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Libraries' Catalog - Catalog containing over two million entries for books, e-books, films, maps, journals, e-journals, web sites and more from five campus libraries, including the Gorgas Library and the Hoole Special Collections.
WorldCat - Catalog containing more than 1 billion titles for books, scores, films, maps, and more. Contributions are international.
LibWeb – Links to the Web pages of libraries throughout the world. Also available under Search on the Libraries’ Home Page.
Biblioteca Nacional (Spain) - National Library of Spain
Biblioteca Nacional (Portugal) - National Library of Portugal
Biblioteca Nacional (Mexico) - National Library of Mexico
Find Articles and Full Text Content in Databases
Note: Databases marked FT in the list below include at least some full-text material.General :
Academic OneFile - contains a wide range of articles across disciplines. Though most articles are in English, subject areas include history, economics, literature, and popular culture. FT
Academic Search Premiere - contains a wide range of scholarly and popular articles. Full text coverage dates vary according to the publication, but most titles are available from 1965 to the present. FT
Academic Universe (Lexis-Nexis Academic) – includes searchable text of Spanish language publications. Select “News” on the home page, then “Non-English Language News,” and a language. Click on “Source List” to see a list of publications and dates in the selected language. FT
American Humanities Index – indexes 700+ literary and scholarly journals, 1975-present.
Arts and Humanities Citation Index – comprehensive online version (1985-present) of the print work of the same name, available through ISI Web of Science.
Expanded Academic Complete ASAP - contains a wide range of scholarly and popular articles from 1980 to the present. FT
Ethnic Newswatch – newspapers, magazines, and journals of the ethnic, minority, and native press. FT
Historical Abstracts - indexes hundreds of journals in the social sciences and humanities. Articles cover world history excluding North America. Some full text. FT
PAIS International - Indexes journal articles; books; government documents; statistical compilations; committee reports; directories; serials; reports of public, intergovernmental, and private organizations. Many citations relate to Latin America. FT
Project Muse – a full-text collection of journals published mostly by university presses and learned societies. FT
Research Library Complete - offers indexing and full-text scholarly and popular articles on a broad ranges of topics from 1986 to the present. FT
Literature and Linguistics:
Clase/Periodica – Index of Latin American periodicals in the humanities and social sciences (Clase), and in science and technology (Periodica).
Handbook of Latin American Studies – An index, produced by the Hispanic Division of the Library of Congress, of articles, books, book chapters, conference proceedings, research reports, government publications, 1939 to the present.
Informe - full-text collection of mostly Spanish-language (some English) magazines relating to Hispanic culture. Included is information on business, health, technology, arts, and current issues. FT
JSTOR - a full text collection of journals that includes languages and literatures, and area studies. Dates vary according to title. FT
Libros en Venta en América Latina y España - Libros en Venta (Spanish Books in Print) includes in-print titles from more than 26,000 Spanish and Latin American publishers.
LLBA (Linguistics and Language Behavior Abstracts) – abstracts of articles, books, and dissertations in the field of linguistics.
Literature Resource Center – biographies, bibliographies, and critical analysis of 90,000+ authors from ancient times to the present. FT
MLA International Bibliography – The Modern Language Association’s index (1920s-present) of articles, monographs, working papers, proceedings, etc. in the fields of literature, language, linguistics, and folklore.
Web Resources
- Biblioteca Virtual Miguel de Cervantes – A virtual library of Spanish authors.
- European Government Documents - hosted at the University of Michigan, this site offers links to government documents of European countries.
- Intute – formerly Humbul Arts and Humanities, this British site is dedicated to discovering, evaluating, and cataloging online resources in the humanities.
- Language Resource Center at University of Alabama - click on "student materials" to find a list of resources for Spanish language studies tailored to UA student needs
- LANIC Latin American Network Information Center - hosted at the University of Texas, this site offers a comprehensive directory of web resources pertaining to Latin America.
- Voices of the Shuttle – A Web site for humanities research, with links to many valuable sites. Sections include Literatures (Other Than English), Literary Theory, Cultural Studies, and Gender Studies. Available through the Libraries’ Database Page .
- WESS (Western European Studies Section, Association of College and Research Libraries)– A gateway to Internet resources relating to all aspects of Western European Studies. For example, Portuguese and Spanish resources are available at the Iberian Language and Literatures Page.
- Yamada Language Guides – Guide to language sources on the Web from the University of Oregon.
Select Newspapers and Periodicals
Note: To find comprehensive information on library holdings for periodical titles, do a "journal title" search in the UA Library Catalog.
Note:To search for electronic Spanish language journals, browse the e-journal titles by subject (Languages and Literatures).
- Portuguese newspapers online
- Spanish newspapers online
- Espéculo - online literary journal in Spanish and Portuguese
Select Print Resources
Portugal (Gorgas Reference DP517 .L35 2000)
Cambridge History of Latin America (Gorgas Reference F1410 .C1834 1984)
Diccionario Espasa cine español (Gorgas Reference PN1993.5.S7 T69 1999)
Literature Guides:
HAPI, Hispanic American Periodicals Index (Gorgas Reference/Index Z1605 .H49)
Diccionario Espasa Literature Espanola (Gorgas Reference PQ 6006 .B74 2003)
Cambridge History of Latin American Literature (3 volumes) (Gorgas Reference PQ 7081 .A1 C35 1996)
Literary cultures of Latin America : a comparative history (3 volumes) (Gorgas Reference PQ7081.A1 L525 2004)
Dictionaries:
Dicionario de Lingua Portuguesa (4 volumes) (Gorgas Reference PC 53f27 .N3)
College dictionary, Spanish-English (English-Spanish, Gorgas Reference PC4628 .C65 2005)
yourDictionary.com – A collection of more than 280 English and foreign-language dictionaries.
Academic Departments and Associations
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