Spanish

DATABASES

Description: Academic Search Complete features thousands of full-text journals. This scholarly collection offers coverage of information spanning a broad range of important areas of academic study including: anthropology, astronomy, biology, chemistry, civil engineering, engineering, ethnic & multicultural studies, geology, law, materials science, mathematics, music, pharmaceutical sciences, physics, psychology, religion & theology, veterinary science, women's studies, zoology, and many other fields. (Source: vendor website)

Date Coverage: full-text, 1975 - date
Vendor: EBSCOhost

Arts & Humanities Citation Index (more info)

Description: 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. The database provides access to the bibliographic and citation information that researchers, students, and faculy need to find scholarly information, analyze trends and compile research. Researchers may discover a papers influence by linking to other papers that have cited it. (source: Vendor website).

Date Coverage: 1988 - date
Note: For support, tips & tools access: Web of Science Recorded Training, Additional Training, or Help Files
Creator: Institute for Scientific Research (ISI)
Vendor: Thomson Reuters

Clase Periodica (more info)

Description: Clase Periodica is an index to journals published in Latin America. CLASE indexes documents that specialize in the social sciences and humanities. PERODICA covers journals specializing in science and technology and contains bibliographic citations from documents published in 2,6000 scholarly journals. Clase Periodica contains information from articles, essays, book reviews, monographs, conference proceedings, technical reports, and interviews in journals edited in 24 different countries.

Date Coverage: Clase, 1975 - date: Periodica, 1978 - date
Languages: Spanish, English, French, Portuguese
Vendor: OCLC FirstSearch

Humanities International Complete (more info)

Description: A comprehensive database of humanities content, providing full text of hundreds of journals, books, and other published sources from around the world.

Date Coverage: 1975 - date
Vendor: EBSCOhost

Iter: Gateway to the Middle Ages and Renaissance (more info)

Description: Provides access to the complete runs of more than 300 scholarly published materials pertaining to the Middle Ages and Renaissance (400-1700). Citations for books and journal material (articles, reviews, review articles, bibliographies, catalogues, abstracts and discographies) are included, as are citations for dissertation abstracts and essays in books (including entries in conference proceedings, festschriften, encyclopedias and exhibition catalogues).

Date Coverage: 400 - 1700
Vendor: University of Toronto Libraries

JSTOR (more info)

Description: JSTOR provides image and full text online access to important scholarly journal literature in history, economics, political science, demography, mathematics and other humanities and social sciences disciplines. The collection provides the complete backfiles of many scholarly journals, starting with the first issues. JSTOR uses a "moving wall" of 3-5 years which represents the time period between the last issue available in JSTOR and the most recently published issue of a journal.

Creator: JSTOR

Literary Reference Center Plus (more info)

Description: Literary Reference Center Plus is a comprehensive full text database that provides users with a broad spectrum of information on thousands of authors and their works across literary disciplines and timeframes. LRC Plus includes: articles of literary criticism, full text of literary journals, plot summaries, critical essays, author biographies, literary journals, book reviews, classic and contemporary poems, classic and contemporary short stories, author interviews, study guides and literary videos. (Source: vendor website)

Includes: Merriam Webster's Encyclopedia of Literature, Continuum Encyclopedia of American Literature, Continuum Encyclopedia of British Literature, Continuum Encyclopedia of Children's Literature, The New Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics, Beacham's Research Guide to Biography and Criticism (six volumes), The Oxford Illustrated History of English Literature, The Columbia Companion to the 20th Century American Short Story, all of MagillOnLiterature Plus and much more.

Vendor: EBSCOhost

Literature Resources from Gale (more info)

Description: Literature Resources from Gale is a searchable online collection offering access to biographies, bibliographies, and critical analysis of authors and their works from every age and literary discipline. Covering more than 124,000 authors from the Classical period to the present, it provides several hundred thousand full text journal articles and critical essays, thousands of plot summaries and links to authoritative Web sites, over 100,000 author biographies, and several thousand author portraits.

Includes: Dictionary of Literary Biography, Contemporary Literary Criticism, Scribner Writers Online
Vendor: Gale

MLA International Bibliography (more info)

Description: The MLA International Bibliography, published by the Modern Language Associaltion, is the leading scholarly bibliography for research on modern languages, literatures, folklore, linguistics and film. It offers access to more than 2 million bibliographic citations to journal articles, books, print and electronic books, book chapters, websites and dissertations from 1926 to the present.

Date Coverage: 1926 - date
Creator: Modern Language Association (MLA)
Vendor: EBSCOhost

Web of Science (more info)

Description: The Web of Science provides access to the three major citation indexes: Science Citation Index Expanded, Social Sciences Citation Index, and Arts and Humanities Index. It enables users to search current and retrospective multidiscciplinary information from approximately 8,500 high impact research journals. These multidisciplinary databases may be searched independently or in any combination. Web of Science also provides cited reference searching. With cited reference searching users can follow a particular author or cited reference forward in time to find more current articles. Web of Science can be cross searched on the ISI Web of Knowledge interface with Medlilne (1950 - date).

Date Coverage: 1988 - date
Alternate Name: ISI Web of Science, Web of Knowledge, WOS
Note: For support, tips & tools access: Web of Science Recorded Training, Additional Training, or Help Files.
Creator: Institute for Scientific Research (ISI)
Vendor: Thomson Reuters

NEWSPAPER SOURCES

LexisNexis Academic (more info)

Description: LexisNexis provides full-text for an extensive list of newspapers, magazines, trade journals, scholarly journals and selected reference books. It also includes detailed information on companies. Separate database modules cover news, business, law and legal affairs and biographical information. It is a good source of federal, state, and international legal information, and provides full-text legal news, case law, codes & regulations, etc.

