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Emily Paladino & Maria Hunt 311 Marriott Library 585-0542  (library subject specialist) | U of U  Spanish Department | Carolyn Morrow (Department Representative)

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MLA International Bibliography
Produced by the Modern Language Association, the MLA Biblography consists of bibliographic records pertaining to literature, language, linguistics, and folklore, and includes coverage from 1963 to the present. It provides access to scholarly research in over 3,000 journals and series. It also covers relevant monographs, working papers, proceedings, bibliographies, and other formats. While its focus is on English Language literature, it also includes a large number of references to Spanish Language literature.

Project Muse
Full text of nearly 250 scholarly journals from 40 publishers, from the Johns Hopkins University Press. Project Muse covers literature, history, cultural studies, the arts, and many other areas; while its literature coverage is primarily English Language literature journals, many of them have a substantial number of references to Spanish Language literature.

Latin American Studies, Volume 1
Over 550,000 multi-disciplinary bibliographic citations from the Nettie LeeBenson Latin American Collection (UT-Austin), the Hispanic-American Periodicals Index (HAPI) and volume 50 of the Handbook of Latin American Studies.

Latin American Studies, Volume 2
Access to bibliographic records, abstracts and detailed summaries in business, political, legal, social, and economic trends of the entire Latin American region from journals, news magazines, newspapers, and newsletters.

Chicano Database: The Chicano Database identifies all types of material on Mexican-American topics. Updated quarterly, the Chicano Database covers at least 1967 to the present. Records added since 1992 have expanded its scope to include the broader Latino experience, including Puerto Ricans, Cuban Americans, and Central American immigrants

Literature Resource Center: This database includes biographies, bibliographies, and critical analyses of authors from every literary period & literary discipline; provides electronic access to current Gale reference sources such as Contemporary Authors, Contemporary Literary Criticism, and Latin American Writers.

LexisNexis Academic: News Section: Provides full-text access to a variety of news publications, and there is a Spanish language news option. Newspaper coverage includes El País (España), El Mundo (España), El Universal (Mexico), and La Nacion (Argentina)

Latin American Data Base
The Latin America Data Base (LADB) is an on-line publisher and information resource. LADB produces three weekly electronic publications (SourceMex, NotiCen and NotiSur).

America: History & Life and Historical Abstracts via ABC-CLIO, http://serials.abc-clio.com:81 Access to journals, dissertations and some monographs in history. North America (including Mexico) is covered in America: History & Life; South America is covered in Historical Abstracts.


 

ADDITIONAL LIBRARY RESOURCES return to top

Encyclopedias and Dictionaries are found in the General Reference stacks at P

Diccionario de Literatura Espanola e Hispanoamericana.
Briefly discusses Spanish and Latin American Authors, works, and literary terms.
Gen Ref. PQ6006.D6.

Encyclopedia of Latin American Literature.
An authorative work covering genres, biographical information, bibliographies, and literary topics important in Latin American Literature. Gen Ref. PQ7081.A1 E56.

Latin American Writers.
A three-volume set providing scholarly entries with bibliographies on Latin American writers from the late fifteenth century to the present. Gen Ref. PQ7081.A1 L37.

Oxford Companion to Spanish Literature.
An alphabetical collection of entries for authors, works, and concepts in Spanish language literature. Gen Ref. PQ6006.O93.

Sourcebook for Hispanic Literature and Language.
A selected, anotated guide to Spanish, Spanish-American, and U.S. Hispanic bibliography.
Science Reference Z2695.A2 B55 1995

WEB LINKS return to top
Centro Virtual Cervantes
This is an important site for Spanish culture, literature,and language.

Biblioteca Nacional de Espana
This is the home page for the national library of Spain enabling one to search their collections.

LANIC
Lanic is the acronym for Latin American Network Information Center, a regional directory of internet-based information on, from, or about Latin America. It is affiliated with the Institute of Latin American Studies at the University of Texas at Austin.

Internet Resources for Latin America
A collection of links to resources of interest to Latin American specialists.Search Engines in Spanish: Yahoo or Lycos or Ozu, a popular Spanish search tool.

Handbook of Latin American Studies- HLAS is produced by the Hispanic Division of the Library of Congress and is provided FREE OF CHARGE to web users worldwide. Together with subscription resources such as HAPI, LADB, InfoLatinoamerica and others, it is one of the most important tools for scholarly research on Latin America. It provides abstracts and complete bibliographic information for published materials from and about Latin America on a wide range of topics in the humanities and social sciences and covers more than 60 years of scholarly literature in Latin American studies.

WESS Iberian Language and Literature Web --The purpose of this site is to provide access to scholarly resources in Iberian language and literature; the resources categorized on this web page have undergone a selection process.

LIBRO--Library of Iberian Resources Online, Contains full text of recent, but out-of-print university press monographs, published in English, that discuss the peoples and nations of the Iberian peninsula. Beginning with the Hispanic Middle Ages, ca. 500 to 1500 it will eventually cover the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. A joint project of the American Academy of Research Historians of Medieval Spain and the University of Central Arkansas.

Poesias
A large collection of Spanish poets and their work.

Resources for Spain
This site presents a multitude of links to Spanish organizations, publishers, universities, bibliographic resources, and history sites.

Cervantes Project

This is a comprehensive research and reference site dedicated to the life and work of Cervantes.

Selected Latin American Collections in U.S. Libraries:
Benson Latin American Collection, University of Texas
Duke University Latin American Collection
Interamerican Development Bank Library
Latin American Library, Tulane University
Princeton: Latin America, Spain & Portugal
Stanford University, Latin American & Iberian Collections
University of California--Berkeley, Latin American Studies
University of New Mexico Libraries: Latin American and Iberian Collections and Resources
Latin American Collection at Yale University
University of Florida, Center for Latin American Studies
University of Illinois, Latin American Library
University of Massachusetts, Latin American Studies
Basque Studies Library, University of Nevada--Reno
Vanderbilt: Resources for Latin American Studies

MEXICO: Direccion General de Bibliotecas: Catalogos Globales
The libraries of the UNAM provide several unique databases of research material through their online system. Through
this one page, the user has access to LIBRIUNAM, the holdings of the library; SERIUNAM: the Catálogo
Hemerográfico Nacional; TESIUNAM: Catálogo de Tesis. CLASE: analyzes the contents of over 1000 social
sciences and humanities journals; PERIODICA covers journals in science and technology. For more information on the
these databases, contact, Octavio Alonso, Latin American Bibliography, DGB-UNAM, oalonso@servidor.unam.mx

Voice of the Shuttle
List of links in Spanish and Latin American literature including links to individual author pages.

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