Advanced Spanish Conversation & Composition
Need help with your research? Contact:
Kelly Cannon
Humanities & Business Librarian
phone: x3602
email: kcannon@muhlenberg.edu
IM (AIM, Yahoo, MSN): refcannon
Reference desk IM: talktotrexler
Where can I go to brainstorm on and narrow a topic, and find a list of recommended sources?
Credo Reference
Available by library subscription.
Encyclopedia of Latin American History & Culture
Available by library subscription.
Encyclopedia of Mexico
Available by library subscription.
How do I locate scholarly books (in Spanish and English)?
Trexler Library Catalog
Catalog of all books and documents in Trexler Library at Muhlenberg College.WorldCat
Catalog of books and documents in libraries throughout the world. Watch especially for the AREA LIBRARIES designation.
How do I preview books online?
How do I locate peer-reviewed (scholarly) journal articles (in Spanish and English)
general indexes with full text. . .
Academic Search Premier
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. English only.Google Scholar
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. Good for Spanish-language.subject-specialty indexes. . .
Anthropology Plus
Articles related to ethnicity, folklore, legends, fiestas, etc. English and Spanish.Art Full Text
Standard index for art criticism. English and Spanish.Historical Abstracts ***RECOMMENDED***
Index to historical research about Latin America and Spain. English and Spanish.MLA
Standard index for literary and film criticism. English and Spanish.RILM Abstracts of Music Literature
Standard index for music and some dance criticism. English and Spanish.Sociological Abstracts
Index to sociological research. English and Spanish.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 catalog.
articles via interlibrary loan. . .
Journal articles not found in Trexler Library can be ordered on interlibrary loan.
Can I search all the library databases and catalog together, in one search?
Most of the databases and the library catalog can be searched together in a new library search engine called Search Central found on the Trexler Library website. Most useful when working with narrow topics where you need everything that's available. Several search features are missing from the original databases, like relevance, and language and peer review limiters.
Web search engines and directories
Non-selective. One of the largest web crawlers.Google Espana
Non-selective, but allows limit to Spanish-language and Spanish-located sites.Intute
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.
Citing sources
For tips on citing print and electronic sources, visit Trexler Library's Citation Guides for Print and Electronic Resources.
For automated citation, try the shareware Zotero.
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Last modified: 21 January 2012
