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Spanish Online(netConnect Via Thomson Dialog NewsEdge) According to the Pew Hispanic Center, the rapid growth of the Hispanic population is now coupled with a second significant demographic phenomenon, the emergence of new settlement areas where the Hispanic presence was once sparse but is now briskly increasing. For academic libraries, these parallel trends suggest that in Hispanic, Latin American, and Caribbean-studies, enrollments are not likely to diminish, nor will the incentives to subscribe to quality bibliographic resources, to provide full-text online access, and to direct adequate attention and funding to the collection building process. School and public libraries are serving a clientele that is expanding in numbers and influence and that expects to be able to work with a Spanish-language interface to find Spanish-language materials in the library. (Since neither of us speaks Spanish, the general desirability of being able to turn over control of the interface language to the person who is using it became only too clear.) The reviewed databases provide a cross section of indexing and abstracting coverage and full-text access to key scholarly and popular publications. One of these resources will meet the needs of your users, whether they are serious researchers or curious browsers. ClasePeridicaUniversidad Nacional Autnoma de Mxico (UNAM) Content Spanish-language researchers should become acquainted with CLASE and PERIDICA (ClasePeridica), the combined version of two indexes of Latin American journals in the sciences and humanities. The CLASE (Citas Latinoamericanas en Ciencias Sociales y Humanidades) database indexes 1200-plus Latin American journals specializing in the social sciences and humanities, while the PERIDICA (ndice de Revistas Latinoamericanas en Ciencias) database covers 1400-plus Latin American science and technology journals. The files contain 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 Pan-American publications. Both indexes are produced by the Universidad Nacional Autnoma de Mxico (UNAM), which also offers a full-text document delivery service. Most indexed articles are in either Spanish or Portuguese, with some English-language articles. CLASE indexes anthropology, the arts, economics, management and accounting, education, political science, psychology, religion, sociology, history, linguistics, literature, and philosophy, while PERIDICA covers subjects such as agricultural sciences, biology, chemistry, engineering, geosciences, physics, and medicine. Together they aggregate 455,000-plus bibliographic citations without abstracts from documents published in nearly 2700 scholarly journals published in Spanish, Portuguese, French, and English, with Spanish subject headings. Updated quarterly, CLASE coverage is 1975present, and PERIDICA coverage is 1978present. Available through OCLC's FirstSearch interface, the full-text articles can be accessed via a library's OpenURL link resolver or via the UNAM document delivery service. Institutions can establish pay-as-you-go debit accounts for easy access. Searchability The FirstSearch interface supports novice and experienced users with Basic, Advanced, and Expert search modes, with postsearch features including sort, related subjects, related authors, limit, export, email, print, and ILL (interlibrary loan). Records can be exported into EndNote or RefWorks, or as a text for other bibliographic software like ProCite or Reference Manager. There is even a step-by-step Show Me How option for search refinement for more than 500 records. We started with a basic search for Brazilian poetry -poesa AND brasil , which retrieved 228 articles. Accent marks are not required for searching the review databases. Users have eight language preferences, including espaol, clearly a plus for Spanish-speaking researchers. The results list offers an array of navigational options, including tabs for Detailed Records, Marked Records, and Saved Records. The Saved Records screen allows personal account users to organize and maintain records that are permanently saved to the FirstSearch system. Records can be sorted by Number of Libraries, Author, Date, Source, and Title. Users can select the Previous Searches tab to refine searches, displaying a list of all searches performed in the current session, along with a search results count. If users are logged in, previous searches are also displayed. Searches can be reviewed, repeated, combined, deleted, saved, etc. It's quicker to go to the Go to Page pull-down menu and select Basic or Advanced to revise a query. From this menu, users can also reexecute the search in any subscribed FirstSearch database or navigate to the various Results pages. Functions are organized within the categories of Databases, Searching, Results, and Resource Sharing. We added crtica , which gave 49 browsable records. Subject Descriptors are in Spanish, and each record also includes a set of Spanish Identifiers, with some English duplicates. Abstracts benefit non-Spanish-speaking researchers since the descriptors are broad subject areas, like Crtica literaria . Users will need to rely on Identifiers to expand or narrow their focus. Researchers will not be prompted for any See also references for the likely Spanish-language equivalent of a term. Nonfluent users will want to have a