Humanities & Social Sciences Division
Librarian, Okanagan Campus
Getting Started
There is no 'one stop' place to search for information and research on Latin America. Depending on your research topic and discipline focus, different sources of information will be important to you. The tabs across the top of this guide will direct you to specialized databases to search for articles and the library catalogue to search for books.
In addition, UBC Library provides access to many reference books that provide excellent background information, digital collections that contain historical documents relevant to Latin American Studies, statistical databases, and newspapers from relevant countries.
Selected Online Reference Books
Encyclopedia of Contemporary Latin American and Caribbean CulturesISBN: 041513188XPublication Date: 2001Spanning a period from 1920 to the present day, this unique A-Z resource features some 4000 entries on more than 40 regions in Latin America and the Caribbean."Culture" in this work encompasses food, sports, religion, television and other mass media, transportation, music and other performing arts, architecture, visual arts, politics and a wide range of other cultural phenomena.
