Latin American News Digest

Digest covering a broad range of Latin American news and media.  Topics include economy & business, politics, Latin America & US, and travel & tourism.


Latin Americanist Resources Research Project (LAARP)

A cooperative initiative by member research libraries to provide open access collections for the learning and scholarship of Latin America studies.


Library catalogs

Links to catalogs of area libraries (e.g. Lehigh, Muhlenberg) and some major research libraries (e.g. Princeton, Library of Congress).


Maps Research Tools

Skillman Library's list of select, online resources related to maps and cartography.


MatWeb, The Online Materials Information Resource

Database of property information for polymers, metals, ceramics, semiconductors, and other engineering materials. (Data and spec sheets are supplied by manufacturers and distributors; links to same are offered.)


MEDLINEplus

Current and reliable health information from the National Library of Medicine at the National Institutes of Health. Includes information on specific diseases, clinical trials of drugs, directories of hospitals and physicians, and other health information resources. Intended for both consumers and health professionals.


Musicals101.com

A history of musical theater.


National Cancer Institute

Information on cancer and cancer related research including links to statistical data, NCI publications, consumer health information, clinical trial protocols, and the PDQ Cancer Information Database.


National Centers for Environmental Information

Provides access to wide range of services and sources for geophysical data. Areas include weather and climate, geomagnetism, earth observations from space, space weather and solar events, natural hazards, marine geology and geophysics, and ocean depth data.


National Historical Geographic Information System (NHGIS)

NHGIS is a data portal for U.S. Census data in both tabular and geospatial formats. It provides access to summary statistics and GIS boundary files for population and agricultural censuses and other nationwide surveys from 1790 through the present. Alternatively, for a user-friendly online mapping interface connected to this same data see Social Explorer.