Originally created when I trained as Latin American Studies bibliographer at Duke University, this website
is now hosted by Indiana University Libraries. Completely updated and redesigned, this unique tool for
research in Brazilian Studies offers several new enhancements, particularly the access to the full-text of
scholarly journals and doctoral dissertations from Brazil. Other key resources include the links to library
and archival collections, institutions, and the online directories of Brazilian specialists in Brazil,
North America, and Western Europe. An important new feature is the pathfinder to print reference works on
Brazil available in the IU Libraries collection. The core component of this resource still is the
Researching Brazil Bibliographic Index. Composed of bibliographical and historiographical article citations,
this searchable bibliographic database covers approximately 70 Brazilian journals in the fields of history and
the social sciences. All of the entries are fully indexed in English and Portuguese. That figure is expected
to increase two-fold, as more social science and literature titles are incorporated into the database. It is
worth noting that the majority of these publications are not indexed or abstracted anywhere but here.
When I first launched the site, I used two Thomson-ISI pieces of software: EndNote to compile the data, and
Reference Web Poster to post the bibliography online. The second product is no longer manufactured, but,
fortunately, I was able to draw upon the expertise of two IU librarian colleagues to circumvent this
technological hurdle. Jeffrey Graf encoded the EndNote records, making them ready for importing into the
MySQL database that Jian Liu specially created for this project. I am also grateful to Katie Gibson, a SLIS
alumna, who took up the site’s redesign as part of her web design seminar project.
Please contact me to suggest any relevant print or online resources that would make Researching Brazil even more
useful for Brazilian Studies.
Thank you,
Luis A. González, Ph.D.
Librarian for Latin American,
Spanish & Portuguese,
Chicano-Riqueño, and Latino Studies
Herman B Wells Library
Indiana University
1320 East 10th Street
Bloomington, IN 47405
Phone: (812) 855-7416
Fax: (812) 855-8068