Spanish-language dictionary handy. The Export Search mode will delight users who like to use logical search strings. Users can combine search terms indexed in 25 fields with special characters and Boolean operators. A handy chart displays examples of plurals, truncation, wildcards, Boolean, and adjacent terms, and a query can be limited to either the CLASE or PERIDICA database. We value the FirstSearch interface, since it has numerous bells and whistles. Context-sensitive help is readily available for each search mode, function, and feature. Records include a More Like This option to find supplementary material or to help expand a query, with links to other author, source, subject headings, and material-type records. The formatted table properties normalize search times and provide authority control for name searching. Users can also find additional items that share multiple-item properties or broaden the search using or. In addition, all the indexes are browsable, which helps to verify spelling and record counts. Price OCLC FirstSearch pricing is based on several factors, including academic FTE, community college/VoTech FTE, or public library population served, and offers package discounts. ClasePeridica is bundled in the Base Package and is available to all library types, starting at $225. Who Needs It? Users benefit from valuable research content in ClasePeridica , and combined scholarly coverage of the humanities and science journals is an advantage. The primary audience is academic and research-oriented public libraries. Though users can search these files directly through the UNAM site, OCLC's interface greatly enhances this product. Researchers can easily search both indexes simultaneously or with other FirstSearch databases, including WorldCat. Handbook of Latin American Studies Chicano DatabaseRLG ContentHandbook of Latin American Studies (HLAS ), from the Library of Congress Hispanic Division, began as a print resource in 1990. HLAS is multilingual and interdisciplinary, covering the humanities (art, literature, music, philosophy) and the social sciences (including anthropology, archaeology, genealogy, economics, geography, government and politics, international relations, and sociology). It includes books, book chapters, conference papers, and scholarly articles from over 600-plus humanities and 1400-plus social sciences journals in Latin American studies. HLAS contains 130,000 records, and is updated monthly. The database increases by 5000 articles per year, and though this is a bibliographic resource with no full text, roughly 60 percent of records incorporate signed evaluative annotations contributed by more than 130 subject specialists. For example, the profile for Jon Lee Anderson's book Che Guevara: A Revolutionary Life (Grove, 1997) contains the following minireview: Author obviously admires Guevara and thus tends to exaggerate his role in the Cuban Revolution; however, he has managed a degree of objectivity sufficient for production of the best biography of the guerrilla thus far. Author's research is wide and deep, his work is careful and meticulous, and he always remains close to the facts. Few will continue to venerate the memory of Guevara after reading this book. [JMH] Obviously, any student or researcher intending to use Anderson's book in their own research will have a pretty clear idea of what they are getting and where this particular work fits in the scholarly landscape. RLG complements its coverage of Latin American studiesrelated materials even further with the Chicano Database , which focuses on Mexican American information sources from the 1960s to the present, with selective coverage extending back as far as the early 1900s. Since 1992, writing and research relating to Puerto Ricans, Cuban Americans, and Central American immigrants have also been incorporated into the database. The Chicano Database also includes the Spanish Speaking Mental Health Database , which covers psychological, sociological, and educational Chicano literature. The University of California at Berkeley Ethnic Studies Library, Chicano Studies Collection, is the source of the Chicano Database , which contains over 59,000 records and is updated quarterly. Searchability RLG's clean interface to HLAS permits searching by Keyword, Author (personal or corporate), Title Word, Subject Word (from an assigned LC Subject Heading), Abstract Word, Journal (i.e., exact journal title), or Eureka Command Line syntax. An Example with a brief description of each search field is displayed prominently on the screen below the single search box, so users should have no difficulty learning to use this resource. RLG's Advanced Search mode is also available, along with online help for using the Command Line syntax. Advanced Search gives two search boxes, each with a set of searchable indexes. A pull-down menu supplies Boolean functionality between the two possible search statements. Advanced Search offers several more indexing fields than does the basic search mode. The Author index is augmented by the Author Word index, which finds distinctive words from a personal or organization name. Title Word also has the more exact Title index for searching the first few words of a title. Likewise, the Subject Word index is complemented by the Subject index for searching LC Subject Headings left to right. The exact title match of the