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| Spanish Language and
Literature |
This guide suggests resources and
strategies for research on Spanish language and
literature. |
| Contents of this research
guide |
Background
Information | Facts &
Figures | Find
Articles | Find
Books | People
| Organizations
| Web
Resources | Additional
Resources |
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Background Information (Overview
Sources) |
Encyclopedias and other reference
works are an excellent place to start a research project or simply
learn more about a particular topic. They provide topic
summaries, context, and bibliographies for further
reading.
Cyclopedia of World Authors (R 928 C9924) Dictionary of Literary Biography (928.1
D561) Enciclopedia Hispnica (036.1
En16) Encyclopedia of Latin American Literature (R
860.099803 En19) European Writers (R 809.894
Eu74) McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of World Drama (R
809.203 M178) El Pequeo Larousse Ilustrado (036.1 P399) |
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| Facts & Figures (Fact
Sources) |
Use dictionaries, statistical works, atlases, handbooks and
similar works to find and check facts about topics, people, or
events.
Cassell's Spanish Dictionary (R 463.21 C272)
The Concise Oxford Spanish Dictionary (English-Spanish)
The Concise Oxford Spanish Dictionary (Spanish-English) Larousse Gran Diccionario (R 463.21
G762) Masterpieces of Latino Literature (R 860.9
M393) Modern Latin American Literature (R 860.9
F812M) The Oxford Spanish Dictionary (R
463.21 Ox28)
The Oxford (English-Spanish) Business Spanish Dictionary
The Oxford (Spanish-English) Business Spanish Dictionary |
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| Find Articles |
Search indexes, abstracts, and
databases to find journal, magazine, and newspaper articles.
For a complete list of Kent Library's online indexes and
databases, see the Find:
articles page
(http://library.semo.edu/find/articles.asp).
To find historical/source
materials, such as newspaper and magazine articles, use the
following print sources:
Readers' Guide to Periodical
Literature, 1900+ (located in the
Indexes/Abstracts area, main floor) Humanities Index,
1974+ (located in the Indexes/Abstracts area,
main floor) Social Sciences and Humanities Index,
1966-1974) (located in the Indexes/Abstracts area,
main floor) International Index to Periodicals, 1907 -
1965 (located in the Indexes/Abstracts area, main
floor) New York Times Index, 1851+
(located in the Indexes/Abstracts area, main floor)
To
find recent articles and scholarly/peer-reviewed articles use
the following online databases:
Academic Search Premier
ERIC JSTOR MLA Project
Muse ProQuest Research Library Wilson
OmniFile |
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| Find General Collection Books |
Use the
Kent Library
Catalog (http://library.semo.edu/find/books.shtml) to find
books, periodicals (journals, magazines, & newspapers),
videos, government documents and other materials.
Keyword searches allow you to
use your own words as search terms. Subject heading
searches use Library of Congress subject headings. Printed volumes
of these headings are located near the Reference Desk on the main
floor.
Some Spanish language and literature subject
headings include:
Latin American drama Latin American
fiction Latin American poetry Latin American
literature Spanish drama Spanish fiction Spanish
language Spanish literature Spanish
poetry |
Browse the shelves by call
number. Use the
Dewey
Decimal chart (http://library.semo.edu/learn/guides/dewey100.shtml) to get you
in the right subject areas or try the following:
Spanish and Portuguese languages
460s Spanish and Portuguese literatures
860s |
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| People |
Learn about important people, such as
authors, researchers & historical figures related to this
topic or field.
Biography Index (located in
the Indexes/Abstracts area, main floor) Contemporary
Authors (928 C7672) Dictionary of Literary
Biography (928.1 D561)
Literature Resource Center (available
on the library's web page) |
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| Organizations |
Professional organizations and/or
societies often provide very useful topic related
information.
American Association of
Teachers of Spanish and Portuguese
(http://www.aatsp.org) Modern Language
Association
(http://www.mla.org) |
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| Web
Resources |
The
Cervantes Project
(http://www.csdl.tamu.edu/cervantes/english) Foreign
Language News and Newspapers
(http://libraries.mit.edu/guides/types/flnews) Hispanic Reading Room:
Library of Congress
(http://www.loc.gov/rr/hispanic)
Iberian
Language and Literature Web (Western European Studies Section of
the Association of College and Research
Libraries) (http://www.library.yale.edu/Internet/iberianlanglit.html) Iberian
Languages and Literatures (Peninsular)
(http://www.library.yale.edu/Internet/iberianlangit.html) Language
and Culture
(http://www.sispain.org/english/language/index.html) LANIC:
Hispanic/Latino
(http://Lanic.utexas.edu/la/region/hispanic) Latin
America, Caribbean, Spanish and Portuguese
Studies
(http://www.libraries.rutgers.edu/rul/rr_gateway/research_guides/latin/latin.shtml) Spanish
Resources (Language Links)
(http://polyglot.lss.wisc.edu/lss/lang/spanish.html) |
For a list of Web searching
tools, see the Find: web
resources page
(http://library.semo.edu/find/webpages.html).
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| Additional
Resources |
Dissertation Abstracts (available on
the library's web page) |
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