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Research guide to Peninsular (Spain and Portugal), Latin American, and Caribbean language, literature, and film
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Primary Works

Latin American Women Writers contains prose, poetry, and drama by Latin American women dating from the 17th century to the present. Currently features 36 plays and over 47,000 pages of prose.

 

Latino Literature contains fiction, poetry, and plays representing the Chicano culture and Latin American writers with a Hispanic background working in the United States. The database also includes ancillary materials such as playbills and performance material, poetry readings and book presentation flyers, book covers, pictures, etc. Includes some 19th century materials but the vast majority of works date from the Chicano Renaissance to current times. Texts are presented in their original language, English or Spanish. In cases where authors produced more different language versions of their work, both are included. About thirty percent of the database consists of previously unpublished or rare materials from various sources including institutions such as the Centro de Estudios Puertorriquenos at Hunter College, scholars' personal archives and the authors themselves.

 

Literature Online (LION) features thousands of complete texts of poetry, prose, and drama as well as literary criticisms, author bios, and guides to major literary works. Although most of the material is focused on the Anglo world the database does provide 34 volumes of poetry from 18 Caribbean / West Indian authors. 

 
 

Core Databases

  • JSTOR  
    JSTOR provides full-text access to the archives of over 100 core literary journals including Hispania, Hispanic Review, and Revista de Critica Literaria Latinoamericana.
  • Linguistics & Language Behavior Abstracts (LLBA)  
    The LLBA abstracts and indexes the international literature in linguistics and related disciplines in the language sciences. Critical to the study of Spanish instruction and second language acquisition.
  • MLA International Bibliography  
    MLA indexes journal articles, books and dissertations back to 1963. It provides over 1.5 million citations from more than 4,400 journals and series and over 1,000 book publishers. MLA International Bibliography is by far the most important database for language and literature studies.
 

Important Databases

  • Academic Search Premier (ASP)  
    The Libraries most comprehensive journal database, ASP provides full-text access to literally thousands of scholarly journals including Bilingual Review, Criticas, and Luso-Brazilian Review.
  • America: History & Life  
      
    Provides article abstracts for 1,700+ scholarly journals (1964-date) that focus on the history of the region now occupied by the United States and Canada from prehistoric times to the present. Quite useful for researching the history of Hispanics in North America. Search for the phrase "hispanic americans" to see over 1,600 citations to articles containing that phrase.
  • Anthropology Plus  
    "Brings together into one resource Anthropological Literature from Harvard and Anthropological Index from the Royal Anthropological Institute in the UK" (Mr. McKinney, Anthro. Librarian). Covers linguistics and the other anthro. sub-disciplines.
  • Chicano Database  
    A comprehensive index to the literature of Chicano Studies; provides selected coverage from the early 1900s through the 1960s, and complete coverage from the 1960s to the present. Covers many literary topics.
  • Ciencias Sociales y Humanidades de America Latina (ISOC)  
    Indexes 20 Spanish journals (published in Spain) on Latin American topics, including literature. Choose "ISOC - Lengua y Literatura" from the drop-down that follows the Búsqueda simple search box. Click Buscar.
  • Citas Latinoamericanas en Ciencias Sociales y Humanidades (CLASE) y Periodica  
    Indexes 2,600 journal titles and other scholarly materials in the social sciences, humanities, sciences, and technology fields. Combine a search for Literatura (in the subject field) with any keyword of choice.
  • Dialnet - Universidad de la Rioja  
    Find articles in scholarly journals. Indexes Hispanic scientific production but also topics in the humanities and social sciences. Free online.
  • ERIC (1966-)  
    The ERIC database contains bibliographic records of research reports, conference papers, teaching guides, books, and journal articles relating to the practice of education. Includes citations to materials on language acquisition.
  • Handbook of Latin American Studies (HLAS)  
    Perhaps the most important index to scholarly Latin American Studies works including journal articles, reference books, book chapters, and conference proceedings. Covers social sciences and humanities disciplines.
  • Hispanic American Periodicals Index (HAPI)  
    HAPI indexes 400+ Latin American Studies periodicals focusing on all aspects of contemporary Latin American culture, including the border regions shared by the U.S and Mexico. Latin American literature and poetry are extensively covered (see Thesaurus).
  • Historical Abstracts  
    Provides article abstracts from journal literature on the history and culture of the world, excluding the United States and Canada, from 1450 to the present. Provides the most comprehensive indexing of the scholarly periodical literature in history.
  • Humanities Index  
    Indexes 500+ periodicals and provides full-text coverage of over 200 titles. Use the thesaurus to find materials on Spanish linguistics and literature. Indexing begins in 1907; abstracts in 1994.
  • Latin American Periodicals Table of Contents (LAPTOC)  
    Provides access to the Table of Contents of 950 Latin American periodicals. A component of the Latin Americanist Research Resources Project (ARL), University of Texas at Austin.
  • Literature Criticism Online (Gale)  
    A comprehensive collection of literary criticism from classical to modern times. Includes online editions of Contemporary Literary Criticism (CLC) and Twentieth-Century Literary Criticism (TCLC).
  • Literature Resource Center (Gale)  
    Find full-text literary criticisms as well as author biographies and bibliographies.
  • Periodicals Archive Online (PAO)  
    PAO "is a major online periodical archive that makes the [full-text] backfiles of periodicals in the humanities and social sciences available electronically." PAO currently offers access to 450 journals spanning some 300 years.
  • Periodicals Index Online (PIO)  
    PIO "is an electronic index to millions of articles published in over 5,000 periodicals in the humanities and social sciences. It is unique in combining a broad subject base with deep chronological coverage going back over 300 years."
  • Project MUSE  
    Project MUSE, a joint venture of the Johns Hopkins Press and Milton S. Eisenhower Library, provides full-text access to the Press's scholarly journals. Coverage begins in 1995.
 

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Spanish Language News

Temple University Libraries provide online access to the following news sources from Latin America, the Caribbean, and Iberia:

  • Access World News  
      
    Full-text from over 1,400 U.S. and international newspapers. The unique map interface enables users to quickly and easily target any search to a single title, all titles in a country or a continent, the entire collection, or any customized grouping.
  • World Newspaper Archive: Latin America   
    A component of Newsbank's World Newspaper Archive, as of this writing includes over 150,000 pages of historical newspapers from Latin America. Click "i" for more information about titles available.
  • LexisNexis Academic  
      
    Search thousands of full-text, general-interest newspapers and magazines. Click red "News" tab. Choose "Portuguese Language News Combined" or "Spanish Language News, Combined" inside Sources dropdown box.
  • Library PressDisplay   
      
    Temple-only database provides most recent 60 days of over 300 newspapers from around the world. The newspapers include the same content and are in the same format as the print edition of the newspaper, including full-color where applicable.
  • World News Connection  
      
    Non-US media sources in translation. Covers multiple topics and all regions of the world including Latin America and the Caribbean.
 
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