Library Research for Spanish Language & Linguistics Courses

Library Web Site: http://www.mnstate.edu/library
A-to-Z, online serials directory: http://atoz.ebsco.com/home.asp?Id=msum
WebPALS Online Catalog: http://www.pals.msus.edu

Selected Electronic Abstracts and Indexes

Databases can be easily accessed from the pull-down menu on the library's home page.  They can also be accessed from off campus by following this link sequence from the home page:

    Search Online Databases & Journals -->
                Internet & Electronic Resources -->
                            Scroll to the desired database and click on the off-campus link

You will be asked to provide information including the barcode number on your Dragon ID and your last name.

Academic Search Premier - EBSCO
Multidisciplinary journal citation databases. Includes many full-text articles.
Off-Campus Access

FirstSearch Databases
Try the Databases in the "Humanities," "Education" and "Social Sciences" groups for Spanish language and linguistics topics.
Off-Campus Access

ClasePeriodicals - FirstSearch
Index of Latin American journals in the sciences and humanities.
Off-Campus Access

Informe - Gale
(Espanol | Spanish Interface) 1994 - current. Una colección de revistas hispánicas con textos completos. Abarca negocios, salud, tecnología, cultura, temas de actualidad y otras materias
Off-Campus Access

JSTOR Full Text Journals
JSTOR is an electronic database of full-text back issues of 117 academic journals in the subject areas of African-American Studies, Anthropology, Asian Studies, Ecology, Economics, Mathematics, Philosophy, Political Science, Population/Demography, Education, Finance, History, Literature, Sociology, and Statistics.
Off-Campus Access

MLA International Bibliography
- EBSCO
The Modern Language Association (MLA) International Bibliography is an international index of books and articles on the modern languages and literatures. It covers all areas of literary study including critical works in literature, language, and folklore.
Off-Campus Access

Project Muse

Provides online, worldwide, institutional subscription access to the  full text of over 100 scholarly journals in the arts and  humanities, social sciences and mathematics
Off-Campus Access

You might sometimes find citations for promising articles which are not available in full text format within the database you're looking in.  To find out whether or not the library has access to it, try a title search for the journal  in WebPALS to see if we have it in print -- or search for the journal title in MSUM's A-to-Z, online serials directory to see if it's available electronically.

Interlibrary Loan:

We can obtain books and copies of articles from other libraries for you. The request form can be accessed via the link at the bottom of the library homepage or through WebPALS.

Reference Sources

Dictionaries & Grammar:

The American Heritage Spanish Dictionary:  Spanish/English, inglés/español  REF PC4640.A47 2001

Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico. REF PC 4580 .C59 1980

Diccionario Gramatical. REF. PC4101 .M3 -- Includes Spanish Language historical grammar.

The Facts on File English/Spanish Visual Dictionary. REF. AG 250 .C65 1992

Hamel's Bilingual Dictionary of Mexican Spanish. REF PC 4832 .H35 1996

Larousse gran diccionario : inglés-español, español.  REF PC4640.L393 2004

The Macmillan Visual Dictionary  REF PC4629.M36 1997

Oxford Spanish Dictionary. REF. PC4640 .O94 2003

The University of Chicago Spanish Dictionary. REF. PC4640 .U5 2002

Encyclopedias:

The Duden Pictorial Encyclopedia in Spanish.  PC4625.D8 (circulating collection)

Enciclopedia Hispanica REF. AE61 .E52 1993

Linguistics:

The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Language. REF P 29 .C64 1997

A Dictionary of Linguistics & Phonetics.  REF P29.C65 2003

A Student's Dictionary of Language and Linguistics / R.L. Trask. REF P 29 .T69 1997

Literature:

Contemporary Authors. REF PN 451 .C63

Diccionario de escritores hispanoamericanos : del siglo XVI al siglo XX.  REF PQ7081.3A43 2002

Dictionary of Literary Biography (cumulative index) REF PN 452 .D5   

Castilian Writers, 1400-1500 (v286) REF PQ6058.C37 2004

Chicano Writers, first series (v82) REF PS153.M4C48 1989

Chicano Writers, second series (v122) REF PS153.M4C484 1992

Chicano Writers, third series (v209) REF PS153.M4C485 1999

Latin American Dramatists, first series (v305)  REF PQ7082.D7L373 2005

Modern Latin-American Fiction Writers (v113) REF PQ7082.N7M55 1992

Modern Latin-American Fiction Writers, second series (v45)  REF PQ7082.N7M55 1994

Twentieth-century Spanish poets (v108) REF. PQ6085.T88 1991

Twentieth Century Spanish Poets (v134) REF PQ 6085 .T88 1993REF.

