Couse Reserves
Find Images You Have Permission to Use
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Labeling and citing images
Even when the images you use are copyright free, you should acknowledge the creator and indicate the source.
- For examples of using MLA style to fully cite images you use in a research paper, click here: citing images
Please be aware of legal restrictions on the use of images. Boston University has a useful webpage on Image Copyright .
Printing Posters
Student Media Services (Main Floor, Valley Library): production and printing services funded by student activity fees.
Selected Web Sources
LANIC Latin American Network Information Center Includes links to regional and country resources, many dealing with human rights and legal issues.
Derechos: Human Rights in Latin America Includes reports on specific countries.
Human Rights in Latin America CIA Freedom of Information Act. Most of the documents concern El Salvador and Guatemala, but the collection also contains records on other countries documenting human rights violations.
Nunca Mas CONADEP (National Commission on the Disappeared) Report. Argentina
The Vanished Gallery Described as "a humble attempt to bring the voices of the desaparecidos and their loved ones to the world. The vanishing was swift, a burst into a home at night, a few minutes and they were gone - not enough time to be heard. We owe it to them."
Professor Chavarria recommends:
- NACLA Report on the Americas Magazine published by the North American Congress on Latin America. You can search for specific articles using Academic Search Premier.
- Democracy Now! News and Television programs: transcripts, podcasts, video. In English and Spanish.

Desaparecidos. Photograph by pablodf, 2008.Flickr Commons
Books
OSU Libraries Catalog Books in Valley Library and OSU branch libraries. If a book isn't available from OSU, use "Try Summit Libraries" to borrow it from another library.
Summit/WorldCat Catalog Request books not available at OSU and have them sent to Valley Library, usuall within 3-4 working days.
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Suggest a book you'd like the library to get.
Articles Research Databases
Many of these databases include the full text of articles. If a title isn't available online in the database, use the 360 Link to Full Text to locate it at Valley or see if it's available online through another vendor. Show me how!
- Academic Search Premier : all subjects, journals & magazines.
- Fuente Academica: academic journals from Latin American publishers
- HLAS Online: Handbook of Latin American Studies . Searchable database of scholary sources in Latin Amerian studies, compiled by the Hispanic Division of the Library of Congress.
- LexisNexis Academic : newspaper and magazine articles, radio and tv news transcripts. Include Spanish language titles.
- Project Muse : full text journals from university presses
- JSTOR : archive of full text journals
Course Instructor
Loren Chavarria , Senior Instructor of Spanish & Spanish for Heritage Language Learners Program Director
Office: Kidder 142D
Phone: 541-737-3954
Subject Librarian
- Loretta Rielly
- Office Hours:
3rd Floor, Valley Library By appointment - Contact Info:
541-737-2642
Style Guides & Writing Resources
Writing resources at OSU
Writing Center
Style Guides
Research and Documentation Online
Citation Builders
Online Citation Builder (Univ of N. Carolina Libraries)
Last Update: September 17, 2009 11:42 | Tagged with: Spanish human rights Latin America
