DEPARTMENT FOR SPAIN, PORTUGAL AND LATIN AMERICA

303 Watson Library

University of Kansas, Lawrence 66045

tel: 864-3351 | e-mail: jkrentz@ku.edu

SPLAT homepage: http://www.ku.edu/~splat/

FINDING BOOKS IN THE KU LIBRARY

SUGGESTED SUBJECT HEADINGS:

General: Brazil-History; Brazil-History-1500-1640; Brazil-History-Guarani War, 1754-1756; Rio de Janeiro (Brazil : State)-History; Rio de Janeiro (Brazil)-History (for the city of Rio de Janeiro)

Politics: Brazil-Politics and Government-1763-1821; etc.

Other: Brazil-Antiquities; Brazil-Social conditions; Brazil-Economic conditions-18th century

CALL NUMBER RANGES:

F2501-2659 - Brazilian History

PQ9000-9999 - Portuguese Literature

REFERENCE BOOKS:

Bibliographies:

Hartness, Ann. Brazil in Reference Books, 1965-1989: an Annotated Bibliography. 1991 (Reference Z 1671 .H39 1991)

Brazilian Curriculum Guide Specialized Bibliography Series (Reference) - various subjects - check under series title in OCAT

Dictionaries:

Dicionário histórico-biográfico brasileiro, 1930-1983. (Reference 2504 .D53 1984)

Levine, Robert M. Historical dictionary of Brazil. 1979. (Reference F 2504 .L46)

Encyclopedias:

Andrade, Mario de. A enciclopedia brasileira. 1993. (Stacks AE 1 .A56 1993)

Brazil A/Z enciclopedia alfabetica em um unico volume. 1988. (Stacks F2508 .B78 1988)

Statistics:

Brazil: A Handbook of Historical Statistics. 1985. (Reference HA 984 .L83 1985)

Statistical Abstract of Latin America. (Reference HA 931 .C3)

JOURNALS:

Infobrazil (Watson Stacks F 2501 .I536)

Perspectivas (Watson Stacks AS 80 .A1 P47)

Veja (Watson Periodicals AP 66 .V45)

FINDING ARTICLES IN THE KU LIBRARY:
NOTE: once you have identified the articles which you want to find, use the OCAT to look up the title of the journal and learn whether KU has it and where it is.

PRIMARY INDEXES:

HAPI Online - The Hispanic American Periodicals Index contains citations to articles, book reviews, documents, original literary works, and other materials appearing in more than 400 social science and humanities journals published throughout the world. The hardcopy is located in the Reference Stacks.

HLAS - The Handbook of Latin American Studies is a selective, annotated subject bibliography of journal articles and monographs in the humanities and social sciences. Available in three formats:

1. HLAS Online - contains volume 1, 1935 - volume 59, 2001, available through the SPLAT homepage at http://www.ukans.edu/~splat/
2. HLAS/CD - CD-ROM contains volume 1, 1935 - volume 53, 1994, available at the Reference Desk.
3. Hardbound copy is located in the Reference Stacks (Reference Z 1605 H362 V34)

ADDITIONAL INDEXES USING THE "LIBRARY MENU" ICON:

CD-ROM Databases: Arts and Humanities Citation Index; Dissertation Abstracts

IAC Databases: Expanded Academic Index (plus backfiles)

FirstSearch: Article 1st

INTERNET CONNECTION THROUGH NETSCAPE NAVIGATOR ICON:

Some WWW addresses:

SPLAT homepage - http://www.ukans.edu/~splat/

UT-LANIC - University of Texas Latin American Network Information Center - http://www.lanic.utexas.edu/ or available through SPLAT homepage.

HLAS Online - http://lcweb2.loc.gov/hlas or available through SPLAT homepage

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