Best Bets
- ERIC (EBSCOhost) (1966+)ERIC is the most complete index to articles and reports on educational topics.
- Linguistics & Language Behavior Abstracts (LLBA) (ProQuest) (1973+)abstracts & indexes the international literature in linguistics & related disciplines in the language sciences.
- MLA International Bibliography (EBSCOhost) (1926+)Indexes critical literary and language scholarship in journals and serials published worldwide.
Modern Languages & Literature Databases
Linguistics
- EthnologueAn encyclopedic reference work cataloging all of the world’s 7,151 known living languages, with a large bibliography of language-related books and articles.
Free version provides limited access - Linguist ListThe LINGUIST List is dedicated to providing information on language and language analysis. LINGUIST also hosts a peer-reviewed database of language and language-family information.
- Mango Languages
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Medieval Spanish
- Feminae: Medieval Women and Gender Indexcovers journal articles, book reviews, and essays in books about women, sexuality, and gender during the Middle Ages
- Historical Abstracts (EBSCOhost)Indexes over 2000 journals, as well as some books, collections, and dissertations, related to world history events from 1450 to the present (except the U.S. and Canada) published since 1955.
- Iter: Gateway to the Middle Ages and Renaissance (1943+)A collection of electronic resources relevant to the Middle Ages and Renaissance (400-1700).
Modern Spanish
- Chicano Database (EBSCOhost) (1960+)Bibliographic resource for information on Mexican-Americans, Chicano and the broader Latino experience.
- Clasé / Periódica (en Español) (FirstSearch) (1975+)"CLASE indexes documents published in Latin American journals specializing in the social sciences and humanities.
PERIODICA covers journals specializing in science and technology." - Handbook of Latin American Studies (HLAS) (Library of Congress)Covers books, chapters, articles, and conference papers in the field of Latin American studies, Edited by the Hispanic Division of the Library of Congress, the multidisciplinary Handbook alternates annually between the social sciences and the humanities.
- Informe Académico (en Español) (Gale OneFile) (1994+)Informe Académico proporciona acceso a periódicos y revistas especializadas de lengua española y portuguesa. La base de datos ofrece una amplia gama de contenidos sobre América Latina.
Informe Académico provides access to Spanish- and Portuguese-language scholarly journals and magazines. The database offers a wide range of content both from and about Latin America.
Other Resources
- Academic Search Premier (EBSCOhost)Indexing and full text of articles for array of scholarly and popular topics. Provides full text for over 4,600 scholarly journals covering the social sciences, humanities, science, cultural studies, education, and much more.
- CQ Researcher Plus Archive (1923+)
Full-length articles include an overview, historical background, chronology, pro/con feature, plus resources for additional research. Graphics, photos and short "sidebar" features round out the reports. Shorter "Hot Topics" articles provide a solid introduction to subjects most in demand by students. - DialnetSpanish-language periodical index created by Universidad de Rioja. Covers the sciences, social sciences, and humanities.
- Eighteenth Century Drama (Adam Matthew) (1660-1824)"A unique archive of almost every play submitted for licence between 1737 and 1824, and hundreds of documents that provide social context for the plays"
- Ethnic NewsWatch (ProQuest)
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an interdisciplinary, bilingual (English and Spanish) and comprehensive full text database of the newspapers, magazines and journals of the ethnic, minority and native press. - Latin Americanist Research Resources Project (LARRP)"a searchable Web database that provides access to the tables of contents of more than 950 journals, primarily in the humanities and social sciences, published in Latin America."
previously known as LAPTOC: Latin American Periodicals Tables of Contents - Literature Resource Center (Gale)Information on literary figures from all time periods of writing in such genres as fiction, nonfiction, poetry, drama, history, journalism, and more. Includes the Dictionary Of Literary Biography.
- ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Global (1637+)
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"Each dissertation published since July, 1980 includes a 350-word abstract written by the author. Master's theses published since 1988 include 150-word abstracts. Simple bibliographic citations are available for dissertations dating from 1637. Where available, PQDTGlobal provides 24-page previews of dissertations and theses."
For abstracts from 1938-1980 see the print volumes of Dissertation Abstracts International - RECOLECTA (Recolector de ciencia abierta)a repository of open access publications from Spanish universities
- Redalyc (en Español)An open access resource containing full-text journal articles in scientific journals from Latin America, the Caribbean, Spain and Portugal.
Red de Revisitas Cientificas de America Latina, el Caribe, Espana y Portugal. Universidad Autonoma del Estado de Mexico
Databases by content type
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