Research Guides: GLBL 446/546: Development and Social Change in Latin America: Organizations & Other Web Resources

Find Government Websites & Publications using Google

Enter your topic's keywords and then, in the Search by Site or Domain box, type: your country's country domain extension.

However, you may also need to find the government domain extension, if there is one.

For Francophone countries that is".gouv", e.g. .gouv.sn for Senegal
For Spanish-speaking countries it's ".gob", e.g. .gob.sv for El Salvador
For English-speaking countries, or where English is one of the official languages, or for English-language pages from countries with non-Roman alphabets, try ".gov", e.g. .gov.vn for Viet Nam
In the Language box, pull down the menu and select English
- Some documents will only be in the language of that country, and thus must be searched for in that language.

Organizations & other web sources

Country domain extensions
Use these extensions to restrict a Google (or other search engine) search to sources from a particular country. See "Government Information via Google" to the left for more information.

Sites with Aggregated Information

CIAO: Columbia International Affairs Oline
Foreign affairs-related full-text working papers from university research institutes, occasional papers series from NGOs, foundation-funded research projects, and proceedings from conferences.
ELDIS: Electronic Development and Environment Information System
Online documents on development topics from thousands of sources, available via the Institute for Development Studies (IDS) at the U. of Sussex.
LANIC: the Latin American Network Information Center
LANIC's editorially reviewed directories contain over 10,000 unique URLs, one of the largest guides for Latin American content on the Internet. Especially strong source for government information and NGOs. LANIC ceased updating links in July of 2015.

IGO sites