Spanish Research Guide

This guide provides you with a good starting point for conducting research in Spanish language and literature at the Southwestern Adventist University Library. As you explore the library’s resources you will find additional materials such as videos and DVD’s.

Library Catalog	Research Related Material	Dictionaries and Encyclopedias
Print Periodicals	Print Indexes	Databases
SDA Related Material	Useful Web Resources	General Help Links
Spanish Links	Seventh-day Adeventist Sites	Online Periodicals and Newsletters
University Site Resources

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Library Catalog

The library catalog is available online at: http://silc.swau.edu/aquabrowser/

We use the Library of Congress Classification system to organize most of the material in our library. Using this system, each book is given its own call number. The call number is used to locate the books on the shelf.

Material related to Spanish can be found in the following call number ranges or areas.

P Language and Literature

PC4001- 4997 Spanish language

PQ6001- 8929 Spanish literature

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Research Related Material

Below are some titles in the SWAU library collection that describe the methodology used in conducting and organizing research. Some of these are general and some are specific to the field of Spanish. Most of these titles are in the [MAIN] collection and are located on second floor.

A glossary of English grammar
[R] PE1112 .L44 2006

 The everyday writer : a brief reference

[R] PE1408 .L86 1997

Research guide to biography and criticism : literature

[R] Z2011 .R47 1985 v.2

 The extreme searcher's Internet handbook
[R] ZA4230 .H63 2007

Writing, teaching, and learning in the disciplines

[MAIN] LB1576 .W76 1992

Using sources effectively : strengthening your writing and avoiding plagiarism

[MAIN] LB2369 .H37 2002

The nuts & bolts of college writing

[MAIN] PE1408 .H3927 2003

Online companion (http://www.nutsandboltsguide.com/)

Strategies for writing successful essays

[MAIN] PE1408 .M48 1998

Writing clear essays

[MAIN] PE1408 .W772 1996

The art of literary research

[MAIN] PR56 A68 1993

MLA handbook for writers of research papers

On reserve at the Circulation Desk

MLA Online (http://library.concordia.ca/help/howto/mla.html)

MLA Tutorial (University of Southern Mississippi)

(http://www.lib.usm.edu/legacy/tutorials/mlatutorial/tutorialindex.php)

[MAIN] LB2369 .G53 2003

How to Site the Bible (Grove City College)

http://hbl.gcc.edu/citingBIBLE.htm

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Dictionaries & Encyclopedias

Reference materials such as dictionaries, encyclopedias, almanacs and atlases provide facts and statistics and are usually arranged so information can be easily located. They can be used to narrow or broaden a search topic or provide needed details for your research. Most of our reference material is located on first floor. However, the call numbers that begin with [MAIN] are located on second floor.

Santa Biblia

[R] BS299 2000

Worldmark encyclopedia of the nations : the Americas

[R] G63 .W67 2001 v.3

Worldmark encyclopedia of cultures and daily living

[R] GN333 .W67 1997 v.1-4

Greenwood encyclopedia of international relations

[R] JZ1160 .N65 2002 v.1-4

International encyclopedia of linguistics

[R] P29 .I58 2003 v.4

The Facts on File encyclopedia of word and phrase origins

[R] PE1689 .H47 2004

The American Heritage Spanish dictionary : Spanish/English, inglés/español

[R] PC4640 .A47 2001

NTC's beginner's Spanish and English dictionary

[R] PC4640 .Q3 1997b

Vox new college Spanish and English dictionary : English-Spanish/Spanish-English

[R] PC4640 .V696 1994

[MAIN] PC4640 .V696 1984

Breve diccionario etimologico de la lengua Castellana

[R] PC4761 C6B7 1967

Encyclopedia of folklore and literature

[R] PN41 .E48 1998

Cyclopedia of world authors

[R] PN451 .M36 1974 v.1-3

Cyclopedia of world authors II

[R] PN451 .M36 1989 v.1-4

Oxford book of Spanish verse

[R] PQ6176 .O8 1940

Hispanic literature of the United States

[R] PS153.H56 K36 2003

Multicultural voices in contemporary literature

[R] PS153.M56 D38 1999

La Santa Biblia

[MAIN] BS299 1921 .A8

Spanish explorers in the southern United States, 1528-1543

[MAIN] E123 S75 1946

The Cambridge encyclopedia of Latin America and the Caribbean

[MAIN] F1406 C36 1992

The evolution of grammar : tense, aspect, and modality in the languages of the world

[MAIN] P299 G73B93 1994

Women in Hispanic literature : icons and fallen idols

[MAIN] PQ6048 W6W65 1983

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Print Periodicals

Periodicals include journals, magazines and newspapers. All of our periodicals are shelved in alphabetical order by the title. We keep two issues of our current subscriptions on first floor. Back issues and titles not currently received are shelved on the east side of third floor.

