Washington and Lee University Research Guides: Spanish Language and Literature Resource Guide: Library Support for Spanish

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About This Guide: Getting Help

Welcome to the library research guide for the topics related to Spanish Language and Literature.

Here you can find resources to help with research projects and general language learning. Browse the blue tabs to explore:

online resources for Spanish language learning (dictionaries, handbooks, grammar guides, etc)

AND find helpful guidance on:

finding sources for a variety of topics specific to the W&L curriculum
identifying relevant databases
using MLA Style;
using Zotero [an awesome citation manager];
and accessing Writing Center Support.

If you need help with something not covered in this guide, please contact Emily Cook or jump on chat at library.wlu.edu.

Using the Library Catalog to Find Materials in Spanish

The Library Catalog, accessible through the library's website at library.wlu.edu, serves as a portal to the books, ebooks, journals, and multimedia content.

To limit search results to only Spanish languages books:

look to the limiters/filters on the left side of the screen.
Under Language, check Spanish.
Click Apply Filters.

Discipline Specific Databases

These databases are likely to provide relevant resources on Spanish language and literature topics.If you aren't finding relevant resources, reach out to a librarian to find materials tailored to your needs.

Dialnet Freely available version. Database of Spanish language academic works in the humanities, social sciences, and law. Dialnet indexes journal articles, conference proceedings, dissertations, among other information formats.

Humanities International Complete This link opens in a new window Coverage of over 2,000 journals in history, film studies, religion, philosophy, and other fields within the humanities.
JSTOR This link opens in a new window A digital archive of over 1,100 important scholarly journals. All issues of each journal are included in full-text except for the most recent 2-to-5 years, based on JSTOR's agreement with the journal's publisher.
MLA International Bibliography This link opens in a new window The MLA International Bibliography is a subject index for books, articles and websites published on modern languages, literatures, folklore, and linguistics. It is produced by the Modern Language Association (MLA), an organization dedicated to the study and teaching of language and literature.
The electronic version of the Bibliography dates back to 1925 and contains over 2.2 million citations from more than 4,400 periodicals (including peer-reviewed e-journals) and 1,000 book publishers. It is compiled by the staff of the MLA Department of Bibliographic Information Services with the cooperation of more than 100 contributing bibliographers in the United States and abroad. Such international coverage is represented by literature from Africa, Asia, Australia, Europe, and North and South America, and while the majority of records are from English-language publications, at least sixty other languages are represented including French, Spanish, German, Russian, Portuguese, Norwegian, and Swedish.
The database also has an identifiable subset of more than 100,000 records that constitute the JSTOR subfile. This consists of citation records for documents in JSTOR's Language and Literature Collection as well as relevant articles from their Asian Studies collection. The documents date back as far as 1881 and contain direct links to the full-text articles on the JSTOR website.
Our subscription to the MLA International Bibliography also includes access to the MLA Directory of Periodicals database. Full text links to Project Muse journal and ProQuest Digital Dissertations are also included in this database. Subject coverage: Modern literatures, Literary theory and criticism, Linguistics, Teaching of language, Film, television and theater, Rhetoric and composition, History of the book, Folklore.
Project Muse This link opens in a new window Full-text access to about 600 journals from academic publishers.