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• Dialnet Index of Spanish academic journals, includes some full text. It is particularly useful for subjects related to Spain. Coverage is 1980 to the present.

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• SciELO Access to scholarly literature in sciences, social sciences, arts and humanities published in leading open access journals from Latin America, Portugal, and Spain.

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Below are some recommended databases to find articles on language and Spanish topics. Most databases have ways to search for articles in the Spanish language, as well.

• MLA International Bibliography Subjects within the MLA International Bibliography consist of literature, language and linguistics, creative writing, English, folklore, film, foreign languages and literatures, literary theory & criticism, theatre, dramatic arts, as well as the historical aspects of printing and publishing. Listings on rhetoric and composition and the history, theory and practice of teaching language and literature are also included.
• JSTOR Archive of selected scholarly journals in anthropology, art, art history, communication studies, criminology, ecology, economics, education, English, film studies, foreign languages and literatures, geography, geology, history, mathematics, music, philosophy, political science, public and international affairs, religion, social work, sociology, statistics, theatre, and other humanities and social sciences. Find more information .
• Project MUSE Project MUSE is a unique collaboration between libraries and publishers providing 100% full-text, to high quality humanities, arts, art history, creative writing, education, English, film studies, foreign languages and literatures, history, religion, theatre, and social sciences journals from scholarly publishers.
• Arts & Humanities Citation Index Arts & Humanities Citation Index is a multidisciplinary database covering the journal literature of the arts, creative writing, English, humanities, foreign languages and literatures, music, philosophy, religion, and theatre. Including many art and art history articles.
• ERIC (via ProQuest) The ERIC (Educational Resources Information Center) database is sponsored by the U.S. Department of Education to provide extensive access to educational-related literature. ERIC provides ready access to education literature to augment American education by increasing and facilitating the use of educational research and information to improve practice in learning, teaching, educational decision-making, and research. ERIC provides coverage of journal articles, conferences, meetings, government documents, theses, dissertations, reports, audiovisual media, bibliographies, directories, books and monographs. Find more information .
• Communication & Mass Media Complete (EBSCO) Provides content in areas related to communication and mass media. CMMC incorporates the content of CommSearch (formerly produced by the National Communication Association) and Mass Media Articles Index (formerly produced by Penn State) along with numerous other journals in communication, mass media, and other closely-related fields of study to create a research and reference resource encompassing the breadth of the communication discipline. Find more information .
• Informe Académico (Gale OneFile) Meet the research needs of Spanish-speaking users with a wide range of full-text Spanish and Portuguese-language scholarly journals and magazines both from and about Latin America. Gale OneFile: Informe Académico provides quality reference material on an interface configured for Spanish speakers, allowing researchers to analyze topics and conduct research in Spanish.
• ARTstor Digital Library The ARTstor Digital Library is a nonprofit resource that provides over 2 million digital images in the arts, art history, architecture, anthropology, history, humanities, foreign languages and literatures, religion, and sciences with an accessible suite of software tools for teaching and research. Find more information . more... less... Register for a free user account to download images.
• Europeana Searchable collection of resources works with thousands of European archives, libraries, and museums to provide to users access This website gives you access to millions of books, music, artworks and more – with sophisticated search and filter tools to help you find what you’re looking for.
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SuperSearch is a great place to start for journal articles, books and almost everything else the library has, in one easy to use interface.

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These databases contain a combination of full text articles (ready to read online) and citation information about articles, book chapters, or books. Check out our full  Database A-Z  list and choose a Subject from the drop-down menu to find other databases for your research topic.

Arts & Literature

• MLA International Bibliography This link opens in a new window literary criticism - search in Spanish or English
• Literature Resource Center This link opens in a new window Biographies, bibliographies and full-text critical analysis of authors from all genres and eras.
• Film & Television Literature Index with Full Text This link opens in a new window Articles on film and television theory, writing, production, cinematography, reviews, and more, 1914 to present.
• Art Full Text This link opens in a new window Find articles on all aspects of art, including fine, decorative and commercial art, folk art, photography, film, and architecture.
• RILM Abstracts of Music Literature This link opens in a new window Citations and abstracts for significant writings on music: journal articles, conference proceedings, Festschrifts, books & dissertations, 1967 to present

History, Politics, & Society

• Historical Abstracts with Full Text This link opens in a new window Articles on world history from 1450, excluding US & Canada, written since 1955. Can be co-searched with America: History & Life
• GenderWatch This link opens in a new window With a focus on how gender impacts a broad spectrum of subject areas, this collection gathers historical perspectives on the evolution of the women's movement, men's studies, the transgender community, and changes in gender roles, including articles dating back as far as the 1970s.
• Women's Studies International This link opens in a new window Find journal articles and books on women's studies, feminism, and gender studies.
• Social Science Premium Collection This link opens in a new window Search many social science databases at once. Disciplines covered include sociology, political science, education, economics, anthropology, linguistics, and criminology. Component databases can also be searched individually.

