Latin American & Caribbean Area Studies: Newspapers
Links to Information About Newspaper Holdings for LACAS
Newspaper Collections at Binghamton University Libraries
Binghamton University Libraries collect several important Latin American and Caribbean newspapers. The easiest way to search for newspaper holdings is to open the library catalog infoLINK. Then, select "Journals & Newspapers" from the drop-down box "Change Subset." Enter in a country name in the keyword search box to retrieve newspapers from that country. Or search for a specific title.The Libraries also provide electronic access to several newspapers through metaLINK. Browse our collections of Current Events & News databases. Of particular interest to students of Latin American Studies will be Ethnic News Watch and Factiva. Ethnic News Watch provides full-text coverage from 1990 of the ethnic press. It can also be searched using a Spanish interface. You can read the last two weeks of several important newspapers from Latin America and the world using Factiva's "News Pages" option. The page defaults to the United States, but by changing the drop-down box, patrons can access news from other countries of interest.
Members of the university community are also encouraged to use Binghamton University Libraries' interlibrary loan service ILLiad to request articles or microfilmed versions of newspapers that we may not have access to.
Center for Research Libraries Ethnic Press Database
Can search for newspaper titles published by ethnic presses in the United States. Holdings for Latinos are somewhat limited. (CRL)
Center for Research Libraries Foreign Newspapers
Allows you to search for newspapers by country or title. CRL has helped microfilm more than 6,000 international titles. (CRL)
Chronicling America
Database of selected digitized newspapers from 1900-1910 from California, District of Columbia, Florida, Kentucky, New York, Utah, and Virginia. Users can search within the full-text of the articles. Also offers information about newspapers published in the United States from 1690 to the present. (Library of Congress)
Digital Library of the Caribbean (dLOC)
This still-evolving initiative brings together strong collections from the US and the Caribbean dealing with the Caribbean. It provides funds and assistance to Caribbean libraries and archives to digitize portions of their collections. Includes materials from CARIFESTA, several digitized newspapers, and other smaller collections. Website interface in English, French, and Spanish. (Florida International University)
LANE Union List
Lists by country of current subscriptions to Latin American and Caribbean newspapers held by members of the LANE consortium, which is made up of academic libraries in the North East with Latin American collections, including Binghamton University. (LANE)
Latin American Newspapers in United States Libraries
This links to a PDF version of Steven M. Charno's Latin American Newspapers in United States Libraries (Austin: University of Texas Press, 1968). An important source for historical research, the Charno book provides information on Latin American newspapers held by U.S. libraries. (International Coalition on Newspapers, CRL)
Latin American Online News
A list of links to online news sources from and about Latin America. Includes English-language news sources. (University of Texas, San Antonio)
Nettie Lee Benson Latin American Collection
The University of Texas at Austin has compiled two microfilm guides to Mexican newspaper collections: Revolutionary Mexico in Newspapers, 1900-1929: Guide to the Microfilm Set and Independent Mexico in Newspapers the 19th-century Guide to the Microfilm Set (PDF). The microfilmed sets are available through interlibrary loan, as well as for purchase. (University of Texas, Austin)
Protesta Humana
Digitized version of this turn of the century anarchist newspaper from Argentina from 1897-1902. (University of California, Los Angeles)