DELCAT.
Newark: University of Delaware.
LOCATION: Internet (http://delcat.udel.edu)
Use DELCAT, the catalog of the University of Delaware Library, to locate books, films and other research materials on your topic. DELCAT also lists the titles of library subscriptions to periodicals (magazines, scholarly journals, and newspapers). To identify articles within periodicals, however, you will need to search a separate index or database. The Advanced Search feature of DELCAT permits searching by language.
An online database which provides references and/or abstracts to articles from more than
8,000 scholarly and general interest periodicals. It also provides the full text of many
articles.
A database (1969 to the present) covering scholarly journal articles, book reviews, and dissertations in world history (excluding the United States and Canada).
This database provides biographical and bibliographical information
on authors and their works (fiction, nonfiction, poetry, drama, history, and journalism). It also provides literary criticism and is supplemented with links to author-related Web sites. The Authors by Type feature permits searching by genre, literary theme, literary movement or time period (e.g. Latin American boom novels), and author's nationality (e.g. Argentine), and gender.
An index to scholarly anthropological literature that incorporates Anthropological Literature from the Tozzer Library at Harvard University and Anthropological Index from The Library of the British Museum Department of Ethnography (Museum of Mankind), incorporating the former Royal Anthropological Institute Library.
A comprehensive database of biographical information on more than one million people from
throughout history, around the world, and across all disciplines and subject areas.
This multidisciplinary database is comprised of scholarly works on Latin America published from 1935 to the present. Journal articles, conference papers, books and individual chapters from edited anthologies are indexed by HLAS Online. A print version of this publication, the Handbook of Latin American Studies, is also available.
A database that cites articles from older (1907-1984) English-language scholarly journals and numerous lesser-known but important specialized magazines.
Provides full-text information on a variety of topics from newspapers, magazines, legal literature, and other sources. Several subfiles are available that may be searched individually, including: General News, World News, and Non-English Language News. An important component of the General News section is the Newsletters section which contains the Latin American Weekly Report.
A database containing information on the world's literature that includes authors' texts, full-text journals and reference sources. While Latin American authors are represented in the database, sources are presented in English.
An index of older journals and magazines in the humanities and social sciences, beginning in 1665, with links to the full text of some articles. The scope is international and includes periodicals in English, Spanish, and other Western languages.
A full-text database that contains the most important dramatic works of sixteenth and seventeenth century Spain. TESO contains more than 800 plays written by 16 dramatists, including Lope de Vega, Calderón de la Barca, Agustín Moreto etc.
An interdisciplinary database, including the Arts and Humanities Citation Index, which permits researchers to search cited references contained in journal articles.
An interdisciplinary combination of nine important files, containing over 204,000 records drawn from a variety of essential women's studies databases. Included is the Women Studies Abstracts, which indexes women's studies journals from 1984 to the present.
An online news service that offers translated and English-language news compiled by the Foreign Broadcast Information Service (FBIS) from non-U.S. media sources, including news agencies, newspapers, and radio and television stations.
A database that describes books, journals and other materials that are held by Morris Library and other libraries throughout the United States. The database provides a link to the University of Delaware interlibrary loan service that can be used to obtain works not held by the Morris Library. It also provides citations and links to some journal articles, although a fuller listing of journal articles is available from other databases.
Printed Indexes and Research Guides
González Echevarría , Roberto and Enrique Pupo-Walker, eds. The Cambridge History of Latin American Literature. 3 vols. Cambridge: Cambridge University, 1996.
LOCATION: Morris Library - Reference (Ref PQ 7081 .A1 C35 1996)
A comprehensive, authorative work that consists of three volumes: v. 1. Discovery to Modernism , v. 2. The Twentieth Century, v. 3. Brazilian Literature and Bibliographies.
Hispanic American Periodicals Index (HAPI). Los Angeles: UCLA Latin American Center Publications, University of California, 1970/1974-.
LOCATION: Morris Library - Reference (Ref Z1605 .H49)
Index to Latin American Periodical Literature. Boston: G. K. Hall, 1929-60.
LOCATION: Morris Library - Reference (Ref Z1605 .P16)
Index to Latin American Periodical Literature. Supplements. Boston: G. K. Hall, 1961-1970.
LOCATION: Morris Library - Reference (Ref Z1605 .P163)
Magill, Frank N., ed. Masterpieces of Latino Literature. New York: HarperCollins, 1994.
LOCATION: Morris Library - Reference (Ref PQ7081 .A1 M29 1994)
Provides an overview of works by major Latino writers based in Latin America and the United States.
Moss, Joyce and Lorraine Valestuk, eds. Latin American Literature and Its Times. Detroit: Gale Group, 1999.
LOCATION: Morris Library - Reference (Ref PQ 7081 .M625 1999)
Includes profiles of major literary works and describes the historical events that influenced them.
Smith, Verity, ed. Concise Encyclopedia of Latin American Literature. London: Fitzroy Dearborn, 2000.
LOCATION: Morris Library - Reference (Ref PQ 7081 .A1 E56 2000)
Valdés, Mario J. and Djelal Kadir, eds. Literary Cultures of Latin America: A Comparative History. 3 vols. New York: Oxford University, 2004.
LOCATION: Morris Library - Reference (Ref PQ7081.A1 L525 2004)
A three-volume cultural history of Latin American literature with signed essays on individual topics.
The contents of the Encyclopedia Britannica are available in this database, as are unpublished articles. Also included are the Britannica Book of the Year, which provides annually updated information on current political events, and links to quality Internet sites.
The Cambridge Companion to Modern Latin American Culture. Edited by John King. New York: Cambridge University, 2004.
LOCATION: Morris Library - Reference (Ref F1408.3 .C283 2004)
The Cambridge History of Latin America. 11 vols. New York: Cambridge University, 1984-.
LOCATION: Morris Library - Reference (Ref F1410 .C1834 1984)
Encyclopedia of Latin American History and Culture. 5 vols. New York: C. Scribner's, 1996.
LOCATION: Morris Library - Reference (Ref F1406 .E53 1996)
Internet Resources
Google Books.
LOCATION: Internet (http://books.google.com)
An Internet search engine than scans the contents of many books and may provide limited viewing of the the fulltext. Books identified by searching Google Books may then be found in a library by searching DELCAT or WorldCat.
Google Scholar.
LOCATION: Internet (http://scholar.google.com)
This search engine retrieves many, but not all, journals and scholarly web sites. If you are unable to obtain the fulltext of journal articles for free, return to the Library home page and seek to find the journals on the Electronic journals web page or in DELCAT. Students may obtain at no cost journal articles not owned by the Library by using the InterLibrary Loan (ILL) service. The ILL request form is available online at <http://www.lib.udel.edu/ud/ill/index.html>.
This page provides links to a wide variety of Latin American sites available on the Internet. An especially good place to start is with the Latin American Network Information Center (LANIC) at the University of Texas at Austin (http://lanic.utexas.edu).
