Outline of this guide: Reference Works Books Articles

Other useful links: Book Review Sources RefWorks RefWorks: A Guide Research Log Research Planner Scholarly Articles: How to Identify Them

• Dictionaries
  To find dictionaries, go into the Library Catalog and do a "Subject" search for one of the following Library of Congress Subject Headings:
  
  • Spanish language dictionaries
  • Spanish language dictionaries English
  • English language dictionaries Spanish
  Noteworthy dictionaries include:
  • Collins Spanish Dictionary. 8th ed.. New York: HarperCollins, 2008.
    The Library also has:
    Collins Spanish-English, English-Spanish Dictionary 3rd ed. New York: HarperCollins, 1992.
    Reference R 463.2 S644c
  • Diccionario de la Lengua Española (Real Academia Española). 22nd ed. 2 vols. Madrid: Editorial Espasa Calpe, 2001.
    Reference R 463 A16d22
  • Don Quijote Dictionary: Spanish-English. Comp. Tom Lathrop. 4th ed. Newark, DE: Cervantes & Co., 2005.
    LC Reference: REF PQ6323 .D66 2006
  • Oxford Spanish Dictionary. 4th ed. New York: Oxford Univ. Press, 2008.
    The Library also has:
    Oxford Spanish Dictionary. Ed. Beatriz Galimberti Jarman and Roy Russell. 3rd ed. New York: Oxford Univ. Press, 2003.
    Reference R 463 O98 2003
  • Tesoro de la Lengua Castellana o Española. Sebastian de Covarrubias Orozco. Madrid: Editorial Castalia, 1994.
    Reference R 463 C873t
• General Works on Cervantes and Spanish Literature & History
  • An Analytical and Bibliographical Guide to Criticism on Don Quijote: 1790-1893. Dana B. Drake and Dominick L. Finello. Newark, NJ: Juan de la Cuesta, 1987.
    Reference R 863 C41d-xd
    Davidsoniana Room D 081 D7611a
  • Bibliographie Internationale de l’Humanisme et de la Renaissance. Geneva: Librairie Droz, 1965– .
    Reference R 016.94 B582
  • Biography Reference Bank. H.W. Wilson, 2003- .
  • Cervantes: A Bibliography. Raymond Grismer. 2 vols. New York: H.W. Wilson, 1946-1963.
    Reference R 016.86 C41g
  • Cervantes: A Tentative Bibliography of his Works and of the Biographical and Critical Material Concerning Him. Jeremiah D.M. Ford and Ruth Lansing. Cambridge, MA: Harvard Univ. Press, 1931.
    Reference R 016.86 C41f
  • The Cervantes Encyclopedia. Howard Mancing. 2 vols. Westport, CT: Greenwood, 2004.
    Reference R 863 C41ym
  • Cervantes' Place-Names: A Lexicon. Eugene Charles Torbert. Metuchen, NJ: Scarecrow, 1978.
    Reference R 863 C41xto
  • Diccionario de Literatura Española. Ed. Germán Bleiberg and Julian Mariás. 3rd ed. Madrid: Revista de Occidente, [1964].
    Reference R 860.3 D553
  • Dictionary of the Literature of the Iberian Peninsula. Ed. German Bleiberg et al. 2 vols. Westport, CT: Greenwood, 1993.
    Reference R 860.3 D5532
  • Dictionary of the Middle Ages. Ed. Joseph R. Strayer. 13 vols. New York: Scribner, 1982–1989.
    Reference R 909 D554
  • Don Quijote (1894-1970): A Selective, Annotated Bibliography. Dana B. Drake. 4 vols. Chapel Hill, NC: UNC Dept. of Romance Languages, 1974-1984.
    Reference R 016.86 C41d
  • Don Quijote Dictionary: Spanish-English. Comp. Tom Lathrop. 4th ed. Newark, DE: Cervantes & Co., 2005.
    LC Reference: REF PQ6323 .D66 2006
  • Encyclopedia of the Renaissance. Ed. Paul F. Grendler. 6 vols. New York: Scribner’s, 1999.
    Reference R 940.2 E56
  • The Feminist Encyclopedia of Spanish Literature. Ed. Janet Pérez and Maureen Ihrie. 2 vols. Westport, CT: Greenwood, 2002.
    Reference R 860.9 F329
  • Historical Dictionary of the Spanish Empire, 1402-1975. Ed. James S. Olson. New York: Greenwood, 1992.
    Reference R 914.6 H673
  • An Index to Don Quijote, including Proper Names and Notable Matters. Richard L. Predmore. 1938. New York: Kraus Reprint, 1970.
    Reference R 863 C41yp
  • Literature Resource Center
    Contains full-text biographies, critical essays, journal articles, and excerpts of criticism and reviews about over 130,000 literary authors and their works; covers dramatists, essayists, novelists, poets, and other writers from all time periods.
    Includes:
    • Dictionary of Literary Biography
  • Manual de Literatura Española. Felipe B. Pedraza Jiménez, Milagros Rodríguez Cáceres. 14 vols. Pamplona: Cenlit, 1980–2000.
    Little Library Stacks 860.9 P371m
  • Medieval Iberia: An Encyclopedia. Ed. E. Michael Gerli. New York: Routledge, 2003.
    Reference R 946.02 M489
  • The Oxford Companion to Spanish Literature. Ed. Philip Ward. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1978.
    Reference R 860.3 O98
  • Reference Guide to World Literature. Ed. Sara Pendergast and Tom Pendergast. 3rd ed. 2 vols. Detroit, MI: St. James Press, 2003.
    Reference R 809 R332
  • Spanish Literature, 1500-1700: A Bibliography of Golden Age Studies in Spanish and English, 1925-1980. Comp. William Moseley et al.. Westport, CT: Greenwood, 1984.
    Reference R 016.86 M898s

