The Digital Collections contain all the digitized publications of the Ibero-American Institute. Users can search digitized objects such as manuscripts, maps, books, photographs, papers & documents or access the different collections. If users create their personal user accounts, the search results can be saved and then exchanged with other registered users. Users can also annotate the digitized objects they are working with and create their own virtual bookshelves. Research tools are available in German, Spanish and English.

The site currently includes 5 collections:

• Argentine theater and literary periodicals
• Cultural magazines of Latin America (Includes Argentina, Ecuador, Peru, other countries to follow)
• Glass plate collection of the Ibero-American Institute
• Vicente and Ernesto Quesada: Publications
• Papers of Hans Steffen

Two other collections will be added later this year:

• Biblioteca Criolla: Popular Literature from Argentina and
• Jose Guadalupe Posada

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.

Coverage: 1936-present

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.

SciELO Books is a collection of quality peer-reviewed Open Access and commercial ebooks in the Humanities, Social Sciences and Public Health from selected university presses and other academic publishers in Brazil. The scope of the collection will progressively broaden as university presses and academic publishers from other countries in Latin America and the Caribbean join. Currently there are over 300 ebooks available for download this number is expected to grow by more than 500 titles per year. The books published by SciELO Books are selected by a scientific committee following a rigorous peer review process. Commerical ebooks for purchase are clearly marked and also have abstracts available.

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.

World Scholar: Latin America & the Caribbean serves the needs of students and researchers by bringing together in a single place a rich collection of primary source documents about Latin America and the Caribbean academic journals and news feeds covering the region reference articles and commentary maps and statistics audio and video and more.