Trexler Library | Muhlenberg College

Business Spanish

Need help with your research? Contact:

Kelly Cannon
Outreach and Scholarly Communication Librarian
Humanities and Business Subject Specialist
phone: x3602
email: kcannon@muhlenberg.edu
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How do I locate full text of newspapers in Spanish online?

LexisNexis Academic (searchable, but not browsable)
http://0-www.lexisnexis.com.library.muhlenberg.edu/us/lnacademic
Includes an array of major newspapers (based on hard-copy) from Spain and Latin America. Updated daily. Archive back to early 90s. Watch especially for these papers in LexisNexis: El Pais (Spain), Nacional (Venezuela), Mercurio (Chile).

El Pais(browsable and somewhat searchable)
http://www.elpais.com/
Digital version of the premier newspaper of the Spanish-speaking world.

Excelsior
http://www.nuevoexcelsior.com.mx/
Influential Mexican paper.

La Jornada
http://www.jornada.unam.mx/2007/08/29/index.php
Highly influential Mexican paper.

Clarin
http://www.clarin.com/
Respected Argentine paper.

El Nacional
http://www.el-nacional.com/
Major Venezuelan paper. Consider in light of current politics.

News and Newspapers Online
http://library.uncg.edu/news/
Digital versions of newspapers from around the world. Organized by country and then by city/region.

How do I find scholarly interpretations of current events?

Directory of Open Access Journals (open access) (http://www.doaj.org)
An index to full-text peer-reviewed journals published in free online journals hosted by educational institutions. A small but growing collection. Broad searches work better here.

Google Scholar (open access) (http://scholar.google.com)
An index to books and to articles with bibliographies--many of them scholarly, but not all. Some links to full text--especially non-English. Search by journal title in our online catalog, or request articles on interlibrary loan.

Clase Periodica (http://www.muhlenberg.edu/library/articles/databases/alphabetical.html)
Index only. All scholarly journals published in Latin America in Spanish. Use with interlibrary loan.

How do I evaluate resources?

Visit Trexler Library's Evaluating Resources (http://www.muhlenberg.edu/library/guides/evaluating.pdf) page.

To evaluate Spanish-language newspapers in terms of history, influence, and politics, look in the index under "press" in the reference work: Encyclopedia of Contemporary Latin American and Caribbean Cultures (Reference 972.9003 E56o).

See also the list of Spanish-language newspapers marked with the IU symbol at Indiana University's Newspaper Websites for Latin America and Iberia (http://www.libraries.iub.edu/index.php?pageId=2992)

How do I cite my sources in a bibliography?

For tips on citing print and electronic sources, visit Trexler Library's Citation Guides for Print and Electronic Resources (http://www.muhlenberg.edu/library/reshelp/citations.html).