History 490 - Cromwell: History 490

The World Bank's Data Catalog provides download access to over 2000 indicators arranged by country, indicator and topic. The World Bank is a premier source for data on economic and social issues throughout the world.

The World Economic Outlook (WEO) database contains selected macroeconomic data series from the statistical appendix of the World Economic Outlook report, which presents the IMF staff's analysis and projections of economic developments at the global level, in major country groups and in many individual countries. It includes data on national accounts, inflation, unemployment rates, balance of payments, fiscal indicators, trade for countries and country groups (aggregates), and commodity prices whose data are reported by the IMF. IMF Data Mapper allows users to create charts and tables of the data.

Portal includes IMF reports and publications arranged by country.

This guide, presented by the Data & Information Services Center of the University of Wisconsin, Madison, provides links to country statistical yearbooks or similar collections (census, "facts and figures," etc.) for 148 countries worldwide.

Statistics and data on agricultural production around the world.

Complete digitized collection of the newspapers Regeneracion and some issues of Revolucion.

Data source. Annual public opinion surveys related to democracy, politics and government from 1992 to the present, from interviews with people living in Latin America, Spain, Portugal and with Latinos in the U.S.

Created by UNAM and based on the content of these works:
Diccionario Enciclopedico de la Medicina Tradicional Mexicana.
La Medicina Tradicional de los Pueblos Indigenas de Mexico.
Atlas de las Plantas de la Medicina Tradicional Mexicana.
Flora Medicinal Indigena de Mexico.

Collection of papers in Portuguese on the role of Brazil in South America. English synopsis available and a complete set in Spanish translation.

A Coleção Brasiliana reúne 415 volumes de autores brasileiros e estrangeiros que retrataram o país nos campos da História, Sociologia, Antropologia e História Natural, entre muitos outros.

Interactive map on the politics, elections, issues in contemporary Brazil.

Link provided by the Biblioteca Nacional de El Salvador. Includes digital versions of Salvadoran national literature. Currently provides access to these collections:
BINAES - Biblioteca Nacional de El Salvador "Francisco Gavidia" [162]
CBUES - Consorcio de Bibliotecas Universitarias de El Salvador [4]
CONACYT - Consejo Nacional de Ciencia y Tecnología [0]
ESEN - Escuela Superior de Economía y Negocios [9]
ITCA-FEPADE - Escuela Especializada en Ingeniería [72]
UCA - Universidad Centroamericana "José Simeón Cañas" [2]
UDB - Universidad Don Bosco [101]
UDJMD - Universidad "Dr. José Matias Delgado" [63]
UEES - Universidad Evangélica de El Salvador [69]
UES - Universidad de El Salvador [82]
UFG - Universidad "Francisco Gavidia" [78]
UTEC - Universidad Tecnológica de El Salvador [117]

Covers biographical information on more than 450 heads-of-state and members of governing juntas of Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras and Nicaragua, and of the defunct Central American Federation.

Cibera is a service provided by the Ibero-American Institute (Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation, Berlin) and the Carl von Ossietzky State and University Library Hamburg. Presents German language research on Latin America.

Coverage from 1821 to 1993. Includes Provincial Presidential Reports; Presidential Messages; Almanak Laemert (on Brazilian Royal Court); Ministerial Reports.

The Digital Library of the Caribbean (dLOC) is a cooperative digital library for resources from and about the Caribbean and circum-Caribbean. dLOC provides access to digitized versions of Caribbean cultural, historical and research materials currently held in archives, libraries, and private collections.

Online collection from Harvard University. Five of the expeditions in the 19th and early 20th centuries cover areas of Latin America.--Guatemala, Peru, Mexico and South America. Includes maps, photographs and published materials and manuscripts.

Includes bibliography, iconography, essays, fulltext studies, legislation, statistics and links to Mexican and international sites. The information in Mexico is located in diverse archives.

A searchable Spanish-language data base of articles published from 1965 to 1992 in the official daily newspaper of the Cuban Communist Party, Granma. This data base provides bibliographic references for the articles, including headlines, length of the article, date, and author. Full-text of the articles is not available online. You would need to access the full text via an ILL request.

A resource of the Library of Congress.

The IDATD by the ECLAC provides access to full information and documentation on the trade dispute process. It includes WTO, MERCOSUR. NAFTA, CARICOM, Andean Community, CACM and an option for an integrated search.

The Latin American Network Information Center is the most important portal for Latin America and the Caribbean organized by country and subject.

Guide from the Harvard Business School.

Data source (data sets) Over 1200 public opinion surveys from 16 countries conducted by the survey research community in Latin America.

Provides access to text, audio and video of Web sites of nearly 300 government ministries and presidencies of 18 Latin American and Caribbean countries since 2005.

Digital collection of the presidential messages from two Latin American countries. Created by the Latin American Research Resources Project.

Virtual library with more than 8,000 titles freely available, related to aspects of democracy in Latin America and 50 hours on video of conferences with top social scientists, policy makers and specialists.

Brazilian portal with fulltext, images, sound and video of works in public domain. Contains about 157,000 items, with texts in the majority. Capability to browse by author. Highlights are works by Brazilian author Machado de Assis and Portuguese author Fernando de Pessoa.

Current publications and news on Latin America. In Spanish it is known as CEPAL.