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Books & Media
This guide lists some of the most important and recent resources pertinent to Hispanic Studies at Shain Library and on the Internet.  It is intended as a starting place for your research and not as a comprehensive guide. Information related to the study of individual countries can be found at Reference Resources on World Countries.  Refer also, to the Latin American studies subject guide. 

Search the Library Catalog to find books, video's, government publications and journal titles. The catalog can be searched by author, title, keyword or subject and contains the holdings of Connecticut College as well as Trinity College and Wesleyan University. To search for books and media outside of the local catalog, use WorldCat.

Books in the Library are arranged by Library of Congress (LC) subject headings.  Examples of LC subject headings that may be useful for locating books and videos relating to Hispanic studies follow:

For a more detailed explanation of LC classification of literature, see Library of Congress Classification of Spanish Literature: a Brief Guide.  Reference books can be a useful starting point for your research. Some examples of Hispanic Studies reference resources available in Shain Library follow. 

Enciclopedia Hispánica (1994-1995)
AE61 E48 (v.1-18)

Historical Dictionary of Modern Spain (1990)
DP192 H57 [Reference]

Encyclopedia of Contemporary Spanish Culture (1999)
DP233.5 E63 [Reference]

Spanish Culture and Society:  The Essential Glossary (2002)
DP233.5 .S73 [Reference]

Handbook of  Hispanic Cultures in the United States (1994)
E184 S75 H365 (v.1-4)

Spanish Artists from the Fourth to the Twentieth Century:  A Critical Dictionary (1993)
N7112 S67 [Reference]

501 Spanish-Verbs Conjugated in All the Tenses (1990)
PC4271 K38 [Reference]

The Hispanic-American Almanac:  A Reference Work on Hispanic Americans in the United States (1993)
E184 S75 H557 [Reference]

The Oxford Spanish Dictionary: Spanish-English/English-Spanish (2003)
PC4640 O94 [Reference]

Dictionario de la lengua Española (1984)
PC4625 A3 v.1-3

McGraw-Hill Diccionario del Argot: el Sohez (2001)
PC4971 C383 [Reference]

Dictionary of Spanish and Portuguese Film-makers and Films (1994)
PN1993.5 S7 E83 [Reference]

Dictionary of the Literature of the Iberian Peninsula (1993)
PQ6006 D54 v.1-2 [Reference]

The Feminist Encyclopedia of Spanish Literature (2002)
PQ6005 F46 v.1-2 [Reference]

Spanish American Authors:  the Twentieth Century (1992)
PQ7081.3 F57 [Reference]

A Sourcebook for Hispanic Literature and Language:  A Selected, Annotated Guide to Spanish, Spanish-American, and United States Hispanic Bibliography, Literature, Linguistics, Journals and other Materials (1995)
Z2695 A2 B55 [Reference]

Other resources for locating information on books and media include:
Books in Print
Book Review Digest

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Style Manuals
A collection of style manuals and writing guides are kept on the shelf behind the reference desk. Information is also available from the Citation Guides for Print and Electronic Resources page.

Databases & Indexes
A full listing of all scholarly databases is available grouped by subject or listed alphabetically.

Art Index Retrospective (via WilsonWeb)
A bibliographic database that cumulates citations to Art Index volumes 1-32 of the printed index published between 1929-1984. The database cites articles from periodicals published throughout the world. Periodical coverage includes English-language periodicals, yearbooks, and museum bulletins, as well as periodicals published in French, Italian, German, Spanish, and Dutch. In addition to articles, Art Index Retrospective indexes reproductions of works of art that appear in indexed periodicals.

Arts & Humanities Index (via FirstSearch)
Indexes the world's leading arts and humanities journals covering articles, bibliographies, editorials, letters, reviews, and more. Also indexes selected articles from social science and science journals .

HAPI (Hispanic American Periodicals Index)
(A bibliography of authoritative, worldwide information about Central and South America, Mexico, the Caribbean basin, the United States-Mexico border region, and Hispanics in the United States. Contains citations to articles, book reviews, documents, original literary works, and other materials. Coverage is 1970 forward.

Historical Abstracts
An index to journal articles, book and video reviews, and dissertations covering world history from 1450 to the present. Historical Abstracts does not cover the United States and Canada, that is covered in America: History and Life.

HLAS Online (Handbook of Latin American Studies)
A bibliography on Latin America consisting of works selected and annotated by scholars. Edited by the Hispanic Division of the Library of Congress, the multidisciplinary Handbook alternates annually between the social sciences and the humanities

Humanities Index (via FirstSearch)
Indexes feature articles, book reviews, interviews, obituaries, bibliographies, original works of fiction (including dramas and poems), and reviews of plays and television and radio programs. Coverage is 1984-present.

Informe (Revistas en Espanol)
Full-text Spanish-language and bilingual periodicals

International Political Science Abstracts
Produced since 1951 by the International Political Science Association, IPSA is a bibliographic database that indexes and abstracts articles from periodicals published throughout the world. Coverage is 1989 forward.

World News Connection
Extensive database of translated and English-language news and information taken from the foreign media (newspaper articles, conference proceedings, television and radio broadcasts, periodicals, and non-classed technical reports) covering socioeconomic, political, scientific, technical, and environmental issues and events. 1995 to present

Internet Resources
Spanish Dictionaries Online
www.yourdictionary.com

WESSWEB:  Western European Specialists – Iberian Studies Web
URL: http://www.lib.byu.edu/~rdh/wess/iber/
Produced by the Association of College and Research Libraries, this website provides access to scholarly resources in Iberian Studies

Spanish: Foreign Language News and Newspapers
URL:  http://libraries.mit.edu/guides/types/flnews/spanish.html
Spanish language news and newspapers from MIT Libraries.

Historias Paraelas: Spain, the United States, & the American Frontier
URL: http://international.loc.gov/intdl/eshtml/
The Parallel Histories project examines the history of Spanish expansion into North American.  It is a joint project of the Library of Congress, the National Library of Spain and the Institución Columbina.

EuroDocs:
URL: http://lib.byu.edu/~rdh/eurodocs/
Primary historical documents from Western Europe, from Brigham Young University.

LIBRO: the Library of Iberian Resources Online
URL:  http://libro.uca.edu/about.htm
Full text of recent, but out of print, university press monographs regarding the peoples and nations of the Iberian Peninsula.  The collection focuses on peninsular history from the fifth to the seventh centuries. 

Centro Virtual Cervantes
URL: http://cvc.cervantes.es/
The Spanish government’s cultural institute online

The Cervantes Project
URL: http://www.csdl.tamu.edu/cervantes/
A comprehensive reference and research site dedicated to the study of Cervantes’ works and life from the Texas A&M University.

Yahoo en Español
URL: http://espanol.yahoo.com/
Spanish language search engine

Foreign Language Newspapers
Newspapers (print)
PAIS (Madrid, Spain)
Nuevo Herald (Miami, FL)
Newspapers Online
World News (UT Library)
Internet Public Library Reading Room

e-Journals
A complete listing of full text electronic journals is located on the Library homepage under the Journal Locator link.Titles of importance to Hispanic Studies include:
Bulletin of Spanish Studies
East European Politics and Society
Hispanic American Historical Review
Hispanic Review
Hispania
The Modern Language Journal

Assistance
For assistance in locating or using these or other sources, please contact the Reference Desk or schedule an appointment for a Personalized Research Session.

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