Journal index has a Journal Word counterpart. ISSN, ISBN, and LC Control Number searches are permitted in Advanced Search mode. There is also a Web Link index to identify those records with direct links to external e-resources. The only quirk is that the user has to choose actively one index in order to execute a search. We would prefer to see Keyword be the default index, since someone who has entered a term and clicked on the Search button actually does want to run a search. We tried the search Keyword barbados AND return migration (in the Subject Word index) and produced two hits in the results list. It was awkward to revise the strategy to achieve broader results. The Revise link was not an option, and the Previous Searches link did not allow us to search easily by Keyword. Clicking Back, we returned to the search strategy, but when we attempted to OR the keyword caribbean with barbados in the same search box on the template, we got zero results (indicating that using Boolean operators within a search box is not permitted). Ultimately, we reconstructed the search in several stepsORing the Keywords barbados and caribbean in separate search boxes, searching for return migration as a Subject Work, and using the Revise Searches link to view the search history, checking the sets for Subject Word return migration and Keyword caribbean OR Keyword barbados , and finally clicking on the Combine button to AND the selected sets together. The Command Line version of this search: kw barbados or kw caribbean and sw return migration is certainly much more elegant, but the typical end user is more likely to give up altogether when a search fails instead of learning the search syntax. From reference desk experience, we know it is challenging to find information on the 1943 Zoot Suit Riots in Los Angeles. We started by doing a keyword search on the phrase zoot suit riots in Chicano Database , which produced over 30 hits, including references to contemporary media coverage in Time , Life , and The New Republic . Scholarly books and book chapters, research from journals like Social Problems and Pacific Historical Review , and specialized resources such as Low Rider Magazine , La Comunidad , Chismearte , El Excntrico , and La Luz completed the results list. (Incidentally, an HLAS search on the same subject produced just a single citation, indication that these two resources cover unique information.) Few of the Chicano Database hits have the Abstract/Summary information that enhances the HLAS records, but all have LC Subject Headings. RLG's interface also permits specific dates and languages to be excluded by checking the NOT box, and it's possible to limit by date and language. After searching, HLAS users can limit by Country of Publication and Material Type. Chicano Database has a shorter list of Language limits to choose from and lacks the Country of Publication limit. Also, Material Type is replaced by Genre/Form. Records may be sorted by author, title, year, or journal, marked for printing or email transmission, and exported into RefWorks, EndNote, ProCite, or Reference Manager. Price Contact RLG for pricing information. Prices are, however, discounted for RLG members, and RLG permits institutions to sign up for a free one-month trial per year for each database. A free version of HLAS is available via the Library of Congress web site lcweb2.loc.gov/hlas. Who Needs It? It's a little hard to imagine an institution that wouldn't benefit from subscriptions to either of these resources, assuming that it takes the needs of its Latin American studies researcher the least bit seriously. Both HLAS and the more specifically focused Chicano Database provide bibliographic access to a distinctive body of research that is geared toward a Spanish-speaking audience, although both cover enough English-language writing and research, which makes them extremely valuable to that audience as well. We don't consider bibliographic-only resources to be substandard in any way, and both databases do a comprehensive and exemplary job of identifying research material that would otherwise be difficult to track down. The lack of full text should be noted, however, since a significant percentage of the indexed materials are not readily available in most libraries. Libraries with strong Latin American studies collections will miss online full-text access less than places with smaller collections. Such libraries may want to consider an alternative resource that includes full text in order to compensate for the foundation their collections are missing. Informe! (Revistas en Espaol)Thomson Gale Content Thomson Gale's Informe! (Revistas en Espaol ) directly targets your library's Hispanic user community research needs. Providing full-text access to a solid body of Spanish-language and bilingual publications in both the academic and lifestyle spheres, Informe! offers unique content and an indexing scheme and interface specifically geared toward the Spanish-speaking researcher. By mid-summer 2006, the database included 3.2 million articles drawn from roughly 220 titles140 of them available in full text or image format and nearly half peer reviewed. Subject coverage is widely dispersed, with the cultural side (arts and humanities, entertainment and sports, education, literature, Latin American studies, social sciences), business, and news. There is less coverage