Previous Name: Academic Universe
Note: Introduction to Lexis Nexis Academic tutorial on utube uploaded by LexisNexis
Vendor: Lexis Nexis

US & Foreign Language Newspapers (more info)

Website: Internet Public Library

Newspapers on the web (Spain)

LANIC, Latin American Information Network Center

ENCYCLOPEDIAS & MORE

Credo Reference (more info)

Description: Credo is an online reference service with access to over 500 titles. Credo includes subject-specific dictionaries, encyclopedias, handbooks, biographical data, statistics, quotations, and audio and image files from many different publishers.

Vendor: Credo Publishing

Handbook of Latin American Studies (HLAS)

Literary Reference Center Plus (more info)

Description: Literary Reference Center Plus is a comprehensive full text database that provides users with a broad spectrum of information on thousands of authors and their works across literary disciplines and timeframes. LRC Plus includes: articles of literary criticism, full text of literary journals, plot summaries, critical essays, author biographies, literary journals, book reviews, classic and contemporary poems, classic and contemporary short stories, author interviews, study guides and literary videos. (Source: vendor website)

Includes: Merriam Webster's Encyclopedia of Literature, Continuum Encyclopedia of American Literature, Continuum Encyclopedia of British Literature, Continuum Encyclopedia of Children's Literature, The New Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics, Beacham's Research Guide to Biography and Criticism (six volumes), The Oxford Illustrated History of English Literature, The Columbia Companion to the 20th Century American Short Story, all of MagillOnLiterature Plus and much more.

Vendor: EBSCOhost

Literature Resources from Gale (more info)

Description: Literature Resources from Gale is a searchable online collection offering access to biographies, bibliographies, and critical analysis of authors and their works from every age and literary discipline. Covering more than 124,000 authors from the Classical period to the present, it provides several hundred thousand full text journal articles and critical essays, thousands of plot summaries and links to authoritative Web sites, over 100,000 author biographies, and several thousand author portraits.

Includes: Dictionary of Literary Biography, Contemporary Literary Criticism, Scribner Writers Online
Vendor: Gale

PRINT ENCYCLOPEDIAS

Spain

Dictionary of the Literature of the Iberian Peninsula R 860.03 D56 (2 vols)
Dictionary of Spanish Literature R 860.3 N46a
Oxford Companion to Spanish Literature R 860.3 W21
Feminist Encyclopedia of Spanish Literature R 860.9 F349
Spanish Women Writers: A Bio-bibliographical Source Book R 860.9 Sp2
Women Writers of Contemporary Spain R 860.9 W84

Latin America

Spanish American Authors: the twentieth century R 860.9 F66
Modern Latin American Literature R 860.9 F81
Latin American Writers R 860.9 L34 (3vols)
Handbook of Latin American Literature R 860.898 H19
Latin American Literature and its Times 860.998 M85

Mexico

Dictionary of Mexican Literature R 860.9 D56
Milenios de México R 972 M975h (3vols)

Europe

European Writers R 809.894 En7 (14 vols)

DICTIONARIES

Search for both print and E-book Spanish language dictionaries in the Carlyle Campbell Library

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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

When searching for books about (criticisms of) an author, from the Library website, select the tab Books & Media, then search under the author's name as a subject or keyword.

To limit a search to items in Spanish, select Advanced Search under the Books & Media tab.
Remember to search the Spanish word for your topic as well as the English word. Ex. siglo de oro or golden age

Some examples of keyword searches are:

poesía and siglo de oro
literatura and feminista
Alfonsina Storni

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

Books & more from the Meredith library & beyond

WorldCat (more info)

Description: WorldCat is a catalog of the collections of thousands of libraries worldwide and includes over a billion records. The database includes bibiographic records for books, dissertations, manuscripts, videos, serial publications, articles, recorded books, music, digital objects, websites and more. WorldCat can serve as an invaluable research tool to facilitate comprehensive searches for resources on a particular subject or by a particular author, allowing you to identify relevant works beyond your local library. Resources not available at your library can be ordered through Interlibrary Loan. Contact the Reference Department if you have any questions about using WorldCat.

Date Coverage: 1200 - date
Vendor: OCLC FirstSearch

WorldCat Local (more info)

Description: WorldCat Local delivers single-search-box access to more than 810 million items from your library and the world's library collections. Search results include multiple formats of materials such as electronic materials, digital items, databases, music, video, maps, journals, theses and print. Items available at Carlyle Campbell Library will display first.

Vendor: OCLC

E-BOOKS

Many books are available electronically. You may identify them by selecting the Books & Media tab on the Library website and selecting the e-books link, or by using one of the following collections of e-books.

eBook Collection (more info)

Description: eBook Collection from EBSCOhost provides access to full-text scholarly, reference and professional eBooks (electronic books) from leading university, academic and professional publishers. These eBooks are digital versions of print books from a broad range of subject areas and topics. In many cases, the eBook copy is the only copy of the book owned by the library although in some cases a local print copy is also available.

Note: When a user ends a session, or after 30 minutes of inactivity, the copy of the title will be available for others to use. Vendor: EBSCOhost

ebrary (more info)

Description: Search a full text eBook collection that spans many academic subject areas.

MyiLibrary e-Books (more info)

Description: MyiLibrary contains over 350 books that can be read online. Books are available on a variety of topics, including language learning, medical, health, history, project management, classic literature, art, criminology and many others.

Vendor: Ingram

OTHER LIBARIES

Biblioteca Nacional de España
National Library of Spain

Libraries on the Web
Library catalogs in Mexico, the Caribbean, Central America, and South America

Cervantes Project

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

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