaching in the humanities, sciences, and social sciences by preserving and making available to scholars the primary source material critical to those disciplines. Documents, newspapers, books, and journals are among the items in their collections, mostly acquired from outside the United States. Many of their resources are from the five emerging regions of the world: Africa, the Middle East, Southeast Asia, South Asia, and Latin America.

Latindex is a portal for disseminating information about and access to academic and professional research journals published in Latin America, the Caribbean, Spain, and Portugal. Founded in 1995 by the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), Latindex became a cooperative regional network in 1997. Its mission is to make available and improve the quality of academic journals published in the region through collaboration and job sharing. The journals are classified into seven main groups: arts and humanities, agricultural sciences, engineering sciences, natural sciences, medical sciences, social sciences, and multidisciplinary.

Full-text access to a collection of scholarly journals in the social sciences, humanities, and natural sciences published in Latin America, the Carribean, Spain, and Portugal. Subjects covered include: Public Administration, Anthropology, Art, Information Science, Communication, Culture, Demography, Law, Economics, Education, Agrarian Studies, Environmental Studies, Regional Studies, Philosophy and Science, Geography, History, Language Arts, Multidisciplinary (Social Sciences and Humanities), Politics, Psychology, International Relations, Health, Sociology, Agrosciences, Architecture, Astronomy, Biology, Atmospheric Science, Computer Science, Physics, Geophysics, Geography, Geology, Engineering, Math, Medicine, Multidisciplinary (Natural Sciences), Oceanography, Chemistry, Veterinary Science.

HAPI provides authoritative, worldwide information about Central and South America, Mexico, the Caribbean basin, the United States-Mexico border region, and Hispanics in the United States. From analyses of current political, economic, and social issues to unique coverage of Latin American arts and letters, HAPI Online contains complete bibliographic citations to articles, book reviews, documents, original literary works, and other materials appearing in more than 650 key social science and humanities journals published throughout the world. About 80% of the citations are linked to full text. The recently updated site features: English, Spanish, and Portuguese interfaces as well as the ability to search subject headings in any of these three languages search with or without accents and other diacritics and get the same results and weekly updates of new records.

The Confidential Print series, issued by the Foreign and Colonial Offices since around 1820, is one of the most important series produced by the British Government (The National Archives, Kew). It originated out of a need for the Government to preserve all of the most important papers generated by the Foreign and Colonial Offices. Some of these were one-page letters or telegrams others were large volumes or texts of treaties. All items marked Confidential Print were printed and circulated immediately to leading officials in the Foreign Office, to the Cabinet and to heads of British missions abroad. The documents of Confidential Print: Latin America cover the whole of South and Central America, plus the non-British islands of the Caribbean, from just after the final Spanish withdrawal from mainland America in the 1820s to the height of the Cold War in the 1960s. Covering revolutions, territorial changes and political movements, foreign financial interests, industrial and infrastructural development (including the building of the Panama Canal), wars, slavery, immigration from Europe and relations with indigenous peoples. It includes materials such as:

• Profiles of leading political, military, diplomatic and economic figures
• Incoming and outgoing diplomatic dispatches
• Correspondence
• Statistical charts and tables
• Descriptions of leading personalities
• Accounts of tours
• Minutes of meetings and conferences
• Texts of treaties
• Political summaries
• Economic analyses
• Annual reports and calendars of events, by country.

The resource also features 300 color maps, a number of them previously separated from their parent files at The National Archives but cross-referenced with those files here for ease of scholarly use.

International Mapping is pleased to offer public access to their Maritime Database of the World. Assisting sovereign States with their maritime boundary disputes is International Mapping's core business; it represents an area of expertise that they have been developing for many decades. This database is the culmination of thousands of hours of research, analysis, compilation and illustration. Their goal is to provide users with an accurate, concise and up-to-date snapshot of the events that are constantly reshaping the world’s maritime areas. Note: as of 1 December 2014, Boundary Briefs are only available for North American, Central America/Caribbean, and South America Regions. Map Posters and GIS Data are available for all regions.
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Oil Daily provides complete and concise coverage of relevant news, transactions and market developments in the North and South America energy industry. It offers analysis of worldwide upstream and downstream developments, assessment of key market trends and prices, and news on mergers and acquisitions, people movements and geopolitical events. Coverage includes: The day's most impactful oil and gas events News briefs providing incisive regional coverage at a glance Daily prices for key oil and gas markets and energy equities Analysis of regional oil and gas markets and futures prices
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Sabin Americana contains books, pamphlets and other documents about society, politics, culture, religious beliefs, and contemporary opinions for North, Central and South America, the Arctic and Antarctica and the West Indies. This resource offers original accounts of exploration, pioneering, settlement, the western movement, military actions, Native Americans, slavery and abolition.