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    • American GI Forum Hispanic Education Foundation of the US a product of the AGIF and provides scholarships on a local leval to many cities and states around the US and Puerto Rico.
    • Austin Latino/a Lesbian and Gay Organization (ALLGO) directs an AIDS information and education project called Informe-SIDA, which is for the entire Latino/a community.h
    • Amistad Research Center at Tulane University has more than 10,000,000 documents and is acknowledged as the nation's largest independent African-American archives. The Amistad web site links to gophers that feature extensive collections on Africa, other minorities, and the gay rights movement.
    • ARENAL Grupo LesBiGay de Habla Hispana
    • Association of Bay Area Governments allows local governments to post and view requests for proposals over the web.
    • Association of Latin American Students at Washington University
    • BORICUA Homepage produced by the Institute for Puerto Rican Policy, a nonprofit and nonpartisan policy center established in 1982 and based in New York City. The site includes statistics on Puerto Ricans, a listing of more than 500 Puerto Rican community-based organizations, and other information on the Puerto Rican experience.
    • Boys & Girls Club of the East Valley
    • California Hispanic Firefighters Association Cultivation of cooperative relations between all Chicano/Latino Firefighter organizations throughout the state of California.
    • Caribbean and Latin American Action
    • Carlos' Web Page Great resources!
    • Chicano! - PBS Television Series this landmark public television series examines why the Mexican-American experience is distinct from other immigrant experiences and explores the cultural and political conflicts that have marked the relationships between Mexican-American and Anglo-American institutions in the United States.
    • C.H.E.(Chicanos/Latinos in Health Education) assist in the recruitment of Chicano/Latino students to the health sciences at Santa Clara University.
    • Chicano/LatinoNet (CLNET) an electronic mechanism which brings together Chicano/Latino research as well as linguistic minority and educational research efforts being carried out at the University of California and elsewhere.
    • Caltech's Club Latino an eclectic, non-political, campus organization dedicated to sharing the richness and diversity of the Hispanic cultures with the Caltech community.
    • Career Magazine - JOBS an online career resource for both job seekers and human resource professionals.
    • Casa Joaquin Murrieta a Chicano/Latino Co-op for UC Berkeley students. With 40 residents, Casa is the hub of Chicano intellctual and cultural life.
    • Chapel Hill Fertility Center a special type of medical practice dedicated to helping Latino couples plan for and have healthy children and families.
    • Chicano/Latin American Studies, California State University, Fresno
    • CiberCentro Web Site in Spanish that serves as an information center for Spanish speakers worldwide.
    • CNN online news
    • College Leadership Forum
    • The Collegiate Latin Underground CLU is a nonprofit publication of Latin literature.
    • Colonias Program an oureach/research initiative dedicated towards alleviating the terrible living conditions of Texas colonia residents.
    • Comit_ Noviembre De New Jersey a non-profit organization dedicated to the promotion of the contributions made by Puerto Ricans in the State of New Jersey and the Nation.
    • Community Union, Inc. working in a cooperative effort with other community based organizations to introduce a "vision" to students age 6 - 18
    • Council of Latino Agencies links together 25 Latino-oriented, community-based organizations (CBOs) of the Washington metropolitan area through joint educational and advocacy programs, as well as through planning and implementing collaborative projects, campaigns and development strategies.
    • Cuban American Pilots Association
    • Daniel Santillano's MeChista page at University of Califas
    • Dionisio's Nicaragua Page
    • Dominican Republic Information
    • Dominican Republic's Biodiversity Project Proyecto de Biodiversidad Costero-Marina de la Republica Dominicana
    • El Cuarto del Quenepon - contemporary cultural Web site of Puerto Rico
