Latin American Studies for Community Colleges
Psychology 150
Pan American Health Organization
The Pan American Health Organization (PAHO), founded in 1902, is the world’s oldest international public health agency. It provides technical cooperation and mobilizes partnerships to improve health and quality of life in the countries of the Americas.
World Health Organization-Latin America and the Caribbean
WHO is the directing and coordinating authority for health within the United Nations system. It is responsible for providing leadership on global health matters, shaping the health research agenda, setting norms and standards, articulating evidence-based policy options, providing technical support to countries and monitoring and assessing health trends.
The Office of the Americas provides health and human services policy advice and leadership, and coordination and support of Health and Human Services interaction with countries in the Americas region.
English 111
Comprehensive site on Jorge Luis Borges at the University of Pittsburg including full text articles on literary criticism.
Violence in Latin American literature
Catalog search for materials related to the discussion of violence in Latin American literature.
Cultural Studies Latin America
Find material in the catalog related to cultural studies and Latin America.
Sociology 210
WOLA- Washington Office on Latin America
WOLA promotes human rights, democracy, and social justice by working with partners in Latin America and the Caribbean to shape policies in the United States and abroad.
Human Rights search engine that searches over 5000 human rights web sites
Latin American Network Information Center (LANIC)
Web sites related to Latin American immigration and migration. Hosted by UT-Austin.
Comunicaciones Aliadas is a non-profit, non-governmental organization based in Lima, Peru, specializing in the production of information and analysis about events across Latin America and the Caribbean with a focus on rights, while strengthening the communications skills of local social leaders.
General Film Databases
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Film Index InternationalA major information resource for entertainment films, directors and key players produced in collaboration with the British Film Institute. With a scholarly, inclusive approach to all areas of film studies - from the very first silent movies, to art house classics and current cinema - Film Index International provides international coverage, indexing films from over 170 countries.
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FIAF International Index to Film Periodicals PlusCreated by the International Federation of Film Archives (FIAF), the database indexes more than 500,000 articles from 340 of the world's foremost academic and popular film journals, dating from 1972 onward. The database also incorporates the International Index to TV Periodicals; Treasures from the Film Archives, which identifies silent film holdings in archives around the world, and the International Directory of Film/TV Documentation Collections.
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IMBD: The Internet Movie DatabaseA fairly comprehensive source for information about cinema and television
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MLA International BibliographyA major index for literary criticism, linguistics, folklore & cultural studies. Includes articles from several thousand journals and series published worldwide. Also covers relevant monographs, working papers, proceedings, dissertations and bibliographies. Also searchable under "Criticism" within Literature Online.
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Film & Television Literature Index with Full TextCovers over 300 journal and magazine titles for film and tv reviews, scholarly and critical analysis of cinema and television, as well as pop culture related to film and tv. About half the journals and magazines are film periodicals and the other half cover film and television with some regularity.
Film and Television Literature Index is the new and expanded online version of the print title, Film Literature Index. Those volumes are on Row 17, Davis Reference Department, and cover 1973 to 2004. -
Communication and Mass Media CompleteMajor indexing and abstracting tool for Communication Studies and Journalism & Mass Communication. It indexes over 570 journals and includes the full text of over 450 journals in these fields.
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Film Literature Index OnlineInternational articles on film, television, and video published 1976-2001
Librarian for Latin America, Iberia and Latina/o Studies
(919) 962-3948
Communications 231
Interamerican Development Bank-Gender and Diversity
The IDB´s Gender and Diversity Division (GDI) was created in 2007. Its mission is to promote gender equality and support development with identity for African descendants and indigenous peoples in the Latin America and the Caribbean region through policy and strategic guidance, as well as technical assistance and training programs.
Search Google Scholar for articles and chapters on climate change.
Human Traficking Latin America Catalog Search
Search the catalog for contemporary issues.
Comunicaciones Aliadas is a non-profit, non-governmental organization based in Lima, Peru, specializing in the production of information and analysis about events across Latin America and the Caribbean with a focus on rights, while strengthening the communications skills of local social leaders.
Biology 110
GWP takes a thematic approach to water security and supports programme implementation in six key areas of development: climate change, transboundary cooperation, food, urbanisation, energy, and ecosystems.
Interamerican Development Bank
Information on agriculture in Latin America
The Latin American Alliance for Global Health (ALASAG)
Useful publications available from this group on global health related issues.
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