Spanish 7 :
Advanced Spanish Composition
Fall 2006
Library Catalogs, Indexes and Databases
Five College Library Catalog: New catalog to all books, music, video, online resources, etc., in Amherst, Hampshire, Mount Holyoke, and Smith libraries. Do an "author keywords" or "author (last name first)" for books by a writer; search the writer's name as "subject keywords" for books about the writer.
WorldCat: Search for books in a database made up of catalogs from thousands of libraries.
MLA International Bibliography: Most important American index to critical studies about all literatures. References to scholarly
articles about literature, film, linguistics, and more published since
1963. Use ACLinks to find online articles
or catalog searches for the journals in print.
HAPI Online (Hispanic American Periodicals Index Online): Reference to articles about Central and South America, Mexico, the Caribbean basin, and Hispanics/Latinos in the United States. Covers politcs, economics, social issues, history, etc., as well as literature.
ClasePeriódica: Index of Latin American journals in the arts and humanities.
Expanded
Academic ASAP and Academic
Search Premier: Indexes to articles in many disciplines. Some references back to 1975. Book
reviews as well as critical articles. Beware! English articles only.
Journal
Locator/Citation Linker See if a journal is available
at AC; connect to electronic copies or look in library catalog for print
journals.
Reference Sources: Encyclopedias, Handbooks & Dictionaries
Enciclopedia universal en español : Complete Spanish language encyclopedia from Britannica and Diorki, SA. Also includes a Spanish dictionary and a Spanish-English dictionary.
Dictionaries and other help with language from the the Real Academia Española. The best choice for a large Spanish-Spanish dictionary.
Diccionarios from El Mundo. Definitions, syonyms, antonyms, etc.
The Concise Oxford Spanish Dictionary (English-Spanish) and The Concise Oxford Spanish Dictionary (Spanish-English) : Handy, small dictionaries online from Oxford University Press.
Browse the Reference Collection on the first floor of Frost Library for handbooks and encyclopedias about Spanish and Spanish American history, culture, and literature. Books ar arranged alphabetically by "classification". So handbooks and encyclopedias about Spanish history and cultrue are shelved DP 17 -- DP 302; Latin American history and civilzation from F 1204 -- F 3708. Reference books about Spanish and Spanish American literature are PQ 6006 -- PQ 8531.
News & Popular Culture
Spanish Language News and Magazines: Links from the MIT Libraries
Newspapers from Latin America from the Latin American Network Information Center at the University of Texas.
Yahoo! España, Yahoo! México, Yahoo! Argentina: A selection of Yahoo!s for students of Spanish and Latin American culture.
Difusiones de la Televisión en Español: Selected Spanish-language TV stations on the Web.
LANIC: Radio: Radio stations from Latin America.
Citing Sources
Be sure to credit the sources you use for a research project -- whether printed books and journals or online texts, websites, etc. The MLA Documentation from the Library at University of Wisconsin - Madison tells you how to cite all kinds of sources for courses in literature. Or use The MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers at the Reference Desk in Frost Library.
Do you have questions about research in this course? Contact Margaret Adams Groesbeck (email:magroesbeck; voice: (413)542-2098)