Outline of this guide: Style Guides Reference Works Books Articles

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Style Guides

• MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers. 7th ed. New York: Modern Language Association, 2009.
  Information Desk REF LB2369 .G53 2009
• MLA Style Manual and Guide to Scholarly Publishing. 3rd ed. New York: Modern Language Association, 2008.
  Information Desk: REF PN147 .G444 2008
  A guide for scholars and professional writers.
• RefWorks
  Use to capture, retain, and organize citations, generate bibliographies using MLA style, share references, and more. See also the library's guide to using RefWorks.

Reference Works

• Spanish language dictionaries
• Spanish language dictionaries English
• English language dictionaries Spanish

• 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

• 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.
  REF Z8158 .D68 1987
  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.
  REF Z8158 .F69 1931
• 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.
  REF PQ6358 .G4 T66 1978
• 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.
  REF PQ6337 .D730
• 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.
  REF PQ6361 .Z9 P7 1970
• Literary Reference Center
  Contains full-text biographies, book reviews, critical essays, journal articles, and plot summaries as well as author interviews, selected reference works, and thousands of classic and contemporary poems, short stories, and other texts.
• Literature Resource Center
  Full-text biographies, critical essays, journal articles, and excerpts of criticism and reviews about over 130,000 literary authors and their works; covers all time periods.
• 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.
  REF PQ6064 .M670 1984

Books

• Use Boolean operators (AND, OR, NOT) to connect terms/concepts
• In most databases, the truncation symbol is a *
• Enclose phrases in double quotation marks " "

• Davidson Library WorldCat
  Lists the books, journals, magazines, newspapers, government documents, and videos in our library and in libraries worldwide; also includes some article citations.
  Tip: For the Boolean operator "Not" use -
• ebrary
  A collection of over 70,000 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 Classic
  Lists books, videos, periodicals, and other materials held by libraries around the world. You can submit an interlibrary loan request to borrow books that aren't available at Davidson.
  • 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.

Articles

• Use Boolean operators (AND, OR, NOT) to connect terms/concepts
• In most databases, the truncation symbol is a *
• Enclose phrases in double quotation marks " "

• Ebsco: Selected Humanities Databases
  Includes the following databases:
  • Academic Search Complete
    (1975 to present) Popular and scholarly articles in a broad range of subject areas.
  • OmniFile Full Text Mega
    (1982 to present) Popular and scholarly articles in a broad range of subject areas.

• ITER: Gateway to the Middle Ages and Renaissance
  (Historical time period covered: 400-1700. Publication coverage: 1842 to present) Citations to articles from over 1,700 journals and over 9,000 essays in books on topics related to the Middle Ages and Renaissance.
• MLA International Bibliography
  (1926 to present) Citations to 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.

• Essay & General Literature Index
  (1900 to present) Indexes chapters and essays in edited collections.
• Historical Abstracts
  (Time period covered: 1450 to present; publication coverage: 1954 to present). Indexes journal articles, book chapters, doctoral dissertations, and book reviews.
  Tip: Use the advanced search page and limit to historical time period.
• Humanities Full Text and Humanities & Social Sciences Index Retrospective
  (1907 to present) Includes citations to journal articles in the humanities.
• 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.
• 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.

• Notable Journals
  The Library has print and/or electronic versions of many years of the following journals. To check years of coverage and availability, search the Periodical Title List (link on library homepage).
  • 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
    A collection of the back issues of over 1,400 electronic journals in the humanities, sciences, and social sciences.
    Tip: truncation symbol: +
  • Oxford Journals
    The full text of over 230 journals published by Oxford University Press.
  • Project Muse
    A collection of over 400 electronic journals in the humanities and social sciences.