Background Information
Credo Reference
Credo is an online reference service with access to over 500 titles. Credo
includes subject-specific dictionaries, bilingual dicitonaries, biographical data, statistics, quotations, and audio and image files from more than 50 publishers.
Literary Reference Center
From: EBSCOhost
Literary Reference Center is a full text database that provides users with information on thousands of authors and their works from major respected reference works, books, and literary journals.
Literature Resource Center
From: Gale
Access to biographies, bibliographies, journal articles, and critical analyses of authors from every age and discipline. Includes: Dictionary of Literary Biography
Dictionary of the Literature of the Iberian Peninsula R 860.03 D56 (2 vols)
Ency. of Contemporary Latin American and Caribbean Cultures R 972.9 En1 (3vols)
Latin American Writers R 860.9 L34 (3vols)
Milenios de México (3 vols) 1999 R 972 M975h
Spanish Women Writers: A Bio-bibliographical Source Book R 860.9 Sp2
Articles (magazines / journals)
Recommended databases for finding articles in Foreign Language Literature research topics.
Academic Search Premier
From:EBSCOhost
The world's largest scholarly, multi-disciplinary full text database containing full text for nearly 4,700 publications, including more than 3,600
peer-reviewed publications. Offers indexing and abstracts for nearly 8,200 journals as well as information in nearly every area of academic study.
MLA International Bibliography. New York: Modern Language Association
Coverage: 1926 -
An international database that enables users to find scholarly articles from over 4000 journals on languages, literature, folklore
and linguistics. It is useful for finding literary criticism on particular authors or work, as well as information on literary theory or time periods.
Although most of the articles are in english at least 70 other languages are represented including Spanish.
JSTOR.
Full text articles from journals in many subject areas.
These interdisciplinary databases cover a number of topics related to the humanities.
Arts & Humanities Citation Index in Web of Knowledge
From: Institute for Scientific Research (ISI)
Coverage: 1988 - current
As part of the Web of Science, the Arts & Humanities Citation Index is a multidisciplinary index covering the journal literature of the arts and humanities. For search help
you may access: Web of Science tutorial or Web-Based Training
Clase Periódica
Index of Latin American journals in the arts and humanities
Handbook of Latin American Studies (HLAS)
Washington, D.C.: Library of Congress
Humanities International Complete
From: EBSCOhost
A comprehensive database of humanities content, providing full text of hundreds of journals, books, and other published sources from around the world.
ITER: Gateway to the Middle Ages and Renaissance.
Centre for Reformation and Renaissance Studies of the University of Toronto.
Coverage:400 - 1700
A database that provides access to published materials pertaining to the Middle Ages and Renaissance (400-1700)
Articles (newspapers)
Academic Universe
Full-text newspapers; some in Spanish. Includes El País and El Mundo.
Foreign Language Newspapers
List of newspapers from the Internet Public Library
International Newspapers
Newspapers on the web (Spain)
Newspapers and News (LANIC, Latin American Information Network Center)
Books
Meredith College Library Catalog.
Keyword searches may be limited to materials in Spanish
In a keyword search remember to try searching Spanish words. Some examples are:
poesía
literatura and feminista
Subject heading searches may help to locate books on broad topics
Some examples of Library of Congress subject headings are:
Spanish poetry
Spanish American poetry
Spanish literature
Spanish fiction
Spain--History
WorldCAT
Website from: OCLC
Search the collections of libraries in your community and thousands more around the world.
Two different search interfaces are available, WorldCAT (new user-friendly website from OCLC)
and WorldCAT (OCLC First Search)
Handbook of Latin American Studies (HLAS)
Washington, D.C.: Library of Congress
Biblioteca Nacional de España
National Library of Spain
Libraries on the Web
Library catalogs in Mexico, the Caribbean, Central America, and South America
Dictionaries
Search for Spanish language
dictionaries in the Carlyle Campbell Library
Dictionaries from El Mundo
Statistics
Instituto Nacional de Estadística (National Statistics Institute, Madrid)
Ministerio de Cultura (España)
Statistics: Latin American Network Information Center (LANIC)
Regional and country specific statistics
World Factbook
From: CIA
Political, social and economic data on countries of the world
Suggested Internet Resources
Cervantes Project
Flamenco World
I Love Languages
Iberian Studies Web
Latin American Network Information Center (LANIC)
Maps of Spain
Santiago de Compostela
Si, Spain / Si, España
Terra
A Spanish language search engine and directory
Universidade de Santiago de Compostela
