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Subject Guide: Spanish Language and Literature INDEXES  |  REFERENCE WORKS   |  WEB LINKS  |  PERIODICALS This page is intended to introduce a few select resources, both on the Web and in the Smith Library Center print collection, that are particularly useful for the study of Spanish language, literature, and culture. INDEXES NOTE: Students researching in languages other than English should allow enough time (usually about 10 working days) for interlibrary loan of any foreign language articles from journals to which the library does not subscribe. Spanish Online indexes that are especially helpful for locating Spanish language materials: ClasePeriodica Ethnic NewsWatch HAPI Online HLAS Online, Handbook of Latin American Studies Informe! Multiple Languages, including Spanish Most of the online indexes listed below are predominantly English-language, but they all include some materials in Spanish. ArtAbstracts Arts & Humanities Search ATLA Religion Database with ATLASerials Humanities Abstracts International Index to the Performing Arts (IIPA) JSTOR MLA International Bibliography Project MUSE The Philosopher's Index Women's Studies International WorldCat Literary Sources For information on authors who write in Spanish, try the sources below, and look at the library's guides to Literary Criticism, Author Biography, Book Reviews, or Literature. Gale Literary Index For author research, begin with this index. You can search by author's name, title of a work, or author's nationality. Your results list will give you citations to works in English the library may own. Please check your citations in the library catalog. Literature Resource Center Biographical, bibliographical, and contextual information in English on authors and their works, including authors of fiction, non-fiction, poetry, drama, history, and journalism. Access to many of Gale's literary sources, including; Contemporary Authors, Dictionary of Literary Biography, and Contemporary Literary Criticism Select. Voice of the Shuttle: Literatures Other Than English: Spanish and Portuguese (including Latin American and Mexican) Sites concerned with literature written in Spanish. REFERENCE WORKS To find printed reference material relevant to your topic start with the library's Voyager catalog. Do a Reference Materials search using keywords to describe your topic. Below are a few titles to get you started. To double-check call number and location information, search the Voyager catalog. The titles listed below (and others that are also located in the library's Reference collection) include literary criticism, biographical information, or cultural context for select writers of Spanish-speaking countries. Use the indexes to search for authors or titles: Beacham's encyclopedia of popular fiction REFERENCE, 1st floor 809.3 B353a Contemporary authors REFERENCE, 1st floor 928.1 C7671b1 Contemporary authors new revision series REFERENCE, 1st floor 928.1 C7671b2 Contemporary literary criticism REFERENCE, 1st floor 809.04 C767 Dictionary of literary biography REFERENCE, 1st floor 928.1 D561 Feminist writers REFERENCE, 1st floor 305.42 F349ke Hispanic literature criticism REFERENCE, 1st floor 860 H625 Hispanic writers REFERENCE, 1st floor 860.998 H625 Literature and its times REFERENCE, 1st floor 809.93358 L712 Latin American writers REFERENCE, 1st floor 860.9 L349 Latin American writers supplement REFERENCE, 1st floor 860.9 L349 Short story criticism REFERENCE, 1st floor 808.31 Sh8 Spanish Spanish American authors : the twentieth century REFERENCE, 1ST floor 860.9 F663s Spanish women writers : a bio-bibliographical source book REFERENCE, 1ST floor 860.9 Sp242 World literature criticism REFERENCE, 1st floor 809 W893 World literature and its times REFERENCE, 1st floor 809 M855w These titles are a sample of the dictionaries and encyclopedias in the Reference collection: Collins Spanish dictionary/Collins diccionario Ingles, 7th ed. REFERENCE, 1ST FLOOR 463.21 C696 2003 Diccionario de uso del espanol, 2nd ed. REFERENCE, 1ST FLOOR 463 M734d 1998 Enciclopedia de la novela espanola REFERENCE, 1st floor 863.009 M792e Enciclopedia hispanica, 18 volumes REFERENCE, 1st floor 036.1 En162 The feminist encyclopedia of Spanish literature REFERENCE, 1ST FLOOR 860.99287 F349 v. 1-2 Milenios de Mexico, 3 volumes REFERENCE, 1st floor 972 M97 Encyclopedia of contemporary Spanish culture REFERENCE, 1st floor 946.082 En19 Simon and Schuster's international dictionary : English/Spanish, Spanish/English, 2nd ed. REFERENCE, 1st floor 463.21 Si53 The University of Chicago Spanish dictionary : Spanish-English, English-Spanish, 5th ed. REFERENCE, 1st floor 463.21 Un39 Vox diccionario de sinonimos y antonimos REFERENCE, 1ST FLOOR 463.1 V948 1996 WEB LINKS Spanish Iberian Studies Web Varied links for scholarly resources on Spain, Portugal, and Andorra. Links to newspapers, primary resources, journals, book reviews, online text collections, etc. Maintained by the Western European Specialists Section of the Association of College and Research Libraries. Kidon Media Link--Mexico News sources from Mexico. Kidon Media Link--Spain News sources from Spain. Latin American Network Information Center: Latin American Studies Latin American topical sites indexed by country and subject. El Pais Spanish newspaper online. Spanish Resources Links to sites for culture and history, music, radio, and tv, news and magazines, literature and language, virtual environments, country/city tours, and more. From University of Wisconsin-Madison. Voice of the Shuttle: Spanish and Portuguese Selection of literary sites: general resources, sections on specific writers. Yahoo! for Spanish speakers.    Yahoo! Espana    Yahoo! Mexico    Yahoo! U.S. En Espanol Multiple Languages, including Spanish ComFM's Live Radio on the Internet Access to homepages of radio stations from around the world, and when possible, to live Internet broadcasts. ComFM's Live TV on the Internet Access to homepages of tv stations from around the world, and when possible, to live Internet broadcasts. Linguist List--Web Resource Listings--Dictionaries Multi-language dictionaries, with links to other language-related sites. Site maintained by Eastern Michigan University and Wayne State University. Ethnologue World language research, maps, and more. Catalogs over 6,700 languages spoken in 228 countries. iLoveLanguages Language-learning resources arranged by topic. Online Newspapers Electronic editions of newspapers from around the world, by country. PERIODICALS To find holdings and location information for specific periodical titles (both print and online), search the Voyager catalog. To find citations or online full-text for articles in periodicals on your topic, try the resources listed above under Indexes. *Subscription services are available only to Southwestern students, faculty, and staff. Southwestern community members should contact the library's Reference Desk (512) 863-1549 for assistance. For more information about Modern Languages and Literatures resources, call (512) 863-1559 or email libweb@southwestern.edu.

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