Background information

• Oxford Reference Online Premium
• A political and economic dictionary of Latin America  F1406 .C35 2004 (print and online)
• Encyclopedia of Latin America  F1406 .E5155 2010
• The Cambridge history of Latin America F1410.C1834
• Encyclopedia of Latin American politics  F1410 .E56 2002   
• Encyclopedia of Government and Politics  JA61.E53 2004
• Latin America : a political dictionary F1406.R67 1992  
• Dictionary of Latin American Spanish phrases and expressions PC4822 .H36 2002
• Handbook of Latin American studies  F1401.H23
• Political handbook and atlas of the world  JF37 .P6
• Mexico : a global studies handbook  F1229 .H83 2008
• An atlas and survey of Latin American history
• Handbook of Latin American Studies (HLAS)
  Selected bibliography of books and articles published in and about Latin America  REF F1401.H23.
• Country Studies: Area Handbook Series (U.S. Federal Research Division)
  Significant historical and country information about Latin American and Caribbean governments. Carleton University Library holds 111 titles in the Country Studies series

Country Information

• EIU.com (Economist Intelligence Unit)
• The World Factbook (U.S. Central Intelligence Agency)
• Country Studies Library of Congress. Federal Research Division. 
• Rulers

We provide selective coverage to documentation from Argentina, Brazil, Chile and Mexico.

Argentina

• Gobierno Electronico
• Governments on the WWW: Argentina
• Operación México (English)

Brazil

• Portal Brasil
• Embassy of Brazil in London
• Governments on the WWW: Brazil
• Portal de Servidor

Chile

• Gobierno de Chile
• Governments on the WWW: Chile
• Chile Documentation Project

Mexico

• El portal ciudadano del Gobierno Federal
• 500 Anos de Mexico en Documentos
• Directorio (Mexican governmental portal)
• Instituto Nacional Electoral
• Governments on the WWW: Mexico
• NAFTA Secretariat

Government Information

• Political Database of the Americas (Georgetown University) -source for political data and constitutional and electoral information for Latin American countries.
• Brazilian Government Document Digitization Project
• Internet resources for Latin America (New Mexico State University)
• Latin American and Caribbean Government Document Project Latin American and Caribbean official documents available on the Internet.
• Latin American Network Information Center (University of Texas at Austin)
• UNECLAC (United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean)
• Our Americas
• Brazilian Government Documents (Center for Research Libraries)
• Digital Library of the Caribbean(dLOC)
  Provides historical information on a wide variety of topics including politics, economics, science, arts, and sports.
• George Washington University - The National Security Archive
• Latin American Development Archive (LADARK)
  LADARK is a database of working papers related to economic and social development in Latin America.
• Latin American Government Documents Archive (LAGDA)
  Lists ministerial and presidential documents from 18 Latin American and Caribbean countries
• Latin American Open Archives Portal
  "The portal provides access to working documents, pre-prints, research papers, statistical documents, and other difficult-to-access materials from the "deep Web."

Data & statistics

• UNdata
  A portal for statistical data collected by the United Nations and its related international organizations containing over 55 million data points that cover a wide range of themes including Agriculture, Education, Employment, Energy, Environment, Government Finance, Health, HIV/AIDS, Human Development, Industry, Information and Communication Technology, National Accounts, Population, Refugees, Tourism, Trade, as well as the  UN Sustainable Development Goals and Millennium Development Goals indicators.
• World Bank Data Catalog
  Links to a wide range of data resources including World Development Indicators freely available from the World Bank.
• World Bank Open Data 
• World Bank - open knowledge repository
• OECD Statistics portal
  Access to selected free statistics via Stat.Extracts.  The Library also subscribes to the more comprehensive OECD i-Library.
• IMF e-Library
• World Trade Organization International Trade and Tariff data
• Inter-American Development Bank data | Latin Macro Watch | Statistics and Databases
• MOxLAD Database
  Online resource for comparable economic and social data series from 1900-2000 for 20 countries in Latin America.
• Organisation of Eastern Caribbean States (OECS)
• Food and Agriculture Organization of the U.N. provides time-series and cross sectional data relating to food and agriculture for some 200 countries 
• ILOSTAT Database (formerly LABORSTA) - datasets with annual and infra-annual labour market statistics.
• Inter-American Development Bank
• Organizations of American States (OAS)
  
  • Foreign Trade Information System
• Parlamento Latinoamericano
• Estadísticas Históricas de México
• Latin America and the Caribbean : selected economic and social data (USAID)
  Includes numerous tables and graphs with data on social indicators, economic, trade, and foreign assistance
• Latin American Election Statistics: a Guide to Sources
  Provides a chronology of elections and political parties since independence
• Latin American Public Opinion Project (LAPOP) (via Vanderbilt University)
• Statistics and Databases (Inter-American Development Bank)

other Websites

• Latin American Network Information Center
• Center for Latin American Studies
• Americas Barometer 
• Digital Library of the Caribbean
• Americas Resources: Chatham House 
• Archive Of Political Parties And Elections In Latin America (APPELA) 
• FOCAL: The Canadian Foundation for the Americas 
• Latin American Studies Association (LASA)
• OAS: Organization of American States 
• Central American Integration System
• Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean
• Parlamento Latinoamericano  (Official website of the Latin American Parliament)
• Organization of American States (democracy, human rights, security, and development)
• LACER-LACEA Repository- access to other repositories containing books, reports, journals, working papers and databases on Latin American economic and related topics.
• Virtual Health Library -provides access from 1982 to government publications, technical and scientific reports related to the health sciences that have been published in Latin American countries

Latin American and Spanish Videos Freely Available on the InternetThis guide, produced at SUNY-Albany, gives links to dozens of different sites that have free educational videos in Spanish.