Currently Received Journals and Magazines

(First and third floor)

Selecciones

Enfoque de Nuestro Tiempo

National Geographic en Español

Revista Adventista

Titles Not Currently Received

(Only on third floor)

Americas

Hispania

Insula

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Print Indexes

Indexes are used to locate citations (the information on where the article is found and who wrote it) of articles on a specific subject or subjects. When you have found the citation(s), you go to the shelves to locate the article(s). Articles not available in our library may be obtained through interlibrary loan. Some print indexes that include Spanish language and literature are listed below. These indexes are shelved on third floor, unless otherwise noted.

MLA International Bibliography

Reader’s Guide to Periodical Literature (Includes book reviews)

Seventh-day Adventist Periodical Index (Print on 3rd floor, CD-Rom on 1st floor)

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Databases

Our library databases, found on our web page, offer many options for locating material in the area of Spanish language and literature. These databases are online indexes. Some of them have only the citation (the information on where the article is found and who wrote it) and an abstract (a short description of the article). Other databases offer some or all full-text articles. In other words, the whole article is on the computer. The ones most likely to help you in your research are listed below.

Chadwyck-Healey Literature Collections

Twentieth-Century American Poetry – Includes 50,000 poems drawn from 750 volumes by over 300 poets, some Chicano, Hispanic, Latino and Mexican.

Twentieth-Century English Poetry - A collection of 598 volumes of poetry by 283 poets from 1900 to the present day, including W.B. Yeats, Rudyard Kipling, Thomas Hardy, Wilfred Owen, Thom Gunn, Fleur Adcock, Paul Muldoon, Tony Harrison, Benjamin Zephaniah and Carol Ann Duffy, and incorporating the poets in The Faber Poetry Library.

EBSCOhost

Economia y Negocios – Spanish language database from Peru focusing on business and economics. Includes 200 Latin American and Spanish periodicals.

Fuente Academica – Database of Spanish scholarly, academic journals. Provides full-text from 200 journals.

MedicLatina – Provides access to full-text from 100 peer-reviewed medical research and investigative journals in Spanish.

EBSCOhost Español

Interfaz en español contraduccion de los articulos. Base de datos sobre muchos temas - incluye texto completo. Los articulos están traducidos por un programa de la computadora del inglés.

Spanish interface for EBSCOhost with articles translated into Spanish. Database covers a variety of material, including extensive full text articles. Articles are translated from English by a computer program.

Academic Search Premier – The greatest number of full text, peer-reviewed journals found in any database. Provides a broad spectrum of data in social sciences, humanities, education, computer sciences, engineering, language and linguistics, arts & literature, medical sciences, and ethnic studies.

MasterFile Premier – Provides full text for nearly 2,050 general reference publications. Also features 5,000 full text Magill book reviews and the American Heritage Dictionary, 4th edition.

Medline - An abstracts and citations database for 4,600 current biomedical journals, including medicine, dentistry, nursing, veterinary medicine, and other portions of the health care field. Contains some full text.

Military and Government Collection – Full text for more than 400 periodicals and journals. Abstracts for additional sources of news and scholarly information on all branches of the military.

Regional Business News – Provides comprehensive full text coverage for regional business publications. Incorporates coverage of 75 business journals, newspapers and newswires from all metropolitan and rural areas within the United States.

Encyclopedia Britannica

Full-text access to the encyclopedia, atlas, and dictionary articles of Encyclopedia Britannica, as well as EB’s recommended Websites. Includes a world atlas and country comparisons.

FirstSearch

AH Search – (Arts and Humanities Search). Indexes the world’s leading arts and humanities journals from over 1,100 sources, some in Spanish or by Hispanic authors. Includes some full text from WilsonSelectPlus.

