Research Guides: Spanish Literature & Language

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Journals/Magazines

Literature Online (LION) with MLA Campus Faculty, Staff and Students only ArticleLinker enabled Some full text available
English and American poetry, drama and prose plus other world literatures (French, Spanish, German, etc.); full-text literature journals, criticism, plays, and reference resources.
Note: Cross-search MLA under Criticism & Reference

JSTOR Campus Faculty, Staff and Students only ArticleLinker enabled Some full text available Resource contains images
Complete backfiles of core scholarly journals, searchable by journal (1 or more), keywords, author, title etc. Files do not include the latest 3-5 years. The content is delivered as page images.  Results from image searches can be dragged from the website to your desktop and then used in a paper or presentation (for educational use only).

Project Muse Campus Faculty, Staff and Students only ArticleLinker enabled Some full text available
Full-text scholarly journals in the Humanities, Arts, Social Sciences and Mathematics; Coverage varies by journal but generally only 2-3 current years.

Academic Search Premier Campus Faculty, Staff and Students only ArticleLinker enabled Some full text available Resource contains images
Multi-disciplinary database which includes a large collection of peer-reviewed journals in many areas of academic study including: archaeology, area studies, astronomy, biology, chemistry, ethnic & multicultural studies, law, mathematics, music, physics, psychology, religion & theology, women's studies, and other fields.  Coverage varies, but begins in the 1990s for most journals.

Ethnic Newswatch Campus Faculty, Staff and Students only ArticleLinker enabled Some full text available
Full-text collection of the newspapers, magazines and journals of the ethnic, minority and native press. Contents include African American, Arab and Middle Eastern, Asian American, European, Jewish, and Native American publications, including the Spanish-language press.

General OneFile Campus Faculty, Staff and Students only ArticleLinker enabled Some full text available Resource contains images Resource contains video Resource contains audio
Current journal and news information in humanities, education, business, science, art, politics, economics, social sciences, law, health care, computers, technology and environmental issues. Formerly InfoTrac OneFile.
Note: Formerly known as InfoTrac OneFile

ProQuest Campus Faculty, Staff and Students only ArticleLinker enabled Some full text available
Business, humanities, general information, social life, law etc. ABI/INFORM databases, ProQuest Newspapers, Research Library and several others.

Handbook of Latin American studies Unrestricted Resource
Citations for journal articles, research reports, and books about Latin America, in English, Spanish, etc. Coverage 1935 to present.

Clase and Periodica Campus Faculty, Staff and Students only ArticleLinker enabled
Index of Latin American journals in the sciences and humanities, published in the Spanish, Portuguese, French and English languages.

ERIC (Ebsco interface) Campus Faculty, Staff and Students only ArticleLinker enabled Some full text available
Bibliographic citations, abstracts, and some full-text for journal articles, research and technical reports, conference papers and proceedings, program descriptions, teaching guides, and lesson plans covering  all areas and levels of education.

Newspapers

Ethnic Newswatch Campus Faculty, Staff and Students only ArticleLinker enabled Some full text available
Full-text collection of the newspapers, magazines and journals of the ethnic, minority and native press. Contents include African American, Arab and Middle Eastern, Asian American, European, Jewish, and Native American publications, including the Spanish-language press.

LexisNexis Academic Campus Faculty, Staff and Students only Some full text available
Full-text access to continuously updated news, law, and business information. Highlights: News: newswires, transcripts, regional, national/international news, & Gallup Polls; Legal: law review articles, federal case law, and federal/state codes; Business: company profiles, country profiles, and SEC filings; People: directories from the entertainment industry, elected officials, executives, politicians, and obituaries.  Also has a section that includes full-text of several health newsletters and abstracts of articles in major medical journals.

Web Sites

DMLL Espanol. On-line resources Unrestricted Resource
Websites recommended by teachers of Spanish at the College - dictionaries, vocabulary, news sources, etc., etc.

Real Academia Española Unrestricted Resource
Spanish Academy provides the definitive Spanish-Spanish dictionaries, etymologies & additional Spanish language resources

Voice of the Shuttle: Literatures other than English Unrestricted Resource
Gateway to Web sites & text collections -- African languages through the Welsh language

Language Center : Ithaca College Dept. of Modern Languages & Literatures Campus Faculty, Staff and Students only
Description of Center services, catalog by language of resources for language study, schedule of language tutoring services.

Atlases

CIAO: Columbia International Affairs Online Campus Faculty, Staff and Students only Some full text available
Theory and research in international affairs; working and occasional papers, research projects, conference proceedings, books, journals and policy briefs. 1991-

Bibliographies

Literature Online (LION) with MLA Campus Faculty, Staff and Students only ArticleLinker enabled Some full text available
English and American poetry, drama and prose plus other world literatures (French, Spanish, German, etc.); full-text literature journals, criticism, plays, and reference resources.
Note: Cross-search MLA under Criticism & Reference

WorldCat (via FirstSearch) Campus Faculty, Staff and Students only
WorldCat (via FirstSearch) provides bibliographic information for over 41 million books and multimedia owned by libraries worldwide.

