Barcelona

Listed in: Spanish, as SPAN-352; Sara J. Brenneis (Section 01)

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Overview

Workshop Materials

  • Access the handout we used in class

Accessing the 5 College Library Catalog

Other Relevant Research Guides

    Databases

    • Discover: Start here for books, articles & more
      Simultaneously search research databases plus the Five Colleges Libraries Catalog to find full-text articles, books and more.
    • AnthroSource (1988 to present)
      Developed by the American Anthropological Association (AAA), AnthroSource indexes 100 years of anthropological material.
    • Arts & Humanities Database
      Full-text publications that focus on art, architecture, design, history, philosophy, music, literature, theatre and cultural studies.
    • Historical Abstracts with Full Text (1955 to present)
      Scholarly literature about world history since 1450 (excluding the United States and Canada).
    • MLA International Bibliography with Full Text (1926 to present)
      Covers critical scholarship on literature, language, linguistics, and folklore.
    • Index Islamicus (1906 to present)
      Covers literature on Islam, the Middle East and the Muslim world, including Muslim areas of Asia and Africa.
    • JSTOR
      Full-text backfiles of over two thousand leading academic journals across the humanities, social sciences, and sciences. (Alumni access)
    • Dialnet
      A virtual library of Spanish academic journals, hosted by the University de la Rioja in Spain. Primarily a bibliographic index with tables of contents, it covers more than 5,000 journals and 2.1 million documents. There are a growing number of full-text articles available as content is continuously updated. Subjects covered include the sciences, social sciences and the humanities and arts. It is particularly useful for subjects related to Spain, such as history and Islamic studies, not well covered by other popular databases. English language search is available. Covers 1980 to the present.
    • PAIS Index (1972 to present)
      Coverage of articles, selected books, government documents, research reports, etc., from a wide range of social sciences.
    • Sociological Abstracts (1952 to present)
      Covers the international literature in sociology and related disciplines.
    • WorldCat
      Search thousands of library catalogs for books and more.

    Reference

    Encylopedias/ Overview to Get You Started

    • Reference Universe
      Searchable index of the library's entire reference collection, both print and electronic.
    • Literature Resource Center
      Full-text critical studies, biographies of authors; covers all genres, all time periods, and all regions.
    • Oxford Art Online
      Oxford Art Online is the access point for Grove Art Online, and other Oxford art reference works covering all forms of the visual arts: painting, sculpture, architecture, graphic and decorative arts, and photography from prehistory to the present.
    • Oxford Dictionaries
      English to non-English translations (and vice versa), phrases, some grammar, and more.

    News

    • Global Newsstream (ProQuest)
      Search the most recent global news, including major US dailies, with archives that stretch back into the 1980s from over 2,700 news sources that include newspapers, newswires, television and radio transcripts, blogs, and more in full-text format.
    • Access World News (Newsbank) (date coverage varies)
      Electronic editions of over 2,600 local, regional, and national U.S. newspapers as well as 1,500 international sources. Fully searchable and browsable by map.
    • Ethnic NewsWatch (1959 to present)
      News and analysis from ethnic popular and scholarly publications.
    • LexisNexis Academic (Now called: Nexis Uni) (date coverage varies)
      Full-text federal and state laws, international legal materials, and law reviews. Also newspapers, business information and company profiles.
    • Historical Newspapers (ProQuest)
      Combined search of the historic Boston Globe, Chicago Defender, Chinese Newspapers Collection, Hartford Courant, Los Angeles Times, New York Amsterdam News, New York Times, South China Morning Post, Times of India, and Washington Post.

    Websites

    Primary Sources

      Citing Sources

      Visit the library's How to Cite Sources page for tools and resources to help you properly cite your sources.