    • El Mundo Latino - an online resource of Latino information
    • Electric Mercado
    • Ethnic Studies at USC lists several "special resources" of interest to urban/minority educators, administrators, and researchers. The "Special Resources" section includes links to materials on African American Literature, Immigration and the United States, a Mexican American Resource Guide, and Racial Discrimination and Prejudice, among others.
    • Fi Iota Alfa Fraternidad Hispana de Estudiantes Universitarios
    • Gamma Zeta Alpha the first Latino fraternities in the West coast.
    • Global Net's Latin American Directory - an online resource database of Latin American information. Great resource!
    • Guadalupe Center Inc. dedicated to improving the quality of life of Hispanics throughout metropolitan Kansas City and residents of the westside neighborhoods through the development, administration, and coordination of educational, social, cultural, and recreational services.
    • Harvard Journal of Hispanic Policy a student run academic journal at the John F. Kennedy School of Government.
    • Hispanic Association on Corporate Responsibility
    • HISPANIC.COM - an online magazine with information about Hispanic culture, publications, art and business.
    • Hispanic Employment Program Managers Home Page used to help Hispanics identify job opportunities in the federal government and the private sector.
    • Hispanic Graduate Student Association the Hispanic Graduate Student Association at Texas A&M University is aimed at promoting Latinos to further their educational career beyond the undergraduate degree.
    • The Hispanic/Latino Telaranya A directory of Hispanic/Latino information.
    • Hispanic Pages in the USA
    • How to Research a Good Education College tracking made easy!
    • Informatica PR-NET Hartford's Puerto Rican Web Homepages.
    • Institute of Hispanic Latino Cultures
    • International Network of Women In Technology an organization dedicated to increasing the number of women in key areas of responsibility in technology.
    • La Unidad Latina, Lambda Upsilon Lambda Fraternity, Inc. Latino fraternity
    • La Uni_n Chicana at MIT
    • Lambda Alpha Upsilon Fraternity, Inc. Latino America Unidad
    • Lambda Theta Phi Latin Fraternity Inc.
    • Latin American Network Information Center (UT-LANIC) - provide Latin American users with access to academic databases and information services throughout the Internet world, and to provide Latin Americanists around the world with access to information on and from Latin America.
    • LatinoLink News - stories, columns and photographs by Latino journalists in California, Nevada, Massachusetts, Washington and Puerto Rico.
    • Latin American Recruitment and Educational Services (LARES) a recruitment and academic assistance program at the University of Illinois at Chicago It was established to recruit, advise, and provide educational assistance to Latino students at both the high school and university levels
    • Latin American Speakers offers the possibility of personally listening to prominent men and women that are prevailingly Mexicans
    • Latin American Trade Council of Oregon
    • Latinas Promoviendo Comunidad/Lambda Pi Chi Sorority, Inc.a non-profit organization based on community service and the education and upliftment of our people with a special emphasis on the Latina. We were founded at Cornell University.
    • Latinet a forum for telecommunications and networking in Latin America.
    • Latin World a directory of Internet resources about Latin America and the Caribbean, with pointers to sites containing information in Spanish, English and Portuguese
    • Latino Association for Graduate Students in Engineering and Science (LAGSES) at the University of California at Berkeley.
    • Latino Organizations at Brown University
    • Latinos and the Internet
    • Links at EgoWeb-Connections to Cyber Raza - Lots of links to Latin American, Latino, and Chicano culture, information, servers, and more.
    • Minority Affairs Forum At UC Davis is a site devoted to minority-related issues in education. His site contains many full-text documents on topics such as immigration, affirmative action, bilingual education, and race relations.
    • MAES - Society of Mexican American Engineers and Scientists
    • MAES Student Chapter at New Mexico Tech chapter started in the fall of '\''95.
