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Databases

MLA International Bibliography
The Modern Language Association International Bibliography indexes over 3,000 periodicals in the area of literature and linguistics, as well as books, book chapters, and dissertations.  

Literature Resource Center
Literature Resource Center provides information on authors and literary works from all nationalities and time periods.  The database includes information from reference books, literature encyclopedias, and over 250 academic literary journals.

Academic Search Premier
Academic Search Premier offers a considerable collection of journals on Spanish Language and Literature, including some Spanish-Language content. This database provides indexing and abstracting of almost 7,000 peer-reviewed journals, with full text for over 3,600 peer-reviewed journals.

Directory of Open Access Journals
This service covers free, full text, quality controlled scientific and scholarly journals. There are now 2,883 journals in the directory, and over 600 of them are Spanish-language journals.  

Ebrary
Ebrary contains thousands of full text electronic books on Spanish language and literature, both in English and Spanish.

ProQuest Ethnic NewsWatch
An interdisciplinary, bilingual (English and Spanish) and comprehensive full text database of newspapers, magazines and journals from ethnic, minority and native presses. This current database begins its coverage in 1990.

Twayne Authors Series
Twayne Author Series contains the full text of 600 popular Twayne Literary Masters books on individual World authors.  

Project Muse
Project Muse provides the full-text of approximately 300 peer-reviewed scholarly journals in the arts, humanities, and social sciences, including some journals on Iberian and Latin American studies. Also links to full-text articles in JSTOR.

JSTOR
JSTOR is an electronic collection of full text scholarly journals, with some journals in Latin American Studies and Comparative Literature. The complete archives of these journals are available starting with the very first issues, many of which date from the 1800s. The most recent 3-5 years of each journal are not included.

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Websites

Sites of Interest for Modern Language Students (Wagner College)
http://www.wagner.edu/departments/languages/sites_of_interest
Created by the Modern Languages Department faculty at Wagner College. An excellent collection of Web resources particularly for students of Spanish language and literature.

Hispanic Studies Resources (University at Albany)
http://library.albany.edu/subject/hispanic.html
The best and most comprehansive collection of resources for Spanish Language, Literature, and Cultural resources, maintained by Jesus Alonso-Regalado.

Voice of the Shuttle: Resources for Spanish and Portuguese Literature
(including Mexican and Latin American)
http://vos.ucsb.edu/browse.asp?id=2420
Created and maintained by Alan Liu of U.C. Santa Barbara, Voice of the Shuttle is one of the best Web sources for literature research available today.

Iberia, the Caribbean and Latin America: Selected Internet Resources
(Portals to the World, Library of Congress)
http://www.loc.gov/rr/international/hispanic/countries/countries.html
Guide to Internet resources specializing in Latin America and Iberia. Resources organized by country and then by topic. Selected and annotated by Library of Congress Hispanic Division staff. It includes a section devoted to information about the United States in Spanish.

Centro Virtual Cervantes
http://cvc.cervantes.es/obref
Gateway to resources about the Spanish language and culture in Spanish created by the Instituto Cervantes. It offers digital contents related to teaching Spanish as a second language, hispanic literature and the arts. Its targeted audience is primarily teaching faculty, students, translators and hispanists. It also includes a well-organized subject directory focused on hispanic literature and Spanish language known as the Oteador.

Biblioteca Virtual Miguel de Cervantes
http://www.cervantesvirtual.com/
This is the most comprehensive hispanic digital library. It aims to preserve and make accessible the hispanic cultural heritage available in various formats (mainly texts, images and videos). It includes portals organized by topics, authors, institutions, and historic figures. It offers two extensive sections devoted to Hispanic Language and Literature. It also features Bibliotecas del Mundo, an extensive subject directory of selected links focusing on hispanic studies and related issues.

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Print Resources  

Cambridge History of Spanish Literature
Call Number PQ 6033.C36 2004
This comprehensive history of Spanish literature surveys the range of Spanish literature from the early Middle Ages to the present day.

Dictionary of the Literature of the Iberian Peninsula
Call Number REF PN 849.S6 D54 1993
This dictionary includes historical, religious, cultural and philosophical writings as well as prose, poetry, and drama from the Iberian Peninsula. Entries contain bibliographies of primary texts and selected critical studies as well as existing English translations of primary texts.

Feminist Encyclopedia of Spanish Literature
Call Number REF PQ 6055.F46 2002
This work looks at the literature of Spain from the perspective of women's studies and includes hundreds of alphabetically arranged entries on numerous topics related to Spanish literature, including literary periods and genres, characters and character types, and major authors and works.

Hispanic Literature Criticism
Call Number REF PQ 7081.A1 H573
This two-volume set focuses on the major literary figures of the Spanish-and Portuguese-speaking world. It offers a brief biographical sketch, a list of principal works, critical essays, and a short bibliography of additional articles.

Latin American Writers
Call Number REF PQ 7081.A1 L37
This three-volume set covers writers from 20 countries and spans 500 years, including critical studies of poets, novelists, and playwrights as well as journalists, statesmen, revolutionaries, clergy, diarists, and philosophers.

Magill's Survey of World Literature
Call Number REF PN 523.M29 1993
The collection discusses major world authors of fiction, drama, and poetry and includes biographies, general analysis, and analysis of the author's most important works.

Oxford Spanish Dictionary (Spanish-English and English Spanish)
Call Number REF PC 4640.O94 1994

Twentieth Century Spanish Fiction Writers (Dictionary of Literary Biography)
Call Number REF PQ 6144.T94 2006 v.332
This volume of the Dictionary of Literary Biography presents 42 Spanish fiction writers from the twentieth century. Articles contain a bibliography of the author's works and other sources, and description of his or her life and career.

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Created by Catherine Perkins. Last updated September 2008.