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Hispanic American Literature Resources

Databases

The following databases contain a wealth of information on literary figures and their works:

MLA International Bibliography
This is the primary database for literary research and indexes scholarly articles in literary journals, books and dissertations. Covers literature, language, linguistics and folklore. Check CONSULS to see if we own the publication cited.

Gale's Literature Resource Center
Full-text author biographies, critical essays, and more drawn from several Gale resources, including Contemporary Authors, the Dictionary of Literary Biography and the Literary Criticism sets.

Literary Reference Center
Provides a broad spectrum of information on thousands of authors and their works across literary disciplines and time periods. LRC combines information from major reference works, books, literary journals, and more. Some articles available in full-text.

LION (Literature Online)
LION is a fully searchable library of more than 350,000 works of English and American poetry, drama and prose, 136 full-text literature journals, and other key criticism and reference resources.

Bibliografia de la Literatura Espanola desde 1980
Provides citations to publications appearing in all languages on Spanish literature, literary theory, and literary genres from books, periodical articles, critical editions of literary works, book reviews, bibliographies, and conference proceedings.

Informe (Revistas en Espanol) (Gale/iCONN)
A full text reference resource created for Spanish-speaking patrons. Includes citations, full text articles, and images from many of the most popular Hispanic magazines.

Humanities International Complete
Covers journals, books and other sources in the humanities. Indexes and abstracts over 1,700 journals.

JSTOR
Full-text access to back issues of scholarly journals in all fields.

GenderWatch
This is a full-text collection of international journals, magazines, newsletters, regional publications, special reports and conference proceedings devoted to women's and gender issues. Information on women authors and their books can be found here.

Project Muse
Contains full text of scholarly journals in the humanities, social sciences and mathematics.

Academic Search Premier
EBSCOHost's Academic Search Premier indexes magazine and journal articles, many of which are available full text. Over 300 literary journals are indexed. It is possible to search for peer-reviewed journal articles or for those that contain the full text of the article. It is also possible to search for articles from specific journals.

Wilson Select Plus
Indexes/abstracts articles in the humanities, including philosophy, folklore, linguistics, archeology, film, religion, and literature. Includes film and book reviews.

NoveList

NoveList is a reader's advisory database for readers of all ages. It features over 147,000 titles, 100,000 searchable reviews, book discussion guides, annotated thematic bibliographies, award lists, genre and theme-based lists, book talks, and customized classroom content for students and teachers.

Essay and General Literature Index
An index to essays that appear in collections focusing on the social sciences and the humanities.

Expanded Academic Index (ASAP)
Periodicals covering all academic concentrations.

Newsstand
Full-text coverage of the Christian Science Monitor, Hartford Courant, Los Angeles Times, New York Times, Wall Street Journal and Washington Post.

New York Times Historical Archives
Contains the full-text of New York Times from 1851-to 2001 (rolling window).

Dissertation Abstracts Online
Contains abstracts of dissertations on a wide range of academic subjects, including literature. 1861-present.

Granger's World of Poetry Online
Contains poetry citations, poems in full text, scholarly commentary on poems and poets, biographical and bibliographical information and a glossary of poetic terms.