of science titles. Geographic representation is impressive. Titles from Mexican and U.S. publishers account for half of the offerings, while Venezuela, Spain, Puerto Rico, Peru, Cuba, Costa Rica, Colombia, Chile, Brazil, and Argentina supply the rest. Informe! is updated daily with 1500 new articles. Searchability Searchers already accustomed to the InfoTrac Web interface should be able to adapt quickly to working with Informe! , but there are some adjustments. Subject guide mode, Relevance, Keyword, Advanced, and Journal search modes are included in the left-hand frame, along with the basic Subject guide search template. The searcher can limit to articles available in full text and/or to articles from refereed publications. The searcher may also enter date and journal title for additional precision. It is confusing to use Informe! with existing InfoTrac accounts. Subscribers that would prefer to offer Informe! in Spanish (while retaining the English interface for their other InfoTrac products) may request that Thomson Gale technical support set up a separate account for Informe! with the interface configured for Spanish. Better still, using Thomson Gale's PowerSearch interface automatically matches the language setting of the searcher's browser. The individual searcher will also have the option of resetting the interface language from within the product by means of the Preferences screen. This change will remain in effect until the end of the session. Informe! has just been migrated to the PowerSearch system, although we worked only with the InfoTrac version. Searchers who access Informe! via the default Subject guide mode will immediately encounter the resource's most distinctive feature, i.e., its Spanish-language thesaurus. The thesaurus is easily approachable, incorporating everyday language into its controlled vocabulary. It steers clear of the frequently awkward Library of Congress Subject Heading terminology (Cuba History Revolution, 1959 ) in favor of descriptors that are direct (Revolucin Cubana, 19531959 ). Some articles are inconsistently indexed under Cuban Revolution, 19531959 , and are distinct from those that appear under the equivalent Spanish descriptor. This minor complaint aside, the indexing in general seems rather broad. Clicking the See also button for subjects related to the Revolucin Cubana, 19531959 , heading brings up just one new subject for explorationCuba . We wish it included deeper indexing. Relevance search mode permits the searcher to build in more precision by clicking a radio button that restricts the search to occurrences of the search term in the title, citation, or abstract. Clicking the other button expands the search to the entire contents of the article. Results are then relevance-ranked. In Advanced search mode, the searcher may elect to limit retrieval to terms appearing in a specific index by means of a pull-down menu. Unexpectedlybecause the interface is otherwise configured in Englishthe index entries on this menu are all in Spanish. In some cases, the terminology is readily recognizable to the English-speaking searcher (Ttulo , Autor ), but other terms (like Pal. Clave for keyword) may not be. Consulting the context-sensitive Help page is very useful here, but some of the index fields (Tema , Feche , Num. de reg. ) are missing. Where does all this leave the English-bound researcher (not to mention the reference librarian) who recognizes the potential value of the content but may be uncomfortable trying to negotiate a resource in which Spanish is the language of choice? Happily, Informe! provides annotated titles in both Spanish and English. Also, despite it's being geared toward the Hispanic population, a considerable percentage of the full-text material is originally in English and accessible by keyword. Informe! supports basic Boolean operators, string searching via quotation marks, and several variants on truncation and wildcards. Citations may be marked, printed, and emailed (along with the plain text version of the article, if available). While the InfoTrac version of Informe! is certainly a welcome resource for your library's Spanish-speaking users, the PowerSearch version, which enables the searcher to set the interface language from within the database, is even more effective. In fact, this kind of flexibility would enhance the functionality of virtually any electronic resource. Price Consult your Thomson Gale representative for pricing information. Trial access is available upon request. Who Needs It? While Thomson Gale's fact sheet for Informe! says it was developed exclusively for Spanish-speaking users, that description is much too restrictive to get at the true value of this resource. Informe! would be very popular in public library settings where access to Spanish-language magazines, news sources, and scholarly journalsoffered via the comfort of a highly accessible interface and a familiar Spanish-language thesauruswould be welcomed by a segment of the user community. Schools with Spanish-language programs would readily find ways to incorporate the research content and the many opportunities for cultural enrichment into their coursework. In our own academic setting, we put Informe! to work in a wide variety of ways stretching from compact disc collection development to Latin American history courses, where many of the students cannot claim