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Books

The Library uses the Library of Congress shelving arrangement.

To search the HELIN catalog using select LC Subject headings, use the specific term first followed by the term, Spanish. For example, use, without the quotes, 'Arts, Spanish' not 'Spanish Arts' or 'Women poets, Spanish' not 'Spanish women poets'. If your searching for materials relating to a geographical area, follow the same format.

When searching for information on historical events, such as the Spanish Civil War of 1936-1939, the use of the term 'Spain' achieves better results. For example, use, 'Spain, History, Civil War' not 'Spanish Civil War'.

For a listing of LC Subject headings, the library has a complete set of the Library of Congress Subject Headings available at the ready reference desk of the Information Station.

 

Basic Reference Sources including Dictionaries and Encyclopedias

Location

 
Diccionario de literatura española e hispanoamericana / dirigido por Ricardo Gullón ; prólogo de Fernando Lázaro Carreter ; asesores, Pedro Cátedra ... [et al.] (1993) Ref PQ6006 .D6 1993
The Oxford companion to Spanish literature / edited by Philip Ward (1978)

Ref PQ6006 .O95

Bibliografía fundamental sobre la literatura española : fuentes para su estudio / Francisco Muñoz Marquina (2003) Ref PQ6032 .M86 2003  
Modern Spanish and Portuguese literatures / compiled and edited by Marshall J. Schneider, Irwin Stern (1988) Ref PQ6072 .M57 1988
Motif-index of folk narratives in the Pan-Hispanic romancero / by Harriet Goldberg (2000) Ref PQ6091 .G57 2000
The Cervantes encyclopedia / Howard Mancing (2004) Ref PQ6337 .A2 2004
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra : a critical bibliography / by Dana B. Drake (1968) Ref PQ6337 .D73 1968  
Encyclopedia of Latin American literature / Verity Smith, editor (1997) Ref PQ7081.A1 E56 1997    
Latin American writers / edited by Carlos A. Solé and Maria Isabel Abreu (1998) Ref PQ7081.A1 L37 1989  
Literary cultures of Latin America : a comparative history / edited by Mario J. Valdés and Djelal Kadir (2004) Ref PQ7081.A1 L525 2004
Masterpieces of Latino literature / edited by Frank N. Magill Ref PQ7081.A1 M29 1994
Latin American writers on gay and lesbian themes : a bio-critical sourcebook / edited by David William Foster (1994) Ref PQ7081.3 .F62 1994
Hispanic writers : a selection of sketches from Contemporary authors / Scot Peacock, senior editor (1999) Ref PQ7081.3 .H58 1999
Latin American literature and its times / by Joyce Moss and Lorraine Valestuk (1999) Ref PQ7081 .M625 1999
Encyclopedia of Latin American theater / edited by Eladio Cortés and Mirta Barrea-Marlys (2003) Ref PQ7082.D7 E63 2003
Latin American dramatists since 1945 : a bio-bibliographical guide / Tony A. Harvell (2003) Ref PQ7082.D7 H37 2003
Contemporary Latin American fiction : an annotated bibliography / Keith H. Brower (1989) Ref PQ7082.N7 B76 1989
The Latin American short story : an annotated guide to anthologies and criticism / compiled by Daniel Balderston (1992) Ref PQ7082.S5 B3 1992
Contemporary Spanish American poets : a bibliography of primary and secondary sources / compiled by Jacobo Sefamí (1992) Ref PQ7084 .S44 1992
Biographical dictionary of Hispanic literature in the United States : the literature of Puerto Ricans, Cuban Americans, and other Hispanic writers / edited by Nicolás Kanellos (1989) Ref PQ7420.2 .K3 1989
Bibliographic guide to Gabriel García Márquez, 1992-2002 / compiled by Nelly Sfeir V. de Gonzalez (2003) Ref PQ8180.17.A73 Z459 2003

 

Find Articles and Other Materials

Select Phillips Memorial Library Indexes and Databases

ClasePeriodica

 

 

 

CLASE indexes documents published in Latin American journals specializing in the social sciences and humanities. PERIODICA covers journals specializing in science and technology.



Contains information from articles, essays, book reviews, monographs, conference proceedings, technical reports, interviews and brief notes published in journals edited in 24 different countries of Latin America and the Caribbean , as well as from publications that focus on Pan-Americanism.
Worldwide Political Science Abstracts  

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Combines Political Science Abstracts and ABC POL SCI index.
PAIS International 1972+

 

Contains articles, reports and other documents that deal with public affairs, including French related information.  

