Latin American and Iberian Studies  Tags: latin_american_iberian_collections  

Hello, this page should help you access some exemplary electronic archival collections and finding aids while also providing tips for searching the web for such resources.

Increased access and attention to digitized collections is making a lot of information available across institutions and seems to help inspire interest in those physical collections, one the part of the researcher and on the part of the donor. Simply put, digitization makes more people aware of collections and gives more people access to specific collections, which has had the result of pulling people into physical archival spaces at a much greater rate.

As dissertation researchers, you are in a great place for identifying appropriate archival collections and for utilizing the electronic space as an opportunity. the old rules "don't use google" really cannot apply in the world of digitized archives. They are created for people to find through those engines. 

An archival finding aid will help you locate physical manuscript collections rather than take you to images of actual documents. Check out or local finding aid and see if there is anything in our Center for Southwest Research (CSWR) which may be interesting.

As noted above digital archives are constructed to get attention from average users. We know you're not average, but anyway .. Regardless of whether you chosse an advanced option or the basic search, know that Google Scholar is for articles and books, not archives typically. Simialry, though the news archive will often allow you to pay for an archived news option, it does not give you access to digital archives. Tell google exactly what you want. Use the words digital and archive and whatever topic you're researching. For example digital and archive and influenza 1918, will line the digital archives up first ...

Since so many of you have worked with such great stuff, feel free to add links for all of us. It's a great expression of the intellectual process.

  

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