mastery of Spanish. Instruction in language and area studies courses, programming for cultural events, diversity initiatives, and preparation for study abroad programs would all benefit from access to this unique and versatile resource. PRISMA with HAPIProQuest Information and Learning Content Librarians who want to provide first-rate access to social sciences and humanities scholarship in Hispanic, Latin American, and Caribbean studies will want to take a careful look at ProQuest's teaming of PRISMA (Publicaciones y Revistas Sociales y Humansticas) with HAPI (Hispanic American Periodicals Index, published by the UCLA Latin American Center). PRISMA 's chief strength is that it delivers full-text Spanish-, Portuguese-, and English-language peer-reviewed journals. It covers literature, anthropology, economics, history, political science, sociology, and business. There are now 71 journals, including Caribbean Geography , JCL: Journal of Caribbean Literatures , Letras Femeninas , Poltica y Cultura , and Taller de Letras . For two-thirds of these titles, full-text coverage doesn't begin until 2000 or later. Of the remaining titles, coverage is concentrated in the mid- to later 1990s, so the back file is not particularly extensive. PRISMA is updated monthly. Its coupling with HAPI integrates bibliographic records for 500 social science and humanities journals from global sources into the PRISMA database. HAPI 's indexing coverage extends to 1970 and includes 275,000 references to journal articles, book reviews, documents, literary works, etc. HAPI Online adds 7000 records per year and is available as a separate subscription through UCLA's Latin American Center. Searchability The PRISMA homepagebased on Chadwyck-Healey's interfacefeatures attractive images in the main frame and a highly visible Quick Search box in the upper left-hand corner. Users do an advanced search by clicking on Search Articles or Search Journal Records or Browse Journals via an alphabetical listing of available titles. The link to Information Resources gives additional information, including Title Lists and support contact. My Archive is accessible from the homepage, and the user can View Saved Records or Saved Searches, along with a link to the What's New page. Our trial of PRISMA was set up with English as the default interface; searchers may opt to switch to Spanish or Portuguese. This critical feature is nicely implemented, with the transition taking place almost instantaneously once the Versin en Espaol or Verso em portugus button is clicked. All subsequent navigational screens, along with the online Help, display in the chosen language. We started with a simple Boolean Quick searchallende AND kissinger which retrieved 17 articles but no journals. PRISMAwill find journal titles that match the search terms, but Journal Results are separated out from the Article Results, which makes for a cleaner results list overall. Nine of the 17 citations in the Results list came from HAPI and are appropriately tagged. These usually have multiple Subject terms that are in turn linked back into the database. We did note, however, that the links for the Subject term Coups d'etat , although assigned to several articles, produced no results when clicked, a result we reproduced by doing a keyword search on coups alone. This problem with lateral linking may need further testing. PRISMA 's Advanced Search mode grants access to the Thesaurus as well as to a much more sophisticated search template. Many limits are offered via checkboxes, which include Limit to full-text articles only, Peer-reviewed articles only, Exclude book reviews, and Articles about US Hispanics only. We like that they are placed just above the first Keyword search box in the template. This suggests presearch refinement to the user, instead of burying it below the search box. The limit to Articles about US Hispanics only is particularly astute, given this is hard to ferret out using keyword terminology alone. Search Articles permits searching in the Author, Subject, Publication, Language, Country of publication, and ISSN indexes using relevant search terms or the controlled vocabulary accessible via a link associated with that index. It is also possible to search by date rangefrom 1966 to the present. The PRISMA implementation of the Thesaurus is less versatile than the native HAPI Online version. In PRISMA , we could easily find the Subject term Magical realism (Literature) in the Thesaurus and pull it into our search strategy. In the HAPI version of the Thesaurus, searchers who find Magical realism (Literature) will also be prompted with a See also reference for Fantastic literature . The likely Spanish-language equivalentrealismo mgico does not appear in the Thesaurus, although there is a heading for Realismo mgico en la that has been culled from a single citation. Search capabilities include Boolean operators, proximity, truncation, and wildcards. PRISMA will also automatically find variant spellings of common English words. Like many contemporary e-resources, PRISMA has many user personalization features. Results may be sorted by relevancy or date. Records (and complete search strategies) may be saved in My Archive, marked for printing or email transmission in plain text or HTML format, or exported into bibliographic managers including EndNote, ProCite, Reference Manager, and