Multidisciplinary

• Academic Search Complete This link opens in a new window The world's largest scholarly, multi-disciplinary full text database. Dates of coverage vary by title and go back as far as 1887.
• JSTOR This link opens in a new window Collection of key scholarly journals in the humanities, social sciences & natural sciences, starting from the first issue but not the latest 3-5 years.
• Ethnic NewsWatch This link opens in a new window An interdisciplinary, bilingual (English and Spanish), full text database of newspapers, magazines, and journals from ethnic, minority and native presses, 1960 to present.

Spanish-language portals

• Redalyc Redalyc serves as a portal to more than 15,000 full text articles published in over 700 journals that come from 15 countries in Latin America, the Caribbean, Spain and Portugal, mostly in Spanish. Subject coverage includes topics in the social sciences, arts and humanities, and the natural sciences.
• Dialnet An open-access portal that provides access to citations and some full text for journal articles, books, and other scholarly materials from the Hispanic world. Can't find the full text? Request it through Interlibrary Loan!

Latin-American Studies

• Handbook of Latin American Studies This link opens in a new window Selective annotated bibliography of articles, book chapters, and papers on Latin American life and culture, 1936 to present. Disciplines covered include anthropology (archeology and ethnology), art, geography, government and politics, history, international relations, literature, music, philosophy, political economy, and sociology.
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• Academic Search Premier This broad, multi-disciplinary database provides full text for more than 8,500 journals, including full text for more than 4,600 peer-reviewed titles. PDF backfiles to 1975 or further are available for well over one hundred journals, and searchable cited references are provided for more than 1,000 titles. To choose the Spanish-language search interface , go to the top right hand side under the link "Languages" and select Español from the options.
• AltPressIndex Indexes journals covering cultural, economic, political, and social change. Coverage is international and interdisciplinary, with citations drawn from alternative, radical, and left periodicals, newspapers, and magazines. Includes selected abstracts from research journals. Subjects covered include anarchism, democracy, ecology, feminism, gay and lesbian issues, indigenous peoples, labor, national liberation, and socialism. To choose the Spanish-language search interface , go to the top right-hand side under the link "Languages" and select Español from the options.
• Ethnic NewsWatch Features newspapers, magazines, and journals of the ethnic and minority press providing researchers access to essential, often overlooked perspectives. Of the more than 1.8 million articles contained in the collection, nearly a quarter are presented in Spanish, making ENW an unmatched bilingual diversity database. To search in Spanish , click on the white portrait image in the green bar at the right, click on the displayed language (usually English) and select "Espanol" from the dropdown list.
• Factiva Provides global content,including Dow Jones and Reuters newswires. Covers 9,000 sources from 152 countries. To find articles in Spanish : from the top of the search page, click the gear icon at far right, select Languages from the dropdown list, and select "Español".
• Pascal/FRANCIS A multilingual, multidisciplinary database indexing books and journal articles in the humanities (63%), social sciences (33%), and economics (4%). It is strong in religion, the history of art, and literature, with particular emphasis on current trends in European and world literature. Updated monthly, FRANCIS covers 1984 to the present, with more than 872,000 records. To search for Spanish language sources , click on Advanced Search and change All fields in the dropdown menu to "Language" and enter Spanish.
• Google Académico This is the Spanish-language version of Google Scholar . This resource allows you to locate many full-text academic journal articles and other documents in the Spanish language covering a wide variety of topics from around the world.
• HAPI Online (Hispanic American Periodicals Index) HAPI Online contains authoritative, worldwide information about Central and South America, Mexico, the Caribbean basin, the United States-Mexico border region and Hispanics in the United States. From analyses of current political, economic, and social issues to unique coverage of Latin American arts and letters, HAPI Online contains complete bibliographic citations to articles, book reviews, documents, original literary works, and other materials appearing in more than 500 key social science and humanities journals published throughout the world from 1970 to the present. Many of the citations are linked to full text where available. On main search screen you can limit your results to Spanish by entering Spanish-language words in the search boxes.
• Historical Abstracts This index to historical journals includes annotated references to the history of the world from 1450 to the present (excluding the U.S. and Canada which are covered in "America: History and Life"). Covers over 2000 titles, including historical journals from almost every country and selections of journals in the social sciences and humanities for researchers and students of history. Covers articles published from 1954 to date. To choose the Spanish-language search interface , go to the top right hand side under the link "Languages" and select Español from the options.
• JSTOR JSTOR is a fully-searchable database containing the back issues of several hundred scholarly journals in the humanities, social sciences, mathematics, music, ecology and botany, business, and other fields. It includes the following collections: Arts & sciences I, II and III, General science, Ecology and botany, Business, Language and literature. To limit results to Spanish-language articles , go to "Advanced Search", and under "Narrow By" select the pull down menu by clicking on "Languages" and choose "Spanish."
• Linguistics and Language Behavior Abstracts LLBA contains abstracts of the world's literature in linguistics and language-related research, book abstracts, book review listings, and enhanced bibliographic citations of relevant dissertations." Related disciplines such as anthropology, education, ethnology, information science, medicine, and communications are covered. Also includes some reference to papers in published conference proceedings. To search in Spanish , click on the white portrait image in the green bar at the right, click on the displayed language (usually English) and select "Espanol" from the dropdown list.
• MLA Bibliography Provides citations for items from journals and series published worldwide. Indexes books, essay collections, working papers, proceedings, dissertations, and bibliographies. Contains in each record a bibliographic citation for a journal article, book, or other item including information about the libraries that own the library resources. Extensive coverage on Spanish language and literature found in journal articles, books, dissertations, and proceedings. To choose the Spanish-language search interface , go to the top right hand side under the link "Languages" and select Español from the options.
• PAIS International Public Affairs Information Service contains citations to public policy literature of economics, government, law, international business, political science, public administration, and other social sciences. It includes references to journal articles, books, government documents, reports and pamphlets in English, French, German, Italian, Spanish, and Portuguese. To search in Spanish , go to Advanced search and click the Spanish box within the Language: box.
• Project MUSE Searchable database that provides access to the full text of journals published by Johns Hopkins University Press and other university presses in the humanities, social sciences, and mathematics. Covers such fields as literature and criticism, history, the visual and performing arts, cultural studies, education, political science, gender studies, and others. To limit to Spanish , go to the Filter Results column at left and click the box Spanish in the Language choices below.
• ProQuest Research Library ProQuest Research Library indexes and abstracts general interest magazines and scholarly journals in the social sciences, humanities and sciences. Full text of many articles is provided. To search in Spanish , click on the white portrait image in the green bar at the right, click on the displayed language (usually English) and select "Espanol" from the dropdown list.
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This guide serves as an introduction to the Spanish resources provided by the Kathryn A. Martin Library. However, this guide is by no means a complete list of resources. To see all the available digital resources in World Languages and Cultures, visit the A-Z databases list:

