Latin American Studies: LAS 385: Podcasts

Country information

Europa World Plus This link opens in a new window
Provides 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 window
Oxford 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 window
Source 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.
Previously called LexisNexis Academic. Nexis Uni is an outstanding source 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.

If single sign on fails use this url:
https://proxy.lib.miamioh.edu/login?url=https://www.nexisuni.com

LANIC: University of Texas
News and country information from Latin America and the Caribbean

Historical Abstracts This link opens in a new window
Index 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.
America: History and Life This link opens in a new window
Index with abstracts and full-text of journal articles, book reviews, media reviews, and dissertations on all aspects of American and Canadian history from prehistory to the present. See Historical Abstracts for world history.
Sources in AHL are almost all in English and include state and local history journals as well as major history journals. Search the index by keyword and limit the search by desired time-period covered in the article. For additional help in searching use the link in AHL.
Web of Science (All Databases) This link opens in a new window
Political Science Complete This link opens in a new window
Subjects covered include comparative politics, humanitarian issues, international relations, law and legislation, non-governmental organizations and political theory.
PSC provides a subject-specific thesaurus with over 17,500 terms to provide subject searching guidance to researchers. Subjects covered include comparative politics, humanitarian issues, international relations, law and legislation, non-governmental organizations and political theory.

Not seeing a database for the subject of your story? Go to the most relevant subject research guide.

CCMixter
A database of Creative Commons licensed music. Check to see what restrictions are placed, and use the files accordingly.
Creative Commons Search
A search engine for all types of Creative Commons licensed media.

Copyright slider
Use the slide bar on the right to determine if the object you want to use might still be protected by copyright law.
Fair Use Information
A brief tutorial created by YouTube
Information about copyright
Brief tutorial on copyright from YouTube
Fair Use Evaluator
Use this website to learn more about fair use. Checklist to decide if your use qualifies.

Public domain items are no longer covered by copyright.

Some places to find Public Domain materials:

Prelinger Archives:
http://www.archive.org/details/prelinger
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.

she/her

Email Me

Contact:

203 King Library

513-529-0190

Subjects: Area Studies, Asian Studies, Asian-American Studies, Black World Studies, French, German, Global and Intercultural Studies, International Studies, Italian, Languages, Latin American Studies, Middle East and Islamic Studies, Spanish and Portuguese, Western (Individualized Studies)