The Digital Library of Latin American and Caribbean Sports (DLLACS)

Academic Resources & Collections

Item Set

Items

• Béisbol 101
  Statistics, chronicles, images and other resources on Puerto Rican baseball in the archipelago, the Caribbean, and the US Major Leagues.
• CLACSO (Consejo Latinoamericano de Ciencias Sociales) - Red de Bibliotecas Virtuales de Ciencias Sociales en America Latina y el Caribe
  The CLACSO Digital Repository is a collaborative initiative that disseminates the production of the network of associated centers and CLACSO programs since 1998. Content includes: articles, working documents, books, papers and thesis, audiovisual productions, online radios, audio files, and photographic collections. (Fragment taken from website) They have a variety of items about sports that relates back to the DLLACS collection. This item has been collected by the DLLACS collection at the Latin American & Caribbean Studies Library.
• Research Guide to Latin American and Caribbean Sport: Home
  Research guide made for researchers at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, but has some relevant information for a wider audience. Some databases are only accessible for authorized users at U of I.
• Latin American Network Information Center (LANIC)
  LANIC's mission is to facilitate access to Internet-based information to, from, or on Latin America. LANIC's editorially reviewed directories contain over 10,000 unique URLs, one of the largest guides for Latin American content on the Internet. This item has been collected by the DLLACS collection at the Latin American & Caribbean Studies Library.
• The H-Sport Archive Project
  The H-Sport Archive Project provides information about archival collections that are of interest to sport scholars. This item has been collected by the DLLACS collection at the Latin American & Caribbean Studies Library.
• Centro Esportivo Virtual
  The Centro Esportivo Virtual is a site of Gestão do Conhecimento em Educação Física, Esportes e Lazer. The site serves as a portal of national and international sports, information, attending sportsmen and students with a general interest to researchers and professionals of the area. This item has been collected by the DLLACS collection at the Latin American & Caribbean Studies Library.
• Digital Archive of Latin American and Caribbean Ephemera
  The Digital Archive of Latin American and Caribbean Ephemera is a steadily growing repository containing a previously unavailable subset of Princeton’s Latin American Ephemera Collection as well as newly acquired materials being digitized and added on an ongoing basis. This item has been collected by the DLLACS collection at the Latin American & Caribbean Studies Library.
• Patrimônio Esportivo
  The website provides the access to "Patrimônio Esportivo", an ongoing project with Patrimônio Cultural Esportivo linked to Sport: Laboratório de História do Esporte e do Lazer do Programa de Pós-Graduação em História Comparada da Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (PPGHC/IH/UFRJ). The purpose of "Patrimônio Esportivo" is to identify and map the geographical distribution of sports in Rio during the 19th century. This item has been collected by the DLLACS collection at the Latin American & Caribbean Studies Library.
• Jit!: La Actualidad del Deporte Cubano
  The website provides the access to various publications made by Jit!: La Actualidad del Deporte Cubano. The newspaper includes recent information and articles about baseball, basketball, athletes and other information. This item has been collected by the DLLACS collection at the Latin American & Caribbean Studies Library.
• Acción: Revista Cubana de la Cultura Física
  Acción: Revista Cubana de la Cultura Física its a Cuban journal of physical culture. It was founded in 1985 and is edited by the Fajardo University of Physical Culture and Sport Sciences, in coordination with the National Institute of Sports, Physical Education and Recreation. This item has been collected by the DLLACS collection at the Latin American & Caribbean Studies Library.
• Centro de Documentación del Deporte y la Recreación (CEDDyR)
  The mission of the Centro de Documentación del Deporte y la Recreación (CEDDyR) is to conserve, organize and recover the bibliographic and hemerographic material related to these topics. In its collection you can consult topics of medicine, nutrition, psychology, philosophy, pedagogy, sociology, law, architecture, anthropometry, etc. This item has been collected by the DLLACS collection at the Latin American & Caribbean Studies Library.
• Digital Collections of the Ibero-American Institute
  The Digital Collections contain all the digitalized publications of the Ibero-American Institute. You can search the digitalized objects or you may access the different collections. If you want to save the results of your search and exchange them with other users, or annotate the digitalized objects you are working with, you have to use the "login" and create your personal user account. Furthermore, you can create your own virtual bookshelf. This item has been collected by the DLLACS collection at the Latin American & Caribbean Studies Library.