    • MALDEF - The Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund a national nonprofit organization whose mission is to protect and promote the civil rights of the over 26 million Latinos living in the United States.
    • MEChA at the Uiversity of Oregon MEChA is the Chicano student union at the University of Oregon.
    • MexPlaza An on-line shopping mall.
    • Mexican American Community Services Agency, Inc.
    • Mexican American Research Guide A Guide to the extensive library resources on Chicano topics at the University of Southern California.
    • Mexican Newspapers and Services
    • Mexico Out of Balance Hard to find, in-depth information and analysis concerning political, economic, labor, and trade issues in Mexico.
    • National Association for Chicana and Chicano Studies (NACCS)
    • National Hispanic University
    • NLCC - The National Latino Communications Center a non-profit media arts and production center.
    • The New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers many links and an update of our program at Tech.
    • North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA)
    • Omega Delta Phi fraternity dedicated to helping the community.
    • Omega Delta Phi, Epsilon Chapter the first and only Hispanic Fraternity on the campus of Arizona State University.
    • Organizaci_n de los Estados Americanos
    • Pagina de Adelmo Tejada Honduras! News, Internet Resources in Spanish, Indigenous Culture, constantly updated.
    • Periferia:Architecture and Urban Design in the Caribbean Directory for Architecture and Urban Design in the Caribbean
    • Phi Iota Alpha - Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute a service fraternity dedicated to providing social and cultural activities geared toward the promotion of Latin American culture.
    • Anne Prestamos' Latin American/Spanish Language Resources
    • Professional Hispanics in Energy a repository of energy and environmental information for Hispanics
    • Public Libraries with Internet Services - SJCPL
    • Saludos Career Web features Hispanic career information, job listings, career articles, hispanic resource links and more.
    • Santa Barbaridad the leading forum for social and political thought and writing on the Central Coast
    • ServiCom access information from the Barcelona football team, theater, an extensive hotlist, television information and more. The Web is supported in English, Spanish, Catalan and Dutch.
    • Sigma Delta Alpha the first latino fraternity at the University of Southern California.
    • Sigma Lambda Upsilon/Se±oritas Latinas Unidas Sorority, Inc. - Latina Sorority at Brown
    • Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers
    • Society for Advancement of Chicanos and Native Americans in Science (SACNAS) Our mission is to increase the number of Chicanos/Latinos and Native Americans going into science-based careers. We have a yearly conference and have events throughout the year on a variety of graduate school, postdoc, faculty interests.
    • South Beach Fun and Commerce a great Florida resource!
    • SPIN the best Web directory on Mexico, with over 450 pages
    • The Hispanic Who is Who Page
    • The Latino Connection
    • The Republic of Cuba WWW
    • The Tequila Homepage
    • The Tomas Rivera Center one of the nation's few Latino public policy research institutes.
    • Tristero's Latin American Resource Directory Latin resources outside the U.S. and Mexico.
    • Una Vida Mejor Project a special initiative of the Texas Agricultural Extension Service to include more Hispanics in Extension programming.
    • United Farm Workers of America a product and information directory.
    • Universidad Nacional del Litoral
    • University of Florida - Institute of Hispanic/Latino Cultures
    • University of Maryland at College Park - Hispanic Info Page
    • University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio
    • U.S. Census Information Server The Census bureau organizes information so that citizens can make their own use of it. Here you'll find data on state and local governments and schools, poverty in the U.S., housing changes and more.
    • U.S. Library of Congress
    • World Relief Foundation, Inc. Worlwide emergency aid mixed with development assistance. Special emphasis to projects in Latin America and the Caribbean.

