Online Resources

This selective collection of websites provides access to resources supporting research and teaching on Brazilian topics. Other sites not exclusively devoted to Brazilian Studies have been included on this page because they offer valuable link collections of relevance to Brazilianists. Broad in scope, these online resources include gateways to Brazilian universities, archives, and research centers; bibliographies and journal literature indexes; virtual libraries; doctoral dissertation databases; directories of researchers; and statistical datasets.


The Researching Brazil Google Custom Search box (upper right corner) has been configured to perform an aggregate search that automatically queries some of the most prominent sites listed below.

Directories of Researchers

• Diretório dos Grupos de Pesquisa

• Latinoamericanistas (Europe)

• Plataforma Lattes: Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico (Brazil)

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Gateways to Institutions, Repositories, and Research Centers

• América Latina: Portal Europeo REDIAL CEISAL

• Biblioteca Virtual de Estudos Culturais

• Brazilink

• Guia da Internet no Brasil para Cientistas Sociais, Historiadores e Arquivistas

• Guia dos Arquivos Americanos sobre o Brasil

• Iberian Studies Web/ Western European Studies Section (WESSWEB)

• Intute: Arts and Humanities

• Latin American Network Information Center (LANIC)

• Portail du Réseau Amérique Latine

• Portals to the World (Library of Congress)

• Universia

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Indexes, Tables of Contents, and Bibliographies

• Al Día: Tablas de contenido de revistas especializadas, Universidad de Chile

• Bases de Dades de Sumaris: Consorci de Biblioteques Universitàries de Cataluyna

• Bolsum: Boletín de sumarios

• Brasiliana in the Lilly Library

• Citas Latinoamericanas en Ciencias Sociales y Humanidades (CLASE)

• Compludoc: Base de datos de artículos de revistas

• Dataíndice

• Dialnet: Base de datos de artículos

• Forest History Society Databases

• Geodados

• Handbook of Latin American Studies (HLAS Online)

• Indice de Revistas de Educación Superior e Investigación Educativa (IRESIE)

• Instituto Ibero-Americano, Berlín

• Instituto Internacional de Sociología Jurídica, Asocíión Internacional de Sociología Juridíca

• Latin American Periodicals Tables of Contents (LAPTOC)

• Latin American Social Medicine/ Medicina Social Latinoamericana

• LATINO: Bancos Bibliográficos Latinoamericanos y del Caribe

• Sommaire des revues: Réseau Amérique Latine

• Sommaires des Revues, Université de Toulouse- Le Mirail

• Sumarios de revistas (CINDOC)

• Sumarios de revistas brasileiras

• UASumarios: Base de datos de sumarios

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Theses and Dissertations

1. Brazil

• Banco de Teses Coordenação de Aperfeiçomento de Pessoal de Nivel Superior (CAPES)

• Banco de teses sobre Cinema Brasileiro

• Biblioteca Digital Brasileira de Teses e Dissertações (BDTD)

• Biblioteca Digital de Teses e Dissertações, Universidade de São Paulo

• Teses, Fundação Joaquim Nabuco

2. International

• Australasian Digital Thesis Project (ADT)

• Catalogue général des thèses soutenues en France sur le Brésil (inactive: archived version only)

• Cybertesis: Tesis eletrónicas en línea

• La Base de Datos REDIAL-TESIS

• PhdData: The Universal index of Doctoral Dissertations in Progress

• Réseau Amérique latine: Thèses

• Serveur de Thèses Multidisciplinaire/ Multidisciplinary Theses Server

• Theses Canada Portal

3. Latin America

• Tesis digitales- Universidad de las Américas, Puebla México

• TESIUNAM- Catálogo de Tesis: Universidad Autónoma de México

4. Portugal

• Dissertações e Teses Digitais (DiTeD)

• Teses sobre temas relacionados com História da Ciência, realizadas desde 1990.

