LibGuides: Latin American Studies: Mexico

Online Links to Government and Other Mexican Research Resources

Mexican Republic (Federal) Government Website
Click on "Dependencias" to get to:
+ 19 separate government agency websites (dependencias), including: Gobernación; Relaciones Exteriores; Defensa Nacional; Marina; Hacienda y Crédito Público; Desarrollo Social; Medio Ambiente y Recursos Naturales; Energía; Economía; Educación; Agricultura, Ganadería, Desarrollo Rural, Pesca y Alimentación; Comunicaciones y Transportes; Función Pública; Salud; Trabajo y Previsión Social; Desarrollo Agrario, Territorial y Urbano; Turismo; Cultura; Consejería Jurídica del Ejecutivo Federal; Procuraduría General de la República
+ 231 Entidades de la Administracion Publica Federal y Empresas productivas del estado
+ 32 Entidades federativas (Mexican Provinces or States)
Official Website for Chamber of Deputies in Mexico
Official Website for Senate in Mexico
Official Website for Mexican Supreme Court
Official Website for Presidency of the Republic of Mexico

Mexican Legal Research and Laws

[Mexico] AALL Mexican Law and Legal Research Guide
Provided by the Latin American Law Interest Group (AALL)

Digital Libraries and Collections on Mexico

[Mexico] Biblioteca Digital Mexicana

Colaboración del Archivo General de la Nación, La Biblioteca Nacional de Antropología e Historia (INAH), el Centro de Estudios de Historia de México CEHM- Carso, y el Consejo Nacional para la Cultura y las Artes para crear una biblioteca digital multi-institucional mexicana que aportará documentos históricos y culturales relevantes de sus fondos, e invitarán a las numerosas bibliotecas y archivos mexicanos.
[Mexico] Bittersweet Harvest: The Bracero Program, 1942-1964

Online Exhibit of the National Museum of American History which examines the Bracero Program, which began as
as a temporary solution to the wartime loss of US workers by bringing Mexicans in to perform agricultural labor on short-term labor contracts.
[Mexico] Colegio de Mexico Recursos Digitales

Digital Collections and Exhibits on various themes -- click on More for the complete list

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[Mexico] The Mexican-American War and the Media 1845-1848

Resource created by Professor Emeritus Linda Arnold, links to transcriptions of newspaper articles, indexes, images, bibliographies, timelines, and official documents related to the 1846-1848 war between the United States and Mexico.
[Mexico] A Nation Emerges: Sixty-five Years of Photography in Mexico

Getty Research Institute Online Research Guide providing digital views of photographs of Mexico from the mid-19th century to the early 20th century, presented with an overview, chronology, photographers' biographies, glossary, bibliography, and list of related holdings.
[Mexico and Central America] Metabase: Bibliografía en Red

Se permite accesar en un solo lugar a recursos bibliográficos de diversas bibliotecas y centros de documentación de Centroamérica y México.

Useful Publications on Mexico

Agenda estadística, Estados Unidos Mexicanos
Call Number: Back copies on Geisel Floor 6 and Most recent copy at Reference Floor2 West HA761 .A26
Publication Date: Aguascalientes, Ags : Instituto Nacional de Estadística, Geografía e Informática,
Anuario estadístico de los Estados Unidos Mexicanos
Call Number: 1930-1976: Microforms, Geisel Floor2 West XX 786, 1977-2009: Geisel Floor6 HA762 .A3
Publication Date: [México] : Secretaría de Programación y Presupuesto, Coordenación General de los Servicios Nacionales de Estadística, Geografía e Informática,
Most Recent Edition available online:
http://www3.inegi.org.mx/sistemas/biblioteca/ficha.aspx?upc=702825169138
Estadísticas históricas de México
Call Number: Geisel Reference Floor 2 West HA765 .E88 1994
Publication Date: Aguascalientes, Ags., México : Instituto Nacional de Estadística, Geografía e Informática, 1994
México en cifras by Sergio Aguayo, editor, con la colaboración de María Yolanda Argüello y Alejandro Cabello
Call Number: Geisel Reference Floor 2 West HA765 .M483 2002
Publication Date: México, D.F. : Editorial Hechos Confiables : Grijalbo, 2002
Mexico data bank = México, banco de datos by Sidney Wise & Hugo Ortiz
Call Number: Geisel: Most recent issue Reference Floor2 West; Past Issues Floor 6 HC131 .M48
Publication Date: México, D.F. : Mexican Financial Advisory Service, 1989-2003
México por entidades federativas by José Silvestre Méndez y Santiago Zorrilla
Call Number: Geisel Reference Floor 2 West HC135 .M52524 1986
Publication Date: México, D.F. : Ediciones Océano, 1986
Mexico : an encyclopedia of contemporary culture and history by Don M. Coerver, Suzanne B. Pasztor, and Robert M. Buffington
Call Number: Geisel Floor 6 F1234 .C67 2004
Publication Date: Santa Barbara, Calif. : ABC-CLIO, 2004
*Also available as ebook
Encyclopedia of modern Mexico by David W. Dent
Call Number: Geisel Reference Floor 2 West F1234 .D364 2002
Publication Date: Lanham, Md. : Scarecrow Press, 2002
Encyclopedia of Mexico : history, society & culture by editor, Michael S. Werner ; cartographer, Tom Willcockson ; indexer, AEIOU, Inc. ; commissioning editor, Robert M. Salkin
Call Number: Geisel Reference Floor West F1210 .E63 1997
Publication Date: Chicago : Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, 1997
Mexico business : the portable encyclopedia for doing business with Mexico by James L. Nolan [and others]
Call Number: Geisel Reference Floor 2 West F1210 .E63 1997
Publication Date: San Rafael, Calif., USA : World Trade Press, 1994
Acronyms commonly used in Mexico by Las Cruces N.M. : Joint Border Research Institute, New Mexico State University, 1987
Call Number: Geisel Reference Floor 2 W HF1002.5 .A37 1987
*Is also included in Haithi Trust with limited searching
Foreign companies in Mexico yearbook
Call Number: Geisel: Most Recent Reference Floor 2 W; Back Copies Floor 6 HG4092.Z65 F67
Publication Date: London, UK : Commercial Intelligence Service, 1999-
The Mexican-American War : an annotated bibliography by compiled and edited by Norman E. Tutorow
Call Number: Geisel Floor 6 E404 .T87
Publication Date: Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 1981
The United States and Mexico at war : nineteenth-century expansionism and conflict by edited by Donald S. Frazier
Call Number: Geisel Reference Floor 2 West E404 .U66 1998
Publication Date: New York : Macmillan Reference USA, 1998
Arquitectura/México (DVD) by Carlos Ríos Garza ; estudio intruductorio, Louise Noelle
Call Number: Geisel Reference Floor 2 W and Floor 1 W NA755 .R49
Publication Date: [México, D.F.] : Facultad de Arquitectura, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, 2008