Biographical Information

Hispanic-American almanac
Call Number: REF E184.S75 H557 1993
Unrestricted Resource
Biographic & topical entries on Spanish-speakers in the USA

Dictionaries

LanguageGuide.org Unrestricted Resource
This interactive website includes images, text and sound. It includes the following languages:

McGraw-Hill diccionario del argot Campus Faculty, Staff and Students only Some full text available
Spanish-Spanish slang dictionary

Ultimate Business Dictionary Campus Faculty, Staff and Students only Some full text available
Includes "Multilingual glossary", which translates all terms into Chinese, French, German, Japanese and Spanish.

Diccionario de la lengua Española / Real Academia Española Unrestricted Resource
Official Spanish-Spanish dictionary


Call Number: REF PC4625.A3 2000
Unrestricted Resource

Diccionario etimológico español e hispánico / por Vicente García de Diego
Call Number: REF PC4580 .G33 1989
Unrestricted Resource
Spanish-English, English-Spanish dictionary with word origins

Oxford Spanish dictionary
Call Number: REF PC4640 .O94 2008
Unrestricted Resource
Spanish-English, English-Spanish contemporary dictionary.

WordReference.com Unrestricted Resource
Free contemporary dictionaries - French-English, English-French, Italian-English, English-Italian. Spanish-English, English-Spanish,  German and Russian

Diccionarios.com online / Editorial Spes Unrestricted Resource
Free contemporary dictionaries - Spanish-Spanish, Catalan-Spanish, Spanish-English, English-Spanish, French & German to Spanish, Spanish to French & German.

Oxford Reference: Bilingual Dictionaries Campus Faculty, Staff and Students only
Bilingual dictionaries, including specialized vocabularies, for: French, German, Italian, Spanish, Irish, Welsh

2001 Spanish and English Idioms
Call Number: REF PC4460 .S36 1995
Unrestricted Resource
Spanish-English, English-Spanish contemporary idioms.

Streetwise Spanish dictionary/thesaurus
Call Number: REF PC4971 .G55 2001
Unrestricted Resource
Spanish-English dictionary of current Spanish slang.

Diccionario del Español Chicano
Call Number: REF PC4829.T4 G3 1995
Unrestricted Resource
Spanish-Spanish dictionary for Mexican Spanish vocabulary

Diccionario mayor de Cubanismos
Call Number: REF PC4854.C8.S25 1999
Unrestricted Resource
Spanish-Spanish dictionary focusing on Spanish spoken in Cuba.

Diccionario Mosby
Call Number: REF R121 .D52
Unrestricted Resource
English-Spanish, Spanish-English medical dictionary

Routledge Spanish dictionary of business, finance, and commerce
Call Number: REF HF1002 .R687 1998
Unrestricted Resource
English-Spanish, Spanish-English business vocabulary.

Southwestern medical dictionary
Call Number: REF R121 .K238 2001
Unrestricted Resource
Spanish-English, English-Spanish, medical terminology & expressions used in the Southwestern United States.

Lexicool.com Unrestricted Resource Some full text available
Directory of online bilingual and multilingual dictionaries and glossaries freely available on the Internet. Intended for translators, linguists, language students and all those interested in foreign languages.

Directories

MLA Directory of Publications Campus Faculty, Staff and Students only Some full text available
Incl. 7,100+ titles; of these, 4,400+ are currently indexed. The entries list editorial addresses, phone numbers, fax numbers, e-mail addresses, frequency of publication, descriptions of the periodicals' scopes, circulation figures, subscription prices and addresses, advertising information, and submission guidelines. The directory also provides statistics on how many articles and book reviews the periodicals publish each year, as well as how many are submitted.

E-books

International Children's Digital Library Unrestricted Resource

A collection of online children's books that represents outstanding historical and contemporary books from throughout the world.  Books can be searched by age group, genre, award, country, and language. Here are just a few of the languages available:

Encyclopedias

Diccionario de historia de España
Call Number: REF DP56.D5 1968
Unrestricted Resource
Spanish-language historical dictionary of people, places, and events in Spanish history into the 1960s.

Diccionario enciclopédico Espasa
Call Number: REF AE61 .D47 1992
Unrestricted Resource
Multivol. Spanish language encyclopedia.

Encyclopedia of bilingualism and bilingual education
Call Number: REF LC3707 .E53 1998
Unrestricted Resource
This is a most comprehensive and informative reference source for bilingualism and bilingual education. It is an important resource for interested scholars, students.

Encyclopedia of contemporary Latin American and Caribbean cultures
Call Number: REF F1406.E515 2000
Unrestricted Resource
Encyclopedia-style entries on contemporary cultures - English-, French-, Portuguese-, and Spanish-speaking - of Central & South America as well as the Caribbean.

