SPANISH LANGUAGE AND
LITERATURE:
A RESOURCE PATHFINDER
Databases (to find popular and academic articles)
Academic OneFile (Gale)
Humanities Full Text (WilsonWeb)
LexisNexis Academic (LexisNexis)
Newspapers from around the world (Select tab “Guided News Search” and then
select “News Category” and “News Source.”
To find “Spanish Language News”
select the category “Non-English Language News.”
)
MLA International Bibliography (CSA) (select from drop-down menu at “Jump to
Advanced Search”)
ProQuest Research Library (ProQuest)
Credo Reference
has the Collins Spanish Dictionary and the
Business Spanish
Dictionary (find these by selecting “Bilinguals”)
Individual Electronic Journals
Full Text Electronic
Journal List
(For access to electronic journals select
“Languages and Literatures” in drop-down subject menu, click “search” and then
select from the subsequent list “Romance Languages” [7 titles] or “Romance
Literatures” [20 titles])
Selected Reference Books in the Madonna Library
E184.S75 C644 2004
The Columbia history of Latinos in the United States since 1960. New York:
Columbia University Press, 2004.
E184.S75 H557 2003
The Hispanic American almanac: A reference work on Hispanics in the United
States. Detroit: Gale, 2003.
E184.S75 C97 2005
The Oxford encyclopedia of Latinos and Latinas in the United States. New York:
Oxford, 2005.
PQ6033.C36 2004
The Cambridge history of Spanish literature. New York: Cambridge University
Press, 2004.
PC4640.O94 2003
The Oxford Spanish dictionary: Spanish-English/English-Spanish. New York:
Oxford, 2003.
Web Sites
WESS Iberian Language and Literature Web (Association of College and Research
Libraries)
http://wess.lib.byu.edu/index.php/Iberian_Language_and_ Literature_Web
UT-LANIC (Latin American Network
Information Center, University of Texas)
http://www1.lanic.utexas.edu/la/region/literature/
UCLA Chicano Studies Research Center (at the University of California, Los
Angeles)
http://www.chicano.ucla.edu
Timeline of Art History from the Metropolitan Museum of Art
http://metmuseum.org/toah/splash.htm
Spanish Language and Hispanic Culture Pages @ Globe-Gate (comprehensive lists of
links maintained by Bob Peckham at the University of Tennessee at Martin)
http://globegate.utm.edu/spanish/
LIBRO: The Library of Iberian Resources Online (Basic texts and sources in
translation along with scholarly writing about Iberian peninsula from fifth to
seventeenth century)
http://libro.uca.edu
Spanish Language and Culture (Links to newspapers, magazines, museums,
travel...from the Modern Languages Department at Ohio University)
http://www-as.phy.ohiou.edu/Departments/Mod_Lang/spanish/index.html
Julian Samora Research Institute at Michigan State University (Research papers
and reports on Latinos in the Midwest together with Web links)
http://www.jsri.msu.edu/
Internet Sourcebook: Spanish for Business and Economics (Center for Language
Education and Research at Michigan State University)
http://clear.msu.edu/teaching/buslang/spanish/indexspain.htm
Career Sites
Career Services Center at the University of Delaware (suggestions and web links
for students of foreign languages)
http://www.udel.edu/CSC/forlang.html
Career Services at Arizona State University (provides career information,
strategy, and web links for a variety of university majors including those
pursuing degrees in foreign languages)
http://asu.edu/studentaffairs/career/Students/
Professional Associations
American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages
http://www.actfl.org/i4a/pages/index.cfm?pageid=1
American Association of Teachers of Spanish and Portuguese
http://www.aatsp.org/index.php
Modern Language Association
www.mla.org
Midwest Modern Language Association (Regional Affiliate)
http://luc.edu/mmla
Association of Departments of Foreign Languages
http://www.adfl.org
Michigan World Language Association
http://www.miwla.org
Central States Conference on the Teaching of Foreign Languages
http://www.csctfl.org
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W.Vine 1/8/08; Updated 7/29/09