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Latin American Development

Listed here are some of the major Reference, Print and Electronic resources for Latin American Development resources at the UTSA Library. 

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Investment Information, Country Statistics, Latin American Studies, Legal Research, Government Documents

Background Information (Encyclopedias, Dictionaries, Handbooks)

Europa World Year Book
Europa World Plus (UTSA subscription)
Location: JPL Reference Desk & Downtown Library Reference, JN1.E85
Detailed country statistics, local organization addresses, and excellent introductory articles on every country.

Encyclopedia of International Development
Location: JPL Reference Stacks HD82 .E547 2005

Latin American Competitiveness Report 2001-2002
Location: JPL Reference Stacks HF1480.5 .L3856
The Report assesses the comparative strengths and weaknesses that determine competitiveness of the leading economies in Latin America as well as a detailed picture of indicators used to evaluate competitiveness

New Palgrave Dictionary of Money & Finance
Location: JPL Reference Stacks HG151 .N48 1992

Oxford Encyclopedia of Economic History
Location: JPL Reference Stacks HC15 .O94 2003
(5 volumes)

Statesman's Year-Book
Location: JPL Reference Stacks JA 51 .S7 (current), (older volumes in JPL Stacks)
Detailed country by country statistics. Also see Europa Yearbook.

World Factbook
Location: JPL Reference Stacks G122 .U56 (current) Older editions in JPL Folio Stacks
Free Website: https://www.odci.gov/cia/publications/factbook/
CIA reports on the history, geography, people, government and economy of individual countries. Prepared by the CIA for the use of U.S. Government officials.

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Books

Books and Materials at the UTSA Library

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Databases & Article Searching

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General Databases

Academic Universe via LexisNexis (UTSA subscription)
Full text of 6,000 news, business and legal publications. Includes U.S. and foreign newspapers, company profiles and financial reports, industry and market news, federal and state case law, law reviews, accounting and tax information . Updated continuously. Source List available online. Full Text

Business Source Complete via EBSCO (UTSA subscription)
Provides full-text coverage for over 9,400 general and scholarly business journals and other sources covering marketing, management, economics, finance, accounting, and international business. Also includes full-text business books; case studies; investment research, industry, market research, and country reports; and SWOT analyses. Some coverage begins in 1886. Full Text & Full Image

EconLit via EBSCO (UTSA subscription)
American Economic Association's database for references to economic literature back to 1969.  Indexes and abstracts journal articles and books on economics, as well as Cambridge University Press Abstracts of Working Papers in Economics. Also provides citations for dissertations and articles from collective volumes and full-text book reviews from the Journal of Economic Literature. Updated monthly. Full Text

Ingenta (UTSA subscription)
(formerly Uncover)
Ingenta (UnCover) contains brief descriptive information for over 8,800,000 articles which have appeared since 1988 in multidisciplinary journals. Easy to use interface.  Updated daily. Search by keywords.  Check UCAT to see if we own the journal cited or obtain material through Interlibrary Loan. Citations Only

JSTOR (UTSA subscription)
Provides full image access to a comprehensive archive of over 600 scholarly journals older than five years. Includes titles in economics, finance, statistics, Latin American Studies, and history. Full Image

Kluwer Online (UTSA subscription)
Full text access to journal titles from Kluwer Academic Publishers, Kluwer Law International, Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers, and Kluwer Academic/Human Sciences Press.  The subject areas most represented in Kluwer Online are in the sciences, the social sciences and business. Note: All Kluwer journals are now only available via SpringerLink. Coverage: 1997-current. Full Text

LADARK (Latin American Development Archive)
Free Website: http://ladark.lib.utsa.edu
LADARK is a database of working papers related to economic and social development in Latin America. Full Text

NBER Working Papers (UTSA subscription)
Full text access to research papers published by the National Bureau of Economic Research, including titles from the Working Papers, Technical Work ing Papers, and Development of the American Economy series. Coverage: 1994-current. Updated regularly Full Text

PAIS International (Public Affairs Information Service) (UTSA subscription)
Subject index to current literature in economics, political science, legislation, government, and social conditions.  Includes selective indexing to more than 1,000 periodicals published in English throughout the world including books, documents, pamphlets, reports, and journal articles. Citations Only

