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Introduction

With the rapid growth of the Internet has come a number of sites that exclusively serve the Hispanic/Latino community. Here listed are just a few sites that offer information as well as links to other sites. You may also use many of the search engines currently available. One great site is Search.com by c|net. One of its best features is that it places some of the major search engines like Yahoo, Alta Vista, Magellan, and Excite all on one page. It is located at http://www.search.com. Keywords that may be used for finding additional sources may include Hispanic, Latino, Chicano, Spanish, Tejano, and Mexican American.

Starting Points

Hispanic Health

A Hispanic Center of Excellence WWW page maintained by Baylor College of Medicine, in partnership with UT Pan-Am. This site contains links to online medical reference materials and resources.
http://www.rice.edu/projects/HispanicHealth/Internetres/resourceindex.html

LANIC

Latin American Network Information Center. Managed by the Institute of Latin American Studies at the University of Texas at Austin. Great country and subject directories.
http://lanic.utexas.edu/

LatinoWeb

LatinoWeb is a virtual information center for Latino businesses, non-profit organizations and the community. This site includes information on art, music, business, education, history, and links to other Hispanic resources. Also contains an extensive newspaper and magazine list.
http://www.catalog.com/favision/latnoweb

Locating Spanish Language Health Information on the World Wide Web

This resource is organized by health topic and contains a variety of patient education resources written in Spanish.
http://nnlm.gov/scr/techsheets/spanish.htm

Salud En Accion: National Hispanic/Latino Health Communication Research

The site offers comprehensive information about the Hispanic/Latino health communication research activities that the Center has been engaged in for several years under the leadership of Amelie G. Ramirez, DrPH.
Featured on the Salud En Accion web site are "fact sheets" describing 13 current and three past research initiatives, as well as historical data and publications that are available in video, audio and print media format. The projects are categorized under breast cancer, community-based, genetics education/clinical trials recruitment, and tobacco prevention and control. Among the current initiatives is Redes En Accion: The National Hispanic/Latino Cancer Network.
http://www.saludenaccion.org

Educational Materials

Recursos Educacionales en Español para Medicina de Emergencia (REEME)

This Spanish-language project provides free on-line teaching tools for emergency physicians; other physicians needing emergency medical education; nursing and paramedical personnel; and students in emergency care settings.

Statistics

CLNet

Out of the University of California. CLNet is part of the Chicano/Latino Electronic Network (CLEN) and contains statistics on the Hispanic population. It also provides information on the leading Latino research collections.
http://latino.sscnet.ucla.edu/index.html

United States Census Bureau

The Census Bureau collects data about the people and economy of the United States.
http://www.census.gov

Electronic Journals

Hispanic Online

The web site of Hispanic Magazine based in Austin, Texas. Includes selected articles on current news, events and issues of interest to the Hispanic community. You can also find the list of the Hispanic 100. The top one hundred U.S. companies providing the most opportunities for Hispanics.
http://www.hisp.com/

La Prensa de San Antonio

Online paper published here in San Antonio. Stories are written in English and Spanish.
http://www.laprensa.com/

Business

HACR

Hispanic Association on Corporate Responsibility. They produced this site to link Corporate America to the Hispanic community. Includes addresses to Hispanic organizations. Produced out of Washington, DC.
http://www.hacr.org/

National Hispanic Business Association

A national network of alumni and students whose mission is to address educational and business issues related to Hispanics. The association is located in Austin, Texas.
http://www.nhba.org

San Antonio Hispanic Chamber of Commerce

A directory of its members.
http://www.sahcc.org

Directories of Hispanics and Organizations

Hispanic Experts Database

A searchable database of registered, professional Hispanics.
http://galaxy.einet.net/hytelnet/FUL078.html

Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers

SHPE is a non-profit organization dedicated to increasing the participation of Hispanics professionals and college students in the fields of engineering and science.
http://www-inst.eecs.berkeley.edu/~hes/