ArticleFirst – Indexes articles from more than 15,000 sources from 1990 to the present. Contains some Spanish language sources or authors. Covers business, humanities, popular culture, science, social science and technology. Includes some full text from WilsonSelectPlus.

ClasePeriodica – Indexes more than 2,600 scholarly, Latin American journals that focus on the social sciences and the humanities. Covers 1978 to the present.

Dissertation Abs – Indexes dissertations and theses from institutions in North America and Europe.

ECO – An OCLC collection of scholarly journals, some Spanish language. Includes some full text from WilsonSelectPlus.

MLA International Bibliography – Covers literature, language, linguistics and folklore. Also includes the MLA Directory of Periodicals. Indexes journals and serials from over 6,500 sources. Includes some full text from WilsonSelectPlus.

Reader’sGuideAbs – Contains abstracts on articles covering consumer affairs, current events, education, fashion, fine arts, health & nutrition and sports. Also includes some book reviews. Articles from 379 sources, some Spanish language. Includes some full text from WilsonSelectPlus.

WilsonSelectPlus – Full text articles in science, humanities, education and business from 1,652 sources, including some Spanish language.

Handbook of Latin American Studies

Bibliography of Latin American resources, produced by the U.S. Library of Congress. Includes materials from 1935 to the present, with many open URL links to full-text resources. Includes options for English, Spanish and Portuguese.

NetLibrary

Provides access to a collection of 28,274 e-books. NetLibrary eBooks are digital full-text versions of books such as reference works, scholarly monographs, literature and fiction in all subjects. Includes a Spanish language interface.

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SDA Related Material

Index to the Complete Published Writings of Ellen G. White

Includes the books, periodical articles and pamphlets with the writings of Ellen G. White.

SDA Periodical Index

Indexing to approximately 40 Seventh-day Adventist journals and magazines. Currently the index covers the years 1977 to the present. The majority of the articles indexed are in English, however, some articles in Spanish are available.

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Useful Web Resources

The Web sites listed below were evaluated by a reference librarian. Sites found on the Web should always be critically evaluated for authority, accuracy, audience, coverage, currency, objectivity and purpose. There are additional sites related to Spanish language and literature that may be reached through some of the university sites listed at the end of this section. Not all of these sites have been evaluated. Be sure to use your “critical thinking skills” if you choose to use these additional web resources or to find other sites on your own.

Southwestern Adventist University

Modern Languages Department

(Online at: http://www.swau.edu/academics/languages.asp)

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General Help Links

College and Graduate School Planning (Thomson Peterson’s)

Contains a resource and information area for educators, as well as information for students and prospective students on test preparation, financial aid planning and career advancement.

(Online at: http://www.petersons.com/)

College and University Rankings (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)

Identifies top colleges and universities in various areas. Contains links to many ranking services, along with cautionary notes and a discussion of the ongoing controversy over rankings.

(Online at: http://www.library.uiuc.edu/edx/rankings.htm)

GRE – Graduate Record Examinations (Educational Testing Service)

Free test prep materials available for the General Test and for the Subject Tests. Also contains information about changes to the GRE, which are to be implemented in the fall of 2007.

(Online at: http://www.ets.org/portal/site/ets/menuitem.435c0b5cc7bd0ae7015d9510c3921509/?vgnextoid=b195e3b5f64f4010VgnVCM10000022f95190RCRD)

Internet Detective (Intute Virtual Training Suite)

Free online tutorial designed to help college and university students develop their Internet research skills. Looks at the critical thinking required when using the Internet for research and offers practical advice on evaluating the quality of web sites. Follow the tutorial or explore the site on your own.

(Online: http://www.vts.intute.ac.uk/detective/tutors.html)

Plagiarism (Indiana University, Bloomington)

Explains what plagiarism is and how to avoid it.

(Online at: http://www.indiana.edu/~wts/pamphlets/plagiarism.shtml)

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Spanish Language and Literature Links

alphaDictionary “Free Spanish Dictionary” (Lexiteria LLC)

Includes Spanish-English dictionaries, multi-language dictionaries and specialty Spanish language dictionaries as well as links to dictionaries in many other languages.

(Online at: http://www.alphadictionary.com/directory/Languages/Romance/Spanish/)

American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages

Web site for ACTFL the only national organization dedicated to the improvement and expansion of the teaching and learning of all languages at all levels of instruction. Includes links to related sites.

