Selected Resources for:
Spanish

Compludoc   

http://europa.sim.ucm.es/compludoc/

Citation index for articles in Spanish and other languages. This resource is maintained by the Universidad Complutense in Madrid, and indexes several thousand journals in all subject areas.
Citations can be exported to RefWorks.

MLA International Bibliography   

http://0-collections.chadwyck.com.library.lausys.georgetown.edu/initCritRefSearch.do?listType=mla

1926- .

The MLA International Bibliography, produced by the Modern Language Association of America, provides access to worldwide scholarly research in over 4,400 journals and series pertaining to literature (including drama), language, linguistics, folklore, film, radio, television, and theater. Provides citations to journal articles, books, book chapters from multi-author works, dissertations, essay collections, working papers, proceedings, and bibliographies. Does not include book reviews. MLA International Bibliography represents all national literatures.

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Latin American Writers  

A three-volume set providing fairly long (5-15 pages) scholarly entries on Latin American writers from the late fifteenth century to the present. Entries include substantial bibliographies of work both by the authors and about them. Arranged chronologically (by birthdate of author), but Vol. III includes an alphabetical listing of "subjects" (i.e., authors). A supplement including 36 additional essays was published in 2002: Latin American Writers: Supplement I, Ref. Biog. PQ 7081 .A1 L37 1989 SUPPL.

Location: Ref. Biog. PQ 7081 .A1 L37 1989

Diccionario de Literatura Española e Hispanoamericana  

Briefly discusses Spanish and Latin American authors, works, and literary terms. Articles often include bibliographies.

Location: Ref. PQ 6006 .D6 1993

Oxford Companion to Spanish Literature  

Brief entries for authors, works, and concepts in Spanish-language literature. Arranged alphabetically.

Location: Ref. PQ 6006 .O95 1978

Encyclopedia of Contemporary Spanish Culture  

Similar in scope and presentation to the Oxford Companion to Spanish Literature. Spanish cultural themes are alphabetically arranged, but a Thematic Entry List is included at the beginning. Contemporary for this resource means from 1939 (end of the Civil War) onward; however, entries are primarily from 1975 (post-Franco period) onward.

Location: Ref DP 233.5 .E63 1999

Literary Cultures of Latin America: A Comparative History  

Extensive essays, which include bibliographies, discuss the development of Latin American literature. Three volumes.

Location: Ref. PQ 7081 .A1 L525 2004

Guide to Reference Works for the Study of the Spanish Language and Literature and Spanish American Literature  

A comprehensive annotated listing of sources. The materials on literature are divided into two sections, "Spanish Literature of Europe" and "Spanish Literature of the Western Hemisphere." Includes an index of authors, editors, and compilers.

Location: Ref. Z 2695 .A2 W66 1997

Sourcebook for Hispanic Literature and Language  

A selected, annotated guide to Spanish, Spanish-American, and U.S. Hispanic bibliography, literature, linguistics, journals, and other source materials.

WESS Iberian Language and Literature Web  

http://www.library.yale.edu/wess/iberianlanglit.html

Cervantes Virtual  

http://www.cervantesvirtual.com/

A vast digital repository. Contains different types of full-text sources (articles, books, manuscripts) on all aspects of Spanish literature, culture and history. The presentation could be clearer, but there are thematic sub-sections that may help the user.

Corpus del Español  

http://www.corpusdelespanol.org/

"This website allows you to quickly and easily search more than 100 million words in more than 20,000 Spanish texts from the 1200s to the 1900s. The interface allows you to search for exact words or phrases, wildcards, lemmas, part of speech, or any combinations of these. You can search for surrounding words (collocates) within a ten-word window (e.g. all nouns somewhere near cadena, all adjectives near mujer, or all nouns near girar).The corpus also allows you to easily limit searches by frequency and compare the frequency of words, phrases, and grammatical constructions." -- [description on home page]

Corpus Diacrónico del Español  

http://corpus.rae.es/cordenet.html

A diachronic corpus of Spanish, produced by the Real Academia Española.