ProQuest (UTSA subscription)
Provides access to journal articles in a number of databases across all subject areas, with particular strengths in business and social sciences. Also includes 9 major national newspapers. Complete content of the following databases is included: ABI/INFORM Dateline, Global, and Trade & Industry; Accounting & Tax; Criminal Justice Periodicals; ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, and ProQuest Research Library. More than 5,500 titles are indexed and abstracted from at least 1971 to the present with Full text and/or images for more than 2,000 titles. Selected list  of economics and finance journals available full text. Full Text & Full Image

ScienceDirect (UTSA subscription)
Provides full text/full image access to approximately 1,500 journals published by Elsevier Science. Indexes and abstracts articles from more than 1,800 journals in the life, physical, medical, technical, and social sciences. Updated frequently. Full Text & Full Image

Sociological Abstracts (UTSA subscription)
Focuses on sociology and related disciplines in the social and behavioral sciences. Indexes from 1963 and abstracts from 1974, drawing from more than 2,500 journals as well as conference papers, books, and dissertations. Citations Only

SocINDEX with Full Text (via EBSCOhost) (UTSA subscription)
Indexes and abstracts nearly 2,000 journals in all subdivisions of sociology, with 300 in full text. Also include the full text of 547 books and monographs and 6,700 conference proceedings. Most coverage begins in 1990s with some older citations. Title list Full Text/Full Image

Sociology: A Sage Full-Text Collection (UTSA subscription)
Provides full-text/full-image access to a number of journals published by Sage on topics in sociology including contemporary and comparative sociology, consumer culture, childhood, classical sociology, ethnic studies, gender studies, leisure studies, social theory, sociology of sport, and labor studies, among others. Coverage for some journals is from 1982 to the present. Full Text/Full Image

Wall Street Journal (via ProQuest) (UTSA subscription)
Full text of the Wall Street journal from 1995 to present available through National Newspapers. For full image archive see Historical Newspapers (1889-1989). Full Text

Web of Science (UTSA subscription)
Indexes and abstracts articles in more than 8,400 journals from 1989 to the present in the arts, humanities, sciences, and social sciences. Print equivalents published by The Institute for Scientific Information are Arts & Humanities Citation Index, Science Citation Index Expanded, and Social Sciences Citation Index.  For a topic search, choose "Easy Search" and search by general keywords. Citations Only

Wiley InterScience (UTSA subscription)
Full image access to John Wiley journals in the areas of Business, Finance and Management, Chemistry, Computer Science, Earth Science, Education, Engineering, Law, Life and Medical Sciences, Mathematics and Statistics,   Physics, and Psychology.  Includes full text of such Economics and Finance titles as: Health Economics, Journal of Applied Econometrics, Managerial and Decision Economics, Journal of Futures Market and Journal of Forecasting. Full journal title List. Full Image

Worldwide Political Science Abstracts (via CSA) (UTSA subscription)
Indexes and abstracts over 1,400 international journals in political science and related fields, including international relations, law, public administration, and public policy. Coverage is from 1975 to current. Updated monthly. Citations Only with Full Text Linking

Statistical and Financial Databases

Academic Universe (LexisNexis) (UTSA subscription)
Full text of 6,000 news, business and legal publications. Includes company profiles and financial reports, industry and market news, federal and state case law, law reviews, accounting and tax information. Updated continuously. Source List available online. Full Text

Current Index to Statistics (UTSA subscription)
Indexes journals, books and proceedings in probability and statistics. Over 160 core journals are fully indexed, with selected articles indexed from an additional 1,200. Coverage: 1975 to present. Citations only.

International Financial Statistics (UTSA subscription)
Provides international and domestic finance statistics produced by the International Monetary Fund for over 200 countries. View time series data at the country level and the world level, including data on exchange rates, international liquidity, international banking, money and banking, interest rates, prices, production, international transactions, government accounts, and national accounts. Coverage is from 1945 to the present. Updated monthly.