ISI Emerging Markets

 

 

Internet Securities, Inc. uses more than 4400 world sources to provide current news, legal and political information, company/industry information and macroeconomic statistics and forecasts for markets in the primarily emerging areas of Europe, Latin America and Asia.

 

Humanities International Index

 

 

A comprehensive database covering journals, books and other important reference sources in the humanities. Provides cover-to-cover indexing and abstracting for over 2,000 titles and contains more than 2 million records. 

 

General

Lexis-Nexis Academic

 

Provides access to comprehensive news, business, and legal information.

 

Academic Search Premier

 

Indexes and links to actual articles in major scholarly journals including global studies and related disciplines

Online Journals and Serials

 

Hosted by the Latin American Network Information Center, this site has links to newspapers in Latin America and around the world.

Full Text Newspapers from Latin America (UTLANIC)

Complied by the Massachusetts Institute of Technogy Library, this listing contains select links to Spanish language newspapers and magazines.

Spanish Language News and Magazines (MIT)
The Handbook is a bibliography on Latin America consisting of works selected and 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. HLAS online : handbook of Latin American studies

 

 

Latin American Perspectives, founded in 1974, is a theoretical and scholarly journal for discussion and debate on the political economy of capitalism, imperialism, and socialism in the Americas. Most issues focus on a single problem, nation, or region, providing an in-depth look from participants and scholars throughout the Americas.

Latin American Prespectives

 

 

Latin American Politics and Society publishes original research dealing with contemporary Latin American politics, economics, sociology, and US-Latin American relations.

Latin American Politics and Society

 

The Latin American Research Review (LARR) is an interdisciplinary journal that publishes original research and surveys of current research on Latin America and the Caribbean.

Latin American Research Review

 

The Hispanic Review is a quarterly journal devoted to research in the Hispanic languages and literatures. Contains articles in both English and Spanish. v. 1 - 25 , 1933-1957. (Suppl. to v. 25 ) v. 1. Also in print: see below.

Hispanic Review

 

 

Hispania is devoted to the teaching of Spanish and Portuguese, published by the American Association of Teachers of Spanish and Portuguese, Inc.

Contains articles in both English and Spanish.

Also in print: see below.

Hispania

 

 

The Hispanic American Historical Review (HAHR) publishes in-depth articles featuring original research and pathbreaking analysis from top scholars. Also contains comprehensive book review section, which provides commentary on every facet of scholarship on Latin American history and culture.

Also in print: see below.

The Hispanic American Historical Review (HAHR)

 

 

Print Journals

 

 
Latinamerica press - The English language publication of Noticias Aliadas. PC Periodicals v.18(1986)- incomplete

Check Helin for the latest issue.

 

Hispanic Review - Check HELIN for the latest issue.

Hispania -

Check HELIN for the latest issue.
The Hispanic American Historical Review (HAHR) - Check HELIN for the latest issue.
Hispanófila - Contains essays and criticism on the history of Spanish literature. Check HELIN for the latest issue

Select Websites

   

Spanish Language and Literature Databases

Many of these sites have extensive links to additional resources

 

MLA International Bibliography

 

A PC resource. 1963-present, Indexes critical materials on modern language, literature, linguistics, and folklore. Covering literary and language scholarship from 1963 to the present, it provides access to over 3,000 journals and series published worldwide, monographs, working papers and proceedings, and bibliographies.

Online Dictionaires

 

Diccionario de la Lengua Espanola, 22nd ed. (Real Academia Espanola) and Nuevo Tesoro Lexicografico de la Lengua Espanola, 21st edicion (1992) From the Real Academia's main page, select Diccionarios academicos for the search engine for dictionaries.  
The Spanish dictionary from Espasa Calpe publishers alone has over 120,000 words with more than 250,000 translations.  A supplement to the Spanish English dictionary adds many more translations, and you can ask any other question you have in the language forums, too.

Spanish dictionary

 

A free online dictionary and translator service employing the Collins Spanish Dictionary 8th edition (2005)

Reverso Dictionary

Encyclopedias

 

Webwess Iberian Studies

 

 

The Iberian Studies Web is designed to provide access to scholarly resources in Iberian Studies (for Spain, Portugal and Andorra). The site does not strive for exhaustiveness but rather for quality. The resources organized here have undergone a selection and evaluation process. Annotations have been added where needed, augmenting the research value of these resources to scholars.

Literary Movements/Genres

 

Celestina

The site is an interactive version of the Celestina with concordance capabilities, created by Miguel Garci-Gomez, Department of Romance Studies, Duke University.

