World Scholar Historical Archive: Latin America

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Overview

World Scholar Historical Archive: Latin America [1]provides access to 1.3 million pages of primary and secondary sources from Latin America from the 15th century to present day.

It includes:

US State Department records on Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Cuba, Guatemala, Haiti, Mexico and more
Conquistadors: The Struggle for Colonial Power in Latin America, 1492-1825
Newspapers and journals from Latin Ameria
and more

Provider:

Gale [2]

Posted:

Oct 14, 2016 1:42pm

Updated:

Jul 1, 2020 12:05am

Source

Information provided here is drawn from a number of sources, and may not yet have been fully verified by CRL.

Details

Collection Content

Subject Areas:

Arts and Humanities

Social Sciences

Resource Types:

Archival materials

Digital images

Economic information

Government publications

Government records

News databases

Newspapers

Television broadcasting

Video recordings

Specifications

Metadata:


MARC records available	No
Creator of MARC records	OCLC for most collections, Backstage Library works for a small number of earlier produced GPS collections
Source for obtaining MARC records	some expanded records built from existing records in film, fiche or physical form, however most created new for the GPS product, and ECCO totally rebuilt by the ESTC MARC Record Committee
Fee for MARC records	Varies by collection, by number of records
Subject authorities used	Library of Congress Subject Headings
Name authorities used	Library of Congress Name Authority Headings

Technical Platform:


Browser compatibility	All
Authentication options	Geo, IP, IP Proxy, User/Pass
Archiving solution (master files)	Master images and XML files archived on external hard drives as well as redundant highly
Archiving solution (derivative files)	Portico archives both the derivative product images and source XML
Available in web discovery tools	Yes
Open url target	Available for all archives on GPS cross search https://support.gale.com/technical/openurl [3]
Federated searching, z39.50	Selected archives https://support.gale.com/technical/sru_supported_databases [4]
Local host option	Not available
Usage stats based on Counter code	Yes

Interface Tools:


		Comments
Full text displayed	Yes
Page images	Yes
Color images	Yes - most collections
Search full text	Yes - most collections	Manuscript content is in conversion for this process, but presently is metadata searchable
Advanced search	Yes
Search within results	Yes
Limit results by dates and/or document types	Yes
Display highlighted search terms	Yes
Display snippet (search term in context)	Yes
Relevance sorting	Yes
Save searches	Yes
Download PDF	Yes
Download HTML	Yes	XML scanned OCR content can be downloaded
Print page	Yes
Print full document	Yes
Export citations	Yes
Annotation tools	Yes
Cross-product searching	Yes	Yes, via the Gale Primary Sources (formerly Artemis) platform
ILL permitted	Yes	In smaller, controlled amounts
Text/data mining permitted	Yes	Available for most GPS collections - Gale is yet formatting and converting content to make this available for all collections - such as manuscript options and other challenging XML conversation collections
Restrictions on use	No	Use allowances are standard to the industry - for educational purposes with no re-purposing for commercial applications, etc.

Terms and Provider Details

Terms:


		Comments
Subscription option	No subscription options
Purchase option	Yes - one-time purchase
Multiple year payments option	Yes
Maintenance fees	No
Annual supplement	No, except for 4 collections - see comments	The Economist \| The Times Literary Supplement \| US De-Classified Documents \| Smithsonian + Air&Space Magazine Archives
Hosting charges	Yes, unless hosting cap levels is met	Hosting Cap - a set monetary level of aggregate existing fees from past GPS collection purchases that precludes any future additional hosting fees being acrued by the purchase of other Gale Primary Sources collections - many CRL accounts are capped and receive no new hosting fees when they acquire additional GPS collections
Archiving	PORTICO	All GPS collections are included in Portico, and GPS buying institutions need not participate in Portico to benefit from any "trigger event" to have continued access to GPS collections they purchased

Provider:

Gale [2]

Website:

http://www.cengage.com/us/ [5]

Main Address:

27500 Drake Road

Farmington Hills, MI 48331-3535

United States

CRL Offers & Status

Status	Current	Description
CRL Flagged	no	Potential interest to CRL community
Offer Pending	no	Currently a candidate for CRL offer
Active Offer	no	Currently offered for purchase or new subscription
Trial Access	no	Available for trial
Renewal Offer	no	Currently offered for renewal
Expired Offer	yes	Past offers
Inactive / Declined	no	No longer under consideration by CRL
Reviewed by CRL	no	Evaluation available by CRL and community
Special Access	no	Member-only access available for a limited time

The complete offer and activity details for this resource are only available to CRL members.

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