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. 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 and MasterFILE Premier: These two all-subject WWW-based services (they are part of the EBSCOhost system) feature indexing and abstracting of many journals and magazines WKU Libraries receives in hardcopy, plus a large selection of articles in full-text. EBSCOhost databases are also available in Spanish.
• MLA (Modern Language Association): A WWW-based database available through Literature Online which exhaustively indexes all literature of the field of Literature, Languages, Linguistics, and Folklore.
• Literature Online: Contains full text of over 350,000 works of English and American poetry, drama and prose, along with literature journals and other key criticism and reference resources. Also Indexes scholarly books and articles on modern languages, literatures, folklore, and linguistics. Includes a combined search with the MLA International Bibliography.
• Reader's Guide to Periodicals Literature (Ref. Per. Ind. A13 .R48): Paper index covering articles on all subjects in magazines since 1904.
• Google Scholar: A free Web-based Google service that restricts searches to the scholarly literature. Now features linking to full-text of articles held by WKU.
• Lexis-Nexis Academic: Full-text articles from local, national, and international newspapers.

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."
• Art and Humanities Citation Index (AHSearch): FirstSearch database available to faculty and graduate students (and to undergraduate students by special permission). Indexes over 1,300 of the world's leading arts and humanities journals, 1980 to present.
• ArticleFirst: FirstSearch database available to faculty and graduate students (and to undergraduate students by special permission). Indexes almost 13,000 journals and magazines from 1990 onward, including some ninety percent of the ones University Libraries carries in hardcopy.
• PerAbs: FirstSearch database available to faculty and graduate students (and to undergraduate students by special permission). Periodical abstracts from general and academic journals, with many articles in full-text.
• WilsonSelectPlus: FirstSearch database available to faculty and graduate students (and to undergraduate students by special permission). Full-text articles in science, humanities, education and business.

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]
Special resource:  KenCat [A searchable catalog of the collections at the Kentucky Library & Museum. KenCat includes manuscripts, letters, sheet music, photographs, museum exhibits, images, journals, and books.]

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.)

• Association for Linguistic Typology http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fss/organisations/alt/
• American Academy of Research Historians of Medieval Spain http://libro.uca.edu/aarhms/
• Feministas Unidas http://www.west.asu.edu/femunida/

6. Web sites Recommended by Spanish Faculty

• Academic and Professional Programs for the Americas (LASPAU) http://www.laspau.harvard.edu/eng-cont.htm
• The Cervantes Project http://www.csdl.tamu.edu/cervantes/
• King Juan Carlos I of Spain Center (New York Univ.) http://www.nyu.edu/pages/kjc/
• Learn Spanish http://studyspanish.com/

• Spain http://www.elpais.es
• Ecuador http://www.elcomercio.com/
• Mexico City http://www.el-universal.com.mx/pls/impreso/noticias.html
• Perú http://www.elcomercioperu.com.pe/
• Uruguay http://www.diarioelpais.com/
• Argentina http://www.clarin.com/diario/hoy/index_diario.html
• Gen. site - Latin Amer. http://www.cibercentro.com