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ELECTRONIC RESOURCES (Find articles, books, chapters, images, reports, et al.)

General Databases

EBSCOHost Academic Search Elite (Coverage : 1984- | Abstracts | Full-text | Updated: Daily.) Provides full-text for over 1,200 journals (some back to 1990) covering the social sciences, humanities, general science, multi-cultural studies and education. It also has abstracts and indexing for over 3,000 scholarly journals, and over 1,700 are peer-reviewed. The Wall Street journal, New York times, and the Christian Science Monitor are also indexed.

LexisNexis Academic Provides full text news and information on a regional, national, and international level. Especially useful for locating full-text newspaper articles and country profiles.

ProQuest Provides access to ABI/Inform Global (1457 business related titles), Periodical Abstracts Research II (1817 multidisciplinary titles), and Newspapers Abstracts (incl. 90-day NYTimes and Wall St. Journal; 32 titles). Full text and images are provided where available.

Foreign Language and Literature Databases

Arts & Humanities Search (Coverage:1980- Updated weekly.) Indexes more than 1,300 of the world's leading arts and humanities journals and selected articles from more than 5,800 social science and science journals. It indexes articles, bibliographies, editorials, letters, reviews,
and more.

Ethnic Newswatch (Full-text) Contains the complete articles from 100 ethnic newspapers and magazines published in the United States -- more than 95,000 articles, editorials, and reviews. Provides multicultural coverage of subjects of interest to African Americans, Hispanics, Latinos, Chicanos, Native Americans, Asian, Jewish, Arab and European Americans. Searchable in both Spanish and English.

Handbook of Latin American Studies Journals (Coverage : 1935-) A selective annotated bibliography of scholarly works on Latin America. Edited by the Hispanic Division of the Library of Congress, the multidisciplinary Handbook alternates annually between the social sciences and the humanities.

Hispanic American Periodicals Index HAPI Online (Coverage: 1970-) covers worldwide information about Central and South America, Mexico, the Caribbean basin, and Hispanics in the United States-Mexico border region. From analyses of current political, economic, and social issues to unique coverage of Latin American arts and letters, HAPI Online contains complete bibliographic citations to articles, book reviews, documents, original literary works, and other materials appearing in more than 400 key social science and humanities journals published throughout the world.

Humanities Index (Coverage: 1984- updated: Monthly.) Contains citations for more than 300 humanities publications. Covers feature articles, book reviews, interviews, obituaries, bibliographies, fiction, reviews of plays and radio and television programs and more. It does not include letters to the editor, editorials, news, cartoons, and advertising.

Iter gateway to the Middle Ages and Renaissance A bibliography of approximately 230,000 articles and reviews drawn from over 475 medieval and Renaissance journal titles. Updated daily and with more than 60,000 new records added annually, will be of great use to scholars interested in Middle Ages and Renaissance (400-1700).

Johns Hopkins Guide to Literary Theory & Criticism A full-text searchable database of articles on individual critics and theorists, critical and theoretical schools and movements, and the critical and theoretical innovations of specific countries and historical schools.

MLA International Bibliography (Coverage: 1963- updated: Quarterly.) Produced by the Modern Language Association, indexes critical materials on modern language, linguistics, and folklore. Provides access to over 3000 journals and series published worldwide, as well as monographs, working papers, proceedings, and bibliographies.

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WORLD WIDE WEB RESOURCES (Find Web resources.)

Spain, United States, & the American Frontier: Historias Paralelas
A bilingual, multimedia English-Spanish digital library featuring maps, rare books, manuscripts, prints and photographs, and motion pictures from the Library of Congress, courtesy of a 1999/2000 landmark agreement between the United States, Spain's Institucion Columbina and the National Library of Spain. Primary and secondary source materials, browse list tools for each collection, and related exhibitions.

Library of Congress Global Gateway World Culture & Resources: World Library Collections. Linked resources are comprehensive and include international print and electronic information, electronic resources on the nations of the world selected by Library of Congress subject experts, country studies, foreign research guides and legal materials, research opportunities, select items of global importance from the Library's collections, international cyber casts, and so much more.

