There are many portals guiding scholars to Caribbean studies information on the web. A selection of key sites are listed below.
The following links can be used as starting points for Caribbean studies research:
British Library: Caribbean Collections
Brown University: Remember Haiti
Digital Library of Trinidad & Tobago
dLOC: Digital Library of the Caribbean
The Society for Caribbean Studies (UK) Annual Conference Papers
SIDALC-Agricultural Information & Documentation System for the Americas
University of Miami: Cuban Heritage Collection
The Oxford Libguides below cover different areas on Caribbean studies:
Bodleian Latin American Centre Library Guide
Caribbean: legal resources: Caribbean
Case law: e-resources for common law countries: Caribbean
Newspapers and other online news sources from the 17th – 21st centuries: Caribbean region
Other relevant information can be found in various Oxford Libguides.
The Latin American Centre Library has a number of special collections, including our Institution and Private Collection Boxes on Caribbean countries.
The material is mostly twentieth century and covers a wide range of subjects such as economics, history, politics, and colonial reports.
A full list of catalogued material until today can be found here and content of boxes can be seen from SOLO. If you would like to access this material, please ask at the Library Office.
There are a number of key Caribbean Studies Libraries. A selection is listed below:
British Library - Resources for Caribbean Studies.
The Caribbean Studies Collection, Institute of Latin American Studies, University of London.
Centre for Amerindian, Latin American and Caribbean Studies (CAS), University of St Andrews.
Centre for Latin American and Caribbean Studies, University of Essex.
Centre for Latin American and Caribbean Studies, University of Manchester.
Centro de Estudios y Documentación Latinoamericanos, University of Amsterdam.
Institute of Commonwealth Studies Library, University of London.
Institute of Development Studies, University of Sussex.
Senate House Library, University of London.
Yesu Persaud Centre for Caribbean Studies, Warrick University.
Bodleian Libraries offers various iSkills sessions including useful finding tools to locate relevant material via SOLO and how to search them, as well as important portals and gateways to libraries and archives of online primary texts.
Interactive map of the countries in Central America and the Caribbean. Political Map of Central America and the Caribbean (West Indies) |