Encyclopedia of contemporary Spanish culture
Call Number: REF DP233.5.E63 1999
Unrestricted Resource
Encyclopedia of 20th century Spanish art, literature, popular culture, etc

Encyclopedia of Latin-American literature
Call Number: REF PQ7091.A1.E56 2003
Unrestricted Resource
Dictionary-style entries on the literatures of Latin America

Handbook of Hispanic cultures in the United States
Call Number: REF E184.S75.H365 1994
Unrestricted Resource
4 vols. on the many Spanish-speaking communities in the U.S.

Handbook of Latin American literature / compiled by David William Foster
Call Number: REF PQ7081.A1 H36 1992
Unrestricted Resource
Country-by country brief entries on authors, movements, including Brazil, Cuba, the USA

Hispanic culture of South America
Call Number: REF F2237.H57 1995
Unrestricted Resource
Descriptions of the unique society, culture, and art of South America.

Oxford companion to Spanish literature
Call Number: REF PQ6006.O93
Unrestricted Resource
Brief entries on persons, places, movements, and topics in Spanish literature.

Diccionario del teatro iberoamericano / Ricardo de la Fuente Ballesteros y Julia Amezúa
Call Number: REF PQ7082.D7 D53 2002
Unrestricted Resource
Definitions of terms, authors, movements, for Spain & the Americas.

Handbooks & Guides

MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers
Call Number: REF LB2369 .G53 2003
Unrestricted Resource
The Modern Language Association guide to writing research papers in the Humanities, covering grammar & punctuation, formatting, and citation.

Real Academia Española Unrestricted Resource
Spanish Academy provides the definitive Spanish-Spanish dictionaries, etymologies & additional Spanish language resources

MLA Style Manual and Guide to Scholarly Publishing
Call Number: REF PN147 .G444 1998
Unrestricted Resource
The Modern Language Association guide to the basics of scholarly writing, the preparation of dissertations, and the publication of journal articles and books.

Hispanic literature criticism
Call Number: REF PQ6039 .H5 1994
Unrestricted Resource
Critical introductions to Spanish-language authors of Spain & the Americas.

Latin American writers / Carlos A. Solé, editor
Call Number: REF PQ7081.A1 L37 1989
Unrestricted Resource
Articles on writers of Central & South America

Twayne's Authors Series Campus Faculty, Staff and Students only Some full text available
Full-text biographies and literary criticism of authors (ancient to modern); discussion of literary genres and literary movements.

Gramática española : análisis y práctica/ Larry D. King, Margarita Suñer
Call Number: PC4112 .K52 1998
Unrestricted Resource
Spanish-Spanish analysis of Spanish grammatical structure

Coursebook in Romance linguistics / Jurgen Klausenburger
Call Number: PC43 .K53 2001
Unrestricted Resource
Introduction to linguistics of the Romance language family; French, Italian, Spanish, etc.

Images

ARTstor Campus Faculty, Staff and Students only Some full text available Resource contains images
Database of more than 1,000,000 digital images representing visual and material culture across cultures and time periods. Documents the fields of architecture, painting, sculpture, photography, decorative arts, and design, as well as many other forms of visual culture. ARTstor tools enable the ability to save groups of images online for personal and classroom use. IC's Visual Resources Collection (VRC) of over 20,000 images is now available. Look for the Ithaca College-Visual Resouces Collection link in the lower middle section of the page.

Newspapers--International

LexisNexis Academic Campus Faculty, Staff and Students only Some full text available
Full-text access to continuously updated news; all Spanish language sources in "Spanish Language News"; Latin American Spanish sources in "Latin American...". Use links in "Tips" (to right of screen)

Eufeeds Unrestricted Resource Some full text available Resource contains images Resource contains video Resource contains audio
News feeds from 300 European newspapers, organized by country

Kidon Media Link Unrestricted Resource Some full text available Resource contains images Resource contains video Resource contains audio
Links to 18,776 newspapers and other news sources from almost every country and territory in the world.

Foreign Language News and Magazines Unrestricted Resource Some full text available
Links to electronic newspapers, journals, and magazines from around the world. Compiled by MIT Libraries.

Imooty Unrestricted Resource Some full text available Resource contains images Resource contains video Resource contains audio
European news navigator

Organizations

American Association of Teachers of Spanish & Portuguese website AATSP Unrestricted Resource
Information about Association publications, activities, teaching resources, jobs, etc., for teachers.

Primary Sources

The Online Books Page Unrestricted Resource Some full text available
25,000 e-texts, search by Title, Author, or Subject; browse by LC Call Number.

Project Gutenberg Unrestricted Resource Some full text available
Full text books. 13,000+ e-books.

The Online Medieval & Classical Library Unrestricted Resource Some full text available
Berkeley Digital Library e-texts of important literary works of medieval and classical civilization.

Video

Europa Film Treasures Unrestricted Resource Resource contains video
A film initiative from the Treasures of European Archives project that provides free streaming films. The films date from 1895 to the present and are representative of film efforts in Europe and the Americas.