Welcome
This guide is intended to help you get started finding resources for researching languages, and linguistics.
Selected Web Resources
Free, internet-based resources
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Gale Literary IndexSearch by author, title, or nationality to locate specific information about a given author or work, including birthdates, pseudonyms, lists of works by an author, and a list of reference books in which criticism about that author/work appears. Works indexed here are those published by Gale, such as Contemporary Authors, Contemporary Literary Criticism, Something About the Author, and the Dictionary of Literary Biography
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Historic Mexican & Mexican American PressFrom the University of Arizona. Publications from the U.S. and Mexico from the mid 1800s through the 1970s.
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Hispanic Digital Library/Bibiloteca Digital HispanicaPrimary Source Documents including books, sound recording, drawings photographs, and maps
Audio and Video
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Foreign Language Video InstructionShort videos of native speakers talking about their countries and culture. No subtitles.
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Films on DemandSearchable database of digitized films. Click on "Humanities and Social Sciences" to see a list of films by language, on the bottom, right side of the screen. Requires a BSU login.
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WEBSTER: Maxwell Library's online catalogMaxwell library owns many Spanish-language movies on DVD or VHS. You can search for them in Webster by typing Videorecording in the search box, and selecting Spanish language in the "limit to" box. You can search for feature films by typing "feature films" in the search box and limiting to Spanish language. If you need further assistance ask a librarian.
Search Maxwell Library's online catalog
Books on Spanish and Latin American literature and literary criticism can generally be found in the PQ6000-7000 range.
Online databases
These databases require a BSU login.
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MLA International BibliographyReferences for articles from professional journals in modern languages and literatures. For 299 of these journal titles, full text is available.
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Literary Reference CenterAn expansive collection of literary resources, including more than 36,000 plot summaries, synopses and work overviews, 81,000 articles/essays of literary criticism, 250,000 author biographies, 460 literary journals, 870,000 book reviews, 98,000 classic and contemporary poems, 26,000 classic and contemporary short stories, 9,500 author interviews, and more than 7,400 classic novels.
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JSTORA full-image collection of retrospective issues from scholarly journals of prime importance in their fields. Subject coverage includes mathematics, philosophy, anthropology, Asian studies, economics, history, literature, population studies, and sociology (from the Arts & Sciences I Collection)
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Academic OneFileFull-text articles from the world's leading journals and reference sources. Content also includes ebooks, images, and videos. With extensive coverage of the physical sciences, technology, medicine, social sciences, the arts, theology, literature and other subjects. Articles available in both PDF and HTML full-text with no restrictions. Includes full-text coverage of the New York Times back to 1995. Updated daily.
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Academic Search PremierFull text for more than 8,500 journals, including full text for more than 4,600 peer-reviewed titles. PDF backfiles to 1975 or further are available for well over one hundred journals, and searchable cited references are provided for more than 1,000 titles.
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Historical Abstracts with Full TextFull text for more than 540 journals and 140 books, indexing of historical articles from more than 2,300 journals in over 40 languages, and searchable cited references for more than 500 journals. Coverage dates back to 1953, with some coverage for titles back to the early 20th century. Subjects include world history, military history, women’s history, history of education and more.
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Credo ReferenceCredo Reference service features full-text, aggregated content from more than 260 reference titles from 55 publishers, with nearly three million entries covering every major subject. Content includes encyclopedias, atlases, dictionaries, bilingual dictionaries, and subject-specific works. Additional key features include customizable, dynamic data tables; tens of thousands of images; audio pronunciation files; over 90,000 atlas images of places and geographic features.
Reference Books
These books can be found in the Reference Department on the first floor of Maxwell Library.
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International encyclopedia of linguistics byCall Number: P29 .I58 2003
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Latin American writers byCall Number: PQ7081.A1 L37
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Encyclopedia of Latin American literature byCall Number: PQ7081.A1 E56
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The Feminist Encyclopedia of Spanish literature byCall Number: PQ6055 .F46
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The Oxford companion to Spanish literature byCall Number: PQ6006 .O95
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Spanish writers on gay and lesbian themes : a bio-critical sourcebook byCall Number: PQ6046.S49 S66
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The Greenwood encyclopedia of Latino literature byCall Number: PS153.H56 G74 2008
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Multicultural Spanish dictionary : how everyday Spanish differs from country to country by
Call Number: PC4640 .M26 2006
Subject Guide
Pamela Hayes-Bohanan
Contact:
Reference Department
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WebsiteClement C. Maxwell Library
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Additional Help
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Journals/Newspapers A-ZUse this link to find out if Maxwell Library subscribes to a journal in either print or electronic format.