Latin Americanist Research Resources Project

Latin Americanist Research Resources Project
Also Known as: LARRP
Persistent URL: http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/22570
Status of URL: act
Use Restricted to: Unrestricted Access

Description: The Latin Americanist Research Resources Project, initially a project of the Association of Research Libraries (ARL), is a cooperative initiative of North American, Latin American, and Caribbean libraries. Its goal of expanded access to Latin American research resources has three core components: I.Latin American Periodicals Tables of Contents (LAPTOC): provides article titles from the tables of contents over 800 periodicals published in Latin America and the Caribbean. They cover all fields and are searchable by article title keyword, author, journal title, country, and date.

II. Presidential Messages: contains digital images of over 75,000 pages of presidential speeches, including ministerial reports, from the early 19th century to the present from Mexico and Argentina. III. ## Latin American Open Archives Portal (LAOAP): is a portal service providing access to social sciences grey literature produced in Latin America by research institutes, non-governmental organizations, and peripheral agencies. It encompasses working documents, pre-prints, research papers, statistical documents, and other difficult-to-access materials that are not controlled by commercial publishers.

Sources: I. Periodicals: Over 800 journals published in Latin America and the Caribbean.
II. Presidential messages: The complete text of Argentine and Mexican presidential messages
III. Open Archives Portal: Social science "grey" literature.

Relevant to:
Latin American Studies [4]