Guides: OAS: Organization of American States: Electronic Resources and Databases

OAS Official Documents

OAS official documents can be searched here. Specific types of documents can be found on the following pages:

Worldwide Political Science Abstracts (WPSA)
67% of the more than 1500 monitored journals are published outside the United States, and there are nearly 500,000 records beginning in 1975. Some of the records have fulltext links and coverage includes all aspects of political science, as well as international relations and comparative politics.
Coverage: 1975 -

PAIS Index
Bibliographic citations (1915-) with indexing on contemporary public affairs and policy issues worldwide related to a wide range of topics: agriculture, banking, finance, business, demographics, education, health, environment, planning, public administration, law and legislation, and international relations. Materials indexed include journal articles, books, government documents, statistical directories, grey literature, research reports, conference reports, publications of international agencies, microfiche, and Internet material. Newspapers and newsletters are not indexed.
International Bibliography of the Social Sciences (IBSS)

Columbia International Affairs Online (CIAO)
Covers theory and research in international affairs.
Sources: Includes working papers from university research institutes, occasional papers series from NGOs, foundation-funded research projects, and proceedings from conferences. Working papers and conference proceedings are updated monthly. New journal issues and books are updated as available.
Coverage: 1991 -
Databases in International Relations

!Informe! (Revistas en Espanol)
Full text and, in many cases, with illustrations, of over 160 Spanish-language and U.S. Hispanic magazines, newspapers and journals. The publications come from the United States, Mexico, Spain, Argentina, and other nations of Spanish America. Coverage for most publications begins in the mid or late 1990s.
Hispanic American Periodicals Index HAPI
Covers Latin America and U.S. Latinos in all areas of the humanities and social sciences. HAPI cites articles published in English, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, and Spanish from over four hundred journals. 1970 to the present.
SciELO
SciELO is a free, fulltext database created to meet the scientific communication needs of developing countries. Established in Brazil in 1997, there are now 14 countries (all but two in Latin America) in the network.
Databases in Latin American Studies

Alertamerica.org
Alertamerica.org: The OAS Hemispheric Citizen Security Observatory is constantly updating and publishing information for all the countries in the hemisphere. The Observatory presents official information disclosed by the States, assembled into indicators that cover all social phenomena of crime and violence, as well as the initiatives developed to control and penalize them. These indicators constitute the most extensive repertoire of official information on citizen security in the hemisphere.
IACHR Statistics
This multimedia section displays statistical data on the activities of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights. These charts and graphs show information related to petitions, cases, and precautionary measures.
OAS: Background and Issues
Research paper by the Congressional Research Service
Journal Estadística
Estadística is the scientific journal of the Inter-American Statistical Institute (IASI). It aims to publish contributions about themes in theoretical and applied Statistics, giving emphasis to original applications and the solution of problems of wide interest to Statisticians in the American Region.

The Columbus Memorial Library of the OAS offers a number of books online, which can be found here.