Trexler Library | Muhlenberg College

Colonial Latin America

Need help with your research? Contact:

Kelly Cannon
Outreach and Scholarly Communication Librarian
Humanities & Business Subject Specialist
phone: x3602
email: kcannon@muhlenberg.edu
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Reference works

history and culture of Latin America. . .

Encyclopedia of Latin American History & Culture (Ref Collection 980.003 E56o)
Encyclopedia of Mexico (Ref Collection 972.003 E56o)

How do I locate scholarly books (in Spanish and English)?

Trexler Library Catalog
NOTE: Access from the Trexler Library website (http://www.muhlenberg.edu/library) > catalog.
Catalog of all books and documents in Trexler Library at Muhlenberg College.

WorldCat
NOTE: Access from the Trexler Library website > Database > Most Popular > WorldCat
Catalog of books and documents in libraries throughout the world. Watch especially for the AREA LIBRARIES designation. Use E-ZBorrow for faster interlibrary loan.

E-ZBorrow
NOTE: Access from Trexler Library website > ILL > E-ZBorrow
A catalog of books and documents in the libraries of PALCI, to which Muhlenberg College belongs. Submit interlibrary loan requests here for rapid delivery.

How do I locate peer-reviewed (scholarly) journal articles

general indexes with full text. . .

Academic Search Premier
NOTE: Access from the Trexler Library website > Articles A to Z
A subscription database. Good starting place for journals, and includes the full text of about 3000 journals. Limit to "peer reviewed" to find only scholarly articles. Back issues of journals begin as early as 1990. Recent issues may not be included yet, due to publisher agreement. Journals held in Trexler Library are marked accordingly.

Directory of Open Access Journals (http://www.doaj.org/)
Nearly 3000 open-access peer-reviewed journals sponsored by educational institutions and other donors.

Google Scholar (http://scholar.google.com)
An open-access web crawler that looks for content it identifies as "scholarly." Emphasis is on books and journal articles. Intended as a "federated search" to search across disciplines (weighted toward sciences and social sciences). Not always full text. Check our catalog to see if Muhlenberg has access to the full text.

JSTOR
NOTE: Access from the Trexler Library website > Articles A to Z
Subscription database of purely academic journals. Archival database: most recent issue is generally 5 yrs. old.

news. . .

LexisNexis Academic
NOTE: Access from the Trexler Library website > Articles A to Z
Reliable source for newspapers from and about Latin America.

News and Newspaper Online (http://library.uncg.edu/news/)
Freely available newspapers from around the world. Searchability and archiving vary widely.

subject-specialty indexes. . .

Clase Periodica ***RECOMMENDED***
NOTE: Access from the Trexler Library website > Articles A to Z
Index to journals published in Latin America, across the disciplines. In Spanish and Portuguese.

Historical Abstracts ***RECOMMENDED***
NOTE: Access from the Trexler Library website > Articles A to Z
Index to historical research about Latin America and Spain, 1492-present.

Sociological Abstracts
NOTE: Access from the Trexler Library website > Articles A to Z
Index to sociological research.

getting to the full text. . .

Once you have found the citation of a journal article you're interested in, click on the Get It link found next to the citation, or run a journal title search in Trexler Library's online catalog. NOTE: Access from Trexler Library website > catalog.

articles via interlibrary loan. . .

Journal articles not found in Trexler Library can be ordered on interlibrary loan.
NOTE: Access from Trexler Library website > ILL

Web search engines and directories

Google (http://www.google.com)
Non-selective. One of the largest web crawlers.

Intute (http://www.intute.ac.uk/)
The service is created by a network of UK universities and partners. Subject specialists select and evaluate the websites in the database and write high quality descriptions of the resources.

Evaluating resources

Visit Trexler Library's Evaluating Resources page. NOTE: Access from the Trexler Library website >Getting Started.

Citing sources

For tips on citing print and electronic sources, visit Trexler Library's Citation Guides for Print and Electronic Resources. NOTE: Access from the Trexler Library website > Citation Guides.