• The Digital Library of the Caribbean (dLOC)
  The Digital Library of the Caribbean (dLOC) is a cooperative digital library for resources from and about the Caribbean and circum-Caribbean. The dLOC partner institutions are the core of dLOC. dLOC partners retain all rights to their materials and provide access to digitized versions of Caribbean cultural, historical and research materials currently held in archives, libraries, and private collections. This item has been collected by the DLLACS collection at the Latin American & Caribbean Studies Library.
• Revista Internacional de Ciencias del Deporte
  Published out of Spain, this journal publishes for an international audience and is multidisciplinary. Articles are mainly written in Spanish and English, and some articles cover different Latin American and Caribbean countries. This item has been collected by the DLLACS collection at the Latin American & Caribbean Studies Library.
• Revista Educación Física y Deporte
  Published out of Universidad de Antioquía in Colombia, this journal publishes academic peer-reviewed articles covering fields such as medicine and nutrition in sports to, physical education and legal and philosophical considerations of sport. This item has been collected by the DLLACS collection at the Latin American & Caribbean Studies Library.
• Lecturas: Educación Física y Deportes
  EFDeportes was one of the first born digital sport journals from Latin America. Edited in Buenos Aires, Argentina, EFDeportes is a peer reviewed publication that covers multiple disciplines and publishes in Spanish, Portuguese, and English research articles, experiential essays, opinion essays, and informational pieces, all academically double-blind peer reviewed. This item has been collected by the DLLACS collection at the Latin American & Caribbean Studies Library.
• Journal of Olympic History
  Official publication of the North American Society for Sport History. It was established in 1974, making it the oldest scholarly journal in the field. Despite its origins in the North American academic sphere, it publishes articles about Latin America and the Caribbean. This item has been collected by the DLLACS collection at the Latin American & Caribbean Studies Library.
• Journal of Sport History
  Official journal of the International Society of Olympic Historians, established in 1992. From 1992 until 1996 it was known as Citius, Altius, Fortius. This item has been collected by the DLLACS collection at the Latin American & Caribbean Studies Library.
• The International Journal of the History of Sport
  Established in 1984, The International Journal of the History of Sport is one of the oldest and most prominent journals in the field. While it is international in scope, a lot of articles on Latin America and/or the Caribbean have appeared since its early years. This item has been collected by the DLLACS collection at the Latin American & Caribbean Studies Library.
• Recorde: Revista de História do Esporte
  Edited by “’Sport’: Laboratorio de Historia do Esporte e do Lazer,” in the graduate program in Comparative History at the Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Recorde is one of the few Latin American academic journals focusing on sport history. This item has been collected by the DLLACS collection at the Latin American & Caribbean Studies Library.
• Asociación Latinoamericana de Estudios Socioculturales del Deporte (ALESDE)
  This is the blog of Asociación Latinoamericana de Estudios Socioculturales del Deporte (ALESDE) which aims to disseminate Latin American scientific production in different socio-cultural areas (historical, sociological, anthropological, political, philosophical, economic, ethnographic and other approaches) that investigate the sport, considering its expanded contemporary and polysemic senses. This item has been collected by the DLLACS collection at the Latin American & Caribbean Studies Library.
• The Journal of the Latin American Socio-cultural Studies of Sport
  The Journal of the Latin American Socio-Cultural Studies of Sport (ALESDE) aims to disseminate Latin American scientific production in different socio-cultural areas (historical, sociological, anthropological, political, philosophical, economic, ethnographic and other approaches) that investigate the sport, considering its expanded contemporary and polysemic senses. This item has been collected by the DLLACS collection at the Latin American & Caribbean Studies Library.
• The Puerto Rico Online Encyclopedia - Sports
  The Puerto Rico Online Encyclopedia is a free, online, educational project providing information both in Spanish and English that familiarizes both Puerto Ricans and other users from around the world with aspects of the society, history, and culture of Puerto Rico, as well as the Caribbean region (description from the website). Regarding sports, the Encyclopedia includes videos, images, maps, and information about several sports such as basketball, baseball, sailing, diving, and surf, for instance. The encyclopedia provides information about clubs, national and Caribbean competitions, relevant teams and athletes, both in Puerto Rican history and now. Several articles are available both in English and Spanish. This item has been collected by the DLLACS collection at the Latin American & Caribbean Studies Library.