Statistical Universe via LexisNexis (UTSA subscription)
Provides access to statistical information produced by the U.S. government, major international intergovernmental organizations, professional and trade organizations, commercial publishers, independent research organizations, state government agencies, and universities. Includes indexing/abstracting and tabular data from 1973 to the present. Significant full text content from 1995 to the present is available, including the Statistical Abstract of the United States. Additional full text content is available on microfiche; inquire at the Reference desk for assistance. Online version of Statistical Abstract of the United States, American Statistics Index and Index to International Statistics. Tipsheet Full Text

STAT-USA (UTSA subscription)
US Department of Commerce site for economic data, international trade data, and government publications such as the Commerce Business Daily and Country Reports and Country Commercial Guides. Full Text

WDI Online (World Development Indicators Online) (UTSA subscription)
Provides access to more than 550 statistical development indicators, with time series for 208 countries and 18 country groups for 1960 to 2002. Data includes social, economic, financial, natural resources, and environmental indicators. Results can be scaled, indexed against a particular year, viewed by percentage change, and charted. Updated regularly

For country statistics, see the UTSA Country Statistics Subject Guide
For a complete list of electronic databases (indexes) at UTSA see our Databases & Article Searching

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News

Economic, development and international topics frequently show up in the news.  For a complete list of UTSA subscription databases for news and news sources, see : Newspaper Databases. For links to free online newspapers, see the UTSA Subject Guide: Latin American Online Publications.

Academic Universe - (via Lexis-Nexis) (UTSA subscription)
Full text of 6,000 news, business and legal publications. Includes U.S. and foreign newspapers, wire services, government and political news, and state and country profiles. In "Foreign Language News" choose "Spanish Language News" from the pull down menu. Search using Spanish terms. Updated continuously. Full Text

Global NewsBank - (via NewsBank) (UTSA subscription)
Contains selected full-text articles from approximately 1,500 sources including newspapers, magazines, newswires, government documents, and radio and TV broadcasts worldwide. Offers varying perspectives on international issues and events around the world. Coverage is from 1996 to the present. Updated daily. Full Text

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Government and NGOs

Banco de Mexico
Free Website: http://www.banxico.org.mx/
The Banco de Mexico is the central bank of Mexico who's main function is maintaing stability in the purchasing power of the national currency. Available here are monetary and exchange rate policies, currency and financial regulations, and other economic and statistical information.

Interamerican Development Bank
Free Website: http://www.iadb.org/
Multivolume set indexes more than 2,270,000 biographical sketches in current and retrospective works.  Covers both living and deceased persons in every subject area worldwide.

Getting Started with Government Documents
Free Website: http://www.lib.utsa.edu/Research/Govdocs/start.html
Multivolume set indexes more than 2,270,000 biographical sketches in current and retrospective works.  Covers both living and deceased persons in every subject area worldwide.

Eldis: Country Profiles
Free Website: http://www.ids.ac.uk/eldis/newcountry.htm
"Eldis is a gateway to online information on development in countries of the South. Coverage includes social, economic, political and environmental issues. Eldis makes a qualitative selection of materials and structures it for easy access." Funded by the Danish development agency DANIDA and hosted by the Institute of Development Studies, Sussex, UK.

OECD Economic Surveys
Location: JPL Reference Stacks HC240 .O7
Location: Business Source Complete
Economic Surveys on countries. Included: Brazil, Chile, Mexico.

Organization of American States (OAS)
Free Website: http://www.oas.org
Promotes social and economic development in the Western hemisphere.

World Bank Reports
Free Website: http://www.worldbank.org/countries
Country profiles, the specifics of regional initiatives and strategies, and key indicators tracing the trends in social and economic development. Prepared by the World Bank.

World Health Organization
Free Website: http://www.who.int/en/
The World Health Organization is the UN specialized agency on health. WHO is governed by 192 member states through the World Health Assembly.

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Further Research

Statistical Sites on the World Wide Web (U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics)
Free Website: http://www.bls.gov/bls/other.htm
Provides links to principal U.S. Federal statistical agencies and International statistical agencies. Some reports also available online or at government agency web site links.

WWW Virtual Library : Economics
Free Website: http://www.helsinki.fi/WebEc/EconVLib.html

WWW Virtual Library: Finance
Free Website: http://www.cob.ohio-state.edu/dept/fin/overview.htm

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