Proyecto Cervantes/Cervantes Project

 

The site provides links to the Cervantes International Bibliography Online (CIBO), 1994-1998; the Cervanted Digital Library (CDL) for online searchable and browsable editions of works and translations; and the Cervantes Digital Archive of Images (CDAI).

Golden Age Sonnets

 

English translations of Golden Age sonnets by Alix Ingber, Professor of Spanish at Sweet Briar. Author and first line listings, links to critical works, web sites on poetry, prose and mythology.

Grupo Investigación Siglo de Oro (GRISO)

Biblioteca Digital has Texts and information on Calderon, Lope, Quevedo, Tirso and others.

LEMIR

This site hosts electronic texts (narrative, theatre, poetry and other genres) and LEMIR: revista electrónica sobre Literatura Español Medieval y Renacimiento.

Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz Project

 

Sponsored by the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at Dartmouth College, the site offers an electronic edition of Sor Juana's works, a chronology of her life, listing of scholars, criticism and a recent bibliography, 1995-1997.

Associations and Libraries

 

 
LASA's mission is to foster intellectual discussion, research, and teaching on Latin America, the Caribbean, and its people throughout the Americas, promote the interests of its diverse membership, and encourage civic engagement through network building and public debate.

Latin American Studies Association (LASA)

 

The Latin Americanist Research Resources Partnership is a cooperative initiative of North American, Latin American, and Caribbean libraries that seek to improve access to the array of research resources published in Latin America. Its principal goal is to expand access to Latin American research resources by promoting a distributed model of library cooperation, enhanced electronic access, and effective document delivery.

ARL Latin Americanists Research Resources Pilot Project

 

 

The National Library of Spain

Biblioteca Nacional de España

The National Library of Mexico

Biblioteca Nacional de México

Internet sites of interest

Biblioteca Virtual del Patrimonio Bibliográfico

Provides access to the digital facsimiles of hundreds of manuscript collections and and rare books from Spain.

 

Portal de Archivos Españoles

Gateway to numerous archives in Spain, provides access to extensive list of finding aids and digital content.

 

Religion in Latin America

 

 

This site provides information, research, discussion, and analysis of religion in Latin America. The site emphasizes history of Catholic, Protestant, Pentecostal, Evangelical, indigenous, and Afro-Latin American religions. Sources for religion and politics are treated in detail. References for theology of liberation and other Latin American theologies are given. Key documents and statistics about the Catholic Church are provided at the site.

LANIC - Religion

 

Gateway to dozens of regional, country specific, and international web based resources related to religion in Latin America.

 

U.S. Latino History & Culture - Smithsonian Institution

Dedicated to ensure that Latino contributions to art, science and the humanities are highlighted, understood and advanced.

Andanzas al Web Latino

 

A gateway portal to a large collection of Latino resourses, with an emphasis on sites covering U.S. - Mexico border relations.

 

Latin American Network Information Center (LANIC)

 

 

LANIC is a searchable directory of internet resources. This portal leads to a wealth of resources on the Caribbean, Central and South America and Mexico via numerous links arranged by subject. Of note are the Etext Collection, containing full-text resources (research and conference papers, speeches, periodical publications, official documents, etc. and the Latin American Studies resource section.

Iberian Studies in SALALM (ISIS)

A portal of resources related to the Iberian peninsula in support of education and research.

The World Wide Web Virtual Library: Spanish History Index

 

A portal of internet resources on the history of Spain (all periods) in Spanish, English and other languages. Large number of resources in the Medieval, Modern and Contemporary periods section, including links under the headings: Columbus & the Spanish discoveries, Charles V & Philip II, XVII century and XVIII century.

Internet Resources for Latin America

 

Housed at New Mexico State University Library, the site has links to a wide variety of guides, directories, subscription and public domain databases, digital library products, etc. and hosts a real-time news feed on the main page.

Government and Country Information

 
World Factbook U.S. Central Intelligence Agency

Country Reports

U.S. Department of State

Political Database of the Americas Covers 35 countries, providing legal texts, statistical information on elections and public opinion, political parties, polls, and links to government sites and directories; bibliographies
Organization of American States / Organización de Estados Americanos
The OAS publishes many of its official publications, studies and reports on its website. However, many of its publications are only available in other formats. If can't find what you are looking for in the OAS website, search the guide to locating OAS official documents and other publications .

Writing Guides

 

Location

 

APA Online A portion of the Publication Manual (APA)
Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association Print Copies are available REF BF76.7 P83 2001 and on permanent reserve at the circulation desk.
Citing Sources Guides on the Internet
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