Latin American Studies: LAS 300: Podcasts
Researching Your Story
Background information
Find books in the library catalog
- Human Rights Studies Online This link opens in a new windowProvides documents, interpretations, and analysis of major human rights violations and atrocity crimes worldwide. Includes: Armenia, the Holocaust, Cambodia, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Rwanda, Darfur, and others. 1900 - 2010. Users may encounter content in this database the library has not purchased.
- Political Science Complete This link opens in a new windowSubjects covered include comparative politics, humanitarian issues, international relations, law and legislation, non-governmental organizations and political theory.
- Historical Abstracts This link opens in a new windowIndex with abstracts of journal articles, book reviews, media reviews, and dissertations on all aspects of world history from prehistory to the present. See America: History and Life for American and Canadian history. 1450 C.E. to the present.
- PRISMA: Publicaciones y Revistas Sociales y Humanisticas This link opens in a new windowA comprehensive reference resource providing full-text scholarly journals in the social sciences and humanities for the interdisciplinary academic study of Hispanic and Latin America, and the Caribbean Basin. Offering key titles indexed in the Hispanic American Periodicals Index (HAPI)
Not seeing a database for the subject of your story? Go to the most relevant subject research guide.
Country information
- Europa World Plus This link opens in a new windowProvides political and economic information for more than 250 countries and territories. Information includes regional and country profiles, information on physical and social geography, history, economy, and country and comparative statistics. It also provides directory information for governmental, society, media, and business enterprises.
- eHRAF World Cultures This link opens in a new windowOxford campus users only. Contains ethnographic information organized by regions, subregions, and cultures. This collection does not include all of the culture groups from the original HRAF files so be sure to consult the Encyclopedia of World Cultures if a culture group is not included in this collection.
- Nexis Uni This link opens in a new windowSource for researching news, business, and legal topics. It contains full-text of sources from all over the world, drawn from print, broadcast, and online media.
- LANIC: University of TexasNews and country information from Latin America and the Caribbean
Creating a Podcast
Download Audacity
Some places to find audio
- CCMixterA database of Creative Commons licensed music. Check to see what restrictions are placed, and use the files accordingly.
- Creative Commons SearchA search engine for all types of Creative Commons licensed media.
Public Domain Resources
Public domain items are no longer covered by copyright.
Some places to find Public Domain materials:
Some places to find Public Domain materials:
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Prelinger Archives:
http://www.archive.org/details/prelinger
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Government websites:
Government images are in the public domain. Add site:.gov to your search in a Google images search to locate government images.
BUT BE CAREFUL: some images on these sites may belong to somebody other than the government.
Example podcasts
- SawbonesMedical history
- The AllusionistLanguage and linguistics
- You're Dead to MeHistory and comedy
Learn more about Digital Copyright
- Copyright sliderUse the slide bar on the right to determine if the object you want to use might still be protected by copyright law.
- Fair Use InformationA brief tutorial created by YouTube
- Information about copyrightBrief tutorial on copyright from YouTube
- Fair Use EvaluatorUse this website to learn more about fair use. Checklist to decide if your use qualifies.