5. Spain

• Bases de datos de tesis doctorales (TESEO)

• Catálogo de tesis doctorales catalanas

• Tesis doctorales-via Biblioteca Virtual Miguel de Cervantes

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Virtual Libraries & Full Text

1. General Resources

• A França no Brasil (Biblioteca Digital da Biblioteca Nacional do Brasil)

• Biblioteca Digital da Biblioteca Nacional do Brasil

• Biblioteca Digital Hispánica (Biblioteca Nacional de España)

• Biblioteca Nacional Digital da Biblioteca Nacional de Portugal

• Biblioteca Virtual de Ciências Humanas/Virtual Library of Human Sciences

• Brasiliana Eletrônica UFRJ

• Brasiliana USP (Biblioteca Digital)

• Brazilian Government Document Digitization Project

• Centro de Pesquisa e Documentação de História Contemporánea do Brasil (CPDOC)

• Cibera: Biblioteca Virtual Iberoamerica

• Digital Library of the Commons

• Domínio Público

• DSpace@FGV

• érudit

• Europeana

• Exploring the Early Americas (Library of Congress)

• Gallica, Bibliotheque nationale de France digital library

• Google Books

• Hemeroteca Digital (Biblioteca Nacional de España)

• Internet Archive: Free Movies, Music, Books, & Wayback Machine

• Latin American Government Documents Archive (LAGDA)

• Latin American Knowledge Harvester (LAKH)

• Latin American Open Archives Portal (LAOAP)

• Latin American Pamphlet Digital Collection

• Latin American Travelogues (Brown University)

• Linking the Americas

• OAIster, Union Catalog of Digital Resources

• Projeto Resgate

• Red de Bibliotecas Virtuales de Ciencias Sociales de América Latina y el Caribe de la red (CLACSO)

• The United States and Brazil: Expanding Frontiers, Comparing Cultures (Library of Congress)

2. Journals & Magazines

• Acervo Digital VEJA

• Dialnet (Universidad de La Rioja)

• Directory of Open Access Journals

• e-Revist@s: Plataforma Open Access de Revistas Científicas Electrónicas Españolas y Latinoamericanas

• Open Journal Systems (Public Knowledge Project)

• Persée: Portail de revues en sciences humaines et sociales

• Portal de revistas electrónicas de la UCM

• Portal do Sistema Eletrônico de Editoração de Revistas (SEER)

• Red de Revistas Científicas de América Latina y el Caribe, España y Portugal (REDALYC)

• Scientific Electronic Library Online (Scielo)

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Web Resources

1. Bio-bibliography

• El poder de la palabra

2. Country Resources

• Country Studies Online, The Library of Congress

• IBGE: Instituto Brasileiro de Geografia e Estatística

• InfoNation, United Nations

• IU GIMSS Country Resources: The Green Boxes

• Perry-Castañeda Library Map Collection, University of Texas-Austin

• Resource Center of the Americas

• World Bank Data Catalog

• World Factbook

3. Folklore

• Dicionário de Folclore Para Estudantes

• Dicionário de Folcloristas Brasileiros

• Open Folklore

• Tesauro de Folclore e Cultura Popular Brasileira

4. Images

• Coleção Digital/IBGE

• Enciclopédia de artes visuais

• Fondo de Imágenes Históricas de Ciudades Americanas

• New York Public Library Digital Collections

• The Atlantic Slave Trade and Slave Life in the Americas: A Visual Record

• UNM CSWR Sam L. Slick Collection of Latin American and Iberian Posters

• World Digital Library

5. Language and Linguistics

• Etnolingüística: línguas indígenas da América do Sul

6. Music

• Discos do Brasil

7. Social Sciences

• Banco de Dados Eleitorais do Brasil (1982-2006)

• Colégio Brasileiro de Genealogia

• ELDIS Gateway to Development Information

• Environmental History of Latin America

• Gramsci e o Brasil

• Infolegis: Pesquisa Jurídica no Brasil

• Institute of Development Studies, Sussex

• Instituto Brasileiro de Geografia e Estatística (IBGE)

• Integrated Public Use Microdata Series International (IPUMS)

• Internet Modern History Sourcebook

• Latin American and Caribbean Government Documents Project

• Library of Congress Global Legal Information Network (GLIN)

• Library of Congress Guide to Law Online

• Oxford Latin American Economic History Database

• Political Database of the Americas

• Reviews of Latin American Electronic Information

• Scirus - For scientific information only

• University of Wisconsin DPLS Archive: Slave Movement during the 18th and 19th Centuries

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