Project Gutenberg Begun in 1971 by Michael Hart, the Internet's oldest producer of free, fine literature, digitally republished, now has over 6,000 titles in various languages and genres. Select Search option from left vertical menu box, then search by author, title, subject (i.e., language, fiction, poetry, literature), language (i.e., Spanish) or Library of Congress Classification http://www.loc.gov/catdir/cpso/lcco/lcco.html, click on P--Language and Literature, choose appropriate subclass.

Sussex Language Institute Resources for Spanish Studies from the University of Sussex, maintained by Matt Platts. Extensive and varied links to online resources, including Yahoo en español and other Spanish Web gateways, news and media, literature, grammar, language tutorials, dictionaries and sources for additional research on linguistic and cultural development, Spanish studies and current affairs.

Latin American Network Information Center (University of Texas-LANIC) Latin American Web resources, organized by country and/or by subject, including but not limited to education, humanities, libraries and reference, society and culture, and sustainable development.

The Cervantes Project  A comprehensive reference and research site dedicated to the study of Cervantes' works and life. Includes a biography, online texts, the Cervantes International Bibliography Online, images and links.

The WESS Spanish Studies Web
The WESS Spanish Studies Web (Western European Studies Section - Association of College and Research Libraries) provides annotated links to scholarly web resources, both general (including reference shelf and universities, libraries and archives) and subject-specific (including art and architecture, gay and lesbian studies, and literature) collections are well-represented. Electronic text collections of Catalan, Latin, Portuguese and Spanish poetry and literature are linked.

Yamada Web Guide is maintained by the Yamada Language Center at the University of Oregon. Annotated links to Spanish resources available on the Web are categorized by Language Learning, Dictionaries/Spanish Stories, Resources, and Culture.

Your Dictionary.com features multilingual dictionaries, translation tools, foreign language word of the day, grammar, language-related games and more.

Diccionario Anaya de la Lengua Española (95.840 entradas y 171.930 acepciones) Online Spanish language dictionary.

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PRINT RESOURCES

Print Collections

Library of Congress Classification Heading
PQ 6001-8929
Spanish Literature

Spanish literature is located on the 3rd floor in the following Call Number areas:

PQ7081-PQ8560
Spanish America

PQ7000-PQ8929
Provincial, local, colonial, etc.

PQ6651-PQ6676
Literature since 1960

PQ6601-PQ6647
Literature 1868-1960

PQ6501-PQ6575
Literature 1700-1868

PQ6271-PQ6498
Literature to 1700

PQ6171-PQ6174
General collections

PQ6175-PQ6210
Collections of poetry

PQ6217-PQ6239
Collections of drama

PQ6248-PQ6263
Collections of prose

PQ6001-PQ6161
History and criticism

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Select Reference Books

Reference books are located on the 1st floor in the Reference Collection

REF F1408 .L3198 1992
Latin America and the Caribbean : a critical guide to research sources

REF PQ7081 .Z82 1986
Latin American literary authors : an annotated guide to bibliographies

REF PC3911 .Z82 1995
Spanish, Catalan, and Galician Literary Authors of the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries - an annotated guide to bibliographies

REF PC3911 .Z82 1992
Spanish, Catalan, and Galician Literary Authors of the Twentieth Century : an annotated guide to bibliographies

REF PQ6055.F46 2002 Vols. 1-2
The Feminist Encyclopedia of Spanish Literature

REF PQ6115.H17 2000
Index to Twentieth-Century Spanish Plays : in collections, anthologies,
and periodicals

REF PQ6064 .M6 1984
Spanish Literature, 1500-1700 : a bibliography of Golden Age studies

REF PQ6055 .W65 1986
Women Writers of Spain : an annotated bio-bibliographical guide

REF PC4640 .A47 2001
American Heritage Spanish Dictionary

REF PC4640 .S595 1992
Collins Spanish-English, English-Spanish Dictionary

REF PC4445 .H675 1995
El diccionario castellano de ejemplos practicos

REF PC4640 .O93 1996
The Oxford Spanish Dictionary

REF HB61 .K323 1996
Wiley's English-Spanish, Spanish-English Business Dictionary

REF F1406 .C36 1985
The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Latin America and the Caribbean

REF AE61 .E52 1992
Enciclopedia Hispanica

REF AE61 .E6
Enciclopedia Universal Ilustrada Europeo-Americana