    Country Archives

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    • Argentina
    • Biblioteca Nacional de la Republica Argentina
    • Gardel, el servidor de la red de argentinos
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      Australia

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      Austria

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      Brazil

    • BIREME
    • DEDALUS Banco de datos bibliograficos - Universidade de Sao Paulo ("dedalus" to log in)
    • Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul ("sabibib" to log in and "bib1993" for password)

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      Canada

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      Chile

    • Biblioteca Central Universidad de Concepcion ("opac" to log in)
    • Biblioteca Central Universidad de Santiago de Chile
    • Universidad de Santiago de Chile de Ingenieria Informatica
    • University of Chile

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      Colombia

    • Colombia
    • Colombia Arturo Pinzon
    • University of Los Andes
    • Universidad del Valle

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      Costa Rica

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      Denmark

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      Ecuador

    • Ecuador
    • Ecuador, Utah Wired!

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      England

    • British Library - Online Information Server (PORTICO)
    • Radcliffe Science Library and Bodleian Library Oxford University

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      France

    • Social Sciences Research Catalog
    • Ecole Polytechnique
    • SIBIL

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      Guatemala

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      Germany

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      Japan

    • University of Electro-Communications

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      Mexico

    • Alpha Research Centre Incorporated
    • Diario "La Jornada"
    • Centro de Ciencias de Sinaloa
    • Centro de Calidad Ambiental ITESM Campus Monterrey
    • CICESE's Ensenada, B.C. Mexico
    • Chiapas and the EZLN
    • General Information about México
    • Gobierno del Estado de Morelos
    • Instituto Nacional de Astrofisica, Optica y Electronica (INAOE)
    • Instituto Politecnico Nacional - ESIQIE
    • Instituto Tecnologico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey (ITESM)
    • ITESM-Chihuahua
    • ITESM-Sinaloa
    • Instituto Tecnologico y de Estudios Superiores de Occidente
    • Mexico's Electoral Aftermath & Political Future-Conference Memoria
    • Mexico Out of Balance
    • Noticiero del Servicio Exterior Mexicano
    • Monterrey Institute of Technology ("mtycat" to log in)
    • PIXEL
    • PROFMEXIS
    • Universidad Autonoma de Aguascalientes
    • Universidad Autonoma de Nuevo Leon
    • Universidad Autonoma Metropolitana (UAM)
    • Universidad de las Americas
    • Universidad de Guadalajara
    • Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico
    • Universidad de las Americas, Pueblas ("library" to log in)
    • Universidad de Monterrey ("library" to log in)
    • WWW Servers in MéxicoNational Library of the Netherlands

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      Norway

    • Norwegian National Library

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      Peru

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      Panama

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      Spain

    • Centro Informatico Cientifico de Andalucia
    • Maps of Spain and information
    • University Jaume I in Castellón, Spain

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      Switzerland

    • National Library

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      United States

    • Arizona State University
    • Benson Latin American Collection University of Texas - Austin
    • Center for Research Libraries
    • CARL Colorado Association of Research Libraries
    • CUNY+ Catalog
    • Current Cites University of California - Berkeley
    • Internet Libraries Missouri Western State College
    • Internet Libraries Yale University
    • IUP Latino Program Inventory of Collections
    • Library Information Servers University of Washington
    • Library of Congress
    • National Archives
    • New York Public Library
    • Puerto Rico Arecibo Observatory
    • Puerto Rico Universidad de Puerto Rico
    • Puerto Rico
    • Stanford University
    • University of Arizona
    • University of California - MELVYL System
    • University of California - Davis
    • University of California - Irvine
    • University of California - Riverside
    • University of California - San Diego
    • University of California - San Francisco
    • University of California - Santa Cruz
    • University of Chicago
    • University of Florida
    • University of New Mexico
    • University of San Francisco
    • University of Texas - Austin

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      Venezuela

    • Biblioteca Nacional ("biblio" to log in)
    • Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Cientificas y Tecnologicas (use 'netfind' to login)
    • Venezuela

    Reference

    • Acronym Dictionary The WorldWideWeb Acronym Server
    • Dictionary, technical and natural language (searchable index)
    • English/Spanish Electronics Dictionary Johns Hopkins University
    • English/Spanish-Spanish/English Dictionary by Tyler Jones
    • French/English Dictionary (requires forms capability)
    • Roget's Thesaurus (searchable Gopher index)
    • Spanish for Travelers
    • Xerox PARC Map Viewer MapViewer dynamicallly renders a map based on user input. Click on a region and MapViewer will zoom in on it.
    • Webster English Dictionary - Hypertext Webster Interface (searchable index)

    Reference Services

    • Currency Exchange Rates for This Week
    • Date and Time Gateway Berkeley Software Design, Inc.
    • Hispanic Experience
    • Recruiting Hispanics for Federal Service
    • Hispanic Pages in the USA
    • Local Times in the Americas
    • Minority On-line Information Service
    • On-Line Ready Reference
    • Weights & Measures University of Oregon

    Research and Grant Information

    • Latin American and Caribbean Center Scholarships Florida International University
    • Mellon Foundation Doctoral Fellowships in Caribbean Studies
    • Minority Scholarships and Fellowships
    • NSF Grants National Science Foundation
    • Scholarly Societies Project University of Waterloo
    • SBIR - Small Business Innovation Research Program
    • The National Institutes of Health Grants Database
    • The Foundation Center
    • USDA Research Database

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    • soc.culture.colombia
    • soc.culture.cuba
    • soc.culture.dominican-rep
    • soc.culture.ecuador
    • soc.culture.latin-america
    • soc.culture.mexican
    • soc.culture.mexican.american
    • soc.culture.peru
    • soc.culture.puerto-rico
    • soc.culture.venezuela
    • rec.music.afro-latin

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