This repository has 3,966 bibliographic records about Ibero-American Archival science and practice texts, and also links to 1,761 full texts of those records. This bibliography includes more than 2,300 authors, more than 350 publishers, 70 specialized journals and 200 academic forums.
The central element that made it possible to define the selection criteria was to keep the archival science and practice of the Ibero-American region as central axis of the study. Based on this foundation, the conceptual framework established as documents to be included in this study those with the following characteristics:

- Documents about archival science and practice, excluding all those related more to historiography or eminently historical, where archives are simply a tool but not the main object of study of the text;
- Documents on related subjects and disciplines (informatics, law, etc.), provided that the text is published in archival journals or proceedings and/or in close connection with archival work;
- Documents published between 1986 and 2016;
- Documents produced in the Ibero-American region, i.e., Latin America and the Caribbean, Spain and Portugal, by authors and events from the region, written in Spanish and Portuguese;
- Texts with translations into these languages written by foreign authors outside the region are excluded, with the exception of those written by those authors specifically for an academic event within the region;
- Included are documents in English produced by Ibero-American authors in publications and/or academic events inside or outside the region;
- Included are monographs (books) both personal and collective, chapters in books, scientific and academic articles, conference proceedings, practical reports, didactic texts and offprints. Thesis and dissertations are not included;
- Included are documents comprising legislation, regulations, manuals, recommendations, guides and guidelines, etc. directly related to records and archives;
- Included are texts coming from traditional or electronic formats, provided they are in formal publications, with ISBN, ISSN, and/or from established publishers. Personal blogs, informal or ephemeral electronic publications, etc. are excluded;
- Duplicate texts are omitted, i.e., the same text produced in different publications is considered only once. In monographs, only one edition of the work is included, the most recent one found;
- In regard with academic events (conferences, symposia, seminars, etc.), only those texts that have been published in proceedings or formal publications are considered, regardless of their format (paper, compact disc, on-line, etc.);
- Documents of reports of treatment, salvage, inventories, etc. of specific archives are excluded: regional, state, municipal, personal, organizational, ecclesiastical, etc., when archival science or practice are not the central object of the report;
- Texts on construction of buildings, furniture, fixtures, fumigations, etc. for archives are excluded;
- Excluded are documents smaller than three pages, and those whose content is editorial style, ephemeris, presentations, reviews, notices of events, etc.;
- Excluded are annual or periodic reports, administrative reports, etc., submitted by the archives managers to their superiors.



Mexican National Archives - AGN
Mexico City
Mexico