(Online at: http://www.actfl.org/i4a/pages/index.cfm?pageid=1)

Biblioteca Virtual Miguel de Cervantes (Fundación Biblioteca Virtual Miguel de Cervantes)

Gateway to Spanish literary sites, libraries, text, and digital projects.

(Online at: http://www.cervantesvirtual.com/bib_mundo/biblioteca_mundo.shtml)

EDSITEment (National Endowment for the Humanities, Council of the Great City Schools, Marco Polo Foundation and the National Trust for the Humanities)

Material for teachers, students, and parents searching for high-quality material on the internet in the subject areas of literature and language arts, foreign languages, art and culture, and history and social studies.

(Online at: http://edsitement.neh.gov/)

Gramática y ortografía española (Juan Manuel Soto Arriví)

Spanish grammar information and exercises.

(Online at: http://www.indiana.edu/~call/lengua.html)

iLoveLanguages>Spanish (Tyler Chambers)

Links to a wide variety of Spanish language web sites. Includes sites for Spanish dialects, common errors in Spanish usage, teaching and translation, Spanish dictionary webs site and much more. Some links are broken, but the majority are still working links.

(Online at: http://www.ilovelanguages.com/index.php?category=Languages%7CBy+Language%7CSpanish)

Internet Picture Dictionary

Completely free, online multilingual picture dictionary designed especially for ESL students and beginning English, French, German, Spanish and Italian language learners of all ages.

(Online at: http://www.pdictionary.com/)

Language Links (Lauren Rosen)

Provides links to sites featuring free educational resources for teaching and learning other languages. Cultural, linguistic, media and historic information can be found by language in these pages.

(Online at: http://langlink.net/langlink/index.htm)

LANIC (University of Texas at Austin)

Latin American Network Information Center. Facilitates access to primarily research related, Internet-based information to, from, or on Latin America. Information may be accessed in English, Portuguese or Spanish.

(Online at: http://lanic.utexas.edu/)

Learn Spanish (Spanish Learning Resources)

Free online tutorial for learning Spanish. Features online lessons, quizzes and tests, audio drills with native speakers and more.

(Online at: http://www.studyspanish.com/index.htm)

Librarians’ Internet Index (U.S. Institute of Museum and Library Services)

High-quality websites carefully selected, described, and organized by a team of librarians. Enter Spanish as your search term.

(Online at: http://lii.org/)

MLA Language Map (Modern Language Association)

Color-coded map of 33 language groups in the U.S.

(Online at: http://www.mla.org/census_main)

Mundo Latino (Red Mundo Latino)

Spanish website featuring a variety of information and resources for Latinos.

(Online at: http://www.mundolatino.org/prensa/)

NYPL (New York Public Library)

Web site for the New York Public Library.

(Online at: http://nypl.org/)

Also available through the LOC website, direct links to the areas listed below.

Digital Gallery

Provides access to over 450,000 images digitized from primary sources and printed rarities in the collections of The New York Public Library, including illuminated manuscripts, historical maps, vintage posters, rare prints and photographs, illustrated books, printed ephemera, and more. Covers a variety of subjects, including arts and literature.

(Online at: http://digitalgallery.nypl.org/nypldigital/index.cfm)

Servicios de referencia en español

NYPL web site in Spanish.

(Online at: http://www.nypl.org/branch/questions/index2.html)

Omniglot (Simon Ager)

Writing systems and languages of the world. Contains details of most alphabets and other writing systems currently in use, as well as quite a few ancient and invented ones. Also includes information about some of the languages written with those writing systems, multilingual texts, tips on learning languages, a book store, some useful phrases in many different languages, and links to language-related resources.

(Online at: http://www.omniglot.com/)

Online Books Page (John Mark Ockerbloom and the University of Pennsylvania)

Facilitates access to books that are freely readable over the Internet. Includes a variety of links to foreign languages.

(Online at: http://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/archives.html#foreign)

Parallel Histories: Spain, the United States, and the American Frontier (the National Library of Spain, the Biblioteca Colombina y Capitular of Seville and the Library of Congress)

Bilingual, multi-format English-Spanish digital library site that explores the interactions between Spain and the United States in America from the fifteenth to the early nineteenth centuries.