RefWorks. Users can set up email alerts for each saved search. Durable URLs permit linking from web-based documents, syllabi, reading lists, and course management software. Price Consult your ProQuest representative for PRISMA pricing information. Libraries and higher education institutions may request a free trial. HAPI subscriptions are priced at $1600 per year or $160 per month for institutions. Individual subscribers pay $500 per year or $50 per month. Interested institutional and individual subscribers may request a free one-month trial. Consortia of two or more campuses will receive a 20 percent discount as long as billing and administrative correspondence are handled by a single source. Contact the Latin American Center of the University of California, Los Angeles, for information at hapi.ucla.edu. Who Needs It? Despite some of the indexing issues, PRISMAwithHAPI is a very appealing resource. Spanish- and Portuguese-speaking researchers should cruise easily through the straightforward interface, thanks to language preference options, and librarians and students who are not facile in either Spanish or Portuguese will appreciate the ability to work efficiently in English. The primary audience will be academic and research-oriented public libraries, given its emphasis on peer-reviewed literature. PRISMAwithHAPI offers extensive access to materials in the humanities (art, literature, drama, film), social sciences (politics and government, public administration, foreign relations, economic development and policy issues, economic integration, social movements, indigenous affairs, history, geography, archaeology, anthropology, ethnography, folklore), business (commerce and trade, banking and finance, business and industry), interdisciplinary areas (including gender studies and environmental issues), and legal and social issues. HAPI has the long retrospective that academic researchers require, while PRISMA (supplemented by the system's external linking capabilities) delivers a solid body of specialized content in the interdisciplinary areas of Hispanic, Latin American, and Caribbean studies. At A Glance Audience Content Dates Rating Clase/PeridicaOCLC FirstSearchWEB firstsearch.oclc.org ; 800-848-5878; [email protected] Source: Universidad Nacional Autnoma de Mxico (UNAM) UG, SCH SPEC Clase: 1200+ Latin American journals specializing in the social sciences and humanities Peridica: 1400+ science and technology journals; most indexed articles are in Spanish or Portuguese with some in English; 455,000+ total citations Clase: 1975present Peridica: 1978present A Handbook of Latin American Studies Chicano DatabaseRLGWEB www.rlg.org ; 800-537-7546 [email protected] Source for HLAS: Hispanic Division, Library of Congress Source for CDB: University of California at Berkeley Ethnic Studies Library, Chicano Studies Collection HS, UG, SCH SPEC HLAS: multilingual and interdisciplinary, covering the humanities and social sciences; books, chapters of books, conference papers, and scholarly articles from 600+ humanities and 1400+ social sciences journals publishing in the field of Latin American studies; 130,000+ records CDB: 59,000+ bibliographic records for information on Chicanos and the broader Latino experience of Puerto Ricans, Cuban Americans, and Central American immigrants; incorporates the Spanish Speaking Mental Health Database, covering psychological, sociological, and educational literature. HLAS: 1990present CDB: 1960spresent with selective indexing from the early 1900s B+ Informe!Thomson GaleWEB www.gale.com ; 800-877-4253 [email protected] HS, UG, SCH SPEC 3.2 million articles from 220 titles140 of them are available in full text and nearly half are peer reviewed; subject coverage includes arts and humanities, entertainment and sports, education, literature, Latin American studies, social sciences, business, and news Indexing from 1987present A- PRISMA with HAPIProQuest Information and LearningWEB www.il.proquest.com ; 800-521-0600 [email protected] UG, SCH SPEC PRISMA: full text of 71+ Spanish-, Portuguese-, and English- language peer-reviewed journals in literature, anthropology, economics, history, political science, sociology, and business PRISMA: 275,000 bibliographic references to journal articles, book reviews, documents, literary works from 500+ international social science and humanities journals PRISMA: 1990spresent HAPI: 1970present A Key: ES: Grades K-5 MS: Grades 6-8 HS: High School UG: Undergraduate SCH: Scholarly Researcher SPEC: Subject Specialist Gail Golderman ([email protected] ) is Electronics Resources Librarian, and Bruce Connolly ([email protected] ) is Reference & Bibliographic Instruction Librarian, Schaffer Library, Union College, Schenectady, NY Other SourcesGail Golderman, Bruce ConnollyJSTORLatin American Studies (Arts & Sciences II & Complement Collection)JSTOR www.jstor.org Part of the Arts & Sciences II collection, these 11 titles include Bulletin of Latin American Research , Desarrollo Econmico , Estudios Mexicanos , Hispania , and Latin American Politics and Society (with two earlier title changes). The Arts & Sciences Complement adds previously unavailable titles to the core collections that followed the mission to capture journals that cross discipline boundaries. Subscription prices are based on the academic Carnegie Classification; population served, budget, and journal