Researching Brazil

Internet Resources

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This selective collection of web sites provides access to resources supporting research and teaching on Brazilian topics. Other web sites not exclusively devoted to Brazilian Studies have been included on this page becasue 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 dissertations databases; directories of researchers, and statistical data sets.

Gateways to Institutions, Repositories, and Research Centers

1. América Latina: Portal Europeo REDIAL CEISAL
2. Biblioteca Virtual de Estudos Culturais
3. Brazilink
4. Guia da Internet no Brasil para Cientistas Sociais, Historiadores e Arquivistas
5. Guia dos Arquivos Americanos sobre o Brasil   [PDF download]
6. Iberian Studies Web/ Western European Studies Section (WESSWEB)
7. Intute: Arts and Humanities
8. Latin American Network Information Center (LANIC)
9. Portals to the World (Library of Congress)
10. Portail du Réseau Amérique Latine
11. Universia

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Directories of Researchers

1. Plataforma Lattes: Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico (Brazil)
2. Diretório dos Grupos de Pesquisa
3. Directory of Scholars in Brazilian Studies (North America)
4. Latinoamericanistas (Europe)

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Indexes, Tables of Contents, and Bibliographies

1. Al Día: Tablas de contenido de revistas especializadas, Universidad de Chile
2. Bases de Dades de Sumaris: Consorci de Biblioteques Universitàries de Cataluyna
3. Bolsum: Boletín de sumarios
4. Sumarios de revistas (CINDOC)
5. Citas Latinoamericanas en Ciencias Sociales y Humanidades (CLASE)
6. Compludoc: Base de datos de artículos de revistas
7. DataÍndice
8. Dialnet: Base de datos de artículos
9. Forest History Society Databases
10. Handbook of Latin American Studies (HLAS Online)
11. Indice de Revistas de Educación Superior e Investigación Educativa (IRESIE)
12. Instituto Ibero-Americano, Berlín
13. Instituto Internacional de Sociología Jurídica, Asocíión Internacional de Sociología Juridíca
14. Latin American Periodicals Table of Contents (LAPTOC)
15. Latin American Social Medicine/ Medicina Social Latinoamericana
16. LATINO: Bancos Bibliográficos Latinoamericanos y del Caribe
17. Sommaire des revues: Réseau Amérique Latine
18. Sommaires des Revues, Université de Toulouse- Le Mirail
19. Sumarios de revistas brasileiras
20. UASumarios: Base de datos de sumarios

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Virtual Libraries & Full Text

1. Brazilian Government Document Digitization Project
2. Centro de Pesquisa e Documentação de História Contemporánea do Brasil (CPDOC)
3. Cibera: Biblioteca Virtual Iberoamerica
4. Latin American Government Documents Archive (LAGDA)
5. Linking the Americas
6. Projeto Resgate
7. Red de Bibliotecas Virtuales de Ciencias Sociales de América Latina y el Caribe de la red (CLACSO)
8. Red de Revistas Científicas de América Latina y el Caribe, España y Portugal (REDALYC)
9. Scientific Electronic Library Online (Scielo)

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Theses and Dissertations

• Brazil
  • Banco de Teses Coordenação de Aperfeiçomento de Pessoal de Nivel Superior (CAPES)
  • Banco de teses sobre Cinema Brasileiro
  • Biblioteca Digital de Teses e Dissertações, Universidade de São Paulo
  • Teses, Fundação Joaquim Nabuco
    
    
• International
  • Australian Digital Thesis Project (ADT)
  • La Base de Datos REDIAL-TESIS
  • Brazil in British Doctoral Theses (1960-2004) [PDF download]
  • Cahiers du Bresil Contemporain: Catalogue général des thèses soutenues en France sur le Brésil en sciences humaines et sociales
  • Cybertesis: Tesis eletrónicas en línea
  • PhdData: The Universal index of Doctoral Dissertations in Progress
  • Réseau Amérique latine: Thèses
  • Serveur de Thèses Multidisciplinaire/ Multidisciplinary Theses Server
  • Tesis europeas sobre América Latina- Proyecto cooperativo de REDIAL
  • Theses Canada Portal
    
    
• Spain
  • Bases de datos de tesis doctorales (TESEO)
  • Catálogo de tesis doctorales catalanas
  • Tesis doctorales-via Biblioteca Virtual Miguel de Cervantes
    
    
• Latin America
  • Tesis digitales- Universidad de las Américas, Puebla México
  • TESIUNAM- Catálogo de Tesis: Universidad Autónoma de México
    
    
• Portugal
  • Dissertações de Doutoramento na Universidade de Coimbra
  • Dissertações e Teses Digitais (DiTeD)
  • Teses sobre temas relacionados com História da Ciência, realizadas em Universidades Portuguesas, desde 1990.

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Web Resources

• Social Sciences
  • Banco de Dados Eleitorais do Brasil (1982-2006)
  • 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)
  • Internet Modern History Sourcebook
  • Latin American and Caribbean Government Documents Project
  • Library of Congress Guide to Law Online
  • Library of Congress Global Legal Information Network (GLIN)
  • 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
    
    
• Folklore
  • Dicionário de Folclore Para Estudantes
  • Dicionário de Folcloristas Brasileiros
  • Tesauro de Folclore e Cultura Popular Brasileira
    
    
• Images
  • The Atlantic Slave Trade and Slave Life in the Americas: A Visual Record
  • Enciclopédia de artes visuais
  • Fondo de Imágenes Históricas de Ciudades Americanas
    
    
• Music
  • Discos do Brasil
    
    
• Bio-bibliography
  • El poder de la palabra
    
    
• Country Resources
  • Country Studies Online, The Library of Congress
  • InfoNation, United Nations
  • IU GIMSS Country Resources: The Green Boxes
  • Perry-Castañeda Library Map Collection, University of Texas-Austin
  • Resource Center of the Americas

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