Research Guide: Spanish
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Finding Background Info [help]
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these sources for quick overviews, to develop vocabulary for searching and/or for more sources |
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Oxford Reference Online Database -
access to over 140 online reference books
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Country
Watch --
Provides country-specific data including demographic,
political, economic, business, and cultural information. |
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Global Road Warrior --
Cultural, social, travel and business information
about countries around the world |
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Spanish Reference Center
-- "a comprehensive
encyclopedia in the Spanish language. It includes PlanetaSaber and Enciclopedia Juvenil. PlanetaSaber contains over 145,000 articles, more than 9,100 images, maps, timelines, an atlas, a
dictionary, and tables. It is a Spanish language reference resource for native Spanish speakers, bilingual students, and students learning Spanish. Enciclopedia Juvenil provides a Spanish language
encyclopedia, images, videos, and learning materials specifically designed or younger learners Formerly named
Enciclopedia Universal en Espanol)
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Spanish dictionaries can be found in the reference collection (Ref PC 4640) |
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Finding Articles [help]
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Literary Reference Center Plus --
access to reference works, books and literary journals. |
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MLA International Bibliography - consists of bibliographic records
pertaining to literature, language, linguistics, and folklore, and includes coverage from 1926 to the present. The MLA International Bibliography provides access to scholarly research in over
3,000 journals and series. |
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Social Science Citation Index
-- provides access to
current and retrospective bibliographic information, author abstracts, and cited references found in over 1,700 of the world's leading scholarly social sciences journals covering more than 50
disciplines. |
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Finding Books [help]
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Library Catalog -- search by subject,
keyword, author or title! |
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Web Resources |
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IPL: Literary Criticism (University of Michigan & Drexel University) -- Contains "critical and biographical websites about authors and their
works." Browse by author, title, nationality or literary period |
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Voice of
the Shuttle --
the Spanish segment of the Voice of the Shuttle: Web Page for Humanities Research, based
at the University of California, Santa Barbara. |
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World Digital Library -- "makes available on the Internet, free of charge and in multilingual
format, significant primary materials from countries and cultures around the world" It is browsable by time, topic, place, type and institution and includes a wealth of manuscripts, maps, rare
books, films, sound recordings, and prints and photographs. |
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