subscriptions for public; and special classification for secondary schools and museums. Fees include an Archive Capital Fee (one time) and an Annual Access Fee for each collection. Latin America Data Base(LADB) Latin American & Iberian Institute ladb.unm.edu Latin America Data Base (LADB ) is an online news service, publishing in-depth coverage of Latin American affairs since 1986. LADB 's professional journalists produce three weekly electronic news bulletins; SourceMex Economic & Political News & Analysis of Mexico; NotiCen Central American and Caribbean Political and Economic Affairs, including Cuba; and NotiSur South American Political and Economic Affairs. The web site also offers access to a back file archive of CubaSource Political and Economic Affairs of Cuba, which was published monthly on a trial basis in 2000. Access to the bulletins is available through LADB 's web site or by an email subscription. The searchable archive includes 24,000 articles from the news bulletins as well as Latin American economics journals and publications and is updated weekly. Archive access and news bulletin subscriptions are separate, and both are available for individual users and multiuser or domainwide access. A publication/archive package is available, as well as individual and institutional discounts when ordering all three bulletins and archive access. Institutional rates are determined by the size of the institution's student body or number of employees. Latin American Studies Latin American Women Writers Latino Literature: Poetry, Drama, and Fiction Alexander Street Press www.alexanderstreet.com Both databases are available for one-time purchase of perpetual rights or through annual subscription and offer Alexander Street's semantic indexing and word frequency analysis. Latino Literature contains 120,000 pages of poetry, drama, and fiction, with selected associated images. The collection includes 200-plus novels, hundreds of short stories, and 400-plus plays. Most are in English, with 25 percent of selected important works in Spanish. Latino Literature begins with 19th-century Southwest writers and includes contemporary writers, with a quarter of the database being previously unpublished works. Latin American Women Writers , in the first release, contains 100,000 pages of full text in their original language, with associated biographical and bibliographic information. The collection of literary works, memoirs, letters, and essays by Latin American women spans the colonial period to the present. Writers from the following countries are represented: Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Puerto Rico, Uruguay, and Venezuela. Plays will appear beginning with the second release. NACLA Digital ArchiveNACLA Report on the AmericasNorth American Congress on Latin America archive.nacla.org The archive contains the complete digital content from the print publication NACLA Report on the Americas from 1967 to the present. The bimonthly publication covers major topics and trends in Latin America and the Caribbean and its relations with the United States, with articles, book reviews, and letters. Users can browse the entire archive by date, subject heading, or author with a simple navigation pane. Basic and Advanced searching are available by keyword, title, author, article type, and date. Archive subscribers can download and view entire issues of the publication. Selected translated articles in Spanish and Portuguese are online. Thirty-day trials are available for library or research institutions. La Nueva Enciclopedia Cumbre en lnea Grolier Online, an imprint of Scholastic Library Publishing nec.grolier.com Nueva enciclopedia Cumbre en lnea is a complete Spanish-language encyclopedia conceived and developed with the Spanish-speaking peoples of the Americas as its focus. Cumbre en lnea contains 19,000-plus articles, with 7500 illustrations, hundreds of fact boxes and tables, time lines, and world history chronologies. Spanish-language news stories, a Spanish atlas linked to other maps and related articles, category browse, teacher resources, and the Aula de espaol module, developed for Spanish-language learners. The encyclopedia is updated with monthly additions to its Internet links, quarterly article revisions using resources from the Grolier Multimedia Encyclopedia. Features include a text-only, ADA-compliant version, search using Spanish characters, bilingual Help and About pages, print/email utility, and separate search results for articles and media. Project MuseLatin American StudiesProject Muse muse.jhu.edu/journals These 12 scholarly, full-text titles in Latin American studies contain The Americas , CR: The New Centennial Review , Hopscotch: A Cultural Review , Luso-Brazilian Review , and Nepantla: Views from the South . Institutions currently have six subscription options: 2006 Standard Collection, Premium Collection, Research Collection, Undergraduate Collection, Arts and Humanities Collection, and Social Sciences Collection, with selected single-title subscriptions. Advanced search allows users to limit by individual journal title(s) or subject group(s). If users do not subscribe to the complete Muse collection, All Muse Journal Titles is available, and selecting that option expands the search and abstract retrieval to the full database. Copyright 2006 Reed Business Information. All Rights Reserved. |