Cuban Periodicals in the
University of Pittsburgh Libraries
Compiled by
Eduardo Lozano and Martha E. Mantilla
Last updated 06/23/05
Within the framework of the Latin American program at the University of Pittsburgh there has been a sustained interest in Cuban studies in all fields of the Social Sciences and the Humanities, particularly on contemporary Cuba. Reflecting this interest, the Center for Latin American Studies has offered several courses and seminars, sponsored research projects, and published books and periodicals on Cuba, making it one of the major and more active centers of Cuban studies in the United States.
To support these studies and research the University of Pittsburgh Library has made and continues to make substantial efforts to develop a Cuban collection as complete and up-to-date as possible through intensive acquisitions and through an extensive program of exchanges with Cuban institutions and governmental departments such as the Biblioteca Nacional José Martí, Casa de las Américas, Universidad de La Habana, Universidad de Oriente, Universidad de Las Villas, Unión Nacional de Escritores y Artistas de Cuba, Junta Central de Planificación, Archivo Nacional, Academia de Ciencias de Cuba, INRA, Centro de Estudios sobre América, etc. In this respect we should emphasize the continued cooperation of the Cuban institutions that have helped us to keep abreast of the surprisingly vast amount of Cuban publications.
To make its important resources available to the community of scholars, and to other libraries and centers of Latin American studies, the University of Pittsburgh Libraries issued in 1985 the fourth edition of a list of periodicals published in Cuba, which included 420 titles. Since then our resources have been increased to such an extent that we consider it useful to publish a continuously update the listing in the Collection's web page.
The list includes 552 titles currently received or inactive. The entries have been numbered on the left margin, and the subject index refers to that numbering.
Although the list includes mainly periodicals, some serials such as annual reports, yearbooks, and statistical serials have been included. Some numbered monographic serials, such as the scientific and technological series issued on a regular basis by the Cuban universities, have also been included, but no attempt at a broader coverage of serials has been made.
Each entry includes the following information: title or corporate author; source of publication; place of publication; beginning and ending dates of publication; periodicity; notes about the publication; location; and holdings.
If no location is given the periodical is in Hillman Library. Other locations include:
- FALK, Maurice and Laura Falk Library.
- ILIC, School of Library and Information Science Library.
- WESTERN PSYCH, Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic
