Spanish 220
Perspectives in Latin America
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Use Reference Universe, a database you can search to find subject encyclopedias on any topic. Be sure to click the "Restrict Search to Titles in your Library" checkbox to limit your search to titles that we own. Click on the open book icon to get the Cornell call number and location. Amaze your friends with your erudition.
Selected Individual Reference Titles:
Encyclopedia of Contemporary Latin American and Caribbean Cultures.
Daniel Balderston, Mike Gonzalez and Ana M. López, editors.
New York: Routledge, 2000. 3 volumes.
Olin Library Reference F 1406 .E515x 2000+
An extensive guide to the people, groups and institutions, events, artistic movements, and ideas that have formed the twentieth-century culture of this diverse geographic area.
Encyclopedia of Latin American History and Culture.
New York: Scribners, 1995. 5 volumes.
Uris Library Reference F 1406 .E53x 1995
Over 5,000 entries contributed by 832 scholars from more than twenty countries. Cross-references are incorporated in the text in the form of SMALL CAPITALS. There is a detailed index in volume 5. The nearly 3,000 biographical articles are listed in an appendix in volume 5, in twenty-one overlapping fields of activity. A separate list ("Women") includes 168 female subjects.
Encyclopedia of Latin American Literature.
Verity Smith, editor.
Chicago: Fitzroy Dearborn, 1997.
Olin Library Reference PQ 7081 .A1 E56x 1997 +
Entries on writers, works, and topics relating to the literature
of Latin America, including survey articles on individual countries. Each
entry consists of a signed critical overview of the writer's literary work
written by an expert in the field; a brief biographical sketch, a select list
of the writer's works, a list of further reading, and in some cases, one or
more essays on individual literary works.
Encyclopedia of Latin American Politics.
Diana Kapiszewski, editor.
Westport, CT: Oryx, 2002.
Olin Library Reference F 1410 .E56x 2002 +
Organized by country. Survey essays are followed by entries on major persons, organizations, and events. Bibliographies of print and electronic resources for each country.
Encyclopedia of Postmodernism.
Victor E. Taylor and Charles E. Winquis, editors
New York: Routledge, 2001.
Uris Library Reference B 831.2 .E63x 2001
Contains entries on all the key contributors to the postmodernism debate and on foundational concepts of postmodernism which have revolutionized thinking in every discipline from architecture to ethics, and history to politics.
LANIC: Latin American Network Information Center.
Austin: University of Texas, Institute of Latin American Studies.
public domain web site: http://lanic.utexas.edu/
LANIC is an edited guide to web sites from or about Latin America. LANIC facilitates access to Internet-based information to, from, or on Latin America. LANIC's editorially reviewed directories contain over 12,000 unique URLs, one of the largest guides for Latin American content on the Internet.
Political Handbook of the World.
New York: McGraw-Hill, 1975- . Annual.
Olin and Uris Reference JF 37 .P76 + Current year in reference.
Contains background essays on the political history of the countries of the world with more emphasis on recent developments. Includes a brief description of the area, the political background, a summary of the constitution, the foreign relations, and current issues. Also describes the major political parties, the legislature, cabinet, news media, and intergovernmental representation. For details on earlier developments, consult the editions in the Olin or Uris stacks.
For an online source of recent political and statistical information, use the Country Profiles section under individual countries in Europa World.
Collections of Online Reference Works:
Gale Virtual Reference Library [Restricted to Cornell]
Searchable database of over fifty subject encylopedias published by Scribners, St. James, and Macmillan--major publishers of reference works. Strong in history, religion, social sciences, and multicultural studies.
Oxford Reference Online [Restricted to Cornell]
Searchable database of 100 language and subject dictionaries and reference works of Oxford University Press. Enter a search term, get results, and click to see the full-text of the encyclopedia/dictionary entry.
Credo Reference [Restricted to Cornell]
Searchable database of 100 reference sources on a variety of subjects. Excellent bilingual dictionaries (French, German, Italian, Latin, Portugese, and Spanish) published by Collins. Enter search terms, get results, and click to see the full-text of the encyclopedia or dictionary entry.
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Interlibrary Loan Services
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Periodical indexes are resources that identify and locate articles in journals, magazines, and newspapers. Increasingly, indexes are available as online databases that will often provide access to the full text of the articles.
Electronic Periodical Indexes/Databases
Academic Search Premier [EBSCO]. [Restricted to Cornell]
A general periodical database that provides citations and abstracts for articles from over 4,100 journals and includes links to the full text from over 3,170 journals. You can limit your search to peer-reviewed articles (scholarly articles).
Historical Abstracts. [Restricted to Cornell]
This historical periodical database 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 journals, including historical journals from almost every country and selections of journals in the social sciences and humanities for researchers and students of history. Covers publications from 1954 to date.
Handbook of Latin American Studies. [unrestricted: public domain]
Continuously published since 1936, the Handbook is a bibliography on Latin America consisting of works selected and annotated by scholars. Edited by the Hispanic Division of the Library of Congress, the multidisciplinary Handbook alternates annually between the social sciences and the humanities. Each year, more than 130 academics from around the world choose over 5,000 works for inclusion.
HAPI: Hispanic American Periodicals Index Online.
[Restricted to Cornell]
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.
Informe!: Revistas en Español. [Restricted to Cornell]
Una colección de revistas hispánicas con textos completos. Abarca negocios, salud, tecnología, cultura, temas de actualidad y otras materias. Cubre 1994 - Oct. 2006. Lista de titulos.
International Political Science Abstracts.
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Covers articles in scholarly political science journals worldwide.
JSTOR
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TIP: Use Advanced Search. JSTOR is a full-text-searchable database containing the back issues of several hundred scholarly journals from their first issue up to the "moving wall", usually 3 to 5 years ago. Subjects covered include the humanities, social sciences, mathematics, music, ecology and botany, and business. More information about JSTOR.
MLA
[Restricted to Cornell]
MLA bibliography is the largest and most comprehensive database covering scholarship in the modern languages, linguistics, literature, folklore, and drama, including
film, opera, radio, television and theater. Literary criticism and literary
theory are covered extensively. Approximately 4,000 journals and series are
screened, and entries for books are included. Entries appear both for collections
of essays and for their contents. Covers articles and books from 1923 to date.
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Evaluating the sources you find is a crucial part of the research process.
How to Prepare an Annotated Bibliography
An annotated bibliography is a list of citations to books, articles, and documents. Each citation is followed by a brief (usually about 150 words) descriptive and evaluative paragraph, the annotation. The purpose of the annotation is to inform the reader of the relevance, accuracy, and quality of the sources cited. This guide compares annotations to abstracts and gives an example of an annotation cited in both MLA and APA styles.
How
to Critically Analyze Information Sources
Lists some of the critical questions you should ask when you consider the appropriateness
of a particular book, article, media resource, or Web site for your research.
Distinguishing
Scholarly from Non-Scholarly Periodicals: A Checklist of Criteria
Shows how to evaluate periodicals by looking at their format, intended audience,
and appearance.
Five Criteria for Evaluating Web Sites
Offers a table of suggestions.
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Managing and Citing Sources the Easy Way: RefWorks
RefWorks
is a web-based program that allows you to easily collect, manage, and organize
bibliographic references by interfacing with databases. RefWorks also interfaces
directly with Word, making it easy to import references and incorporate them
into your writing, properly formatted according to the style of your choice.
Click here for more information about RefWorks and to sign up for an account. RefWorks workshops are offered at Uris Library, Mann
Library and ILR Library (ILR students only).
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Research and Reference Help
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Updated 26 February 2008
URL: http://www.library.cornell.edu/olinuris/ref/spanish220cl.html
Michael Engle
Reference Librarian
moe1[at]cornell.edu
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