Spanish Research Seminar Research Guide

Books:

To find books, journal titles and other materials, whether in print or online formats, select the library’s tab CATALOG (or from the library homepage use the down arrow key to highlight the catalog). 

Search tips for the library catalog:

• You can use quotes to combine words together:
                    “Spanish literature”
• You can use an * or an ? to represent a wildcard. The * can represent 0 or many characters. The ? can represent 1 single character:
                    civil* = civil, or civility or civilization, or civilizations
• Boolean Searching: You can use AND, OR, NOT in between words or phrases to combine them with boolean logic.
           (picares* OR humor) AND (quijote OR quixot*) AND criticism

E-Z Borrow and Interlibrary Loan
Interlibrary loan is available for books and journals that are not owned by Falvey. EZ-Borrow is usually faster than interlibrary loan, since the books come from a local library network. EZ-Borrow can be used for books that the Library owns, but that are currently checked out by somebody else.

Reference Books:

• Brower, Keith H.Contemporary Latin American Fiction. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Salem Press, 1989.
  PQ/7082/N7/B76 1989


• Diccionario Oxford de literatura española e hispanoamericana. Barcelona: Critica, 1984.
  PQ/6006/O9518 1984


• Gies, David T. "The Cambridge History of Spanish Literature." The Cambridge History of Spanish Literature. Cambridge University Press, 2004. Cambridge Histories Online. Cambridge University Press. 27 January 2009
  histories.cambridge.org.ps2.villanova.edu/uid=1640/extract?id=chol9780521806183_CHOL9780521806183_root>


• Gies,David T. "The Medieval Period." The Cambridge History of Spanish Literature. Cambridge University Press, 2004. Cambridge Histories Online.
  Cambridge University Press. 23 January 2009 <http://histories.cambridge.org.ps2.villanova.edu/uid=1640/extract?id=chol9780521806183_eg4


• Handbook of Latin American Literature. Ed. David William Foster. 2nd ed. New York: Garland Publishing, Inc., 1992.
  Ref/PQ7081/A1/H36 1992


• Latin American writers / Sole?, Carlos A. and Maria Isabel Abreu, eds. New York : Scribner, c1989.
  PQ7081.A1 L37 1989 3vols


• Gale's Literary Index
  A master index to literary series published by Gale. It combines and cross references more than 130,000 author names (including pseudonyms and variant names) and more than 140,000 titles. For biographical information and critical essays. The library owns the print volumes to many of the titles found in the index. Click on Modern Languages --Reviews to find the series title and its call number.
  Located on 2nd floor, Bound Periodicals

Databases:

• Academic OneFile
  A premier source for peer-reviewed, full-text articles from the world's leading journals and reference sources. With extensive coverage of the physical sciences, technology, medicine, social sciences, the arts, theology, literature and other subjects, Academic OneFile is both authoritative and comprehensive. With millions of articles available in both PDF and HTML full-text with no restrictions, researchers are able to find accurate information quickly. Includes full-text coverage of the New York Times back to 1995.


• Biography Resource Center
  A comprehensive database of biographical information on nearly 220,000 people from around the world, and across all disciplines and subject areas and throughout history. Access to more than 330,000 biographies from respected Gale Group sources with full-text articles available from more than 250 magazines as well as more than 20,000 images, and in-depth coverage of key events.


• Dialnet
  Dialnet (Difusión de Alertas en la Red) es una plataforma de recursos y servicios documentales, cuyo objetivo fundamental se centra en mejorar la visibilidad y el acceso a la literatura científica hispana a través de Internet.


• Feminae: Medieval Women and Gender Index
  Available online. Covers journal articles, book reviews, and essays in books about women, sexuality, and gender during the Middle Ages.


• Handbook of Latin American Studies - HLAS
  The Handbook is a bibliography on Latin America consisting of works selected and annotated by scholars. Edited by the Hispanic Division of the Library of Congress, the multidisciplinary Handbook alternates annually between the social sciences and the humanities. Each year, more than 130 academics from around the world choose over 5,000 works for inclusion in the Handbook. Continuously published since 1936, the Handbook offers Latin Americanists an essential guide to available resources.


• Humanities Full Text
  Indexes and abstracts articles in more than 300 periodicals in archaeology, art , classics, film, folklore, journalism, linguistics, music, the performing arts, philosophy, religion, world history and world literature.


• Iter: Bibliography of Medieval and Renaissance Europe from 400-1700
  A bibliography of more than 300 scholarly journal titles pertaining to the Middle Ages and the Renaissance. 


• JSTOR
  A searchable and browsable archive of full-text core journals in the humanities, social sciences and mathematics.      


• Literature Resource Center.
  Provides access to biographies, bibliographies and critical analysis of authors from every age and literary discipline. The LRC is built on Contemporary Authors Online and Dictionary of Literary Biography Online, containing more than 10,000 biocritical essays on authors and their works written by academic scholars as well as Contemporary Literary Criticism Select.


• MagillOnLiterature Plus
  The MagillOnLiterature Plus is comprised of approximately 30,000 records, more than 1,000 images, and has a glossary of 1,310 literary terms. MagillOnLiterature Plus contains editorially reviewed critical analyses, brief plot summaries, and extended character profiles covering works by more than 8,500 long and short fiction writers, poets, dramatists, essayists, and philosophers. MagillOnLiterature Plus also contains over 6,500 biographical essays on more than 3,500 different authors, including up-to-date lists of each author's principal works.


• MLA International Bibliography of Books and Articles on the Modern Languages and Literatures.
  Produced by the Modern Language Association of America, the MLA International Bibliography indexes critical scholarship on literature, language, linguistics and folklore. Coverage includes journal articles, series, monographs, dissertations, bibliographies, proceedings and other materials. The database includes all records indexed from 1963 to the present, approximately 1,200,000 records.


• Project Muse
  Searchable collection of recent full-text humanities, social science and mathematics journals published by Johns Hopkins University Press.

Style Guides:

• Gibaldi, Joseph.  MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers.  7th ed.  NY:  Modern  Language Association of America, 2009.
  Reference Research Consulting Desk LB2369 .G53 2009
• Research and Documentation Online.
  Guide to the major documentation styles including citing print and electronic resources using MLA Style (Humanities).  The author provides a "Citation at a Glance" in correct work cited format.
• Gale Products: Citing Literature Resource Center and Biography Resource Center.
  Assist in documenting materials from these databases

Citation Software Solutions:

• RefWorks
  Never type a bibliography again! RefWorks will help you easily gather, manage, and store bibliographic citations for all types of information, as well as generate footnotes and bibliographies.

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