Dictionary of the Literature of the Iberian Peninsula. REF. PN849.S6 D54 1993

Index to Anthologies of Latin American Literature in English Translation. REF. PQ7087.E5 F7

Latin American Writers (3 vols) REF PQ7081.A1L37 1989

The Oxford Companion to Spanish Literature. REF. PQ6006 .O95

Spanish American Authors: The Twentieth Century. REF PQ 7081 .3 .F57 1992

 

At Concordia:

The Feminist Encyclopedia of Spanish Literature REF PQ6055.F46 2002 (Concordia)

Hispanic Writers: A Selection of Sketches from Contemporary Authors. REFPQ7081.A1 H (Concordia)

Latina and Latino Voices in Literature:  lives and works REF PS153.L56D39 2003 (Concordia)

Spanish and Portuguese Literatures and their times : the Iberian Peninsula  REF PQ6041.M67 2002 (Concordia)

Spanish Women Writers: A Bio-bibliographical Sourcebook. REF PQ6055 .S63 1993 (Concordia)

 

Curriculum Collection and Materials

The Curriculum Materials Center, 2nd floor, has several books in the Spanish language for children. To search for Spanish language children's books, do a WebPALS search for the term "Spanish juvenile." Also, try the special WebPALS LIMITS of "language" you learn in class today.

Visit the CMC Website at http://www.mnstate.edu/cmc/

Also see: The Educator's Reference Desk at http://www.eduref.org/

 

Internet Resources for Spanish Language, Literature, and Linguistics

Compendium of Online Resources for Spanish Students http://www.arches.uga.edu/~cshale/

Electronic Texts in Spanish (Western European Studies Division: Association of College and Research Libraries) http://www.lib.virginia.edu/wess/etexts.html#spanish

Espanol Speakeasy
Offers resources to help students speak Spanish, with activities on science, math, art, music, and literature for beginning, intermediate, and advanced level speakers. http://library.thinkquest.org/11041/

Famous Hispanic Writers
This is part of a larger project and provides information about the life and work of some Hispanic writers. In English.  http://coloquio.com/famosos/writers.html

Golden Age of Spanish Sonnets http://sonnets.spanish.sbc.edu/

Iberian Language and Literature Web (Western European Studies Division: Association of College and Research Libraries) http://www.library.yale.edu/wess/iberianlanglit.html

Index de textos comedios:
   http://www.coh.arizona.edu/spanish/comedia/intext.html (Spanish version)
   http://www.coh.arizona.edu/spanish/comedia/textlist.html (English version)

Libro: The Library of Iberian Resources Online http://libro.uca.edu/

La Prensa latina en el internet:  www.latinworld.com/special/kiosco.html

Spanish Dictionaries Online http://www.yourdictionary.com/languages/romance.html#spanish%20

Spanish Resources, by Lauren Rosen. http://polyglot.lss.wisc.edu/lss/lang/spanish.html

Spanish Search Engines http://latin-marketing.com/spanish-search-engines/spanish-search-engines.htm

Yahoo in Español   http://espanol.yahoo.com/

 

Selected Periodicals available in the Tri-College

Anales de la literatura española contemporánea. (1994-current). Concordia

The Bilingual Review (1984-2001). MSUM

Hispania. (1918-current). MSUM

Hispanic Review. (1913-2001). MSUM

Hispanófila. (1970-current). Concordia

Language and Communication (available via Science Direct -- http://www.sciencedirect.com/)

Revista de estudios hispánicos. (1994-current). Concordia

Revista hispánica moderna (1994 -2003). Concordia

Revista Iberoamericana (1993-current) Concordia

Available in Project Muse (http://muse.jhu.edu)

The Americas

Hispanic American Historical Review

Hispanic Review

Language (from the Linguistic Society of America)

Latin American Music Review

Latin American Politics and Society

Linguistic Inquiry

MLN

Nepantla:  views from the South

Sirena:  poesía, arte y crítica

 

Brittney Goodman
Instruction Librarian, MSUM
Updated 2/2/03

goodmanb@mnstate.edu

Updated 9/13/05
Sandra Hannahs