(Online at: http://international.loc.gov/intldl/eshtml/eshome.html)

Pew Hispanic Center (Pew Research Center)

Research and surveys on the U.S. Hispanic population.

(Online at: http://pewhispanic.org/)

PLUS: Public Libraries Using Spanish (Bruce Jenson)

Spanish language resources for libraries such as card applications, brochures, programming suggestions, signage, press releases and news articles - many in Spanish with a side-by-side English translation.

(Online at: http://www.sol-plus.net/plus/home.htm)

Project Gutenberg – Spanish

Full text online Spanish literature from Project Gutenberg

(Online at: http://www.gutenberg.org/browse/languages/es)

"Sí, España" (General Directorate for Cultural Affairs within the Spanish Ministry of Foreign Affairs)

Promotes free exchange of information on Spanish current affairs and its historical, linguistic and cultural development. Available in Spanish, English, French and German.

(Online at: http://www.sispain.org/spanish/index.html)

Spanish Literature (Western European Specialists Section of Association of College and Research Libraries)

Part of the larger Electronic Text Collections in Western European, this site has links to Spanish literature, individual authors, poetry and literary magazines.

(Online at: http://www.lib.virginia.edu/wess/etexts.html#spanish)

Yamada Language Guides (University of Oregon)

Definitive guide to language resources on the World Wide Web. Includes information for over 140 languages. Also available is a virtual language lab for some of the languages and a self study language program.

(Online at: http://babel.uoregon.edu/yamada/guides.html)

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Seventh-day Adventist Sites

Adventist Distance Education Consortium

Group of 13 Seventh-day Adventist Affiliated colleges and universities in North America. Enables its member institutions to develop, promote, and deliver high-quality Christian distance education programs for the benefit of motivated independent learners.

(Online at: http://www.sdaedu.org/)

Adventist Professionals Network

Global registry of Seventh-day Adventist professionals who hold the minimum of a master's degree or its equivalent (5 years of postsecondary studies) in any field. Housed at the world headquarters of the Church, APN will help locate candidates for positions, consultants with expertise, and volunteers for short mission assignments. It will also foster international networking among Adventists in various professions.

(Online at: https://apn.adventist.org/)

Centro de Investigacion White (Universidad Adventista del Plata)

Ellen G. White Research Center at the Adventist University in Argentina.

(Online at: http://www.centrowhite.uapar.edu/)

Centro White (White Estate Universidad de Montemorelos-División Interamericana-Asociación General)

Ellen G. White Research Center at the Adventist University in Mexico.

(Online at: http://online.um.edu.mx/cwhite/)

LibreríaAdventista (Pacific Press Publishing Association)

Spanish web site for the Pacific Press.

(Online at: http://www.libreriaadventista.com/)

PlusLine

Provides ministry support to Seventh-day Adventist church members, pastors and church leaders throughout the North American Division.

(Online at: http://www.plusline.org/)

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Online Periodicals and Newsletters

Directory of Open Access Journals – Languages and Literature (Lund University Libraries)

DOAJ aims to be comprehensive and cover all open access scientific and scholarly journals that use a quality control system to guarantee the content.

(Online at: http://www.doaj.org/ljbs?cpid=8)

España hoy: Noticias (Universidad Complutense de Madrid)

Newspaper produced by the students of Complutense University.

(Online at: http://www.ucm.es/info/Periodico/)

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University Site Resources

Biblioteca Nacional de Antropologia e Historia (Mexico)

(Online at: http://portaltransparencia.gob.mx/)

Biblioteca Nacional de España (Spain)

(Online at: http://www.bne.es/)

Celestina (University of Texas at Austin)

(Online at: http://www.lib.utexas.edu/subject/iberian/)

Foreign Language Internet Links – Spanish (Tarleton State University)

(Online at: http://www.tarleton.edu/%7Elibrary/languages_il.html#Spanish)

Modern Languages (Walla Walla University)

(Online at: http://www.wallawalla.edu/index.php?id=13900&catID=40)

Selected Web Sites, Modern Languages – Spanish (Southern Adventist University)

(Online at: http://library.southern.edu/research/view.php?id=89#sws)

Spanish (Andrews University)

(Online at: http://www.andrews.edu/library/RefDesk/guides/spanish.html)

Web Sites: Spanish (University of Texas at Arlington)

(Online at: http://library.uta.edu/webSites/webSpanish.jsp)

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