• Cuadernos del Mundial
  This website provides visual and writing material critically analyzing the 2018 FIFA World Cup considering its political, social, and cultural dimensions. The effort replicates a similar one produced for the previous World Cup in 2014, in Brazil. The site is published by the Latin American Council of Social Sciences (Consejo Latinoamericano de Ciencias Sociales, CLACSO), a very influential network of Latin American scholars and think tanks developing critical scholarship in and about a wide variety of Latin American issues. One of the CLACSO's working groups is "Sports, public policies, and society (Deporte, políticas públicas y sociedad) and their members feed this website. The material available includes a periodical about the FIFA World Cup, as well as videos, and audios. The material produced about the 2014 FIFA World Cup is also available. It has been collected by the DLLACS collection at the Latin American & Caribbean Studies Library.
• CINEfoot
  This is the official website of CINEfoot -Festival de Cinema de Futebol that since 2010 has been exhibiting movies, documentaries, and short films exclusively focused on football not only produced in Brazil, but worldwide, portraying football idols and events from Brazil, such as Pelé and Nilton Santos, but also internationally recognized, such as Messi, Ronaldo, Forlan, Gascoigne, or Cruyff. The webpage provides information about all the festivals' edition since the first one, in 2010, including the titles and sinopsis of every film showed, every year. Most of the information is in Portuguese, but the sinopsis of each film is also available in English. CINEfoot also has a YouTube channel that includes trailers. It has been collected by the DLLACS collection at the Latin American & Caribbean Studies Library.
• Olympic World Library
  The Olympic World Library is a library maintain and supported by the Olympic Studies Centre, part of the International Olympic Committee. The IOC Olympic Studies is the world source of reference for Olympic knowledge and this library is simultaneously a library catalogue, an information portal and a search engine for Olympic knowledge. In particular, the Center holds valuable collections, including the IOC’s historical archives that offers over a kilometer of documents retracing the history of the IOC and the Olympic Movement from 1894 to the present day. It also provides access to 30,000 publications and 450 journals. The website is available in French and English. It has been collected by the DLLACS collection at the Latin American & Caribbean Studies Library.
• LA84 Sports Library and Digital Collection
  The LA84 Foundation maintains a traditional paper-based library as well as a growing digital library. Together, these collections cover all aspects of sports, with a particular emphasis on Olympic information. The LA84 Foundation was created with a share of the 1984 Olympic Games surplus and since 1985 has been supporting hundreds of non-profit youth sports organizations throughout Southern California annually, trains coaches, commissions research, convenes conferences and maintains the world’s premier Olympic and sports library collection. Although the interface is in English, the collection contains material originally published in other languages, such as French. The material is available in formats such as.pdf, .ps, .doc, .xls, .ppt, and .rtf. This resource has been collected by the DLLACS collection at the Latin American & Caribbean Studies Library.
• La Vida Baseball
  "La Vida Baseball" is a multi-media website produced in association with the National Baseball Hall of Fame. Its purpose is to celebrate Latino baseball and it includes material such as articles, video-essays, photographs, and interviews. "La Vida Baseball" is supported and published by a team integrated by both sports scholars and media practitioners. The editor in chief is Adrian Burgos Jr., a Professor of History at the University of Illinois. "La Vida..." has been collected by the DLLACS collection at the Latin American & Caribbean Studies Library.
• Biblioteca Digital de Chile - Deportes
  The Digital Library of Chile has digitized several periodicals from their sports collections. Sources include different newspapers and magazines covering different sports from the early 20th century.
• The H-Sport Archive Project: Latin American Collections
  This project from H-Sport compiles and annotates archival collections throughout the world relevant to the scholarly research about sports in Latin America and the Caribbean. While many sports museums and sports organizations are well-known to scholars in the field, the H-Sport Archive Project highlights sports collections held at non-sport archives. The collections highlighted on the website and updated by 2017 are originally published in English, Spanish, or Portugues. It has been collected by the DLLACS collection at the Latin American & Caribbean Studies Library. The website "Archive Project: Latin American Collections" is open access. However, the museums, archives, libraries, or exhibitions the site highlights have their own access rights policies. Therefore, scholars interested in using the collections collected by the H-Sport should consult contact the archive directly regarding visiting the archive and any specific regulations pertaining to accessing the collections.