• Library Catalog
  Includes information about books, government documents, and journals, magazines, and newspapers in the Library.
  • To find Spanish-language books, do a keyword search and limit by language.
  • To locate videos, do a keyword search and limit your search by the format "video materials (VHS/DVD)."
  • To locate works about a person, do a subject search for the person's name (last name first).
  • To locate bibliographies on a person or topic, do a keyword search and add the following: su bibliography.
  • To locate appropriate Library of Congress Subject Headings, start with a keyword search and then browse records.
  Search Syntax:
  • Truncation: use a dollar sign $
  • Phrase searching: use double quotation marks " "
  • Wildcard: use a question mark ?
• ebrary
  A collection of over 38,000 e-books published by over 220 academic, trade, and professional publishers; covers all subject areas. Also includes tools that allow you to create your own virtual bookshelf, bookmark pages, and add and save notes and highlights.
  Note: for full functionality, you need the ebrary Reader. This plugin is on all library and ITS computers, but if you are using your own computer, you can download it from the ebrary home page.
• WorldCat
  Indexes books, periodicals, and other materials held by libraries around the world. Search WorldCat to identify additional books on your topic and then order the books on interlibrary loan.
  Note: It can be helpful to identify relevant Library of Congress Subject Headings in the Library Catalog first; you can then do a subject search in WorldCat to find additional items with these subject headings.
  Search Syntax:
  • Truncation: use an asterisk *
  • Phrase searching: insert a "w" between the words in a phrase (for example, "cold w war")
  • Wildcard: use a question mark ?

