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Department
of Modern Languages: Spanish
Departmental Research Guide
This research guide relays some basic information on library
and information resources pertaining to the concerns of this
department, as provided by University Libraries and/or sites
on the World Wide Web.
1.
LC Call Nos. - - - 2.
Finding Articles - - - 3.
Reference Collection - - - 4.
Spanish Faculty - - - 5.
Professional Societies - - - 6.
Web Sites
1.
To Shelf-Browse for Books (using main Library
of Congress Subject Divisions)
Books
on subjects associated with this field are shelved under
the call number ranges listed below. Use TOPCAT
to search for specific items in the collection, or more
narrowly-defined subjects.
General History of Spain, DP1- DP27 ------- Description
and travel, DP27.5- DP43.2 ------- Antiquities, social
life and customs, ethnography, DP44- DP53 ------- Spanish,
PC4001- PC4977 ------- Spanish Literature, PQ6001-
PQ8929 ------- History and criticism, PQ6001- PQ6168
------- Collections, PQ6170- PQ6269 ------- Modern
Literature, PQ6271- PQ6676 ------- Provincial, local,
colonial, etc., PQ7000- PQ8929
2. To Find Journal and Magazine
Articles (using indexing/abstracting/full-text services)
The
following services are recommended for use by first-year students
and non-majors:
- Academic
Search Premier, MasterFILE, MAS FullTEXT Ultra:
these all-subject EBSCOhost-based services feature
indexing and abstracting of many journals and magazines
WKU Libraries receives in hardcopy, plus a large selection
of articles in full-text.
- Reader's
Guide to Periodicals Literature (Ref. Per. Ind. A13
.R48): Paper index covering articles on all subjects in
magazines since 1904.
- Lexis-Nexis
Academic: Full-text articles from local, national,
and international newspapers.
- MLA
(The Modern Language Association): This FirstSearch
database is an Index for Literature, Language, Folklore,
Linguistics, and various other humanities fields.
- ArticleFirst:
This all-subject FirstSearch
database indexes almost 13000 journals and magazines from
1990 onward, including some ninety percent of the ones University
Libraries carries in hardcopy.
The
following services are recommended for use by advanced students
and researchers:
- JSTOR:
Provides the full text/full image web access of the complete
archival collections of journals, up to the most recent
three to five years.
- Project
Muse: "provides online, worldwide, institutional
subscription access to the full text of over 100 scholarly
journals in the arts and humanities, social sciences and
mathematics."
- PerAbs:
Periodical abstracts from general and academic journals,
with many articles in full-text (a FirstSearch database
available to faculty and graduate students and to undergraduates
by special permission).
- WilsonSelectPlus:
Full-text articles in science, humanities, education and
business (a
FirstSearch database available to faculty and graduate
students and to undergraduates by special permission).
Special
resource: TDNet
Electronic Journal Finder [use to access Libraries'
electronic journals, magazines, and newspapers, as well as
some indexes and databases containing full-text articles;
includes a comprehensive A-Z listing of titles]
3.
Monographic Reference Works in Helm Library
The following are recommended for use:
- Business
Spanish dictionary : Spanish-English, English-Spanish ;
español-inglés, inglés-espanol: HF1002
.B873x 1998
- Encyclopedia
of contemporary Spanish culture: DP233.5 .E63 1999
- Twentieth-century
Spanish poets. Second series: PS221 .D55x v.134
- Dictionary
of the Literature of the Iberian Peninsula: PN849 .S6
D54 1993
- Dictionary
of Mexican Literature: PQ7106 .D53 1992
- Biographical
Dictionary of Hispanic Literature in the United States:
the Literature of Puerto Ricans, Cuban Americans, and other
Hispanic Writers: PQ7420.2 .K3 1989
- Encyclopedia
of contemporary Spanish culture: DP233.5 .E63 1999
- Putnam's
contemporary dictionaries: Spanish-English. ingles-espanol:
PC4640 .B75 1972
4.
Department of Modern Languages Home Page
WKU
Modern Languages (Spanish) Department http://www.wku.edu/modernlanguages/
5. Related Professional Societies (for
professional news, careers/jobs, memberships, etc.)
6. Web sites Recommended by Spanish Faculty
Some
links to Spanish and Latin American newspapers on the Internet:
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