Global Voices is an international, multilingual, primarily volunteer community of writers, translators, academics, and human rights activists. They translate stories from regional and national media into many languages. They do work to highlight underrepresented groups and fight against misinformation. Find out more on their page.
ARTFL-FRANTEXT is the main ARTFL Database, comprising more than 2,900 French language texts spanning from the 12th through the 20th centuries, ranging from classic works of French literature to various kinds of non-fiction prose and technical writing. Subjects include literary criticism, biology, history, economics, and philosophy.
The eighteenth, nineteenth and twentieth centuries are about equally represented, with a smaller selection of seventeenth century texts as well as some medieval and Renaissance texts. Genres include novels, poetry, theater, journalism, essays, correspondence, and treatises.
A collection of full-text reports covering 53 Asian countries on a multitude of business, government, economic, and social issues. Time period: 2004 to present. Updated monthly.
Country coverage includes all of Asia, Australia/New Zealand, the Americas Pacific Rim countries, and Pacific islands. Examples of specific subject coverage include finance, trade, environment, human resources development, best practices in government, fisheries, tourism, education and women's studies, to name a few. The average study is 50 pages long, and contains statistics, research, analysis, and forecasts. Most contain statistical tables, charts, and/or graphs.
An index of Latin American journals in the sciences and humanities. Date coverage: 1975 to present. Updated quarterly. Citations only.
CLASE indexes documents published in Latin American journals specializing in the social sciences and humanities. PERIODICA covers journals specializing in science and technology. Offers access to more than 300,000 bibliographic citations from documents published in 2,600 scholarly journals published in the Spanish, Portuguese, French and English languages. Contains information from articles, essays, book reviews, monographs, conference proceedings, technical reports, interviews and brief notes published in journals edited in 24 different countries of Latin America and the Caribbean, as well as from publications that focus on Pan-American issues. Search interface: FirstSearch.
A full-text database of Spanish and Portuguese-language scholarly journals and magazines in social sciences, humanities, science and medicine. Also covers popular Latin American and Hispanic magazines and newspapers. Date coverage: 1980 to present. Updated daily.
An index and collection of news and other information on Latin America, from weekly electronic news bulletins about Mexico (SourceMex), Central America and the Caribbean including Cuba (NotiCen) and South America (NotiSur), and Latin American periodicals. Date coverage: 1986 to present. No longer updated as of April 30, 2018. Now available as an archive.
Time Period: 1492-1980
Location: North America, South America
The Archives of Latin American and Caribbean History, Sixteenth to Twentieth Century offer a range of content for the region, providing opportunities for research into issues and events in contemporary Latin American and Caribbean history, as well as historical perspective back to the colonial period. Coverage extends from the 15th to 20th century, providing information about the indigenous peoples of the region, the Conquest (la Conquista), colonial rule, religion, struggles for independence, and political, economic, and social progress and issues in newly independent nations.
The archive is made up of more than 1.3 million pages of historical material across 33 archival collections from the United States and Europe. The historical collections provide original manuscripts, signed letters, expedition records, reports, maps, diaries, descriptions of voyages, ephemera, and more from sources such as:
Brazil's Popular Groups, 1966-1986
Colección de Documentos Inéditos Relativos al Descubrimiento, Conquista Y Organización de Las Antiguas Posesiones Españolas de America Y Oceania. -- Madrid : M.B. de Quyros, 1864-1884
Conquistadors: The Struggle for Colonial Power in Latin America, 1492-1825
Despatches From U.S. Consuls in Havana, Cuba, 1783-1906
Latin American History and Culture: An Archival Record, Series 1: The Yale University Collection of Latin American Manuscripts, Parts 1-7
Latin American and Iberian biographies
Latin American Independence: Nineteenth Century Political and Official Pamphlets
Mexican and Central American Political and Social Ephemera
Papers of Agustin de Iturbide, 1799-1880
US State Department records on Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Cuba, Guatemala, Haiti, Mexico and more
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