Americas
Program, Interhemispheric Resource Center, http://www.americaspolicy.org
The US-Mexico border program of the Interhemispheric Resource Center,
http://www.irc-online.org, formerly known as BIOS (Border Information and
Outreach Service). The new site includes all back issues of
Borderlines and other BIOS data as well as current coverage of border
issues. This site has one of the most comprehensive directories of organizations
working on trade, environment, human rights, indigenous peoples, migration,
labor and other US-Mexico border issues.
Bilingual English-Spanish Library
& Information Science Dictionary, http://eubd1.ugr.es/RIS/RISWEB.ISA
Compiled by Tony Lozano, University of Granada, Spain, this database
contains more than 60,000 bilingual entries for library science and information
technology. More than just translations, many entries are fully explained. Also
contains the IFLA glossary. Email contact: [alozano@ugr.es]
Brazil: SciELO--Scientific Electronic Library
Online, http://www.scielo.br
Fulltext scholarly journals published in
Brazil in many subject areas. Sponsored by FAPESP and BIREME. One purpose of the
project is to use the internet to increase the visibility of scientific research
in Brazil. Email contact: [scielo@bireme.br].
Brazilian Government Document
Digitization Project, http://wwwcrl.uchicago.edu/info/brazil/
A project
of the Latin American Microfilm Project (LAMP) at the Center for Research
Libraries (CRL), this site provides access to full text and images of reports
from different government entities from 1821-1993. This is an example of
digitization for preservation of rare historical materials.
COLNODO Bases de Datos,
http://bases.colnodo.org.co/consulta.html
Access to several databases
created by Colombian NGOs. Some topics include ecology, sustainable development,
conflict resolution, women, etc. COLNODO provides internet access to many
NGOs in Colombia.
Costa Rica: Bibliographic
Meta-Database, http://www.acceso.or.cr/metabase
Combined bibliographic references
of several NGO information centers in Costa Rica. A search provides
bibliographic records and information on how to contact the information center
to obtain a copy of the item. As of May 2001, the database contains over 200,000
bibliographic records with the participation of 38 information centers. Project
supported by Fundacion Acceso
Costa Rica: CEIBA,
http://www.arias.or.cr/ceiba
Database of more than 1200 Central American
NGOs; a project of the Fundacion Arias,
http://www.arias.or.cr/ para la paz y el progreso humano. Contact:
info@arias.or.cr.
Ethnologue: Languages of the World,
http://www.ethnologue.com
Compiler: Summer Institute of Linguistics.
Contact: www@sil.org. Includes excellent data on American indigenous languages.
Ethnologue provides detailed information on 6,700 world languages. The
electronic version of the LLA is searchable by country or language name and
provides details on hundreds of languages including numbers of speakers,
geographic distribution, levels of bilingualism among speakers,
etc.
Fourth World Documentation Project:
Indigenous Peoples Information for the Online Community,
http://www.cwis.org/fwdp.html
A collection of documents from nations and
organizations around the world relating to indigenous peoples organized by the
Center for World Indigenous Studies (CWIS).
The archive contains documents on Fourth World nations in the Americas, Africa,
Asia, Europe, Melanesia and the Pacific. It is a unique archive of primary
source documents--treaties, tribal government information, etc. See http://www.cwis.org/americas.html
for documents from North, South and Central America. The project page indicates
that it has not been updated since 1997.
Handbook of Latin American
Studies-HLAS, http://lcweb2.loc.gov/hlas/
HLAS is produced by the
Hispanic Division of the Library of Congress and is provided FREE OF CHARGE to
web users worldwide. Together with subscription resources such as HAPI, LADB,
InfoLatinoamerica and others, it is one of the most important tools for
scholarly research on Latin America. It provides abstracts and complete
bibliographic information for published materials from and about Latin America
on a wide range of topics in the humanities and social sciences and covers more
than 60 years of scholarly literature in Latin American
studies.