• Starting Points (English-Language)
  • Academic Search Premier
    (1975 to present) Indexes popular and scholarly articles in a broad range of subject areas; also includes citations to book reviews and citations to articles in several national newspapers.
    Search Syntax:
    • Truncation: use an asterisk *
    • Phrase searching: use double quotation marks " "
    • Wildcard: use a question mark ?
  • OmniFile Full Text Mega
    (1982 to present) Indexes articles from over 3,000 scholarly and popular periodicals in the humanities, social sciences, and sciences; also includes the full text of selected articles from over 1,650 of these periodicals.
    Search Syntax:
    • Truncation: unnecessary when using "All - Smart Search"; otherwise, use an asterisk *
    • Phrase searching: use double quotation marks ""
    • Wildcard: do not use with "All - Smart Search"; otherwise, use a question mark ?
• Core Resources for Spanish Literature (Spanish and English-Language)
  • ITER: Gateway to the Middle Ages and Renaissance
    (400-1700 [historical time period covered]; 1842 to present [publication date of articles and books indexed]) Indexes scholarly articles and books on topics related to the Middle Ages and Renaissance.
    Search Syntax:
    • Truncation: use a dollar sign $
    • Phrase searching: use double quotation marks " "
    • Wildcard: use a question mark ?
  • MLA International Bibliography
    (1926 to present). Indexes journal articles, books, and doctoral dissertations in the fields of English, American, European, Asian, African, and Latin American linguistics, modern languages and literatures, film studies, and folklore.
    For more information, see the MLAIB Search Planner.
    Search Syntax:
    • Truncation: use an asterisk *
    • Phrase searching: use double quotation marks ""
    • Wildcard: use a question mark ?
• Other Resources (Spanish and English-Language)
  • Essay & General Literature Index
    (1900 to present) Indexes chapters and essays in edited collections.
    Search Syntax:
    • Truncation: unnecessary when using "All - Smart Search"; otherwise, use an asterisk *
    • Phrase searching: use double quotation marks ""
    • Wildcard: do not use with "All - Smart Search"; otherwise, use a question mark ?
  • Historical Abstracts
    (Time period covered: 1450 to present; publication coverage: 1954 to present). Indexes journal articles, book chapters, doctoral dissertations, and book reviews.
    Search Syntax:
    • Truncation: use an asterisk *
    • Phrase searching: use double quotation marks " "
    • Wildcard: use a question mark ?
  • Humanities Abstracts
    (1907 to present). Indexes articles in over 500 English-language journals in the fields of archaeology, art, classics, communication, film, folklore, history, languages and literatures, music, philosophy, religion, and theatre. Also includes citations for book, theatre, and film reviews as well as interviews, obituaries, and some original creative works. Includes the full text of selected articles from 1995 to the present.
    Search Syntax:
    • Truncation: unnecessary when using "All - Smart Search"; otherwise, use an asterisk *
    • Phrase searching: use double quotation marks ""
    • Wildcard: do not use with "All - Smart Search"; otherwise, use a question mark ?
  • Periodicals Index Online
    (c. 1665-1995) Indexes journal and magazine articles as well as book reviews in a broad array of humanities, social sciences, and science subjects.
    Search Syntax:
    • Truncation: use an asterisk *
    • Phrase searching: automatic
  • Web of Knowledge
    (c. 1900 to present) A multidisciplinary resource that provides citations to articles in thousands of journals in the social sciences, humanities, and sciences.
    Search Syntax:
    • Truncation: use an asterisk *
    • Phrase searching: use double quotations marks " "
    • Wildcard: use a question mark ?
• Selected Journals & Journal Collections
  Notable Journals | Electronic Journal Collections
  • Notable Journals
    The Library has print and/or electronic versions of many years of the following journals. To check years of coverage and availability, go into the Library Catalog and click on the red Periodicals button on the right-hand side of the screen.
    • Bulletin of Hispanic Studies
    • Cervantes: Bulletin of the Cervantes Society of America
    • Hispanic Review
    • Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies
    • MLN: Modern Language Notes
    • Renaissance Quarterly
    • Revista de Estudios Hispánicos
    • Revista Hispánica Moderna
    • Romance Quarterly (formerly Kentucky Foreign Language Quarterly)
    • Speculum
    The following journals are also freely available on the Web:
    • Laberinto: An Electronic Journal of Early Modern Hispanic Literatures and Culture
    • Lemir: Revista de Literatura Española Medieval y del Renacimiento
    • Tiempos Modernos: Revista Electrónica de Historia Moderna
  • Electronic Journal Collections
    • JSTOR
      Includes pdf copies of scholarly articles from a core collection of journals; also includes book reviews. Note:JSTOR does not contain articles from the most recent 3-5 years.
      Search Syntax:
      • Truncation: use a plus sign +
      • Phrase searching: automatic
    • Project Muse
      Contains full-text articles from journals published by university and scholarly presses.
      Search Syntax:
      • Truncation: use an asterisk *
      • Phrase searching: use double quotation marks " "