The National Autonomous University of México: leader institution in the production of the databases of Latin American information

Abstract

The databases generated in the institutes and centers of the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM) are analyzed, where the scientific knowledge published in the countries of Latin America, Caribbean, Spanish and Portuguese journals on Humanities and Social Sciences is referred. Methodology. From the review of the web pages of the institutes that approach these disciplines, we identified some databases. We interview the persons in charge of the development of the databases to obtain information about the content, level of analysis, number of records, software, products and services. This paper describes, the characteristics, subject and geographic coverage, services and forms of access to these data bases. The databases analyzed are IRESIE, iberoamerican education database; CLASE (Latin American Citation Index in Social Sciences and Humanities) PERIODICA; (Index to Latin American Sciences Journals); FILOS (Mexican Philosophy); and INFOBILA (Latin American Library and Information Sciene); and LATINDEX (Regional system of online information for science journals of Latin America, Caribe, Spain and Portugal).