This document provides an overview of reference materials and online resources for research on Latin American, Iberian, and US Latino studies. It lists selective reference books, databases, digital libraries, portals, and websites that provide bibliographic and full-text access to scholarly works, official publications, images, and historical sources on these topics. Key resources highlighted include the Library of Congress, LANIC, CLACSO, SciELO, Redalyc, and databases like HAPI, CSIC, and Dialnet.

1. Finding High-quality Research Resources on Latin American, Iberian, and US Latino Studies Jesús Alonso-Regalado University at Albany, SUNY University Libraries

2. Hispanics/Latino Population and Spanish Language in the US 42.7 million The estimated Hispanic population of the United States as of July 1, 2005, making people of Hispanic origin the nation’s largest ethnic or race minority. Hispanics constituted 14 percent of the nation’s total population. (This estimate does not include the 3.9 million residents of Puerto Rico.) Source: US Census 102.6 million The projected Hispanic population of the United States as of July 1, 2050. According to this projection, Hispanics will constitute 24 percent of the nation’s total population on that date. Source: US Census 31 million speak Spanish The number of U.S. household residents age 5 and older who speak Spanish at home. Spanish speakers constitute a ratio of more than 1-in-10 U.S. household residents. Among all those who speak Spanish at home, more than one-half say they speak English “very well.” Source: American FactFinder

14. Bibliographic Databases Periodicals (III) Compludoc (created by U. Complutense, Spain) Indexes journals mainly published in Spain but also published in other countries. http://europa.sim.ucm.es/compludoc/ Latin American Periodicals Tables of Contents, LAPTOC (created by the Latin Americanist Research Resources Project, LARRP) Indexes journals published in Latin America and the Caribbean. http://lanic.utexas.edu/larrp/laptoc.html

27. Digital Libraries/Portals Official Publications Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC/CEPAL) http://www.eclac.cl/publicaciones/ International Monetary Fund (IMF/FMI) http://www.imf.org/external/pubind.htm Inter-American Development Bank (IADB) http://www.iadb.org/publications/ Organization of American States (OAS) http://www.oas.org/ Official National Portals Colombia http://www.gobiernoenlinea.gov.co/ M é xico http://www.gob.mx/ World Bank Documents & Reports http://www-wds.worldbank.org/ Latin America & Caribbean www.worldbank.org/lac

28. Digital Libraries/Portals Historic Sources Archivo Virtual de la Edad de Plata (1868-1936) http://www.archivovirtual.org/ Virtual Archives: Papers of Latino and Latin American Artists http://www.aaa.si.edu/guides/site-archivos/index.cfm The Archives of the Puerto Rican Diaspora http://www.centropr.org/lib-arc/idprog/index.cfm Biblioteca Virtual de Prensa Hist ó rica http://prensahistorica.mcu.es/ Biblioteca Digital (Pa í s Vasco) http://www.euskadi.net/LiburutegiDigitala / Cuban Heritage Collection (U. of Miami) http://digital.library.miami.edu/chcdigital/