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Databases for Spanish

These databases and journals contain articles relevant to the study of the Spanish language, as well as Spanish and Latin American politics and culture. In addition, they may contain articles related to a wide range of humanities and social science disciplines.

• List of Spanish and Latin American journals in print and electronic format The journals linked here are either in Spanish or contain articles concerning Spanish-speaking countries and cultures across the globe.
• Surrealist Journals from Argentina, Chile & Spain (1928-67)

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• If you are not already logged into your library account, click Sign in to request
• Click Interlibrary Loan and log in using your UMD credentials.
• Choose "date needed by" and your department.
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• Google Academico Google Académico is the Spanish language version of Google Scholar. This resource allows you to locate many full-text academic journal articles and other documents in the Spanish language covering a wide variety of topics from around the world.
• Clase y Periodica Spanish language journal articles, essays, book reviews, monographs, conference proceedings, technical reports and interviews published in Latin America and the Caribbean.
• MLA International Bibliography Classified listing and subject index of scholarly books and articles on modern languages, literatures, folklore, linguistics, dramatic arts, as well as the historical aspects of printing and publishing.
• JSTOR Access to journals from the Arts & Sciences I Collection, and the Language & Literature Collection. These collections span a variety of subjects in the Humanities, Social Sciences and Physical Sciences.

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To see links to BenU Library subscription content in your Google Scholar search results:

• Go to Google Scholar > Settings > Library Links
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• Click Save and you're done!
• Google Scholar Library Links Tutorial This tutorial will guide you step-by-step through the quick setup process.

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Explore the Handbook of Latin American Studies, published each year by the Library of Congress.

• Handbook of Latin American Studies (HLAS): A Resource Guide A guide to using and searching the Handbook of Latin American Studies, a bibliography on Latin America consisting of works selected and annotated by scholars, edited by the Hispanic Division of the Library of Congress.
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