DEPARTMENT FOR SPAIN, PORTUGAL AND LATIN AMERICA

303 Watson Library

University of Kansas, Lawrence 66045

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

SPLAT home page: http://www.ku.edu/~splat/

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TOPIC: Orientation - Dept. of Spanish and Portuguese
DATE: August 18, 2000
PRESENTED BY: Jana Krentz
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FINDING BOOKS IN THE KU LIBRARY

SUGGESTED SUBJECT HEADINGS

By country and period: Spanish literature--To 1500; Spanish literature-Classic period, 1500-1700; Mexican literature-19th century; Catalan literature-History and criticism

By genre: Spanish American poetry; Mexican fiction; Brazilian drama; Theater--Brazil; Latin American essays; Picaresque literature; Novel; Drama; Fiction; Fairy tales; Poetry; Prose literature; Comic books, strips, etc

By movement: Romanticism; Baroque

By individual author's name: Pardo Bazán, Emilia; Cortazar, Julio

By individual literary work: Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de, 1547-1616. Don Quijote

Thematic: Plots; Semiotics and literature; Women and literature; Intertextuality; Costa Rica in literature; Doubles in literature; Satire; Coplas

Background information: Spain-Social Life and Customs; Spain-Civilization; Spain-Intellectual Life-18th century


CALL NUMBER RANGES

PQ 6001-8560 - Spanish literature

PQ 9000-9999 - Portuguese literature

PN 1-6790 Literature

F 1401-3799 - Latin American history

DP 1-500 - Spanish history


REFERENCE BOOKS

Dictionaries and Handbooks:

Oxford Companion to Spanish Literature. 1978. (Reference PQ 006 .O93)

Hawthorn, Jeremy. A Glossary of Contemporary Literary Theory. (Reference PN 44.5 .H37 1998)

Literary Histories:

Pedraza, Felipe. Manual de literatura hispanoamericana. 1991- . (Reserves PQ 7081 .M28 1991)

Pedraza, Felipe. Manual de literatura española. 1980- . (Reserve PQ 6032 .P4)

Monographic Series:

Critical Guides to Spanish Texts. London: Grant and Cutler.

Historia y crítica de la literatura española. Francisco Rico, ed. Literary History of Spain.


FINDING ARTICLES IN THE KU LIBRARY
NOTE: once you have identified the articles which you want to find, use the Online Catalog, to look up the title of the journal and learn whether KU has it and where it is. Pay special attention to HOLDINGS to assure that KU has the volume you need.


PRIMARY INDEXES

MLA International Bibliography (ERL) - The MLA Bibliography covers the years 1963 to the present and includes citations to journal articles from more than 3000 journals, monographs, essays, and dissertations related to research in all modern languages and literatures, literary theory, theatre, film and cultural studies.

HAPI Online (WWW) - 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 home page 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

Dissertation Abstracts (CDROM) - contains citations and abstracts from all subject areas for dissertations. Covers 1861 to date.

Expanded Academic ASAP (IAC)- includes citations to journal articles and book reviews. Full text articles are available in many cases.

Info-Latinoamerica (WWW)- Bibliographic database that covers business, economics, politics, and related social and cultural issues in Latin America. Many of its records, beginning with 1995, contain full text from the original source, the remainder include indexing and abstracts only. Info- Latinoamerica is compiled from over 1,500 leading international and domestic newspapers, journals, news magazines, newsletters, and other sources. Approximately 15,000 records are added per year. Dates from 1988.

¡Informe! Revistas en Español (IAC) - (Available in August). IAC database provides indexing and full-text access to 60 Spanish language magazines and 100 pamphlets. Includes the most popular and well-read titles among Hispanic library users. Citation titles in both English and Spanish.

Latin American Database (WWW) - LADB is a searchable online index of reports and news on a variety of political, economic and social issues.

WorldCat (FirstSearch) - contains more than 32 million records describing items owned by the KU Libraries and libraries around the world. Includes records for books, films and slides, journals and newspapers (NOT individual articles), manuscripts, maps, musical scores, sound recordings, and videotapes.

Academic Universe Lexis-Nexis (WWW) - Information on current events, sports, business, economics, and reference information for Spain and Latin America. Full text of selected newspaper articles and a foreign language news section.

Arts & Humanities Search (First Search) - Indexes articles from leading arts and humanities journals. Contains articles and book reviews.

Gale Literary Databases - (WWW)

  1. Contemporary Authors - information on modern authors. Covers some popular Latin American and Spanish authors from mid to late 20th Century.
  2. Contemporary Literary Criticism Select - significant published criticism on the works of writers now living or who died after Dec. 31, 1959. Contains some Spanish and Latin American authors.
  3. Dictionary of Literary Biography - Lives and careers of authors from all eras and genres and the critical response to their work. Covers most important Spanish and Latin American authors.

World News Connection (WWW) - Online news service that offers an extensive array of translated and English-language news and information. Particularly effective in its coverage of local media sources for Latin America and Spain.


ELECTRONIC JOURNALS

JSTOR - a full text database of many core academic journals in a variety of disciplines.

Project Muse (WWW) - contains electronic editions of 46 journals in the humanities, social sciences, and mathematics, published by the Johns Hopkins University Press since 1995. Since late 1999, Project Muse has been adding 51 additional journals from nine other university presses: Carnegie-Mellon, Duke, Indiana, MIT, Oxford, Pennsylvania State, Hawaii, Texas, and Wisconsin. Excellent search engine. Full text articles.


INTERNET RESOURCES

Some WWW addresses:

SPLAT home page - http://www.ukans.edu/~splat/

KU Libraries Home Page - www.lib.ukans.edu

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

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

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